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Local 427 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union was chartered in 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, as District
427 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. It merged with the Retail Clerks International Association
in 1979 to form the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. District 427 established the Community Health
Foundation in 1964, with the cooperation of the Retail Clerks Local 880. The Foundation merged with Kaiser in 1969. The collection
consists of minutes, newsletters, correspondence, convention proceedings, reports, contracts, clippings, financial and membership
records, subject files, papers of presidents Sam Pollock and Frank Cimino, and records of or material pertaining to affiliated
locals and unions, including Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 500, Cleveland Fur Workers Local 86, The Canton Federation of
Labor and the Cleveland AFL-CIO.
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