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| This directory updates the work carried out almost ten years ago by the staff at the Wagner Labor Archives in New York City. A survey then conducted identified "archivists, librarians, and labor union staff who are collecting paper; audio-visual materials, and artifacts that document the history of the trade union movement in the United States." Like ten years ago, this directory includes repositories with partial holdings relating to labor and workers, as well as repositories whose whole holdings pertain to labor. |
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The directory is organized by state, then by repository. Departmental, rather individual, e-mail addresses are provided if available.
This is a preliminary listing. We welcome additions, comments, and correstions. Please contact Patrizia Sione at kheel_center@cornell.edu, or call 607-255-3183.
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The collection includes charters, records, scrapbooks and other material relating to various Birmingham, Alabama labor unions, papers of individuals involved in the labor movement, oral history interviews, research files, and photographs.
Contains the records of the ILWU, 1937-present, occupying 1,500 linear feet. 1,200 linear feet of vertical files documents subjects of interest to the ILWU, policy formation, and collective bargaining. The collection also contains a modest book collection of 4,000 volumes.
Documents of terminated labor organizations in Northwestern California, the Redwood District Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. The records span the years 1917-1985 with the bulk of the material from 1958-1985. Collection includes some photographs, memorabilia, and oral histories.
More than 5,000 cubic feet document the Northern California labor movement, dating from the early twentieth century. The bulk of the collection is from the World War II era, focusing on Bay area labor leaders such as Harry Bridges, George Johns, and San Francisco mayors P. H. McCarthy arid John Shelley. The non-print collection contains approximately 5,000 photographs dating from 1880-present. This collection includes the photo morgue of The People's World, 1930-1970, and the CIO Labor Herald, 1937-1950. Plans to report to OCLC soon.
250 linear feet of manuscript holdings; 8,000 pamphlets. Non-print holdings include 25 documentary films on labor. Concentration on labor in California, including twentieth-century labor activists, legal and defense committee records documenting harassment of immigrant labor activists, the Los Angeles CIO, local unions, the IWW in San Pedro (1920s), and Harry Bridges' fight to avoid deportation.
72 linear feet of manuscript holdings. Non-print holdings include 30 oral history interviews and music performances, 6 linear feet films. Concentration on the labor movement in Colorado. Includes the Great Coal wars, the 1958 Colorado Right-to-Work battle, and the 1977 Coors Boycott.
15,000 linear feet of manuscript holdings; non-print holdings include 150,000 photographs and negatives, 6,200 maps, and 1,000 audio tapes. Concentration on the history of western America, specifically Colorado, 1850's-present. Includes labor history, political history, women's history, environmental and local history. Collections include the papers of the Colorado State Federation of Labor, the Colorado Labor Council, the Western Federation of Miners, and the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, the National Farmers Union, the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union, and the papers of Josephine Riche (United Mine Workers) and James G. Patton (National Farmers Union).
Manuscript holdings and vertical file material (includes newsletters, contracts, convention proceedings), concentrating on Connecticut since 1850. Includes materials documenting local unions, labor organizations and associations, with a particular interest in collecting the papers of labor leaders and union officials. Includes the 1960 Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company strike.
The Department of Archives, Manuscripts, and Museum Collections maintains 8,000 linear feet of manuscripts, photographs, and film. Approximently 900 linear feet of the collection relate to labor unions, the Catholic Church's role in organized labor, and working-class Catholics more generally. This includes late 19th century and early 20th century labor union collections like the papers of Knights of Labor leaders Terrence Powderly and John Hayes and United Mine Worker President John Mitchell. The CUA Archives also includes CIO and New Deal related collections like the papers of John Brophy and Philip Murray and the Congress of Industrial Organizations Records. The Archives is especially strong in collections that document the Catholic Church and the labor movement, such as the papers of John A. Ryan, Francis J. Haas, and George G. Higgins, and the Records of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. The finding aids to a number of these and other manuscript collections are available at the CUA Archives website.
