Box 8
Container
Contains 26 Results:
Legislative Activity, 1882-1935
File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
"Legislative Committee," 7 page manuscript by W. C. Roberts, December 1922; "Memo: for President Green," 7 page outline of pending Congressional legislation, February 18, 1926; "Instructions as to Legislation," 5 page summary of resolutions passed at AFL convention re pending Congressional legislation forwarded to AFL Legislative Committee for action, 1926; "Bills in Which Labor Was Interested that Became Law During 70th Congress," 1 page, c. 1927; letter to Chicago Tribune reporter from AFL...
Dates:
1882-1935
Legislative Activity, 1936-1955
File — Box: 8, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Letter to Speaker of the House from AFL President Green, opposing Frazier- Lemke Act as inflationary, May 13, 1936; meeting of the Legislative Conference of the AFL, minutes, 4 pages, November 17, 1937, and 3 pages, February 17, 1938; minutes of meeting on Wages and Hours Conference, November 20, 1937, 4 pages; "Memo for Mr. Green: Republican Assignments for House Committee on Rules," 2 pages, January 19, 1939, re laws passed of interest to labor, 2 pages, June 28, 1939; minutes of the...
Dates:
1936-1955
Loggers and Lumbermen, 1917-1950
File — Box: 8, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
"Loggers and Lumbermen," unsigned typescript, c. 1950, 13 pages
Dates:
1917-1950
Machinists, 1917-1951
File — Box: 8, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
"The Machinists," 8 page typescript with hand notation "Paid 12/29/51 Taft"; letter from AFL President Gompers to U.S. Secretary of War re manufacturers' use of military exemption status to force workers to accept lower wages, November 16, 1917; correspondence between AFL President Green and Hamilton (Canada) Trades and Labor Council re refusal to recognize IAM delegates, March and July 1938; correspondence re various jurisdictional disputes, especially with CIO Maritime Federation of the...
Dates:
1917-1951
Machinists - Publications and Notes, 1898-1968
File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
IAM publications: Speed Facts, April 3, 15, 22 and 29, 1968; Aero Facts, March 22, April 12 and 26, 1968; Machinists Monthly Journal, "Machinists on the March, 1888-1950," May 1950; many notes
Dates:
1898-1968
Maritime - Clippings, 1939-1961
File — Box: 8, Folder: 10-11
Scope and Contents
Mostly from 1939
Dates:
1939-1961
Maritime - General, 1863-1963
File — Box: 8, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
"Seamen vs. Longshoremen - Arbitrator's Decision and Award," 3 strips of galley proofs, October 21, 1907; advisory opinion by Taft re appropriate bargaining unit for the Boston Naval Shipyard, July 13, 1963, 24 pages; notes. See also: Waterfront Employers, Box 13, File Folder 29-31. See also: Subsidies - Ship, Box 11, File Folder 11.
Dates:
1863-1963
Maritime - Longshoremen - General, 1945-1966
File — Box: 8, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
"The Longshoremen," unsigned typescript, hand dated: "Paid 11/10/51," 7 pages; "[Overtime] In the Longshore Industry," 74 pages, [1945]; "The Response of Waterfront Union to Technological Change - the Experience with Containerization," with hand notation "P. Ross 1966," 139 pages; "Cry Baby Dewey," broadside by ILA (Independent), n.d.; "Report and Recommendations of AFL-CIO Executive Council Committee Respecting Application of International Longshoremen's Association (Independent) For...
Dates:
1945-1966
Maritime - Longshoremen, ILA, 1919-1952
File — Box: 8, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Clippings and notes
Dates:
1919-1952