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Title: Labor History Collection
Reference Code: Mss-0693
Inclusive Dates: 1874 – ongoing
Quantity: 7.2 cu. ft. total
Location: WHS, Sh. A065 (7.0 cu. ft.)
RC2, Sh. 003 (0.2 cu. ft.)
OS SM “L” (6 items)
Scope and Content: This collection contains programs, newsletters, reports, proceedings,
yearbooks, anniversary histories, bulletins and other ephemera related to labor unions and labor
issues at the local, state and national levels.
Access and Use: No restrictions
Language: English
Notes: The collection was reprocessed by Renee Searfoss, May 11, 2001.
Arrangement:
Folder Heading Box # File #
MILWAUKEE SECTION
Milwaukee Unions and Organizations
- Wisconsin State Federation of Labor
1. Programs 1942 (2 copies)
2. Reports/Proceedings 1901-1948
3. Newsletters 1918, 1949
4. Annuals 1924-1951,1961,1976
5. Misc.
1
- Milwaukee Newspaper Guild
1. Pamphlets 1940s
2. Newsletters 1943
3. Flyers
1
- International Association of Machinists
1. Lodge No. 234 1903, 1913, 1930
2. Lodge No. 1061 1944
3. District No. 10 directory
1
- International Union of Operating Engineers Local No. 311
1. Program 1937 (2 copies)
2. Yearbook 1937
1
- Wisconsin Workers Alliance Branch No. 16
1. Proceedings from Convention 1937 Sheboygan
1
2. National bulletins and misc. material 1937
3. Branch 16 correspondence, minutes, financial, 1936-37
4. Misc.
- Federated Trades Council
1. Pamphlets 1912, 1923, 1929
2. Proceedings 1929, 1936, 1950, 1951, 1953
3. Program 1902
4. Constitution and by-laws 1893, 1901, 1907, 1928
5. Misc.
1
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul RR, System Federation No. 76
1. Minutes, 1920-1924
1
- International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Local 188
1. Emancipator publication 1936, 1940
2. Clipping 1957
1
- Technical Engineers’ Association
1. Bulletins 1952
2. Notices/Flyers 1951-52
1
- International Longshoremen’s Association
1. Membership Book, 1946
1
MILWAUKEE SECTION
Misc. Organization & Union Programs
Milwaukee Trades Union Artisan's Day 9/4/1899
Artisan's Day 9/1/1890
St. Patrick's Cabaret- Dance Waiter's and Cooks' Alliance Local 122,
1934
2nd Annual Dance-Bakery and Confection Locals 52, 205, 244
5/16/36
Bartender's Ball 3/17/35
11th Annual Ball-Engineer's Local 139 11/24/28 (2 copies)
10th Annual Ball-Engineer's Local 139 1/21/28 (2 copies)
4th Annual Picnic-Cream City Lodge No. 863 Railway Trainmen
7/16/16
Labor Day Picnic-Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local 122, 9/6/37
46th Annual Convention-International Typographical Union, 1900
12th Annual Convention-International Printing Pressman &
Assistants Union, June 18-22, 1900
2nd Annual Convention UAW August 23-28, 1937
Federation of Workers Singing Societies-West Lake District 8/30/52-
9/1/52 Song Festival
Socialist May Labor Pageant 5/28/16
Socialist State Picnic 7/28/35
Wisconsin Assn. Of Letter Carriers July 2-3, 1919
5th Annual Bakery & Confectionery Workers Local 244, 1939
24th Annual convention International Stereotypers and Electrotypers
Union 1925
2
Milwaukee Theatrical Protective Union Local No. 18 Dance 1916
Anniversary leaflet of the Bay View Strike of 1886
Misc. Yearbooks/Anniversaries
Local Joint Executive Board Hotel & Restaurant Employees
International Alliance, 1942
60th Anniversary Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers
Local No.8, 1926
The Projector 25th Anniversary-Motion Picture Projectionist Union
Local 164, 1909-1935 (2 copies)
City and County Employees' Union 1925 (2 copies)
The Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council 31st
Anniversary, 1908-1939
The Milwaukee Building Trades Council 28th Anniversary, 1908-
1936
75th Anniversary Milwaukee Plumbing Contractors Association
1883-1958
Anniversary Bridge, Structural, Ornamental Iron Workers No. 8 1926
(2 copies)
75th Anniversary Milwaukee Typographical Union No.23 1934
(2 copies)
Milwaukee Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union No. 7, 50th
Anniversary, 1944
50th Anniversary, Local 1131, International Union of Electronic,
Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers, 1987
30th Anniversary, Local 494, International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, 1935
100th Anniversary Celebration of Wisconsin AFL-CIO
2
Misc. Directories
- 5th Annual Directory- Baker & Confectionery Workers Local 244,
1939
- Blue Book Directory of Firms and Industries Friendly to Organized
Labor, 1926 & n.d.
