George P. Firth collection of Office and Professional Employees International Union records, 1934-1984.

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George P. Firth collection of Office and Professional Employees International Union records, 1934-1984.

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This collection documents Firth's activities as union organizer, and later, vice president of the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU). It includes correspondence with local unions as well as OEIU presidents J.O. Bloodworth and Howard Coughlin. There are also pamphlets, expense reports, material concerning the R.L. Polk & Co. National Labor Relations Board case, itineraries, convention proceedings, constitutions, minutes, executive board meeting agendas, and a 297-page typescript, "History of OPEIU." This collection includes local union files for Tacoma, Washington, and selected Eastern states and union organizing files arranged by company. A scrapbook box contains clippings from OPEIU publications, The Office Worker, 1943-1953, White Collar, 1954-1970 and 1971-1984. Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the Office Employees International Union (OPEIU), 1945-1980 (incomplete) is also included.

4 cubic feet.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8148132

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Coughlin, Howard, 1913-1984

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Office and Professional Employees' International Union

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AFL Federal Locals of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union have organized the clerical trades since the early decades of the twentieth century; but it wasn't until the charter convention of the Office Employees International Union in Cincinnati in January, 1945 that a national AFL jurisdiction was created for all private sector clerical and office employees. Charter membership was 22,500. During the war years, OEIU growth was slow, while the rival CIO uni...

Bloodworth, J. O. (James Oscar), 1913-1989

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Firth, George P.

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The American Federation of Labor chartered the Office Employees International Union in 1945. George Firth was an early organizer from Tacoma, Washington, and charter officer, serving as vice president before retiring in 1969. From the description of George P. Firth collection of Office and Professional Employees International Union records, 1934-1984. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 759939180 The Collection of George P. Firth on the Office and ...

Office Employes International Union

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R.L. Polk & Co.

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