Scrapbooks [microform], 1933-1949.

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Scrapbooks [microform], 1933-1949.

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Compiled by the TWUA Publicity Department from clipping-service material as well as items gathered by the Union itself, these scrapbooks cover a wide range of topics. Clippings are from all major New York City newspapers, mainstream newspapers from across the country, and from the radical and labor press. Most of the scrapbooks are general in nature, but some are devoted to special subjects. For example, one volume deals with the LaGuardia campaign of 1933; three with taxicab organizing 1934 and 1937; one with the New York City elections of 1943; and one with the Philadelphia transit strike of 1944. Topics well represented in the collection are: early organizing efforts, the career of long-time TWUA-president Michael Quill, contract negotiations, the union's relations with the CIO and with the Communist Party, and the internal anti-Communist campaign of 1948-49 (including the John Santo deportation hearings).

11 reels of microfilm.

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