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AFT Affiliate St. Louis Federation of Teachers Local 420 Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000463

Abstract The St. Louis (Missouri) Teachers Union was organized in 1935 by Paul W. Preisler, as the Teachers Union of St. Louis and St. Louis County. Its jurisdiction extended over these separate political entities in order to include members from Washington University. In 1944 the name of the local was changed to Teacher’s Federation of St. Louis and St. Louis County. Its 1948 merger with Local 680, St. Louis Vocational Teachers’ Union, extended Local 420’s jurisdiction to include “all eligible teachers...

Dates: 1951 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1962 - 2007

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Charles White Papers

Collection

Identifier: LP000879

Abstract An active union member, Charles White served as treasurer, president, and administrative head of the Lordstown Credit Union, in various positions in United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 1112 (Lordstown, OH), and as a UAW Community Action Program representative. Mr. White’s papers reflect his work with Local 1112, particularly as the local’s Insurance and Workmen’s Compensation Representative.

Dates: 1968 - 1974

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Citizen Action Records

Collection

Identifier: UR001636

Abstract Citizen Action (CA) was founded in 1979 by former members of Students for a Democratic Society and the Indochina Peace Campaign as a coalition of state and national liberal consumer and activist groups. It organized door-to-door canvassers to work on the state level promoting CA membership and educating the public on issues such as health care, energy, environmental concerns, and auto insurance. Citizen Action was also active in election campaigns on the local, state and national level to...

Dates: 1973 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1989

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Katherine Ellickson Oral History

Item — Box: Individual Oral Histories Box 1: A-E, Folder: 14

Identifier: LOH002280

Abstract In early 1976, Dennis East of the Reuther Library interviewed labor economist and activist Katherine Pollak Ellickson in a continuation of an earlier interview series. Collection consists of interview recordings and transcript, in which she discusses topics such as health insurance in the United States, the President's Commission on the Status of Women, and women's rights in general.

Dates: 1976-01-10

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Katherine Ellickson Oral History

Item — Box: Individual Oral Histories Box 1: A-E, Item: 12

Identifier: LOH002278

Abstract Between 1966 and 1967, Peter A. Corning conducted a series of eight interviews for the Columbia University Oral History Research Office with labor economist and activist Katherine Pollak Ellickson, underwritten by the Social Security Administration. Collection consists of all eight interview transcripts. Ellickson discusses her background, early work with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and, primarily, her roles in shaping Social Security, health benefit, and Medicare policies and...

Dates: 1966-02-15 - 1967-06-15

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

SEIU Communications Department Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001885

Abstract The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was founded in 1921 as a union of flat janitors. Over the years it has grown in size and scope, and now comprises three divisions: healthcare, property services, and public services. The records of SEIU’s Communications Department document the International’s mass mailings from 1974 through 1987. Included in the collection are (predominately) monthly summaries listing all the mass mailings sent by the International (with the exceptions of June...

Dates: 1976 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1978 - 1987

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UAW Local 1604 Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001091

Abstract Originally Scovill Brass Workers Union, Local 569 of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers (CIO), United Auto Workers Local 1604 was chartered in 1950 and represented metal workers in Waterbury, Conn.

Dates: 1943 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1969

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UAW Social Security Department: Community Health Association Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000317_CHA

Abstract In 1956, UAW President Walter Reuther enlisted community support for a prepaid group medical practice approach to health care. The purchase of Metropolitan Hospital on Detroit’s west side was the first major step taken to start the plan. The plan was received with great skepticism by many Detroit area physicians, who considered the new approach “socialized medicine,” but the controversy ended in 1959, when the American Medical Association dropped its longstanding ban against prepaid group...

Dates: 1954 - 1972

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

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