United Steelworkers of America, District 33 records, 1937-1985.

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United Steelworkers of America, District 33 records, 1937-1985.

The bulk of this collection documents local union relations with individual companies, with some conference records and general files. Materials include correspondence, contractual agreements, grievances, job descriptions and classifications. This collection also includes 4 meeting minute books of Local 1028 (Minneapolis, Minn., 1937-1980), a CIO charter, a Steel Workers Organizing Committee certificate, photographic portraits of district directors, a scrapbook of photographs, and eight newspaper clipping scrapbooks covering the 1946 and 1959 steel strikes and the campaign visit of John F. Kennedy in 1960.

27 cubic feet.

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was formed by the presidents of eight international unions in 1935. The presidents of these unions were dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor's unwillingness to commit itself to a program of organizing industrial unions. In 1936, the A.F. of L. suspended the ten unions which proceeded to organize an independent federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO subsequently became the A.F. of L.'s chief rival for the leadership of...

Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.)

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

United Steelworkers of America. Local 1028 (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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United Steelworkers of America. District 33

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District 33 coordinated local unions primarily in the iron region of Minnesota and upper Michigan, with other unions in Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas, from 1942 to 1995 when USWA district restructuring took place. From the description of United Steelworkers of America, District 33 records, 1937-1985. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 754652274 ...