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Box 11

 Container

Contains 41 Results:

Strikes - Violence, 1877-1966

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

"Violence in Labor Disputes, 1877-1946," 7 page table showing name of dispute, year, numbers killed and injured, major issues; "Number of deaths by violence in work stoppages, 1937-1964," by U.S. Department of Labor, 1 page; 61 page manuscript, "Violence in Labor Disputes," beginning with p. 22, Table III; 12 page manuscript, "National Guard," list of citations in journals; four page draft, untitled, unsigned, n.d.; notes; reprint of journal article

Dates: 1877-1966

Strikes - Violence - Clippings, 1937-1963

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Many photocopies of newspaper clippings

Dates: 1937-1963

Subsidies, Ship, 1899-1922

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

"Ship Subsidy" by Samuel Gompers, stating opposition, copied from the January 1907 Federationist, 5 pages; "Conference Held Tuesday, April 6, 1922 in the Executive Council Chamber, AFL ... to Consider the Ship Subsidy Bill," minutes, 5 pages; notes; clipping from May 20, 1922 International Labor News Service, AFL

Dates: 1899-1922

Sweatshops

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Unsigned typescript, "Sweatshops," n.d., 2 pages

Dates: 1836-1981

Taft-Hartley Act, 1946-1954

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents Telegram to AFL affiliates from AFL President Green, urging them to wire Senators protesting anti-Labor legislation, May 28, 1946; statement by AFL Executive Council against anti-labor legislation pending in the Senate, May 15, 1946; "AFL National Union Heads Pledge Vigorous Fight to Repeal Labor Act and Vote Out Its Supporters," text of policy statement adopted at special conference of national and international officers, 1947 (hand notation), 4 pages (incomplete); AFL Executive Council...
Dates: 1946-1954

Taft-Hartley Act - Notes, etc., 1947-1949

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Includes printed checklist of Congressional voting record on Taft- Hartley and other key issues, published by AFL Labor's League for Political Education

Dates: 1947-1949

Tailor's National Union (Journeymen), 1881-1883

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 16
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: 1881-1883

Tariff Commission, 1916

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 17
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: 1916