| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 62 | Title: | International Typographical Union Local No. 53 Photographs
| | | | Creator: | International Typographical Union Local No. 53 | | | | Dates: | 1860-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Local No. 53 of the International Typographical Union is a Cleveland, Ohio, local of the International Typographical Union. It was chartered in 1860, disbanded in 1865, and reorganized in 1868. The collection consists of portraits and views of the Cleveland union headquarters, school, baseball teams, members and officials, printers at work and printing machinery, and the International Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs, Colorado. | | | | Call #: | PG 220 | | | | Extent: | 0.70 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | International Typographical Union. Local No. 53 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Printing industry -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Printing industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Printers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 63 | Title: | Marvin Clinton Harrison Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Harrison, Marvin Clinton | | | | Dates: | 1930-1950 | | | | Abstract: | Marvin Clinton Harrison (1890-1954) was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer and Ohio state senator who specialized in the areas of accident and labor law. The collection consists of portraits and views of individuals, places, or items connected with labor unions, industrial accident, and other court cases in which Harrison was involved. Included are photographs used in the Solanics vs. Republic Steel court case, views of locations of strike activities in Cleveland and Youngstown during the Little Steel strike of 1937, and photographs of women on the picket line. | | | | Call #: | PG 205 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Harrison, Marvin Clinton, 1890-1954 -- Photograph collections. | Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.) -- Photograph collections. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio -- Photographs. | Accident law -- Ohio -- Photographs. | Legislators -- Ohio -- Photographs. | Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Little Steel Strike, U.S., 1937 -- Photographs. | Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- Ohio -- Youngstown -- Photographs. | Iron and steel workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- Photographs. | East Ohio Gas Company Explosion, 1944 -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 64 | Title: | James Horton Papers, Series III
| | | | Creator: | James Horton | | | | Dates: | ca.1965-1990 | | | | Abstract: | James Horton (1934-2005) was an employee of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 47, in Cleveland, Ohio. He helped the union organize workers in several Cleveland hospitals and nursing homes and served as a negotiator during contract bargaining negotiations. During his career with SEIU he served in many capacities including organizer, business agent, negotiator, vice-president, and president. The collection consists of a biography, a book, brochures, casework files, contract data sheet, contract surveys, correspondence, fliers, grievance reports, handwritten notes, job descriptions, merger history, monthly activity reports, a photograph, plan descriptions, a proposal draft, newspaper clippings, a newsletter, reports, rosters, speech and press conference, union agreement, and union proposals. | | | | Call #: | MS 5507 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective labor agreements -- Nursing homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Service industries workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Nursing homes -- Ohio --Elyria. | Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 66 | Title: | National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, Local 604 Records
| | | | Creator: | National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, Local 604 | | | | Dates: | 1956-1974 | | | | Abstract: | The National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, Local 604, is the Cleveland, Ohio, local of a federal employee's trade union. Its membership was predominantly African American. The collection consists of a dues book (1956-1957), several issues of Post Mark Cleveland (1958-1974), fact sheets, and banquet programs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4153 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.). Local 604 (Cleveland, Ohio). | African Americans -- Employment. | Civil rights movements -- United States. | Discrimination in employment -- United States. | Race discrimination -- United States. | Government employee unions -- United States. | Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States. | Minority labor union members -- United States. | Civil service -- United States -- Minority membership. | Postal service -- United States -- Employees. | United States -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 67 | Title: | Israel Histadrut Campaign Records
| | | | Creator: | Israel Histadrut Campaign | | | | Dates: | 1923-1984 | | | | Abstract: | The Israel Histadrut Campaign is an annual fundraising campaign, associated with the National Committee for Labor Israel, which supports the health, education and welfare programs of the Histadrut in Israel. It was founded in 1923 as the Gewerkshaften Campaign but changed its name to the Israel Histadrut Campaign in 1940. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, newsletters, flyers, programs, clippings, news releases and convention materials. | | | | Call #: | MS 4034 | | | | Extent: | 1 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Israel Histadrut Campaign (Cleveland, Ohio) | Labor Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities | Jews -- Palestine -- Charities
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 68 | Title: | United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 105 Records
| | | | Creator: | United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 105 | | | | Dates: | 1913-1973 | | | | Abstract: | Local 105 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was formed in 1907 by the merger of Locals 14, 1039 and 1231. Local 1180, a predominantly Hungarian Local in Cleveland, merged into Local 105 in January, 1973. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes, cash books, dues books (including members' names, birth dates, date and Local of initiation, and amount of dues paid), financial statements, jurisdictional decisions, application books, and correspondence of U.B.C.J.A. Locals 105 and 1180. | | | | Call #: | MS 4193 | | | | Extent: | 13.25 linear feet (12 containers and 16 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Local 105 (Cleveland, Ohio) | United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Local 1180 (Cleveland, Ohio). | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Carpenters -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Carpenters -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Occupations -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 69 | Title: | Cleveland Federation of Musicians Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Federation of Musicians | | | | Dates: | 1888-1965 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Federation of Musicians was established in 1877 as the Musicians Mutual Protective Association. In 1895 the Association joined the American Federation of Musicians and became A.F.M. Local 4. African American members left to form their own local, No. 550, in 1910, but reunited with Local 4, also known as the Cleveland Federation of Musicians, in 1962. Establishment of minimum wages and protection of its members were the union's main goals. Women musicians were given equal protection after being admitted to the union in 1901. Other union activities included support of other unions, publication of the Cleveland Musician, and sponsorship of the Druid Club. