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Collection
Identifier: L2022-05
Content Description
The Hayne Dyches the Newspaper, Pamphlet, and Leaflet Collection at Georgia State University Library contains issues, 1971-1979, of Turning Point and The Worker newspapers and Revolutionary Union leaflets, pamphlets, and other literature.
Dates:
1971-1979
Collection
Identifier: L1992-14
Abstract:
The United Machinists and Mechanical Engineers of America was founded in 1888. In 1889, the name changed to the National Association of Machinists. Two years later, it became known as the International Association of Machinists and in 1965, this was changed to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Collection documents the growth of a machinists union, founded in Atlanta, into an international...
Dates:
1891-2002; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1989
Collection
Identifier: L1975-45
Abstract:
The collection consists of papers collected by Joseph Nelson from 1970-1974 documenting a wildcat strike in 1972 against the Mead Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia by the "Mead Caucus of Rank and File Workers" as well as similar unsuccessful efforts by Atlanta, Georgia workers at Nabisco, Inc. and the Regency Hyatt House Hotel. Also contained in the collection are materials pertaining to the Printing Specialists and Paper Products Union, Local 527 (Atlanta, Ga.), the official representatives...
Dates:
1970-1974
Collection
Identifier: L2001-05
Abstract:
Myron Howard "Mike" Ross, was born November 9, 1919. Ross worked with a number of unions as an organizer, arbitrator, and advocate in the South. He ran for elective office in North Carolina on the Progressive Party ticket. After receiving public health training, he founded the Fairmont (West Virginia) Clinic, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. Administering the clinic 1958-1978, Ross developed a longstanding interest in coal miners and...
Dates:
1916-1987
Collection
Identifier: L1973-57
Abstract:
The collection of Paul L. Styles Sr., 1950-1972, is composed primarily of his correspondence and speeches during his three years as a member of the National Labor Relations Board and his eleven years as the chief labor relations officer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Dates:
1950-1972
Collection
Identifier: L1986-10
Abstract:
The Ruth Hale collection, 1933-1938, 1971, documents farm conditions, particularly that of sharecroppers, and the activities of Southern Tenant Farmer's Union (an interracial organization founded in 1934 to seek relief from the federal government for sharecroppers and tenant farmers), in Arkansas during the 1930s. The collection includes printed material and correspondence.
Dates:
1933-1938, 1971
Collection
Identifier: L1973-52
Abstract:
The Wayne Walden Papers, 1916-1952, are comprised of personal and business correspondence, literary productions, research notes and printed material.
Dates:
1916-1952