Manuscript and non-print holdings (photographs, audiotapes, and videotapes) focusing on Communications Workers. of America and its predecessor union, the National Federation of Telephone Workers (1938-1947). Includes papers of CWA founding president Joseph A. Beirne (1942-1974) and his successor, Glenn E. Watts (1974-1985), and the records. of the International Typographical Union (1851-1986), which merged with the Communications Workers in 1986. Concentration on activities of key union officials and activities of local and regional offices. Records document the telecommunications, printing, and publishing industries that employ Communications Workers members. Includes information on the AFL, major labor legislation affecting communications workers, the organizing drives of the 1930's, rise of the CIO, the merger of the CIO and the AFL, and inter-union raiding. Audio and visual non-print items document working conditions, strikes, conventions, executive board meetings, congressional testimony, speeches, radio and television broadcasts, and collective bargaining sessions.
For a description of the labor-related holdings at the Library of congress, please see: Special Collections in the Library of Congress: Business, Economic, and Labor History.
"The special collections listed below contain materials of interest to researchers in a variety of disciplines, including U.S. business and labor history. Types of materials within each collection that may be of particular interest to the business/labor history researcher have been noted. Other business and labor related materials may also be located by searching the Prints and Photographs Division online catalog, the American Memory Collections, and A Guide to the Microform Collections in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Library of Congress."
The Southern Labor Archives documents working people and their trade unions, professional associations and political organizations. The largest accumulation of labor records in the Southeast, the Archives comprises pamphlets, periodicals, personal papers of labor leaders, oral histories, collective bargaining agreements, constitutions and bylaws, and convention proceedings from 1888 to the present. It is the official repository for the records of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the United Garment Workers of America, the United Furniture Workers of America, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization and several state federations of labor. Holdings are particularly strong in the areas of textiles; clothing; furniture and wood products; machinery and aerospace; nursing; communication industry; airline industry; and AFL-CIO administrative offices in the Southeast. Individuals whose careers are chronicled in the holdings include Paul Christopher, Carey Haigler, Joseph Jacobs, John Jervis, E.T. Kehrer, Carmen Lucia, Eula McGill, Claude Ramsay, John Ramsay, Mike Ross, Stanton E. Smith, E. Leon Stamey, and W. J. Usery, Jr.
Books, manuscript material and photographs concentrating on mining and lumbering, 1860 to the present.
Holdings include several thousand items of Eugene Debs correspondence, manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, and memorabilia, 1834-1945. Also include materials documenting the Pullman Strike.
Papers and records of labor organizers and unions, government officials and citizens documenting both union and non-union labor acitivities in Illinois. Audio-visual materials also available for some collections.
The collections in the Research Center document the history and development of business and industry in Baltimore and throughout Maryland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Mostly corporate records, also included are union contracts and constitutions.
Available are records of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America; the Bakery, Confectionery & Tobacco Workers International Union; the Tobacco Workers International Union; the Cigar Makers International Union; the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; and the International Union of Siderographers (1860s - present). These archival collections are complemented by several personal and family papers documenting labor history.
For more information on Historical Manuscript Collections in certain subject areas, please view the online resource guide: Labor in America.
The George Meany Memorial Archives holds the records of the AFL-CIO, including administrative and staff departments, constitutional trade departments, and some federation-sponsored programs. Material dates from the earliest days of the American Federation of Labor (1881), but offers almost complete records from the founding of the AFL-CIO (1955). Includes approximately 60,000) photographs.
Labor-related manuscripts and photographs with a concentration on Massachusetts, including the Granite Cutters international Association, the rise of the CIO in western Massachusetts, and the organization of the Shirtmakers (ACWA) in New England, 1903. Papers of J. William Belanger (TWUA), Solomon Barkin (TWUA), and Joseph Salerma (ACWA).
Hours and services: The Museum's Collections Department and Osborne Library will not answer questions over the Internet. The Library is a fee for service organization. Please call (978) 441-0400, fax (978) 441-1412 or write to the Museum for information regarding research fees, reading/study room schedules, and rights and reproductions fees.
Organizational records and personal papers of people and companies associated with the textile industry, 17th century to the present. Includes mills, trade associations, machinery manufacturers, water companies, consulting firms, labor organizations, inventors, and educators. There is also material documenting the lives of early New England mill workers, chiefly women. Non-print items include textiles, tools, machines, photographs, and oral history interviews. There are approximately 40,001 photographs, prints, paintings, audio-visual materials and memorabilia. Emphasis is on New England, but there are also some materials documenting the textile industry in Canada. Union records include the Textile Workers Union of America, accounts of strikes, including the Lawrence, Massachusetts, strike of 1912, and reactions of workers to industrialization in New England.
