United Steelworkers of America, Education Department records, 1924-1995

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United Steelworkers of America, Education Department records, 1924-1995

1924-1995

https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/6845318

This collection documents the educational activities, notably summer labor institutes, of the United Steelworkers of America union. Within these records are United Steelworkers of America publications, reports, brochures, and journals. Some research materials predate the formation of the department. Many of the files concern summer institute programs held annually at the Pennsylvania State University and other institutions from 1945 to 1969. The collection also addresses national and district education committee work, higher education, conferences, and outreach programs in which the department was actively involved. The variety of information includes: college bulletins and entrance exam booklets; reports on collective bargaining, auditing, apprenticeship, and staff training; labor law journals and American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) publications; and files on labor unions and their leaders, including speeches of William Bacon and documents relating to the French miners' strike in 1963. Prominent correspondents include international officers I. W. Abel, David McDonald, and Philip Murray, as well as the jurist Arthur Goldberg, senators Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, and Lyndon B. Johnson, as well as artist Pablo Picasso, and Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton. In addition to the textual documents, there are several hundred photographs illustrating topics addressed within the subject files, but dating from a later period, 1970 to 1995.

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The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) was established 22 May 1942, by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) after an intensive organizing initiative by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. After mergers in 2005, it was renamed United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW...