Series 3. Lew McLenegan files, 1922-1938.

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Series 3. Lew McLenegan files, 1922-1938.

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Consist of union documents and personal correspondence accumulated by Lew McLenegan during his association with the Butte Miners' Union and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter workers. Materials regarding the Butte Miners' Union include resolutions and statements regarding the creation of an independent union of mine workers in the Silver Bow region of Montana (1922-1923) and letters written by Lew McLenegan (in his capacity as secretary of the union) regarding union membership, assessments and activities of the miners' organizing committee (1927-1929). Files of documents of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW) include memoranda, statements and clippings regarding the organization of various IUMMSW locals, employer discrimination against union members; strikes; reports of the secretary-treasurer; minutes of the Executive Board (1926-1933); financial statements; and bulletins and news releases regarding elections, amendments to union constitutions, affairs of union locals, and lobbying for protective labor legislation in Montana. Also, correspondence of McLenegan with IUMMSU officers Thomas H. Brown, James Robinson and Reid Robinson (presidents), George R. Coles (vice president), and Charles Whitely, Daniel Orlich and Thomas N. Cole (Executive Board members) regarding organizing union locals; national union affairs; Copper Industry Code of the National Industrial Recovery Act; strike of Liberty, Mont. mines; financial matters; collective negotiations; settlements; recognition strikes; treatment of strikebreakers; lobbying activities; endorsement of political candidates; control and ownership of railroads; protest against minimum wage legislation; maximum hour laws; mineral tariffs; public lands; six-hour day; farmer-labor cooperatives; and information regarding the Montana State Mining Council (1927-1935). Also some issues of newspapers of IUMMSW locals.

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Robinson, James, fl. 1933.

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