| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Consumers League of Ohio Records
| | | | Creator: | Consumers League of Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1900-1977 | | | | Abstract: | The Consumers League of Ohio is a political action organization concerned with the welfare of the laboring class. It lobbies for legislation in their interests. It was founded in 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio as a women's group to insure female laborers decent wages, hours and working conditions. Men were admitted in 1921. The collection consists of correspondence, newsletters, reports, speeches, legislative bills and acts, financial and membership records, articles, clippings, and printed material. | | | | Call #: | MS 3546 | | | | Extent: | 32.90 linear feet (30 containers and 69 reels of microfilm) | | | | Subjects: | Consumers League of Ohio. | Pressure groups -- Ohio. | Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio. | Labor -- Ohio. | Working class women -- Ohio. | Work environment -- Ohio. | Wages -- Ohio. | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio. | Consumers' leagues -- Ohio. | Consumer movements -- Ohio. | Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Children -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Insurance, Unemployment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | Consumers League of Ohio Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Consumers League of Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1899-1995 | | | | Abstract: | The Consumers League of Ohio was founded in 1900 as part of a social justice movement of the late nineteenth century which resulted in the formation of many consumer leagues. The Consumer's League of Ohio, founded only one year after the National Consumers League, began in April 1900. Bell Sherwin (daughter of one of the men who founded the Sherwin-Williams company) helped set the Ohio league in motion and served as the first president of the organization. The Consumers League of Ohio was initially run out of the Goodrich House and dedicated its efforts to the improvement of working conditions for women and children employed in factories and retail establishments. See finding aid for complete historical note. The collection consists of administrative documents, board lists, bulletins, correspondence, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and publications. | | | | Call #: | MS 4933 | | | | Extent: | 4.20 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Consumers League of Ohio | Consumers' leagues -- Ohio | Consumer protection -- Ohio | Pressure groups -- Ohio | Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio | Labor -- Ohio | Working class women -- Ohio | Work environment -- Ohio | Wages -- Ohio | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio | Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio | Child labor -- Law and legislation -- Ohio
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Consumers League of Ohio Records, Series III
| | | | Creator: | Consumers League of Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1925-1994 | | | | Abstract: | The Consumers League of Ohio was founded in 1900 as part of a social justice movement of the late nineteenth century which resulted in the formation of many consumer leagues. The Consumer's League of Ohio, founded only one year after the National Consumers League, began in April 1900. Bell Sherwin (daughter of one of the men who founded the Sherwin-Williams company) helped set the Ohio league in motion and served as the first president of the organization. The Consumers League of Ohio was initially run out of the Goodrich House and dedicated its efforts to the improvement of working conditions for women and children employed in factories and retail establishments. The collection consists of agendas, agreements, brochures, by-laws, charts, constitutions, correspondence, court documents, financial information, flyers, forms, journal articles, legislation, lists, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, press releases, programs, questionnaires, reports, resolutions, speeches, statements, and testimony. | | | | Call #: | MS 5129 | | | | Extent: | 22.00 linear feet (22 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Consumers League of Ohio | Consumers' leagues -- Ohio | Consumer movements -- Ohio | Consumer protection -- Ohio | Pressure groups -- Ohio | Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio | Labor -- Ohio | Working class women -- Ohio | Work environment -- Ohio | Wages -- Ohio | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio | Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio | Child labor -- Law and legislation -- Ohio
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