Window Glass Cutters League of America

Overview Papers, publications, photos and memorabilia of glassworker, labor official and organizer, Glen W. McCabe. McCabe was an energetic union officer in the AFL affiliated Window Glass Cutters League of America and intermittently in the United Glass & Ceramic Workers of North America of the CIO. There are correspondence, speeches, publications and pamphlets which present a history of the American labor movement in the glass industry, biographical details about McCabe, industry work rules and...

Overview Correspondence, minute books, financial records, photographs, broadsides, publications, and other materials of the League, and the archives of other defunct craft unions entrusted to the Window Glass Cutters League of America. Organizations other than the League whose records are included are: Local Assembly 300, Knights of Labor (ca.1876-1905); Amalgamated Window Glass Workers of America (1904-08); Window Glass Cutters and Flatteners Association of America (1907-1929); Window Glass Workers...