Box 8
Container
Contains 26 Results:
Maritime - Merchant Marine - Annual Reports, 1938-1940
File — Box: 8, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Philip Taft Papers span the years 1840-1976 and occupy 16 linear feet. The collection consists mainly of subject files and research notes, which Philip Taft gathered in preparation of his book manuscripts. Of note are the numerous original documents, which are interspersed throughout the research notes. Among the particularly well documented subjects are: organized labor abroad; the AFL-CIO's position on foreign affairs; maritime unions; labor and the National Industrial Recovery Act;...
Dates:
1938-1940
Maritime - Merchant Marine - Publications, 1941-1960
File — Box: 8, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
American Seaman, by the American Seamen's Friend Society, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter-Spring 1941 and Volume IV, Number 1, Winter 1944; "American Merchant Marine Policy After the War," confidential, for limited circulation, by the Council on Foreign Relations, June 1944, 26 pages; "Unionism and Democracy in the Merchant Marine," book review reprinted from Labor History, July 1960
Dates:
1941-1960
Maritime - National Maritime Union (NMU), 1940-1966
File — Box: 8, Folder: 22-23
Scope and Contents
We Accuse (from the record), printed book by leaders of non-Communist faction of NMU, n.d. 192 pages; agreement between NMU and unnamed company, January 20, 1940 with Addenda 1-4, 5/1/1940, 2/10/1941, 5/3 and 16/1941; "Hiring Halls In the Maritime Industry - A Summary Including Excerpts From Decision by an N.L.R.B. Trial Examiner In a Case Involving Great Lakes Carriers and the NMU, CIO," c. 1948, 18 pages; letter to NMU President Joseph Curran from Harry Bridges, President, International...
Dates:
1940-1966
Maritime - National Maritime Union (NMU), 1940-1966
File — Box: 8, Folder: 22-23 cont
Scope and Contents
booklets "Hold That Meeting!" September 1943, "Pork Chops and Politics" by Joseph Curran, 1952); form letters: (outlining NMU revised National Shipping rules, May 28, 1940, 6 pages; outlining NMU activities, pending legislation, apparently sent to non-union prominent citizens, March 28, 1949, 3 pages; "NMU Independent Caucus - What is the NMU Independent Caucus?" n.d., 6 pages; "A Statement to NMU Members by the Committee for Democratic Unionism," n.d. 4 pages; "Call for an Emergency Rank...
Dates:
1940-1966
Maritime - Sailor's Union of the Pacific/Seafarers International Union, 1891-1961
File — Box: 8, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
"Proposed General Shipping Rules for the Seafarers International Union, Atlantic District," n.d. 2 pages; booklet "Sailors Union of the Pacific, 1885-1950," souvenir booklet of dedication of new Union Hall in San Francisco, June 16, 1950, 14 pages; correspondence between AFL President Green, the San Francisco Office of the AFL and the President of the International Association of Machinists re union rivalry on the West Coast, intransigence among AFL-affiliated Inter-nations, lack of AFL...
Dates:
1891-1961
Maritime - Seamen - General, 1896-1952
File — Box: 8, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
"The East and West Coast Seamen's Unions," 9 page typescript with hand notation "Paid 5/17/52 Taft"; "The Unlicensed Seafaring Unions," by Philip Taft, reprinted from the ILR Review, Volume 3, Number 2, January 1950, 25 pages; "A Sick Industry" by an anonymous shipmaster re deleterious effects of union slow up aboard his ship, November 27, 1939, 5 pages; "Additional Data on the Maritime Labor Market," January 18, 1940, 29 pages with "Supplement to `The Maritime Industry and Employment...
Dates:
1896-1952
Massachusetts State Federation of Labor, 1836-1955
File — Box: 8, Folder: 26-27
Scope and Contents
Copious notes
Dates:
1836-1955
Landrum-Griffin Act, 1958-1970
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
"Government Regulation of Internal Union Affairs Affecting the Rights of Members," 102 page manuscript prepared by the Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service, May 1, 1958; brochures
Dates:
1958-1970
Landrum-Griffin Material, 1965-1970
File — Box: 8, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Court cases, correspondence, notes, esp. re elections
Dates:
1965-1970
Legal Defense (National Labor Defense Council), 1923-1938
File — Box: 8, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence; notes
Dates:
1923-1938