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L. Southern Labor Archives

 Record Group
Identifier: L

Found in 552 Collections and/or Records:

Communications Workers of America, Local 3204 (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1972-59
Abstract:

Communication Workers of America, Local 3204 (Atlanta, Ga.) represents employees of Southern Bell in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Its office records consist mainly of correspondence (1966-1971), which concerns grievances, conventions, and agreements, and minutes, news releases and reports.

Dates: 1948-1972

Communications Workers of America, Local 3204 (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L2023-02
Abstract

The Communications Workers of America, Local 3204 (Atlanta, Ga.) records (1998-2008) consist of a small amount of admistrative and bargaining materials and extensive meeting minutes of the executive board and the whole membership of the local that represents employees of Southern Bell in the Atlanta, Ga. area.

Dates: 1998-2008

Communications Workers of America, Local 3250 (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1992-07
Abstract

The Communications Workers of America, Local 3250 (Atlanta, Ga) records, 1949-1983, consist of office files, periodicals, and grievances.

Dates: 1949-1983

Communications Workers of America, Local 3290 records

 Collection
Identifier: L1975-03
Abstract: The collection consists of the records of Local 3290 (Atlanta, Ga.) of the Communications Workers of America from 1947-1966. Mainly includes correspondence and contains information on Local 3290 officers' attempt to disaffiliate from the CWA, Local 3290's subsequent placement under a temporary administrator, and the struggle between the CWA and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to determine the national bargaining agent for Western Electric Company installers. Also includes minutes,...
Dates: 1947-1966

Communications Workers of America records, Local 3108 (Orlando, Fla.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1972-42
Abstract:

The Communications Workers of America, Local 3108 (1965-1972), collection contains minutes, newspaper clippings, and printed material regarding the politics, legislation, strikes, and history of dues and wages of the Local 2108.

Dates: 1965-1973

Communications Workers of America Records, Local 3250 (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1982-01
Abstract:

The Communications Workers of America, Local 3250 (Atlanta, Ga.) Records, 1935-1945, contain correspondence, minutes, memos, and printed items highlighting the relationship between the Branch 3101 of the Federation of Long Lines Telephone Workers (a predecessor of Local 3250) and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Dates: 1935-1945

Communications Workers of America, Southern Georgia District (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1979-20
Abstract:

The Communications Workers of America records, Southern Georgia District (Atlanta, Ga.), 1947, 1968-1978 consist of sound films and manuscripts concerning a 1947 attempt by the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company to remove so-called professional employees from the union's bargaining unit.

Dates: 1947, 1968-1978

Cooleemee Historical Association collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1993-12
Abstract

Cooleemee Historical Association Collection, circa 1899-before 1905, 1934-1950s?, 1989-1993, comprises papers and other materials pertaining to the history of Cooleemee, North Carolina, including the Erwin Cotton Mill, Textile Workers Union of America Local 251, the career of Harold Foster, and the Cooleemee Historical Association.

Dates: circa 1899-before 1905, 1934-1950s?, 1989-1993

Curlee Clothing Company collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1981-09
Abstract:

The Curlee Clothing Company collection, 1938, contain materials on the treatment of organized labor by the company.

Dates: 1938

D. Bruce Shine collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1983-17
Abstract:

D. Bruce Shine worked as an attorney in Kingsport, Tennessee. He specialized in labor law and served as the General Council for the United Textile Workers of America. The D. Bruce Shine collection, 1928-1982, consists of legal case files and personal files.

Dates: 1928-1996

D. Bruce Shine collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1994-06
Abstract

D. Bruce Shine was a lawyer and political activist from Eastern Tennessee. He served as the general council for the United Textile Workers of America. The D. Bruce Shine Collection, 1966-1996, consists of files from Shine's office.

Dates: 1966-1996

D. S. Acree collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1972-71
Abstract:

The D. S. Acree Collection, 1941-1972, contains correspondence, financial documents, legal documents, and printed materials related to his work with the Painters International Offices and Painters Local Union 193.

Dates: 1941-1972

David Herman papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1972-20
Abstract:

The David Herman Papers, 1954-1967, contains scrapbook materials, newspaper clippings, telegrams, and printed materials relating to his presidency of the Hotel Employee's and Bartenders International Union, Local 6 (New York, NY); his work as an organizer of the Hotel Employees' Union, Local 255 (Miami, FL); the hotel employees' strike, 1955-1959, and his campaign for Miami City Council in 1967.

Dates: 1954-1967

David Williams collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1977-02
Abstract:

The David Williams collection contains correspondence and minutes between the Georgia Railway and Power Company and a committee representing the company's employees as well as agreements between the company and the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, Local 732 and other documents including newspaper clippings, memoranda, bulletins and President Wilson's proclamation creating the National War Labor Board.

Dates: 1918

David Ziskind papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1975-32
Abstract:

The papers consist of a report titled "Florida Citrus Workers" by Aubrey Clyde Robinson, Glenore Fisk Horne, and David Ziskind.

Dates: 1936

Davy Paul Laborde, Sr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1991-18
Abstract:

Davy Paul Laborde, Sr. (1917-1991) was a fifty-year member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 1846, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The papers include membership cards, dues books, photographs, newspaper articles, centennial anniversary mementos, an assortment of books on labor unions, and artifacts.

Dates: 1884-1987; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1983

Decatur Area Labor Council (Decatur, Ala.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1984-21
Abstract:

The collection consists of records of the AFL-CIO, Decatur Area Labor Council (Decatur, Ala.) from 1953-1983. The records are comprised mainly of minutes (1957-1983) documenting the Council's activities, correspondence (1970-1971), and printed materials.

Dates: 1953-1983

DeKalb General Hospital mass resignation records

 Collection
Identifier: L1995-01
Abstract: In 1968, the nurses at DeKalb General Hospital elected to form a local unit of the Georgia State Nurses Association to act as their bargaining agent for collective bargaining purposes. The Hospital administration refused to budge and over 100 nurses resigned in protest. The collection consists of records pertaining to the mass resignation of nurses at DeKalb General Hospital in 1968-1969. These records were collected by Cathleen Conway Johnson while researching her doctoral thesis, "The...
Dates: 1959-1973

District of Columbia Nurses Association records

 Collection
Identifier: L1979-16
Abstract: The District of Columbia Nurses Association was founded in 1903 in order to promote the advancement of the educational standards of nursing and to adopt a code of professional ethics. Later, the organization lobbied for nursing legislation, and acted as a collective bargaining agent for District of Columbia nurses. District of Columbia Nurses Association records, 1903-1977, include correspondence (1908-1974); executive board, committee, and section minutes (1903-1971); reports (1905-1971);...
Dates: 1903-1977

Don McKee papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1991-14
Abstract:

Don McKee, born in 1916, was a union organizer for the Textile Workers Union of America and a professor at Upsala College. Don McKee's Textile Workers Union of America Organizing Files consist of organizer reports from 1939 to 1949, organizing campaign publicity materials, union literature and a copy of his manuscript, "Organizing Southern Textile Workers: Early Days with the CIO."

Dates: 1939-1953, 1999