- Unique Directory - Wisconsin Labor Exchange Branch 187, 1897
- Metal Polishers International Union Local No. 10
- Milwaukee Building & Construction Trades Council 1939
- Allied Printing Trades Council 1942
2
Notebooks
- Frank J. Smith Vol 1 & 2 Laws of Person and Agency 1889-1890
(lecturer)
- Milwaukee Newspaper Writer's Union No. 9- Secretary record book
November 1899-August 18, 1919
2
Misc. Constitutions and By-Laws
- Milk Drivers Union Local 753 2/14/63
- Bricklayers, Masons, Marble Masons No. 8 7/8/37
- Metal Polishers No. 10 5/1/25
2
- Central Board of Purchases (reprint) 6/1/31
- Cream City Typographical Union No. 23 1/17/1874 (2 copies)
- Milwaukee Bookkeepers Association (n.d.)
- Masons and Builders Association 1896
- Allied Printing Trades Council 2/21/07
- Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers, Riggers and
Machinery Movers, Stone Derrickmen, Acetylene and Electric
Welders and Rodmen 5/1/32
- Carpenters’ District Council 1936
- Office Workers’ Union No. 16456 1943
- Machinists of CM&St.P RR Section 3, District 7 1905
- Stenographers, Bookkeepers, Typists and Assistants Union No. 16456
- Reliance Assembly No. 4656 Knights of Labor 1886
Union Label Directories
- 1934 thru 1943
2
Misc. Reports/ Proceedings
- Annual report of the Annuity and Pension Board County of Milwaukee
1965
- 19th Convention International Assn. of Machinists 9/21/1936-
10/2/1936
- Wisconsin AFL Special Committee on Public Works Programs
2
Misc. Newsletters/Bulletins
- Milwaukee Consumers Association 1937
- Labor News Review Wis. State AFL-CIO 1974
- Rally News Milwaukee Teachers Union Aug 1966
- AFT News Letter Milwaukee Vocational Teachers Union
- Progressive Nationalist Newsletter Scientian Institute, June 1950
- Wisconsin Artisan Oct 1896
- Printers’ Bulletin Aug 1881
- Union Daily UAW-CIO Local #248 Aug 1947
- News Letter About Labor-For Labor Michael Essin publ., May – Oct
1949
- Better Service Bulletin City & County Public Service Employes’
Union Jan 1941
- Union News AFSCME 1939-1940
- Union Bulletin Label (Milwaukee Trades Union Label League),
1900
2
Misc. Publications
The Wages of Railroad Labor 1938
Notes on the Great Milwaukee Strike of 1896 Donald J. Mueller
Workers in Wisconsin History: A Sesquicentennial Project
The Price of Honesty in Big Business
Conquering the Depression Joseph Goodman 1931
Emancipation or Slavery Peter F. Leuch 1932
The Emancipator – International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union of
Milwaukee (1935-1938) not inclusive
2
Forty Days That Forged a Union: The 1969 Faculty Strike at
Milwaukee Technical College by AFT Local 212 by Adam Breihan and
Charlie Dee, 2010 (includes DVD)
Misc. Items
- correspondence, solicitation material, etc.
2
WISCONSIN SECTION
Souvenir Programs
- 34th Annual Oshkosh Trades and Labor Council Sept. 6, 1926
- Program and Directory Vollrath Park Sheboygan Sept. 7, 1925
- Wausau Central Labor Union Sept. 2, 1935
- Racine Trades and Labor Council Sept. 4, 1933 (2 copies)
- Janesville Central Labor Union Aug. 19-23, 1940 (2 copies)
- 51st Annual WSFL 1943 issued by Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls
Trades Council
- 46th Annual WSFL issued by Sheboygan Central Labor Council and
WI Journeyman Barbers Assn., Sept. 21-24, 1938 Sheboygan
- Wausau Central Labor Union and WI Journeyman Barbers Assn.,
August 15-18, 1939
- Wisconsin Plumber and Steamfitter 27th Annual Convention, Racine,
June 17-18, 1939
2
Misc. Publications
-Wisconsin State Council of Carpenters
a. April issue 1935
b. Labor Day issue 1935-36
c. Convention issue 1937 (2 copies)
d. March issue 1939
e. History of Wisconsin Carpenters
- Historical Review of Bricklayers, Masons, Marble Masons Protective
International Union No. 8, Dec. 1930
- The Right to Work vs. Slavery 1943
- The Wisconsin State Employees Assn. Magazine Nov 1934
- Labor Age magazine Oct 1923
- Fox River Valley Dist. Labor Council publication 1940
- Hand written notebook on labor problems
- Union directory of Racine Building and Construction Trades Council
1940
- Racine Building and Construction Trades Council directory of Union
Contractors 1946
- Thesis “The Labor Contract from Individual to Collective Bargaining”
1907 Margaret Schaffner
- La Crosse Labor Leader 1942 publication
- Wisconsin Electrical Inspectors Review 1926 Wisconsin Chapter
- Wisconsin State Assn. of Plumbers & Steam Fitters Convention 1927
Republican Hotel
- Unemployment Insurance: The Road to Prevention John R. Commons
2
1923 (2 copies)
