Materials concerning Local 1014 Mead Corporation strike in Virginia; newspaper clips; printed materials concerning the Taft-Hartley Act; convention reports; West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company annual report; correspondence between Harry E. Scott, UPA area director of Virginia, Frank Grasso, Director of United Paper Workers of America, and Harry Sayre, Secretary-Treasurer of UPA-CIO; correspondence and office files of President Kessinger, secretary-treasurer Al E. Brown, Carl Skoggard, and Harry E. Scott; contract agreements; constitutions; rules; and bylaws of Southern local unions, including Locals 676, 675, and 1009, 1945-1973

The United Paperworkers International Union, Local 675 (Covington, Va.) records, 1944-1979 (bulk 1944-1971), document the daily operations of the union prior to and after the 1957 merger of the United Paperworkers of America and the International Brotherhood of Paper Makers.

The records contain primarily the administrative files of Presidents Temple Kessinger and Clarence Farmer, as well as Secretary-Treasurers Al E. Brown, Carl Skoggard, and Harry E. Scott. Correspondence documents the interactions between these elected officials and the national board; the management of West Virginia Pulp and Paper, Westvaco, Star Paper Tube, Weyerhaeuser, and White Paper Bag companies; and the Virginia CIO Council (later the Virginia AFL-CIO).

Box 5 includes folders pertaining to the 1957 merger, the suspension and expulsion of several Local 675 officers after collaborating with the Teamsters and threatening to secede from the international union, and the merger of the Virginia State Federation of Labor and the Virginia State Industrial Union Council.

Primarily previously unfoldered material, the records also contain minutes, contract agreement and negotiation materials, constitutions and bylaws, job descriptions and wage rate charts, Virginia CIO Council updates, Labor Day celebration materials, photographs, artifacts, and arbitration and grievances.