Showing Collections: 1 - 13 of 13
Cecil Roeder Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000184
Abstract
Correspondence, agreements, rate classification, grievance records, constitutions, resolutions, minutes, speeches, and published material collected by Cecil Roeder, who served as a committeeman of UAW Delco-Remy Local 662, Anderson, Indiana (late 1930's and early 1940's). Subjects include General Motors Sit-Down Strike at Anderson (1937); UAW factionalism including the Homer Martin controversy; elections and factionalism of Local 662; union shop drives of Local 662; civil rights campaigns; and...
Dates:
1937 - 1948
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Charles Beckman Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000892
Abstract
Charles Beckman served as United Auto Workers Local 45 (Fisher Body Plant, Cleveland) President for eighteen consecutive terms. His tenure included the Cleveland plant sit-down strike which served as a catalyst for the historic Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937. The papers of Mr. Beckman reflect his work with Local 45 and its affiliated organizations and, to a lesser degree, his involvement in political and social issues, including civil rights, anti-fascism and anti-war efforts.
Dates:
1933 - 1962; Majority of material found within 1936 - 1960
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
John Zaremba Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000013
Abstract
Mr. Zaremba was an early leader of the Automotive Industrial Workers' Association and took an active part in the formation of Dodge Local 3 of the UAW. Minutes, correspondence, clippings, and other files document early union activities at the Chrysler Corporation, especially the Dodge Main Plant. Topics covered include the Chrysler 1937 Sit-Down and the 1939 Strike; the Wayne County Industrial Union Council; the Civil Rights Federation; and union education programs. Among the correspondents are...
Dates:
1935 - 1961
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Mary Heaton Vorse Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000190
Abstract
Literary manuscripts and related papers, correspondence, daily notes and journals, reference and research material, notes, clippings, pamphlets, personal and family papers, and memorabilia, collected by Mrs. Vorse, writer, labor journalist, and social critic of the U.S. She also covered strikes, civil and labor disturbances, wars, revolutions, and political upheavals in other parts of the world. From the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1912) to the textile strike in Henderson, North...
Dates:
1841 - 1966
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO Council: Tom Turner Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000053
Abstract
Subjects include: civil rights; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; political education; Detroit government and politics; Detroit Federation of Labor; school desegregation; health and hospital services; Histadrut; labor education; Wayne County government
Dates:
1920 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1984
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Sam Sweet Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000841
Abstract
An activist in the early labor movement, Sam Sweet aided in the organization of the Flint General Motors workers and the Briggs workers in Detroit, and served as Education Director for United Auto Workers (UAW) Locals 155, 51, and 742. Granted citizenship in 1946, Mr. Sweet faced repeated government attempts to revoke his citizenship due to alleged Communist affiliation.Part I of Mr. Sweet’s papers primarily relate to his activities as Education Director of various UAW locals and as...
Dates:
1938 - 1989
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
SEIU Executive Office: David Sullivan Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001542_EOSullivan
Abstract
David Sullivan was an elevator operator in New York City and a founding member of the Service Employees International Union's Local 32B in 1934. He rapidly ascended the ranks of the local's leadership and eventually became International President. Sullivan enhanced the union's visibility and influence by moving the International headquarters from Chicago to Washington, D.C. in 1963. In this same vein, he involved the union in the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education, a political fund...
Dates:
1937 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1969
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
UAW Local 7 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000187
Abstract
Subjects include: Chrysler Jefferson Avenue assembly plant (Detroit); absenteeism; civil rights; 1950 Chrysler strike; factionalism; fair employment practices; skilled trades; Taft-Hartley Act.
Dates:
1938 - 1975
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 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
UAW Public Relations Department Photographs and Sound and Video Recordings
Collection
Identifier: LAV001193
Abstract
Since the United Automobile Workers of America (UAW) was established as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in August 1935, the union has maintained an office to deal with public relations. At that time, a "Committee on Publication" was formed, which became the "Publication Committee" in April 1936. The Committee subsequently became the "Publicity Department" in August 1936, when the UAW became an independent union affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations...
Dates:
1929 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1985 - 1995
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
UAW Region 1 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001206
Abstract
Subjects include: Eastside Detroit plants; AFL-CIO; civil rights; Michigan politics; Community Action Program; Democratic Party politics; plant closings; benefits; Black Lake; retirees; organizing; strikes
Dates:
1939 - 1989
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
UAW Region 9 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000283
Abstract
Subjects include: auto industry and auto workers in New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York; Martin Gerber; equal employment opportunity; low-cost public housing; Bell Aircraft strike (1949); Kohler strike (1959); Liberal Party (N.Y.); New Jersey politics and government; civil rights movement; labor education; UAW CAP; women auto workers.
Dates:
1941 - 1985
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Labor unions 10
- Politics, Practical 5
- Automobile industry and trade 4
- Women in the labor movement 3
- Communism 2
- Labor movement 2
- Plant shutdowns 2
- Automobile industry workers 1
- Boycotts 1
- Child labor 1
- Collective bargaining 1
- Community activists 1
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Politics and government 1
- Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations 1
- Education 1
- Government policy 1
- Housing 1
- Industrial hygiene 1
- Industrial safety--Standards--United States 1
- Labor 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor leaders--United States 1
- Labor unions -- Organizing 1
- Labor unions--Factionalism 1
- Michigan 1
- Michigan -- Politics and government 1
- Mining engineering 1
- Older people 1
- Picketing 1
- Political action committees 1
- Poverty 1
- Retirees 1
- Skilled labor 1
- Social history 1
- Textile Workers' Strike, Lawrence, Mass., 1912. 1
- Workers' compensation 1 ∧ view less
- Names
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America 8
- AFL-CIO 2
- Chrysler Corporation 2
- General Motors Corporation 2
- Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970 2
- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America 1
- Beckman, Charles Keller, 1900- 1
- Bieber, Owen 1
- Bluestone, Irving 1
- Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1
- Clinton, Hillary Rodham 1
- Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
- Industrial Workers of the World 1
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 664 (North Tarrytown, NY) 1
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Region 1 1
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Region 9 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
- Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 1
- Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO 1
- Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) 1
- Roeder, Cecil C. 1
- Service Employees International Union 1
- Sweet, Sam, 1911- 1
- Textile Workers Union of America 1
- Turner, Tom 1
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities 1
- Vorse, Mary Heaton 1
- Woodcock, Leonard 1
- Zaremba, John 1 ∧ view less
∨ view more
∨ view more