Chicago Union Label and Service Trades Council records, 1907-1979.

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Chicago Union Label and Service Trades Council records, 1907-1979.

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Meeting minutes (1930, 1958-1978); correspondence, financial and membership records; and news releases, radio scripts, and other publicity materials of the Chicago Union Label and Service Trades Council, founded in 1895, as a coalition of union locals to promote recognition of and respect for a union label on products. Correspondents include the AFL-CIO (Washington office), David Schacter (president of the Council 1969-1979), and Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union about the J.P. Stevens strike in the 1970s and efforts to boycott Stevens' textiles.

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