Audio/Visual materials, 1956-1996

The bulk of this subseries consists of videocassette recordings produced by the union, taped from commercial programs, filmed by videographers at union events, or contributed by union members. Within formats, the holdings are arranged chronologically, with undated materials at the end of each formats section.

These recordings span dates from 1976 to 1992 and include such topics as appearances by William W. Winpisinger (IAM's president, 1977-1989) at union functions and on commercial radio and television; the 1982 IAM Electronics - New Technology Conference; Grand Lodge Convention highlights plus increased coverage of the 100th anniversary convention in Atlanta in 1988; numerous tapes featuring Eastern Airlines and IAM's relationship to it from 1987 through 1990.

Electronic Newsletters (ENL), produced by IAM-TV, include such titles as Politics of Special Interest, 1984; Unions Focus on Corporate Responsibility, 1985; The Trade Crisis... Time for Action, 1985; Drug Testing, 1987; and Is This Any Way to Run an Airline?, 1988. IAM-TV also produced such titles as: Solidarity at Eastern, April 1989; Solidarity at Eastern: Stronger than Ever, August 1989; followed by Solidarity at Eastern: The Struggle Continues, January 1990.

Audiocassettes consist of a set titled IAM Anniversary 1888-1988, covering labor history, "great union speeches," and union music. Reel-to-reel audiotapes consist of the IAM Cornerstone Ceremony from May 5, 1955; President Floyd E. Smith from 1969 and 1970; and Union Yes radio spots. Disk sound recordings include The Original "Talking Union" and Other Union Songs, 1955, with Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers; Solidarity and Early Eighties, 1981, with Billy Brown; Carry It On: Songs of America's Working People, 1986; and Sing a Labor Song, undated

Films in this collection include An Address by Vice President Richard Nixon to the 25th Grand Lodge Convention in September 1960; The President [Lyndon Baines Johnson] of the United States Visits the Machinists Convention, 1964; First Union Man on the Moon, Col. Edward E. "Buzz" Aldrin circa 1969, plus other aerospace worker and space-related films; Words from a True Friend of Workers and Their Unions, an address by Hubert H. Humphrey to the Minnesota AFL-CIO Convention in 1977; Right Wing Machine, produced by COPE, AFL-CIO, in 1978; and several IAM Conventions from the 1980s.

The filmed series, 1888-1988 100 Anniversary, circa 1988, includes such individuals as Alan Cranston, Lane Kirkland, Howard Metzenbaum, Mary Rose Oakar, John D. Rockefeller, and William W. Winpisinger. Political figures including Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Adlai Stevenson, and Lowell P. Weicker are represented in this same series. Another section of this series has films from April 1988 whose subjects are Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Donna Summers, plus a Special Message to the IAM Centennial Convention by Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

Three films in the series, American at Work, follow the 100th anniversary material and precede the five-part AFL-CIO COPE series with such titles as Big Business in Politics; Politics is Money; Health, Education and Politics; and Politics and the Rigged Tax System. Following this series are such films as Harry S. Truman Speaks to the Machinist League at the Kansas City, Missouri convention; If You Don't Come in Sunday, Don't Come in Monday from the Manpower Institute; POSSE, Protect Our Social Security Equity; This Union Cause, The Dramatic History of Wage-Earners in the United States; and Working Without Unions.