Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0160
Overview
Executive council minutes and proceedings, correspondence, newspaper clippings, annual conference information and proceedings, and printed material of the state organization of the American Federation of Labor founded in 1903. Papers include congressional correspondence, 1950-1957; correspondence of President E. A. Carter, 1949-1957; a few papers of H. M. Rogers, 1905-1959, and Frank W. Snyder, 1906-1911; records of the Parkersburg Central Trades and Labor Council, 1924-1942; and a...
Dates:
1905-1959
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1658
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the records of the West Virginia Labor Federation (WVLF), AFL-CIO as a singular organization, established in 1957, and the records of its predecessor organizations prior to their merger, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO). Series 1 comprises records related to the West Virginia State Labor Federation, AFL’s internal operation and initiatives, including presidents’ files, secretary-treasurers' files,...
Dates:
1933-1980; Majority of material found within 1957-1972