Tom Walls Clever Hans Workers Association Union Drive Papers
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Scope and Contents
Consists mostly of broadsides and handbills advertising the 1982 Clever Hans Workers Association (CHWA) organizing drive and strike against Clever Hans Bakery (CHB). Also included: An open letter from then Ithaca City Alderrman, Dan Hoffman, to the "Ithaca Real Food Coop Members, Clever Hans Bakery Workers, and Others;" Handwritten affidavit dated July 1, 1982 stating that will be "no further substantive changes" to the agreement, signed by Tom Walls; A short narative by Tom Walls of the organizing drive, which includes a list of the CHWA members,; Newspaper clippings from the Ithaca Journal.
Dates
- 1982
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
Tom Walls was an employee of Clever Hans Bakery and an active member of the organizing drive. He later was a member of the Moosewood Restaurant Collective and retired from Cornell University after many years of managing one of the University's dining facilities, "The Temple of Zues."
Biographical / Historical
The Clever Hans Workers Association was a grass-roots unionization effort and as such interested the UAW. However since the UAW was, at that time, in the midst of an organizing drive at Cornell University and had not yet established Local 22300 in Ithaca, NY the union could not participate in the drive. Kurt Edelman, a former Cornell ILR School student and UAW employee organizer, volunteered to help with the organizing, strike, and negotiations. The stike against the bakery began on June 4, 1982 and was settled on July 2, 1982 with the signing of a 1-year contract.
Extent
1 folders
Abstract
Publicity and other materials regarding the union organization and strike by the employees of a small privately-owned bakery, Clever Hans Bakery, in Ithaca, NY, during the summer of 1982.
Quantity:
1 file folder
Forms of Material:
Articles, reprints, pamphlets, correspondence, photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, January 08, 2015
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, January 16, 2015
- Title
- Walls, Tom Clever Hans Workers Association Union Drive Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- January 16, 2015
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853