Glass manufacture
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
American Flint Glass Workers Union Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2642
Overview
Minutes, proceedings, circulars, agreements, constitutions, bylaws, correspondence, and reports of the local union which worked in the stemware and punch tumbler department of Fostoria Glass Company. Addendum of 2013/02/25 includes materials collected by Paul W. Myers (1927-2008), former employee of Fostoria Glass Company and former American Flint Glass Workers Union Representative of Local #10. Includes correspondence, business records, photographs, printed material, ephemera, clippings, an...
Dates:
1878-1986
American Flint Glass Workers Union, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2438
Overview
Minutes, proceedings, circulars, agreements, constitutions, bylaws, correspondence, and reports of AFGWU Local 10 (Fostoria Glass), including general wage rate lists, contract increase percentages and wage and move rate lists of the punch tumbler and stemware department. Of interest would be the strike threats and agreements in the late 1950s.
Dates:
1894-1977
Glass Workers' Protective League, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2427
Scope and Contents
Minutes, correspondence, speeches, clippings, printed material, press releases, and other items concerning the Glass Workers' Protective League, which began in 1946 as the Four State Glass Workers' Protective League. It included glass workers from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana and was concerned with fighting the importation of cheap foreign glass. The papers deal mainly with the Burke-Hartke Bill, Bottle Bills, and national and international trade matters and include...
Dates:
1947-1976