Series 5. Robert L. Stutz files on the Ansonia Brass Workers secession, 1947-1948. [microform]

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Series 5. Robert L. Stutz files on the Ansonia Brass Workers secession, 1947-1948. [microform]

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Consist chiefly of bulletins, leaflets, broadsides, and clippings of articles from local and union newspapers regarding the split of the Ansonia Brass Workers' Union (Waterbury, Conn.) from the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW). Materials discuss the affiliation of the seceding locals with the Provisional Metalworkers Council (led by John Driscoll); resignation of Reid Robinson (president, IUMMSW); the position held by secessionist groups and the Congress of Industrial Organizations on communism in the IUMMSW; various rival factions of the Ansonia Brass Workers; and the National Labor Relations Board representation election held in 1948. Also, includes a typewritten, unpublished term paper of Robert L. Stutz entitled "The Attempted Secession of the Ansonia Brass Workers Union Local 445 from the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers".

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