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes, correspondence, financial records, wage scale directories, membership lists, material on the 1935 trial of a union member, beneficiary notices, contracts, issues of the Cleveland Musician, scrapbooks, miscellaneous material, and records of the Druid Club. | | | | Call #: | MS 3718 | | | | Extent: | 13.55 linear feet (7 containers, 29 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Federation of Musicians. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Musicians -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 70 | Title: | International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, Local 407 Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, Local 407 | | | | Dates: | 1934-1976 | | | | Abstract: | Local 407 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America in Cleveland, Ohio, is the the largest Teamster freight local in Ohio. It has vigorously participated in both local and national Teamster strikes since its formation, ca. 1915. The collection consists of machine duplicated newspaper clippings concerning the Teamster and wildcat truckers' strikes of 1967, 1970 and 1976, machine duplicated business correspondence sent to Thomas "Eddie" Lee, secretary-treasurer of Local 407 (1964-1978), several wage-rate agreements, and miscellaneous items, including copies of news articles on prominent local and national Teamster leaders such as William and Jackie Presser and Jimmy Hoffa. | | | | Call #: | MS 3781 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America. Local 407 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Transport workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Truck drivers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Transport workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Wages -- Truck drivers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 71 | Title: | National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.)., Local 604, Ladies Auxiliary Records
| | | | Creator: | National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.)., Local 604, Ladies Auxiliary | | | | Dates: | 1953-1977 | | | | Abstract: | Local 604 is the auxiliary unit of the National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1927. The collection consists of a constitution of district 6, convention reports, minutes, correspondence, membership cards, programs, and publications. | | | | Call #: | MS 4159 | | | | Extent: | 0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.). Local 604. Ladies Auxiliary (Cleveland, Ohio). | Minority labor union members -- United States. | Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States. | Government employee unions -- United States. | African Americans -- Employment. | Discrimination in employment -- United States. | Race discrimination -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 72 | Title: | Communications Workers of America, Local 4305 Records
| | | | Creator: | Communications Workers of America, Local 4305 | | | | Dates: | 1947-1975 | | | | Abstract: | The Communications Workers of America, Local 4305 was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, as Local 6 of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers, an autonomous member of the National Federation of Telephone Workers which was founded ca. 1937. The NFTW became the Communications Workers of America in 1947, but the OFTW did not join until 1949. In 1950 the Ohio Bell employees chose the CWA as their bargaining agent and Local 6 merged with Local 104 to form Local 4305 of the CWA. The collection consists of minutes of monthly membership meetings (1947-1973), minutes of steward's meetings (1952-1975), minutes of executive or advisory board meetings (1953-1959), minutes of officers' meetings (1960-1973), by-laws (1969), grievances, legal briefs and related papers from arbitration cases, copies of the Courier (1958-1969), correspondence, and wage agreements. | | | | Call #: | MS 3784 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Communications Workers of America. Local 4305 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Ohio Bell Telephone Company. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Telephone companies -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Telephone -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Employees. | Collective bargaining -- Telecommunication -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 73 | Title: | International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, Local 407 Records
| | | | Creator: | International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America, Local 407 | | | | Dates: | 1925-1948 | | | | Abstract: | Local 407 is a local union of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers. The local was founded and chartered in 1912, in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of fifty-six bound ledger volumes which list dues, fines, and assessments for individual members of the local union. | | | | Call #: | MS 3758 | | | | Extent: | 17.50 linear feet (56 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America. Local 407 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Transport workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 74 | Title: | Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union, Local No. 6-L Records
| | | | Creator: | Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union, Local No. 6-L | | | | Dates: | 1904-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Local No. 6-L of the Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union was chartered in 1889 in Cleveland, Ohio, as a member of the Lithographers International Protective and Insurance Association of the United States and Canada. The Association merged with the International Photoengravers Union of North America in 1964 to form the Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union. Cleveland Local 6-L broadened its membership to include Akron workers. In 1972 the union merged with the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders to form the Graphic Arts International Union. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, audit reports, dues and assessments ledgers, cash books, and pension account ledgers. | | | | Call #: | MS 3751 | | | | Extent: | 4.40 linear feet (4 containers and 6 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Lithographers and Photoengravers International Union. Local No. 6-L (Cleveland, Ohio) | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Printing industry -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Printing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 75 | Title: | Harold H. Burton-Edward Blythin Papers