Manuscripts, photographs, films, oral history interviews, audio tapes, and memorabilia items documenting the American labor movement and related social, economic, and political reform movements, and twentieth-century urban America, 1890's-present (predominantly 1932-present). Official repository of the United Auto Workers, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, The Newspaper Guild, the American Federation of Teachers, the United Farm Workers, Air Line Pilots Association, Association of Flight Attendants, and the Industrial Workers of the World. Holdings include records of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Workers Defense League, and the Association for Union Democracy. Records document major strikes, negotiations, and other union activities. In all cases records date from the beginnings of the organizations to the present and document the work of important leaders, rank and file members, and significant events.
Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Tuesday 9 a.m. to 9 pm; Closed Sundays and state holidays.
The manuscript collections include a great variety of materials pertaining to working people, from diaries and account books of sod-busting farmers in the first half of the 19th century to the records of the Region 12 office of the AFL-CIO at the end of the 20th century; from domestic workers to railroad workers. Included are diaries, correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletters, speeches, scrapbooks, bargaining files and administrative files of local, state and national unions, political parties, union and party leaders, "activists," individual working people, and businesses. Includes the 1934 Minneapolis "truck drivers" strike. Non-print holdings include photographs and oral histories.
Manuscript and non-print holdings (photographs, audio and video tapes, and phonograph recordings) documenting the experiences of immigrant groups from Eastern, Central and Southern Europe, and the Near East. Significant holdings include groups associated with the Great Migration of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes significant holdings on the IWW, the ILGWU, and various episodes of unrest in which immigrants played a key role, i.e., the Haymarket Riot, the Ludlow Massacre, the Lawrence, Massachusetts strikes of 19112 and 1919, the Paterson strike of 1913, and May Day celebrations. Also, the papers of Carlo Tresca, Anthony Capraro, Angela Bambace, Howard Molisani, and Anthony Bimba.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and until 9:00 p.m. on Tuesdays, when University of Missouri classes are in session.
Established in 1943, combines with the State Historical Society of Missouri in 1963. Branches in Kansas City, Rolla, and St. Louis include labor-related holdings. Manuscript and non-print holdings (photographs, oral history interviews, video-tapes and films, and memorabilia, including union buttons, primarily 20th century, and the button collection of Harry Von Romer, 1880-1981). Sources document the professions, ethnicity, social movements, the economy, the labor movement in Missouri, African-American and women's history. Includes records of local chapters of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, District 9 (1901-1965), significant strikes such as the St. Louis Gas House Workers Union strike against Laclede Gas in 1879 and the St. Louis General Strike of 1877, papers of David T. Burbank, editor of the 1935 Gas House Workers strike bulletin, Ernest Calloway, 1930s and 1940"s union organizer in the South and Chicago, and president of the St. Louis NAACP, 1955-1959, Winifred Lippman, ILGWU leader and first female member of the St. Louis Labor Council executive board, and other significant labor and civil rights leaders in Missouri.
The Ozarks Labor Union Archives (OLUA) is Missouri's leading repository of records documenting labor union history in the Ozarks. OLUA contains over 1,500 linear feet of records including union constitutions, bylaws, contracts, correspondence, financial records, dues books, grievances, and apprentice programs. The collection also holds photographs, oral histories, and ephemeral items. Most of the documents are unique and record important activities of various labor unions in Southwest Missouri.
Documents national and state labor information, the bulk of which is associated with the mining industry. Significant holdings contain documentation on the hanging of Frank Little, activity of Pinkerton agents, and the arrest of William (Big Bill) Haywood. Collections date from 1866 through the 1990's, and consists of local newspapers, memorabilia, and limited photograph collection.
Labor collections date from the 1880s to 1987, concentrating on Montana and the Pacific Northwest region with Montana as an active participant in the regional group or activity. Includes records of the Department of Labor and Industry, local unions, and state federations. Records document significant Montana industries such as mining, smelting and reduction. Non-print items include 300 oral history interviews produced by the Montanans at Work project and 82 interviews produced by the Metals Manufacturing project, photograph's of labor union activities, celebrations, people at work; memorabilia include ribbons, pins buttons, banners, and membership cards.