- The Question of the Hour Neal Brown
- Wisconsin’s Apprenticeship Plan 1935 (2 copies)
- Workmen’s Compensation Act 1919
- Labor Camps in Wisconsin 1913
- Can a Free Economy Tolerate Union Violence? Address by Herbert
Kohler 1957
- Industrial Relations Association of Wisconsin, Constitution & By-
Laws, 1957
WISCONSIN SECTION
Labor Reviews
- Wausau Labor Review 1926 Union Directory and Buyer's Guide
- Wausau Labor Review Convention July 19-22, 1927
- Fond du Lac Labor Review ca. 1926 Union Directory and Buyer's
Guide
- Annual Labor Review Convention Number 1930 La Crosse
- Annual Labor Review 1940 La Crosse
3
Government Reports/Publications
- 13th Annual Biennial Report- Bureau of Labor and Industrial
Statistics, Part 1- Industrial Accidents and Employers' Liability
1907-08
- 5th Biennial Report of Labor, Census, and Industrial Statistics WI
1891-1892
- 16th Annual Report on the Condition of Credit Unions, Dec. 31,
1938
- Workman's Compensation Act 1911
- Workman’s Compensation Act 1913 (2 copies)
- 1947-1949 Text of WI Unemployment Compensation Act (pub. Sept
1947 Industrial Commission of WI)
- Workmen's Compensation Act w/ Oct. 22, 1939 amendments
- Handbook on WI Unemployment Compensation Act Industrial
Commission, July 1, 1932
- Administration of Public and Private Relief in Times of
Unemployment pub. by Industrial Commission of WI, Oct.1931
- Review of Labor Legislation of 1909 Irene Osgood
- State of Wisconsin in Supreme Court August term 1956 No.143-
Le Roi Division, Westinghouse Airbrake Co. vs. Local 756 UAW
- Law of Labor Supplement for 1909
- Law of Labor Supplement for 1930
- Labor Laws of the State of Wisconsin 1938
- Alleviation of Unemployment in Wisconsin 1931
- Revised Handbook on WI Unemployment Compensation Act, 1933
3
Misc. Newsletters/Bulletins
- Farmers Union Program Service Chippewa Falls Feb 1937
- Farmers Union Program Service Chippewa Falls Jan 1938
3
- Farmers Union Program Service Chippewa Falls Oct 1936
Misc. Items
- Correspondence, minutes, etc.
3
Wisconsin Labor History Society
- Brochures, etc.
3
NATIONAL SECTION
Constitutions/By-Laws/Agreements
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees'
Detroit, Sept. 1936
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffers, Warehousemen,
and Helpers of America
1. Dec.1, 1935 adopted Sept. 9-13, 1935 Portland
2. adopted Sept.30-Oct 5, 1957 Miami
3. adopted July 3-7, 1961 Miami (2 copies)
4. adopted July 4-7, 1966 Miami (2 copies)
Metal Polisher's International Union
1. adopted Sept 16-21, 1929 Cincinnati effect. 1/1/30
2. adopted Sept. 9-13, 1935 Cincinnati effect. 10/1/35
3. adopted Sept. 8-12, 1941 Cincinnati effect. 11/1/41
International Typographical Union- Book of Laws
1. 1921 Indianapolis
2. 1922 Indianapolis
3. 1933 Indianapolis
International Assn. of Machinists effective 4/1/33, Washington D.C.
Central States Area Master Dairy Agreement
a. Feb. 14, 1969-Feb.14, 1972 (2 copies)
b. Nov. 1, 1972-Oct. 31, 1974
Collective Bargaining Agreement between Milk Dealers and Food
Driver Salesmen, Dairy and Ice Cream Workers Local 463, Truck
Drivers and Helpers Locals 676 and 331, International Brotherhood of
Firemen, Oilers, and Maintenance Mechanics Local 473, Oct. 1, 1968
Iron and Steel and Special Commodity Addendum to Central States
Over-the-Road Motor Freight Agreement, Feb.1, 1961-Jan. 31, 1964
Correspondence: John L Lewis Samuel Gompers, 1914
International Union of United Brewery & Soft Drink Workers,
Constitution, 1917
3
National Monthly Magazines/Journals
- Misc. Titles
1. Modern Monthly March 1936 Vol. IX No. 8 NY
2. Retail Clerks Advocate August 1948 NY
3. UAW Solidarity May 13, 1977 Vol. 20 No. 7
4. The Laborer June 1952 Vol. 6 No. 6
5. Business Week Aug. 31, 1957 McGraw-Hill "Labor Violence
and Corruption" pg.76
6. Our Home Rights Nov. 1903 Boston
3
7. Engineering News-Record Aug. 12, 1926 Vol.27 No.7
8. The Public Opinion San Antonio Mar 1938
9. Monthly Outlook Mar-Jun 1943, Jun 1948 International
Federation of Technical Engineers, Architects & Draftsmen
10. One Big Union Monthly Mar 1937 IWW
11. Economic Outlook Jul 1940 Vol. 1 No. 7 CIO
12. Bulletin of the National Metal Trades Assn. 1903
- The Carpenter-United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
1. May 1951 Indianapolis Vol. LXXI No.5
2. Feb. 1953 Indianapolis Vol.LXXIII No.2
- The Bridge Men's Magazine Inter. Assn. Bridge, Structural, etc
1. April 1926 Vol. XXVI No. 4 St. Louis
2. July 1926 Vol. XXVI No.7 St. Louis
- Machinists Monthly Journal Int. Assn. of Machinists Washington,
D.C.
