Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union records, 1879-2002 (bulk 1934-1970)

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Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union records, 1879-2002 (bulk 1934-1970)

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The collection of the Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union records documents the union's administration, labor organizing, and lobbying activities from 1934-1970, when it was known as the Glass Bottle Blowers Association of the United States and Canada. It also traces the evolution of the union and labor's response to technological shifts in the manufacturing of glass containers. The collection includes extensive correspondence files (many microfilmed), negotiated contracts, scattered minutes, conference proceedings, photographs, scrapbooks, the newsletter, "Horizons," and a few memorabilia. It also contains the correspondence files of former union president, Lee W. Minton.

32.64 cubic feet.

Pennsylvania State University, Commonwealth

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SNAC Resource ID: 8238143

Pennsylvania State University, Commonwealth

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Minton, Lee W.

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Glass Bottle Blowers Association of the United States and Canada

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The Glass Bottle Blowers' Association of the United States and Canada (GBBA) was organized in 1868 as the Independent Druggist Ware Glass Blowers' League. It affiliated with the Knights of Labor in 1886 and withdrew from this affiliation in 1891 to become the United Green Glass Workers' Association of the United States and Canada, assuming its present name in 1895. From the description of Glass Bottle Blowers' Association of the United States and Canada records, 1890-1940. (Cornell U...

Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union.

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This skilled craft union formalized as the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association in 1895, affiliating with the American Federation of Labor in 1899. In 1906 it won in a recruitment rivalry with the American Flint Glass Workers' Union (AFGWU) and after numerous mergers, it became the Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union in 1988. From the description of Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union records, 1879-2002 (bulk ...

Glass, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers International Union

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