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Fred C. Pieper Papers

Collection

Identifier: LP000165

Abstract Fred Pieper was an early leader in the unionization of the auto industry. His papers reflect his work for the United Auto Workers and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the South.

Dates: 1936 - 1940

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Henry Kraus Papers

Collection

Identifier: LP000112

Abstract Mr. Kraus was the first editor of the UAW's newspaper The United Auto Worker (later changed to Solidarity). He was active in the early attempts by the UAW (first under the AFL and later under the CIO) to organize the auto industry. Files for the late 1920s and early 1930s cover the attempts by groups, including the Auto Workers Union of the Trade Union Unity League, to organize auto workers, and discuss such events as the Murray Body Strike (1929); the Ford Hunger March (1932); and the Briggs...

Dates: 1926 - 1960; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1944

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Joe Brown Papers

Collection

Identifier: LP000047

Abstract A one-time reporter for the Federated Press, Mr. Brown gathered a variety of items for a proposed book on unionism in the auto industry. Clippings, correspondence, handbills, and miscellaneous publications relate to the rise of auto unions during the 1930s and 1940s. Nearly every topic of importance for that time and subject is covered, including sit-downs, drives to organize various plants, and strikes. The scrapbooks contain mostly Detroit newspaper clippings about auto unions.Box...

Dates: 1933 - 1942

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

M.A. Williams Papers

Collection

Identifier: LP000435

Abstract 'Bill' Williams was a prominent figure in CIO Local 76 (later UAW Local 560), Ford Motor Co. assembly plant in Richmond, CA., helping to organize workers and serve as an officer. His papers reflect events at the plant surrounding the jurisdictional rivalry between the AFL and the CIO and eventual designation as a UAW shop.

Dates: 1936 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1958

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Norman Smith Papers

Collection

Identifier: LP000574

Abstract Norman Smith was an organizer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 - 1964 in St. Louis, Detroit, Memphis, and California while working in the auto and steel industries. His papers mainly reflect both his work in the Mid West as well as immediately following WWII in California.

Dates: 1935 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1946

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Percy Llewellyn Oral History

Item — Box: Individual Oral Histories Box 2: G-M, Folder: 6

Identifier: LOH002292

Abstract Percy Llewellyn, first president of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 600, for the Ford Rouge River Plant, was interviewed by Reuther archivist Dennis East in 1971. Collection consists of the interview transcript. Llewellyn covers unionizing Ford Motor Company and the history of UAW Local 600 during the 1940s and 1950s. Appended is also an earlier interview by George Heliker on unionizing and union development at Ford.

Dates: 1971-01-19

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UAW Local 9 Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000274

Abstract United Auto Workers Local 9 was chartered as an American Federation of Labor local in 1933, servicing workers at the Bendix Products Corporation in South Bend, Indiana. After a disagreement with the AFL, the local joined the UAW in 1935, participating in the auto industry's first sit-down strike the following year.

Dates: 1933 - 1963

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UAW Local 417 Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000715

Abstract UAW Local 417 was chartered in 1945. The original charter was issued to Great Lakes Greyhound Garage in Birmingham, Michigan. An amalgamated local, its membership comes primarily from auto parts companies in Detroit's northern suburbs: Clawson, Royal Oak, Birmingham, Troy, Ferndale and Sterling Heights. Dean Spooner became President of the Local in 1963, and remained in office for the remainder of the period covered by this collection. Subjects include: auto parts plants in Detroit's...

Dates: 1954 - 1983

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

UAW Local 664 Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000235

Abstract Established in 1939 when the International Executive Board revoked the charter of pro-Martin Local 118, United Auto Workers Local 664 serviced members at Fisher Body, Chevrolet, and Prophet Company in North Tarrytown, NY. The records reflect the Martin controversy, strikes, conferences, and other activities of the local.

Dates: 1939 - 1961

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Victor Reuther Oral History

Item — Box: Individual Oral Histories Box 3: O-Si, Folder: 8

Identifier: LOH002304

Abstract In 1980, R. T. King interviewed labor leader Victor Reuther as part of the Indiana University Oral History Project on the Indiana economy in the twentieth century. Collection consists of a transcript. Reuther discusses UAW organizing activity in Indiana in 1937, which involved a sit-down strike at the General Motors Guide Lamp Division in Anderson.

Dates: 1980-09-26

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

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