Labor unions -- West Virginia -- Wheeling
Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, Division 103, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2536
Scope and Contents
Records of a local union of street car employees in Wheeling, West Virginia. There are minute books, correspondence, contracts, agreements, boards of arbitration hearings, and financial records, including membership figures and lists of members from the founding of the local to the late 1950s. The correspondence concerns mainly intra-union issues of seniority, transfers of membership, and local union governance, but there are also a few letters about Division 103's support of other organized...
Dates:
1899-1958
Journeymen Stonecutters Association, Wheeling Branch, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3768
Scope and Contents
Administrative labor union records of the local Wheeling branch of the Journeymen Stonecutters Association. Representing the interests of workers who cut and carve stone to ornament buildings, the Association is the oldest active union in North America, having been founded in 1853. Series in this collection include constitution and by-laws, strike file (1894), correspondence, ephemera, minutes, financial ledgers, roll call ledger, and oversize (including cash ledger and monthly reports). The...
Dates:
circa 1890-1918