Sources of labor history in the Nevada State Archives include executive, legislative, and judicial branch records that document work, workers, and the history of the labor movement in Nevada. Particularly rich sources can be found in the records of the office of the State Labor Commissioner, created in 1915 which include documentation of labor relations in the state, ethnicity, working conditions, wages, apprenticeships, and reports on disputes between workers and employers, that contain descriptions of government interventions and the Labor Commissioner's role as mediator or arbitrator. The records of the Office of Inspector of Mines, created in 1901, contain documentation of accidents, wages, nationality of the workers, working conditions, and company compliance with recommended improvements. Court records include docket books, transcripts, and opinions documenting important Nevada labor cases. Also included are L.C. Branson vs. the IWW, 1908, testing the concept of conspiracy in a Wobbly boycott of local newspapers, and State of Nevada vs. M.R. Preston and Joseph Smith, 1908, relating to manslaughter convictions stemming from the Goldfield labor crisis of 1907. There is also documentation on the Western Federation of Miners, the American Railway Union strike of 1894, the Right-to-Work campaign and labor's opposition to the Right-to-Work law of 1952. The records of the State Councils of Defense for World Wars I and II include documentation of the treatment of radicals, enemy aliens, and Japanese-Americans.
Although the major focus of the Rutgers collection has been New Jersey and its history, significant collections document the consumer movement, social welfare policy, and women's history. The collection holdings also contain records of trade unions, political organizations, and the resources of the library at the Institute of Management and Labor Relations. The Rutgers library serves as the depository for the archives of the International Union of Electrical Workers, including the early papers of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America. The library also holds the records of the National Maritime Union of America (1936-1980), as well as the records of several New Jersey local chapters of national unions, such as the Amalgamated Food and Allied Workers Union and the Scholarship Fund of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Civil Rights issues in the labor movement are documented in the papers of Ernest Thompson, which include files relating to his service on the National Negro Labor Council (1951-1956) and the UE Fair Practices Committee (1944-1958).
See finding aids for labor-related collections at:
http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/labor.htm
Contains the papers of Local 3, IBEW, which document the electrical industry of the New York metropolitan region and Long Island, the papers of Harry Van Arsdale, Jr., and general records of all aspects of the electrical manufacturing, construction and related industry. A media collection contains 1500 videos>and reel to reel tapes and 1,200 audio cassettes from union and staff meetings and union special events.
Holdings include personal and institutional records, oral history interviews, rare pamphlets and union Constitutions, collective bargaining agreements, and historical photographs and negatives dating from the late 19th century to the present. Non-print items include audio tapes of labor music, oral history interviews, and union buttons or ritual items. Bulk of collections are in New York State labor and industrial relations in the public and private sector, the garment industry, labor arbitration and mediation, labor education, labor legislation, and management theory. Includes some materials relating to Canadian locals of international unions and microfilm collections relating to British Labor. Key manuscript collections include the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, of America, the International Fur and Leather Workers Union, the Joint Board of Fur, Leather and Machine Workers, and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. These records contain the papers of Dorothy Bellanca, David Dubinsky, Bessie Hillman, Sidney Hillman, Jacob Potofsky, Joseph Schlossberg, Abraham Feinglass, Ben Gold, Morris Kaufman, Pietro Lucchi, Sam Burt, Henry Foner, and Leon Strauss. Public sector unionism and New York State labor history are documented by the records of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 2, the Assembly of Governmental Employees, the Drug and Hospital Workers Union, New York State AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, and the U.S. National Labor Relations Board-Oral History Project.
Manuscripts and an extensive sound collection including oral history interviews and events. Documents the history of labor in New York City, bulk post-1930 with some collections dating to the Knights of Labor and the early AFL. Strengths include performing arts, retail, public employee and white collar/professional unionism, and the history of central bodies/coalitions, i.e., the New York State AFL-CIO, the New York City Central Labor Council, the Union Label Trades of Greater New York (from 1911), and the Jewish Labor Committee (from 1964). Official repository of the Transport Workers Union, Actors' Equity Association, American Guild of Variety Artists, United Federation of Teachers Local 2 AFT, District 65 UAW, and Associated Actors and Artists of America. Labor and politics, ethnic succession, work process and employment structure changes in New York City are richly documented. Non-print holdings include photographs, a moving image collection, out-takes and unedited motion picture footage, and a large memorabilia collection including badges, buttons, and posters.
