United Steelworkers of America, District 9 records, 1940-1987.

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United Steelworkers of America, District 9 records, 1940-1987.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/692694733

This collection consists of four groups of materials: a large body of employee grievances, arranged by case number and name (1942-1987); a file of correspondence, contracts, pamphlets, financial reports, agreements, affidavits, newspaper clippings, and publications mostly in alphabetical order; films and audio recordings of United Steelworkers of America (USWA) programs, news, and events; and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The second group of integrated subject and correspondence files covers such topics as labor-management relations, arbitration, negotiations, conferences, and labor education. Primary correspondents include the international union executives Philip Murray, David J. McDonald, James Thimmes, Clinton S. Golden, I. W. Abel, Walter Burke, Otis Brubaker, and Arthur Goldberg; Albert Atallah, director of USWA District 8; and Michael Musmanno, a Pennsylvania judge.

2 sound cassettes.4 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7994092

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Atallah, Albert

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Brubaker, Otis Franklin, 1913-2004

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Abel, I. W. 1908-1987.

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Murray, Philip, 1886-1952

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Thimmes, James G. (James Garrett), 1896-1955

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