New Orleans Street Railway Union records, 1902-1948.

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New Orleans Street Railway Union records, 1902-1948.

This collection consists of handwritten and typed correspondence, financial and accounting records, funeral and old age benefit records, newspaper clippings, cartoons, photographs, journal issues, legal briefs and dockets, records of charity donations, meeting minutes, union membership registries, working cards, withdrawal cards, Carnival souvenir programs, Fancy Dress and Masquerade Ball programs, strike and labor-related ephemera, and general administrative records of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, Division No. 194 in New Orleans, from 1902 to 1948.

25.5 linear feet (37 boxes and 23 v.)

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Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America. Division 194 (New Orleans, La.)

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Division 194 (New Orleans, La.) of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America was established in 1892. The division dissolved approximately in the 1950s. The collection documents the progression of the labor movement in the U.S. with references to "one man car" opposition, yellow dog contracts, the American Federation of Labor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the W.P.A., segregation, the employment of women, and legislation dictating work day length and working...

New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

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