| | | | Creator: | Burton, Harold H. and Blythin, Edward | | | | Dates: | 1933-1941 | | | | Abstract: | Harold H. Burton (1888-1964) was mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (1935-1940). When he was elected to the United States Senate in 1940 he chose Edward Blythin (1884-1958) to fill the remainder of his last term as mayor (1941). The collection consists of office files of the mayor of Cleveland containing correspondence, reports, speeches, proclamations, and newspaper clippings, relating to routine administrative matters and topics of special interest. | | | | Call #: | MS 3828 | | | | Extent: | 8.20 linear feet (9 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Blythin, Edward, 1884-1958. | Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz), 1888-1964. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor disputes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Public utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 76 | Title: | Carpenters District Council Records
| | | | Creator: | Carpenters District Council | | | | Dates: | 1910-1973 | | | | Abstract: | The Carpenters District Council is the regional representative in northeast Ohio of locals of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. It was founded in 1888 in Cuyahoga County and extended into Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula counties by 1950. It negotiates contracts for various locals with individual contractors and with the Carpenter Contractors' Association, the Home Builders' Association, and the Building Trades Employers' Association. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes, financial records, grievances and legal proceedings, jurisdictional disputes and decisions, election material, and correspondence. In addition to the records pertaining to the workings of the District Council, the collection includes material on the constituent locals and the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council, the Carpenter Contractors' Association, and the negotiations in the 1958 building trades lockout in Cleveland. | | | | Call #: | MS 4209 | | | | Extent: | 27.80 linear feet (28 containers and 2 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Carpenters District Council (Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, and Ashtabula Counties, Ohio) | Carpenters -- Ohio. | Collective bargaining -- Construction industry -- Ohio. | Industrial relations -- Ohio. | Labor -- Ohio. | Trade-unions -- Carpenters -- Ohio. | Strikes and lockouts -- Construction workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Ohio -- Occupations.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 78 | Title: | General Motors Corporation, Fisher Body Division, Plant No. 1 Photographs
| | | | Creator: | General Motors Corporation, Fisher Body Division, Plant No. 1 | | | | Dates: | 1926-1983 | | | | Abstract: | Plant No. 1 of the Fisher Body Division of the General Motors Corporation opened in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1921 as part of the Fisher Body Company. Fisher produced automobile bodies, and in 1926 became part of the General Motors Corporation. During World War II the plant produced tank and gun parts and engine parts for airplanes, wartime employment totalling 14,000, including a large number of women. After the war the plant produced large stamping dies and upholstery and trim sets rather than auto bodies. General Motors closed the plant in 1983. The plant was involved in several bitter strikes during the 1930s, including the 1936-1937 sit-down strike to gain union recognition by GM, which began at the plant. The plant was also known as the Coit Road Plant. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of plant managers and supervisors, award dinners and presentations, open houses, visits of General Motors officials and politicians, and World War II-related photographs of award ceremonies, portraits of employees who died in action, and a postwar visit by General Douglas MacArthur. Views include aerial and exterior photographs of the plant and photographs of production and facilities. | | | | Call #: | PG 389 | | | | Extent: | 0.90 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | General Motors Corporation. Fisher Body Division. Plant No. 1 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 45 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | General Motors automobiles -- Photographs. / Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- Photographs. | Automobile industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Strikes and lockouts -- Automobile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Plant shutdowns -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | General Motors Corporation Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937 -- Photographs. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 79 | Title: | Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Local 65 Records
| | | | Creator: | Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Local 65 | | | | Dates: | 1907-1964 | | | | Abstract: | The Sheet Metal Workers International Association, Local 65, is the Cleveland, Ohio, local organized in 1903 and originally known as the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers' International Alliance. The union includes skilled, unskilled and semi-skilled workers. The collection consists of five minute books of regular meetings, financial statements, and five minute books of executive meetings. The collection pertains to the membership and operation of Local 65 and provides full details of the union's operation during the time. | | | | Call #: | MS 4248 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Sheet Metal Workers International Association. Local 65 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | Metal-workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Metal-workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 80 | Title: | William Frew Long Papers
| | | | Creator: | Long, William Frew | | | | Dates: | 1895-1980 | | | | Abstract: | William Frew Long (1880-1984) was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, native, president of the Laundryowners National Association, Air Force colonel, General Manger of Associated Industries of Cleveland and the American Plan Association, member of the National Association of Manufacturers, and the National Industrial Council, and nonagenarian Mayor of Macedonia, Ohio. He was active in labor relations, especially anti-union and anti-Communist causes, and military aviation. He was influential in the establishment of Cleveland Hopkins Airport. The collection consists of personal and business correspondence, speeches, addresses, articles and material collected to aid in their preparation, military records and correspondence, newspaper clippings, personal memorabilia, awards and commendations. | | | | Call #: | MS 3949 | | | | Extent: | 4.21 linear feet (5 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Open and closed shop -- United States. | Labor unions -- United States. | Anti-communist movements -- United States. | Aeronautics, Military -- United States. | Airports -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Planning. | Airports -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Location. | Macedonia (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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