United Steelworkers of America, Local 2601 Minute Books and Roster Book on Microfilm

Includes discussions on wages and benefits, workers' education, job safety, union solidarity, the AFL-CIO merger, the purge of communist members, and various strikes.



The minute books of Local 2601 of the United Steelworkers of America (Lackawanna, N.Y.) comment upon the following issues and topics: wage adjustments; premium pay; wage incentive; unemployment benefits; pensions; holidays ; vacations; workers' compensation; disability benefits under the Social Security Act; unemployment insurance; safety on the job; the Labor Relations and Safety Committee; education programs of the Local; union shops; the importance of buying union made products; the issue of solidarity; merger negotiations of the A.F. of L. and CIO; United Steelworkers constitutional violations; the House Un-American Activities Committee; affidavits stating non-membership in a communist or other subversive group; charges against individuals found guilty of being members of the Communist Party and expelled from membership; steel company propaganda; picket lines; strike preparations; the Bethlehem Steel Strike (1959); the Carrier Corp. Strike in Syracuse, N.Y. (1960); the boycott of Sears, Roebuck Co. for its anti-union attack against members of organized labor; and elections of officers; also other routine activities of the Local.