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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
Michigan Federation of Teachers Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000146
Abstract
Part I and II consists of correspondence, minutes, and reports. Subjects include Administrative Board meetings; American Federation of Teachers; conventions; Detroit Federation of Teachers; Executive Council meetings; Haven Hill conferences; legislative lobbying activities; membership campaigns; metropolitan teachers' institutes; Michigan AFL-CIO Council; Michigan Constitutional Convention (1961); teachers' salary and fringe benefits surveys; treasurer reports; White House Conference on...
Dates:
1934 - 1963; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1975
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Richard T. Frankensteen Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000014
Abstract
Mr. Frankensteen served as president of the Automotive Industrial Workers Association, one of the independent attempts to organize the auto industry in the early 1930's. He later served as president of UAW Dodge Local 3. In 1937 he was elected a vice-president of the UAW-CIO. Correspondence, speeches, clippings, and other materials on the Ryan Aeronautical Company Strike (1944); the National War Labor Board; North American Strike (1941); factionalism within the UAW-CIO; activities of the UAW...
Dates:
1930 - 1964
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
UAW Local 212 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000076
Abstract
UAW Local 212 represented workers of the Briggs Corporation, an automobile supplier eventually purchased by Chrysler Corporation. There were numerous company and union conflicts as well as factional union conflicts which mirrored the struggles within the UAW at large. Their records document shopfloor conditions, organizing, elections, and contract negotiations in the various plants serviced by the local.
Dates:
1937 - 1965
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
UAW Public Relations Department: Clippings
Collection
Identifier: LR000125_PRC
Abstract
Subjects include: Chrysler and General Motors; Ford organizing; Local 600; FEW; strikes; Michigan politics; Communism; housing; Walter Reuther; steel industry; Taft-Hartley; Michigan labor; Detroit urban affairs; UMWA; HUAC; unemployment; Harry Truman
Dates:
1940 - 1972
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
UAW Region 1B Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000512
Abstract
United Auto Workers Region 1B represents locals in the southeastern and thumb areas of Michigan. This includes workers at the major automotive manufacturers, Huck Manufacturing, TRW, Briggs Manufacturing, Eaton Manufacturing and Bohn Aluminum. Their records document the services Region 1B provided to locals and its political activities in the region.
Dates:
1939 - 1985
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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