Box 1
Contains 83 Results:
Personal scrapbook of SUNA events and other labor events, 1955-1962
39 photographs (photo album, kept together). Pages are laminated, photographs have captions identifying people in photographs. Includes photos of U.S. President's Commission on Railroads, photos of Eleanor Roosevelt at AFL-CIO convention, and photos of various SUNA events.
UTU Founding, Group photograph of 40-Man Committee, 1968
The committee that served as Delegates to the Unification and Constitutional Convention Held at Hot Springs, Arkansas for the purpose of creating the UTU. May 6, 1968. All delegates in photograph are identified (1 photograph)
N.P. Speirs with unnamed man at AFL-CIO Convention, New York City, 1963
November 14, 1963 (1 photograph)
Photographs from U.S. President's Railroad Commission; formation of the UTU; AFL-CIO conventions, 1960-1968
Many of these photographs are found in the scrapbook in folder 1 or in the UTU pamphlets found in collection 6215. Primarily photographs of U.S. President's Railroad Commission and formation of UTU (18 photographs)
Group photograph, San Francisco, California, 1952
Group of unidentified men. San Francisco, California. January, 1952 (1 photograph)
Buffalo, NY, SUNA headquarters
Speirs and two unidentified men (1 photograph)
Meeting with Secretary of Labor James Mitchell, Washington, D.C., 1960
October 18, 1960. Also found in scrapbook in folder 1 (1 photograph)
UTU Merger, 1968
3 photographs of the four union presidents. Charles Luna (BRT), C. F. Lane (ORC&B), H. E. Gilbert (BLF&E), N. P. Speirs (SUNA)
Hot Springs, Arkansas. Creation of UTU 1969, 1969
The four union presidents: Luna, Lane, Gilbert, and Speirs (1 photograph) Signing the Agreement to merge four Railroads (sec. Brotherhoods). Presidents of Brotherhood of Brakemen, President of R.R. Firemen, President of Conductors, President of Switchmen. RR. Engineers did not merge with the rest of RR's to form the United Transportation Union.
Neil Speirs with President Johnson; Secretary Mitchell signs agreement to create President's Railroad Commission, 1960-1965
One photograph of Secretary Mitchell, 1960; two photographs of Neil Speirs with President Lyndon B. Johnson and others, 1965 (3 photographs)