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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
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
AFSCME Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: LOH002240
Abstract
Between 1975 and 1985, the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University and AFSCME undertook a cooperative oral history project to gather and preserve the memories of key persons who witnessed or played a major role in the development of AFSCME. Professor of History Philip Mason headed the project and interviewed several leading AFSCME members. Collection consists of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with seven of AFSCME's important early figures: Gordon Chapman,...
Dates:
1976-06-13 - 1985-09-30
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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- Lucy, William, 1933- 3
- Wurf, Jerry, 1919-1981 3
- Zander, Arnold S. (Arnold Scheuer), 1901-1975 3
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- Ames, Joseph Lynn, 1925- 2
- Gotbaum, Victor, 1921-2015 2
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- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
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