1. 1937
a. Feb. Vol.XLIX No.2
b. July-December Vol. XLIX Nos. 7-12
2. 1938
a. Jan-Oct. Vol. L Nos. 1-10
3. 1951
a. Feb. Vol.63 No.2
b. May Vol.63 No.5
c. June Vol.63 No. 6
4. 1953 Sept. Vol. 65 No. 9
- The International Engineer Washington D.C.
1. Aug. 1932 Vol. LXII No. 2
2. May 1933 Vol. LXII No. 5
3. Aug. 1933 Vol. LXIV No. 2
4. Sept. 1933 Vol. LXIV No. 3
5. Feb. 1934 Vol. LXV No. 2
6. June 1934 Vol. LXV No. 6 (2 copies)
7. Dec. 1950 Vol. 93 No. 12
8. June 1951 Vol. 94 No. 6
- The First of May Magazine, Detroit 1919 (Socialist) (2 copies)
- American Federationist, AFL-CIO, Washington D.C.
1. 1925 Dec. Vol. 32 No. 12
2. 1933 Aug. Vol. 40. No. 8
3. 1937 March Vol. 44 No. 3
4. 1941 March Vol. 48 No. 3
July Vol. 48 No. 7
5. 1942 March Vol. 49 No. 3
6. 1943 Feb-Nov. Vol. 50 Nos. 2-11 (2 copies of March)
7. 1944 Jan. Vol. 41 No. 1
8. 1950 Nov. Vol. 57 No.11
9. 1957 April Vol. 64. No.4
May Vol. 64. No. 5
10. 1913 July Vol. 20 No. 7
Government (Federal) Publications
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
1. Labor Laws that have been Declared Unconstitutional
Lindley Clark No. 321 of Bulletin Nov. 1922
2. Handbook of American Trade Unions Bulletin No. 6 Estelle
Stewart, 1936
3. Decisions of Courts Affecting Labor: 1915 Bulletin No. 189
May 1916
4. Women in the Lead Industries Bulletin No. 253, Feb 1919
- WPA
1. Youth on Relief Feb. 1936
2. Reemployment of Philadelphia Hosiery Workers After Shut-
Downs in 1933-34, Gladys Palmer and Constance Williams
Report No.6, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 1939
- Misc.
1. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Mines: Self-Contained Rescue
Oxygen Breathing Apparatus: A Handbook for Miners D.J.
Parker and E.H. Denny, Sept. 1923
2. Violation of Free Speech and Rights of Labor- Senate Report
No.6 Part 4, 76th Congress
3. Workers and Allies, Smithsonian Press, D.C., Judith
O'Sullivan and Rosemary Gallick, 1975
4. A Ceiling for Hours, A Floor for Wages, and a Break for
Children U.S. Dept. of Labor 1938
5. The Value and Influence of Labor Statistics Carroll D.
Wright 1901
6. Dept. of Labor, Safety and Health Regulations for
Longshoring, 1960
3
Pamphlets/Booklets (published by partisan press)
(A) - “The American Labor Movement” Rev. Francis J. Haas
Social Action Series No. 6, Paulist Press, 1937
- “Am I Right, Or Am I Wrong?” Robert G. Wright AFL (n.d.)
- “America’s Fight for the Preservation of Democracy” 1917,
American Alliance for Labor & Democracy
- “Address of Samuel Gompers” 1923 Union Label Trades
3
Dept.
(C) - “The Case for Industrial Organization” CIO 1936
(D) - “Dollars Behind Steel” 1940 American Iron & Steel Inst.
- “The Deceit of the I.W.W.” United Cloth Hat & Cap Makers,
1906
(E) - “The Essence of Union Now: The Proposal for Inter-
Democracy Federal Union” Clarence K. Streit, The Union
Press NY, ca. 1939
- “Employer and Employee” 1903 Journal American
Foundrymen
(F) - “Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order” Radio
League of the Little Flower
(G) - “Gastonia: A Graphic Chapter in Southern Organization”
Jessie Lloyd 1930 Conference for Progressive Labor Action
(H) - “How the Rubber Workers Won” 1936 CIO
- “Half a Million Men” 1940 American Iron & Steel Institute
- “Hard Times: The Cause and Cure” F.G.R. Gordon Debs Publ.
(I) - “Industrial Unionism: The Vital Problem of Organized Labor”
CIO
- “Insurgency or the Economic Power of the Middle Class”
Workingman’s Paper reprint, 1910
- “Industrial Unions Mean Unity” CIO 1935
(L) - “Labor Leaders Betray Tom Mooney,” Jan. 1931
- “Looking Forward,” Harry Laidler issued by League for
Industrial Democracy, NY, 1937
- “Labor and the N.R.A.” Lois McDonald, Gladys Palmer,
Theresa Wolfson, issued by Affiliated Schools for Workers
NY, 1934
- “Letters to Dad” Kermit Eby CIO
- “Lyon’s History of Labor” Labor Publications Richard Lyon
- “Labor Looks at Automation,” AFL-CIO, 1956
NATIONAL SECTION
Pamphlets/Booklets (published by partisan press)
(M) - “Main Street-Not Wall Street” Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen 1938
4
(N) - “The NRA (National Retrogression Act)” 1933 New York
Labor News Company
- “The NRA and American Labor” Will Herberg Workers Age,
1932
(O) - “Organize to Preserve Democracy and to Defeat Fascism”
UAW John Lewis
- “One Great Union” Wm Trautmann Workers International
Industrial Union
- “Our Invisible King with Pinkerton Body Guard” Parker
Sercombe To-Morrow Publishing
(P) - “Promise and Performance: The Administration of Franklin D.