Hours: YIVO's Archives and Library share a Reading Room with the American Jewish Historical Society, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the American Sephardi Federation Archives at the Center for Jewish History at 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011-6301. The Reading Room is open to researchers, Monday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Manuscripts and photographs documenting Jewish history and culture, including the labor movement, dating from the 15th century to the present, with emphasis on the 20th century. Holdings documenting labor include the records of the United Hebrew Trades, the Hebrew-American Typographical Union, including the papers of its president Mayer Kastoff, minute books of several ILGWU locals, records of Jewish labor fraternal orders, the Workmen's Circle, the Labor Zionist Alliance, Yiddish labor theater groups, the Folksbiene, and the ARTEFC (the Workers Theater Alliance). There are also records and copies of the Jewish Daily Forward, including papers of its editors Abraham Cahan, Mendel Osherowitch, Hillel Rogoff; Zukunft, and the papers of its editors including Abraham Liessin; the Morning Freiheit and papers of its editor Paul Novick. Also publications documenting Jewish socialist movements in Europe. In 1992 the Yivo institute receive complete Bund Archives, covering about 800 linear feet, which includes the Records of the Jewish Labor Bund, in its illegal underground period in the 1890s through 1917 and its subsequent existence in Poland and elsewhere. The Bund Archives also includes sizeable documentation on many topics relating to the history of socialism and the labor movement throughout the world.
Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9:00am-9:00 pm; Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; Saturday, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. during regular school semesters. No evening hours during summer sessions and breaks.
The Manuscripts Division includes material related to the Southern textile industry, CIO records ("Operation Dixie," available on microfilm). Documents organizing efforts in North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, 1940-1954; includes papers of Lacy Randolph Mason. Papers of Frank DeVyver and Boyd E. Payton, and records of many textile mills (Cannon, Erwin, for example) are also held by the department.
Materials document the history of the labor movement in North Dakota. Includes North Dakota AFL-CIO (1911-1981), International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America, Locals 74 and 123, the papers of William Langer, William Lemke, and Usher Burdick (Local 74), and United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 1091 (1938-1981). Non-print holdings include audiotapes, photographs, arid memorabilia.
Labor-related manuscript holdings, microfilmed labor collections (including the papers of William Green), and union newspapers. Non-print holdings include oral history interviews, sound recordings, photographs documenting working conditions, strikes, conventions, and memorabilia, including buttons, bumper stickers, and posters. Includes the Little Steel Strike of 1937, the Ohio Right-to-Work Campaign of 1958, and the papers of George DeNucci and Leland Beard.
Focuses on the history of the foundry industry, and includes The Molders Journal, 1863-1988, Molders convention proceedings, 1859 1988, minute books and financial records of expired locals. Non print holdings include badges and anniversary mementos. Materials document the 1866 and 1886 3-hour day campaigns and the producer and consumer cooperative movement revival.
Monday thru Friday: 9 am - 4:30 pm; Saturday and Sunday: Closed **Note: Summer hours may vary, please call 724-357-3039.
Manuscript and non-print holdings, including oral history tapes, the bulk of which are interviews with Western Pennsylvania coal miners and their families, working women in Indiana County, McCreary Tire and-Rubber personnel, and World War II veterans. Approximately 350 photographs and slides. Collection spans the late nineteenth century through the 1980's, documenting the industrial history of Southwestern Pennsylvania with special emphasis on the coal industry. Key manuscript collections include papers of Districts 2,3, and 5 of the United Mine Workers of America, 1896-1980, records of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company, 1881-1970, The Coal Mining Institute of America records and publications, 1911-1980), and papers of the steelworkers and electrical workers locals in this region. The collection contains papers documenting significant events such as the strikes of 1919, 1922, and 1928, the years of strife between John Brophy and John L. Lewis and the struggle and demise of the steel industry in Pittsburgh.
