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AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000682_GEOC
Abstract
In early 1950, the United Public Workers union was expelled from the CIO for alleged communist activities, leaving behind an anti-communist group called the Government Workers Union. In February of 1950, the CIO chartered the Government Workers Union as the Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee (GCEOC) and gave the new committee jurisdiction over federal, state, and local employees. In the next five years, GCEOC aggressively attempted to reach full union status within the CIO but...
Dates:
1939 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1957
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Irwin L. DeShetler Papers
Collection
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
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