Roosevelt Reveals Itself” RNC, 1936
- “Platform for an Economic Order of Abundance” Farmer
Labor Assn. of Minnesota, 1936 (2 copies)
- “Prison Labor for Private Profit” 1925 Joint Committee on
Prison Labor
- “Prize Essays on the Union Label” Union Label Trades Dept.
(R) - “Red, White and Blue Book of the American Labor
Movement” American Alliance for Labor and Democracy
NY
- “Roosevelt’s Relief Record” Blanche Bernstein 1936 Labor
Research Front
(S) - “Sit-Down” Joel Seidman League for Industrial Democracy
NY 1937
- “Spain’s Democracy Talks to America” Harry F. Ward 1936
North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy
- “Speakers Manual” CIO Political Action Committee
- “Social Security?” Fanny Smith 1936 Labor Research Front
(T) - "This Union Cause: An Illustrated History of Labor Unions in
America” UAW Education Department May 1962
- “Twenty Five Years of Industrial Unionism” IWW
(U) - “Union Scabs and Others” IWW Oscar Ameringer
- “Unemployment: A Practical Program” 1930 Henry R.
Mussey League for Independent Political Action
(V) - “Victory Through Unionism” Pile drivers, Bridge, Wharf,
and Dock Builders Local 34, San Francisco, ca. 1940s
(W) - “Where the Sales Tax Falls” Mabel Walker General Welfare
Tax League 1934
(Y) - "Yellow Dog" Contract: Menace to American Liberties”
AFL various Senate addresses 1930
Souvenir Programs-Anniversaries-Handbooks
- Independent Order of Knights of Labor: Official Handbook Dec. 1896
& Historical Handbook 1898
- Silver Anniversary Tacoma International Fedearation of Technical
Engineers, Architects, and Draftsmen, June 28-30, 1944 (2 copies)
- Official South Dakota State Yearbook/Directory of Labor, 1935 &
1936
- Official Yearbook - 41st Annual Convention National Hardwood
Assn. Chicago 1938
- 35th Anniversary Cloak Pressers Local 35 Forest Park, PA, June 17-
19, 1938
- American Railway Union Local No.6 directory 1894 Chicago
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Records and Proceedings
- Old Age Security in the United States 1932- 5th Annual Conference,
American Assn. for Old Age Security NY, March 30, 1932
- 28th Convention-International Federation of Technical Engineers,
Architects, and Draftsmen, Washington D.C., Sept. 12-15, 1949
- United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers
1. 3rd Convention May 20-28, 1932 NYC
2. 4th Convention May 1-6, 1944 NYC
3. 7th Convention May 1-6, 1950 NYC
4. 8th Convention June 8-12, 1953 NYC
5. 9th Convention June 4-9, 1956 NYC
6. 10th Convention June 1-5, 1959 NYC
7. 11th Convention June 12-15, 1962 NYC
8. Report of General Officers- 13th May 13, 1968 NYC
- Farmers Plan United Action-Report of Farmers Emergency Relief
Conference, Sioux Falls, ND pub. by Farmers National Committee
for Action, Philadelphia, PA, March 1935
4
Socialist Publications
- Why Are There Rich and Poor? YMCA, NY Association Press, 1932
- More Letters (3rd Series) Kate Crane-Gartz pub., Mary Craig Sinclair
Long Beach, CA (n.d.)
- The Object of the Labor Movement, Johann Jacoby Florence Kelly
translation, International Pub. Co. NY Vol. 1 No. 2, May 1899
- Groans of the People, Rev. Ealer, "The Light" Pub. Co. NY 1912
- The Curse of the Giants, Lewis-League Pub., Chicago 1908
- Imperial Washington, R.F. Pettigrew (former Sen. SD) Charles Kerr
& Co. Pub., Chicago, 1922
- The Money Trust: The Issue of 1912, Karl F.M. Sandberg, Chicago
- Common Sense on the Labor Question, Herbert Casson, Gildersleeve
Press, NY (n.d.)
- The Red Light, Herbert Casson. Lynn Labor Church Press, Lynn, MA
4
1898
- Rebel Song Book, compiled by Samuel Friedman, Rand School Press
NY, 1935
- Labor and Socialist Press Service, Chicago Nov.16, 1935-Dec. 13,
1935 (weekly issue)
- Taxes and Tax Dodgers, Daniel Hoan Socialist Party of America
Pamphlets/Booklets (published by author or nonpartisan press)
(A) - “A Living Wage” 1930 Herbert Weber
- “The American Federation of Labor” 1935 Louis Stark
(B) - “The Banker's Racket” Leslie Erickson & Ten Men of Money
Island, S.F. Norton Strong Pub. Co., Minneapolis (n.d.)
- “Bees and Butterflies” W.F. Fries Toledo, OH
- “By the Throat: The Trusts Have Seized the Farmer!” Wm.
