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Helen and Mardy Polaner Papers

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Identifier: LP001257

Abstract Attorney Helen Moore Polaner was active in various civil liberties and labor organizations, including Americans for Democratic Action and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Ms. Polaner served as president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers from 1945-1950 and was the first female vice president of the Michigan Federation of Labor. Mardy Polaner served as a labor organizer for the American Federation of Labor (AFL), working with the Seafarers International...

Dates: 1903 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1969

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Irwin L. DeShetler Papers

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Identifier: LP000301

Abstract Material collected by Mr. DeShetler as secretary-treasurer of the AFL Flat Glass Workers Union (1935-37), president of the CIO Federation of Glass, Ceramic and Sand Workers (1939-42), CIO regional director of southern California (1946-52), CIO assistant regional director of Region 13 (1952-55), AFL-CIO assistant regional director of Region 22 (1955-68) and National AFL-CIO coordinator for Farm Workers (1968-71). Various activities of the Glass Workers Union, such as Executive Board meetings...

Dates: 1928 - 1984

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Joseph Smith Papers

Collection — Container: Small Processed Collections: S-T, Box 13, Folder: 9

Identifier: LP000854

Abstract Joseph Smith played a leading role in the Michigan labor movement, serving several terms as president of the United Mine Workers District 24, and being active in the Michigan Federation of Labor and the state Congress of Industrial Organizations executive board. His papers relate primarily to his activities with the UMWA in Bay City, Michigan.

Dates: 1908 - 1932

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Ted F. Silvey Papers

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Identifier: LP000625

Abstract Ted Silvey began in the printer's trade before moving up the ranks in the Ohio Congress of Industrial Organizations and joining the national CIO Speakers Bureau in 1944. In that capacity, he lectured at labor union schools, union meetings and conferences, and non-union gatherings. His papers document his public speaking for the CIO as well as his writings, especially those on automation, computer, and industrial technology.

Dates: 1936 - 1969

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Twentieth Century Trade Union Woman: Vehicle for Social Change Oral Histories

Collection

Identifier: LOH002227

Abstract In the 1970s, the Program on Women and Work, a unit of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (ILIR), a jointly administered body of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, coordinated an oral history project to document the lives and work of women active in the labor movement from 1900 through 1970. Joyce L. Kornbluh of ILIR served as project director. Many interviewers conducted interviews with participants across the United State. This project, "The Twentieth...

Dates: 1971 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1979

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UAW Local 5 Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000277

Abstract United Auto Workers Local 5 began in 1933 as an American Federation of Labor local at Studebaker in South Bend, Indiana, established in opposition to depression conditions. By the time it became affiliated with the UAW in 1935 it was the largest auto local in the early struggle to establish auto unions and one of the earliest to organize. They joined with other industrial unions to form the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1937 and remained one of the leading locals in UAW history...

Dates: 1937 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1965

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

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