Schaff Piano String Company records, 1942-1960.

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Schaff Piano String Company records, 1942-1960.

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Correspondence, financial records, inspection forms, contribution records, time cards, and other administrative records of the Schaff Piano String Company. A substantial part of the collection is comprised of forms and correspondence from the U.S. War Production Board and the War Manpower Commission during World War II regarding the use of surplus inventories of wire in the war effort. Also included is a Schaff family tree.

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United States. War Manpower Commission

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History Roy Pearson was a labor representative from the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, or IUMSWA, Local No. 9 in San Pedro, California. The IUMSWA was a labor union that represented all shipyard workers. Established in the 1930’s, the Congress of Industrial Relations, or C.I.O, was a federation that organized industrial unions, such as the IUMSWA, in the United States and Canada. The C.I.O. merged ...

Schaff Piano String Company (Chicago, Ill.)

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Schaaf family.

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United States. War Production Board

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The War Resources Board was established August 9, 1939, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a civilian advisory group to collaborate with the Joint Army and Navy Munitions Board in formulating economic mobilization policies. It was abolished November 24, 1939. The Advisory Commission to the World War I Council of National Defense was revived, May 29, 1940. Three of its functional divisions (Industrial Production, Industrial Materials, and Labor), responsible for the stockpiling and delivery o...

Schaff family.

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