Joseph A. Goney papers, 1914-1967.

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Joseph A. Goney papers, 1914-1967.

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This collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings documenting the 1937 strike by SWOC Local 1601 at Heppenstall Steel Company in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Joseph A. Goney's 1949 re-election as director of United Steelworkers of America District 17. Photographs of Goney, Father Charles Owen Rice, and Pittsburgh Mayor David Lawrence at several labor related functions, as well as the Heppenstall strike are also present. Also included are scrapbooks containing newspaper articles regarding labor related stories in the Pittsburgh area.

1.68 linear ft. (3 boxes)

University of Pittsburgh

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University of Pittsburgh

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Heppenstall Steel Company.

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United Steelworkers of America. District 36G

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was founded in 1935 within the American Federation of Labor as a means of gaining new union members in a changing economy. The Steelworkers Organizing Committee was formed in 1936 as the body that would specifically target the organization of steelworkers. After a successful organizing campaign, the United Steelworkers of America was founded in 1942 at a meeting between SWOC and the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. The union became...

Association of Catholic Trade Unionists. Pittsburgh Chapter

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Goney, Joseph A.

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Joseph A. Goney began his labor union career as financial secretary of Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers Lodge 1601 at Heppenstall Steel Company in 1937. He was president and national council representative for the Pittsburgh chapter of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, chairman of the Allegheny County CIO Political Action Committee and secretary of the Steel City Industrial Union Council. After serving as the United Steelworkers of America District 17 director an...