Fox Chicago
(C) - “Can Democracy Survive in the United States?” 1940
American Economic Foundation radio broadcast transcript
- “The Conditions of Labor Peace” 1946 Leo Wolman
- “Cooperative Self-Help Activities Among the Unemployed”
U.S. Dept of Labor 1933
(D) - “Dollars or What?” W.B. Mitchell, pub. H.C. Adler,
Chattanooga, ca. 1895
- “Digest of Workmen’s Compensation Laws 1913" National
Assn of Manufacturers
(E) - “Economic Fragments” James Bann, College Hill Station,
Cincinnati, March 1934
(F) - “The Field of Labor of the National Municipal League” 1908,
Charles Bonaparte
- “Fundation Brief on the Common Law” Timothy O’Neil
(G) - “General Safety Orders” 1917 Industrial Commission of Utah
(L) - “The Labor Problem” Herbert Ready 1904
- “Let There Be More Light: Facts vs. Fallacies in Banking
Reform” 1913 Andrew J. Frame
- “Labor Laws of Kentucky” Dept. of Agriculture Labor
Statistics 1918
- “Labor Laws of Minnesota” St. Paul 1919
- “Long-Range Planning for the Regularization of Industry”
New Republic 1932
- “The Living Wage and the Law of Supply and Demand”
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Robert Blatchford
(M) - “Money: Its Functions and Power” James McNamara, Daily
Record Co., Baltimore, 1931
- “Money and the Mechanism of Exchange” W. Stanley Jevons,
Humboldt Pub. Co., NY, No. 51 Dec. 1883
- “Must We Reorganize for Recovery?” 1935 Norman Thomas
- “Make Your Money Count” Social Security Board 1940
(O) - “Out of the Depression-And After: A Prophecy” Stuart Chase
John Day Co., NY 1931
- “The Only Real Security” 1936 Samuel Crowther
- “Our Money Famine Charles M. Scanlan
(P) - “Political Science and Truth” 1932 Fred Hurst
(R) - “Reading and Segregation” 1912 Eastman, Dillon & Co.
- “Rule by Riot: Organized Labor Extends its Sway by
Violence” 1934 Iron Age
- “Rational Money” 1898 sample pages C. F. Taylor
- “The Right to Work” Ray S. Baker
- “Robert Owen and Factory Reform”
(S) - “Serial Currency” Robert A. Perkins Sioux Falls, SD 1932
- “Sick Pay Benefit Legislation: A Report to Interstate
Conference of Employment Security Agencies” Oct. 1,
1947 Digest of Workmen's Compensation Laws, National
Assn. of Manufacturers NY 1913
- “Should the Government Force Employees to Join a Union?”
1952 John Gall
- “Selling a City to Industry” 1939 Herbert Swan
- “Spreading Work: Methods and Plans in Use” US Dept. of
Commerce 1932
- “Setting Up a Program of Work Relief” Joanna Colcord 1931
(T) - “The Treason of the Senate” David Phillips
- “The Townsend Plan” 1935 F.E. Townsend
- “The Townsend Plan: Spirit of Health or Goblin Damn’d?”
1936 T. N. Haas
- “Taft and Labor” 1908 George Alger McClure’s Magazine
(U) - “The United Front Populists” J. Martin Klotsche
- “Unemployment Relief in the Defense Crisis” radio text,
American Economic Foundation 1941
- “Unemployment: Causes and Continued Growth” Charles
Ross, 1932 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- “Unemployment Insurance...” Mary Gilson Univ. of Chicago,
1933
- “Unto the Least of These (Child Labor)” 1909 Everybody’s
Magazine
(V) - “Vagaries of Henry Georgeism” 1900 Andrew J. Frame
(W) - “What Trade Unions Are Doing...” 1900 J. Jay Spence
- “Where Silver Rules” 1896 Archibald W. Butt
- “What This Country Needs” Jay Franklin
- “What is Social Security?” Social Security Board 1940
NATIONAL SECTION
Newsletters/Bulletins
- Industrial Unionist April 1941 Industrial Union Party NY
- Farmers Union Program Service Oct 1938 Ohio
- Farmers Union Program Service Jul 1938 Montana
- Farmers Union Program Service Jul 1937 South Dakota
- Farmers Union Program Service May 1938 North Dakota
- Farmers Union Program Service Apr 1937 South Dakota
- Farmers Union Program Service Mar 1937 Montana
- Farmers Union Program Service Mar 1938 North Dakota
- Farmers Union Program Service Feb 1939 Kansas
- Farmers Union Program Service Jan 1937 North Dakota
- Farmers Union Program Service Nov 1938 Colorado
- Farmers Union Program Service Dec 1938 Missouri
- Life and Labor Bulletin Apr 1941 - Jul 1945 National Women’s Trade
Union League of America
- Engineer & Architect Aug & Sep 1949 Wash-Alaska Local No. 17
- Research Report AFL Nov 1950
- Dry Cleaner & Laundry Worker Monthly Apr 1935
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Specific National Organizations/Unions
- American Federation of Labor
1. Constitution 1904
2. Pamphlets/booklets 1928-1954
3. Proceedings and platforms 1928, 1946
- International Federation of Technical Engineers, Architects And Draftsmen
1. Constitution and draft 1947
2. Pamphlets/booklets 1940s
3. Convention program 1949
4. Reports 1949
5. Resolutions 1950 Convention and misc. items
- Industrial Workers of the World
1. Constitution 1914
5
2. History of IWW
3. Membership book
4. Pamphlets and clippings
- Continental Congress of Workers and Farmers
1. Program and flyers 1933
- American Civil Liberties Union
1. Pamphlets and booklets 1920-1938
- National Metal Trades Association
1. Pamphlets/Booklets, 1926-1928
Misc. National Materials
- Flyers, reports, handouts, etc.
