UTU Ladies' Auxiliary Iowa Joint Board Minutes
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Scope and Contents
Inclusive date range: 1913-1972
Bulk dates: 1913-1972
This collection contains two bound volumes. One is the Minutes of the Iowa State Union Meetings of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and its successor, the Iowa Joint Board, Ladies' Auxiliary of the United Transportation Union. The minutes include such information as where the meetings were held, which Locals were represented, the various order of business discussed at the meetings, and, in the minutes of the 1969 meeting, discussion about the merger of the BRT into the UTU.
The second volume is a King James Bible, referred to in correspondence as the "Travelling Bible for State of Kansas, Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen." This book was given as an award to the Kansas Local that had admitted the greatest number of new members from one year's meeting to the next. The list of Locals it was awarded to is inscribed on the front flyleaf.
Dates
- 1913-1972
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen [BRT] was founded in 1883 in Oneonta, N.Y. as a protective and insurance organization. It was established to represent members' interests in obtaining a satisfactory contract with management. The first Canadian lodge was established in Moncton, New Brunswick in 1885, and the first Ladies' Auxiliary was organized in Fort Gratiot, Michigan in 1889 by Sophia Granger, wife of Henry Granger, treasurer of St. Clair Lodge 241, with the support of the wives, sisters, and mothers of the St. Clair Lodge members.
The purpose of the organization was to promote social interaction and mutual aid among the spouses of operating railroad workers in this craft. The rail service members of the BRT included conductors and their assistants, dining car stewards, ticket collectors, train baggagemen, brakemen, and train flagmen. The yard service members of the BRT included yardmasters, yard conductors, switchtenders, foremen, flagmen, brakemen, switchmen, car tenders, operators, hump riders, and car operators.
In 1969, the BRT merged with three other railroad labor unions to form the United Transportation Union [UTU]. The Ladies' Auxiliary was granted its new charter from the UTU in 1970.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
Abstract
This collection consists of two bound volumes: a minutes book of the Iowa State meetings of the Ladies' Auxiliary and the "Travelling Bible," awarded to local Kansas chapters.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Minutes (administrative records) .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- E. Parker, June 30, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- E. Parker, June 30, 2017
- Title
- UTU Ladies' Auxiliary Iowa Joint Board Minutes
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by E. Parker
- Date
- June 30, 2017
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Sponsor
- This collection was processed with the help of generous funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
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