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AFSCME Communications Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR002204
Abstract
AFSCME has produced a regularly published magazine since its inception. Publication duties for this organ and other materials were accomplished by the Education and Publications Department for the first twenty years of AFSCME’s existence. The 1954 Convention, however, passed Resolution 14, establishing a Publications and Public Relations Department. This new department would continue to publish the AFSCME magazine and other materials and would also take on new media public relations duties both...
Dates:
1967 - 2002
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: Gordon Chapman/Joseph Ames Records
Collection
Identifier: LR002096
Abstract
This collection primarily covers the end of Gordon Chapman’s tenure as Secretary-Treasurer, and all of Joseph Ames’s tenure. These years saw turbulence in the International Union’s politics where founding incumbent president Arnold Zander faced challenges from an opposing faction called the Committee on Union Responsibility (COUR). COUR candidate Jerry Wurf won the presidency at the 1964 convention. Gordon Chapman held the office of Secretary-Treasurer. In 1966, Chapman retired due to poor...
Dates:
1944 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1972
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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