Manuscript holdings and non-print items, including photographs, sound recordings, films, and oral histories. Concentration on the iron and steel industries, in Pennsylvania. Includes United Steelworkers and antecedents, the Pennsylvania State AFL-CIO and antecedents, formation of the Steelworkers Organizing Committee, the CIO, the Little Steel Strike of 1937, steel strike's during the late 1940's, 1952, and 1959, the Abel-McDonald election, the 1936 national presidential election, and the papers of Philip Murray, Clint Golden, William Mitchell, and I.W. Abel.
Correspondence, minutes, and proceedings; 28 audio and 19 video cassettes of the United Paperworkers International Union and its antecedent organizations. Includes material about the manufacture of paper.
Manuscript and non-print material, including correspondence, minutes, scrapbooks, newspapers, contracts, diaries, photographs, buttons, films, and oral history interviews, 1870-1986. Concentration on industrial and craft unionization in Texas, including significant strikes and mergers; papers of George Lambert, Frank Morton, and Samuel and Richard Twedell. Official repository of the Texas State AFL-CIO.
Regular school hours: 9-9 Monday - Wednesday; 9-5 Thursday - Friday; 1-5 Saturday - Sunday; Summer and intersession: 9-5 Monday - Friday
Manuscript materials, photographs, and oral history tapes, including the Archives of the United Stone & Allied Producers of America. Includes documentation of the Vermont marble strike, 1934-1936, the papers of John Lawson, John Spargo, Robert Maisel, William Kemsley (UAW), Ralph Williams (Director of the Vermont Council, AFL-CIO, 1962-1974).
Manuscript and non-print holdings include photographs and oral history interviews focusing on the history of Barre City and environs, 1780-present. Concentration on the granite, pitch fork, dairy farm and processing, and tool and die industries. Includes records of the Granite Cutters International, the Cigar Makers Union, the Quarry Workers' Association, the Clerical Workers Union, the AFL-CIO in Vermont, and contemporary National Education Association material, papers pertaining to Samuel Gompers, Clyde Fussill (Local Teachers' Union), and Fred Snitor, (AFL-CIO in Vermont).
Labor related manuscript holdings focusing on trade's indigenous to the State of Washington. Concentration on the woodworking, carpenter, maritime and fisheries trades. Includes records of the Washington State Federation of Labor, the Washington State Council, the Inland boatmen's Union of the Pacific, the Office and Professional Employees, the Central Labor Councils of the most populous counties in the state, teachers' union's, and nurses' associations. Earliest records are from locals of the Typographers' Union, 1882. Holdings include records documenting the Everett Massacre of 1916, the Seattle General Strike of 1919, and the work of regional labor leaders.
Includes the records of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, 1941-1977, the Industrial Union Council (of Wisconsin), 1937-1958. Records of 12 international unions include the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway, and Motor Coach Employees, 1889-1959; Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, 1900-1979; International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, 1901-1974; International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousmen, and Helpers, 1904-1952; and Retail Clerks International Union, 1900-1980. The collection houses the papers of labor leaders such as John L. Lewis, 1879-1969 and Harvey Kitzman, 1938-1972. The archives' strongest holdings pertain to working class political, reform and radical movements, such as the. Socialist. Labor Party, 1877-1907, the Socialist Workers Party, 1928-1985, and socialist and radical leaders such as Morris Hillquit, 1895-1943; Harry Laidler, 1913-1959; and Eugene and Peggy Dennis, 1923-1985. The collection also contains photographs, motion pictures, pesters, broadsides, and ephemera.
Holdings include manuscript material, photographs, and sound recordings, 1889-1080's. Concentration on British Columbia with an emphasis on the forestry, fishing, and mining industries. Includes the papers of Harold Pritchett and Homer Stevens. Holdings document the Rossland Strike of 1901, British Columbia strikes in support of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, Operation Solidarity, 1983.
Holdings include large manuscript as well as media collections pertaining to organized labor and to social and political movements. Among them, national and regional union organizations such as the Ottawa and District Labour Council fonds, 1899-1989; Canadian Labour Congress fonds 1849-1992, predominant 1884-1984; the Ontario Labour Committee for Human Rights fonds 1945-1972; Canadian Labour Congress collection,1951-1965. Also represented are workers and unions in the garment, railroads, steel, textiles, and public sectors. See Guide to Canadian Labour History Resources at:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/26/index-e.html#ReferenceSources