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INTERNATIONAL SECTION
International Publications
- Alberta Labor Manual, Vol. XXI No. 1 Edmonton, Alberta Labor Day
Sept. 2. 1940
- Report 29th Annual Conference of Labour Party, Brighton 1929
- Crusaders' Library No.1 Jack Clear-the-Way by: "Kein" Glasgow (nd)
- Independent Labour Party Report 15th Annual Conference Derby,
April 1907, pub. London
- Independent Labour Party Report, Manchester, March 1913 London
- Democracy Comes to Cotton Kingdom: The Story of Mexico's La
Laguna Clarence Senior, Mexico 1940
- Labor's Case in Parliament, 1921-1928, pub. Canadian Brotherhood
of Railroad Employees, Ottawa 1929
- Labour in Irish History, James Connolly Maunsel & Co., Dublin
1914
- Report of the 6th Annual Conference of the Labour Party, London
1906
- Organized Labor’s Need for Independent Political Action, Arthur
Greenwood
- Hugenberg’s Economic Program 1931 Germany
- The National Citizen Force Bill Robert Edmondson 1908, London
- Economics of Labour H. Quelch London
- Prison Reform From a Social-Democratic Point of View, Dora
Montefiore London 1909
- Politics and the Independent Labour Party John Edwards, 1897
Manchester
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Misc. International Items
- directories, flyers, etc.
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NEWSPAPERS SECTION
- Germania Newspaper May 23, 1916- June 2, 1916 5
- Various Newspapers-Milwaukee
1. County Co-Operator May 1943
2. Catholic Herald Citizen 3/4/61
3. Wisconsin Teamster 5/22/64
4. Labor Press (AFL-CIO Milwaukee) 8/27/87; 1/28/88;
8/25/88
- Various Newspapers-Wisconsin
1. Kenosha Labor Press April 1974
2. Racine Labor 8/8/47 (3 copies)
3. Union Labor News April 1943
4. The Progressive 9/1/47
5. Ozaukee Press Labor Day ed. 8/30/51
- Various Newspapers-National
1. The Call 11/4/39 (socialist)
2. Chicago Daily Tribune 9/11/47
3. Gas Consumers' News Vol. 1 No. 2 (nd)
4. Justice 1/15/38
- AFL Newspapers
1. Weekly News Service 10/16/37
2. Milwaukee Labor Press 10/8/53-7/1/54
- CIO Newspapers
1. CIO News 1/6/38, 1/22/38, 6/23/41
2. Union News Service 1/22/38
3. Industrial Worker 5/23/42
- The Union Signal 4/27/42-9/22/51
- Allis-Chalmers Newspapers
1. Worker Union News 12/24/37
2. A-C News 12/18/48
- The Labor Advocate Newspaper March 12, 1927 & July 30, 1927
- LABOR Newspaper 10/11/38, 10/22/49, 12/3/49, 3/11/50, 5/18/68
- The Machinist Newspaper 8/28/47-5/10/51
CLIPPINGS: STRIKES (SPECIFIC) MILWAUKEE
A.G. Lindemann and Hoverson Strike 10/1/33-1/15/37
Allen-Bradley Strike
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A. 5/13/39-6/15/39
B. 4/3/64-4/27/64
Allis-Chalmers Strikes
A. Newsclips 11/16/32-8/12/42
B. News layouts
1. 3/7/41
2. 4/1/41
3. 4/2/41
4. 4/2/41
5. 4/2/41
6. 4/2/41
7. 4/2/41
C. Allis-Chalmers Union Propaganda 1946
D. Newsclips
1. 8/20/45-9/15/46
2. 9/15/46-12/31/46
E. News layouts
1. 8/30/46
2. 9/11/46
3. 10/29/46
4. 10/30/46
5. 10/31/46
6. 10/31/46
7. 11/1/46
8. 11/1/46
9. 11/26/46
10. 12/5/46
11. 12/10/46
12. 12/10/46
13. 1/27/47
F. Newsclips
1. 1/8/47-12/27/47
2. 1/7/48-7/2/53
G. Newsclips
1. 5/8/61-4/9/62
CLIPPINGS - SPECIFIC STRIKES (MILWAUKEE)
Bakery Strike
A. June 1917
B. 3/10/47-4/11/47
Boston Store Strike
A. 11/30/34-1/3/35
Bricklayers Strike
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A. 4/22/1891-4/30/1891
City Employees Strike
A. 5/9/62-5/31/64
Civil Service Strike
A. 9/14/61-11/16/63
Electric Strike
A. 6/19/34-5/27/37
B. Journal: 2/14/63-3/2/65 Sentinel: 2/14/63-3/11/63
Filer-Stowell Co. Strike 2/4/46
Garbage Strike
A. 7/3/45-8/1/46
B. 11/17/63-11/27/63
Garment Workers Strike
A. 5/1/28-/11/16/28
B. German: 5/29/28-8/28
Gas Light Co. and Solvay Coke Co.
