Labor unions -- United States -- Political activity
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur Meyer Papers
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Miscellaneous Records
Consists chiefly of working agreements, protective agreements, mediation agreements and legislative materials from the labor organization, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees.
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Records
These records deal chiefly with the union during the presidential terms of office of A.F. Whitney (1928-1949), W.P. Kennedy (1949-1963), and Charles Luna (1963-1968).
Committee for Industrial Organizations Minutes on Microfilm
Consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, statements, and manuscripts relating to the early history of the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and to certain aspects of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, its successor.
George Humphreys Tichenor III Personal Papers
The collection consists of part of his personal papers. The union publications he edited will be found in the ILR Library and the Cooperator in Mann Library.
Greater Buffalo Industrial Union Council Records
This collection contains the office files of the Greater Buffalo Industrial Union Council from its organization in 1937 to their merger with the Buffalo Federation of Labor in 1958. Include general administrative records, materials relating to labor legislation, relations with member organizations, relations with New York State Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the national CIO, relations with international labor organizations and with the public.
Insurance Workers of America Records
Records document efforts of the CIO to unionize the insurance industry.
Morris Hillquit Papers on Microfilm
Includes materials pertaining to the following broad subjects: socialist unity, growth and conflict, 1900- 1913; the war years, 1914-1919; Bolshevism and red-baiting, 1918-1921; fusion politics, 1922-1924; reconstruction and decline of the Socialist Party, 1925-1933; and trade unionism, 1909-1933. This is a microfilm edition of the Morris Hillquit papers, the originals are at the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Railway Labor Executives' Association Records
This collection consists of the office files of the Railway Labor Executives' Association for the years 1930 through 1967 and select general and subject files for 1926 through 1976. The files include correspondence, court case reports, court decisions, legal filings, executive orders, reports of emergency boards, statistics, copies of legislation, political records, arbitration and mediation records, financial statements and labor agreements.
Socialist Labor Party Records on Microfilm
Consist of the official records of the Socialist Labor Party from its organization in 1877 until 1907. Despite the fragmentation or paucity of some types of records, the collection as a whole documents many facets of the Party's development, organization, thought, and tactics, as well as its contribution to the labor and socialist movements in a turbulent era of industrial change and of social and economic stress in the United States.