A. 10/29/45-10/6/49
Geuder Paeschke and Frey Co. Strike
A. 8/13/34-2/25/46
Glove Factory Strike
A. 8/4/15
B. 8/6/15
C. 6/1/34
D. 6/16/34
Great Lakes Strike
A. 6/18/34-8/16/46
Harnishfeger Strike
A. 9/16/36-9/12/38
Heil Co. Strike
A. 9/1/45
B. 9/19/45
Journal Strike
A. 7/12/61-6/13/62
Kohler Strike
A. 7/7/55-1/6/61
Laundry Strike
A. 11/19/34-/1/28/41
Longshoremen Strike
A. 6/5/60-6/8/60
B. 1/17/63-10/23/63
Machinists Strike
A. 7/3/16-5/27/17
Meat Strike
A. 1934-35
Milk Strike
A. 5/11/33-6/26/35
B. 6/12/46-7/13/47
Mueller Furnace Co. Strike
A. 9/19/45-9/20/45
B. 10/23/45
Northwestern RR Strike
A. Journal: 7/28/62-12/28/62
B. Sentinel: 8/31/62-7/25/63
Old Line Insurance Strike
A. 7/11/50
B. 10/25/50
Patrick Cudahy Strike
A. 1/9/87
Pressed Steel Strike
A. Journal: 4/2/64-6/5/64
B. Sentinel: 4/2/64-/6/18/64
Railroad Strike
A. 5/19/46-12/8/46
Schlitz Brewery Strike
A. 4/6/60-4/11/60
Seafarer's International Union Strike
A. 5/3/62-6/26/62
Seaman Body Division and Nash Kelvinator Corp. Strike
A. 2/26/34-3/29/36
Sentinel Strike
A. 5/27/62-7/10/62
Steamfitters Strike
A. 5/28/64-6/16/64
Sit-down Strikes 1937
Streetcar Strike
A. 4/7/18-1/19/19
B. 1/5/49-2/4/49
Tanning Industry Strikes
A. 11/30/1892-6/10/37
Teamster Strike
A. 2/14/64-6/18/64
Truckers Strike
A. 4/18/52-4/23/52
B. 7/8/62-8/8/62
Wisconsin Telephone Strike
A. 4/7/47-5/8/47
B. 11/11/50-11/20/50
MISC. STRIKES, GENERAL NEWS-NATIONAL, STATE,
MILWAUKEE
National Strikes-Disputes-General News
A. Strikes: 1/22/1895-6/4/64
B. General News
1. 9/26/1893-7/16/47
2. 8/4/47-6/1/64
Wisconsin Strikes-Disputes-General News
A. Strikes: 7/1/1899-6/22/64
B. General News: 1/1/1895-6/7/64
Milwaukee
A. General News
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1. 7/31/1896-3/21/46
2. 4/19/46-6/14/64
CLIPPINGS - MILWAUKEE Cont.
B. Parades: 9/2/1895-6/1/63
C. Honorariums-Special News: 5/11/13-11/18/63
D. Inter-Intra Union Disputes: 8/17/1898-4/13/64
E. Union Elections: 10/14/36-6/11/64
F. Employment: 12/27/24-2/19/64
G. AFL-CIO News/Disputes: 8/18/38-5/5/64
H. AFL News: 1939-2/27/53
I. CIO News: 9/4/45-2/2/56
J. Black Discrimination: 8/18/62-3/2/64
K. Anthony Doria: 8/12/57-8/15/57
L. Harold Christoffel: 11/2/39-7/21/56
M. Trial Of Mrs. Alice Prokop: 12/5/55-12/13/55
N. John C. Zinos: 7/3/61-4/2/64
O. German language Press
1. 6/8/02-4/13/31
2. 11/25/18-9/13/20
P. Newspaper Series
1. County Hospital Series: 2/23/58-2/27/58
2. The Crisis in Bargaining: 1/10/60-1/17/60
3. At Home With the Migrants: 9/4/62-9/5/62
4. Labor Looks for Jobs: 10/7/62-10/12/62
Q. AMC Closing: 2/28/58-5/6/64
R. Misc. Strikes
1. 7/30/1885-4/27/37
2. 5/5/37-11/18/46
3. 4/29/47-6/22/64
S. Scrapbook: Malster's Strike 11/9/1887-2/17/1888
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OVERSIZE ITEMS LOCATION
Proclamation from Gov. Patrick Lucey naming week of Sept. 6, 1976 as Union
Label Week in State
OS SM “L”
Proclamation from Mayor Henry Maier naming week of Sept. 6, 1976 as
Union Label Week for City
OS SM “L”
Proclamation from County Executive William O’Donnell naming week of
Sept. 6, 1976 as Union Label Week in Milwaukee County
OS SM “L”
Labor Fest Posters (3 copies), 2014 OS SM “L”
See also Microfilm Rolls #637 and #638 for labor history material
