Atlanta Typographical Union records

Collection

Identifier: L1971-02

Staff Only
Not requestable

Scope and Content of the records

The records, 1895-1939, 1948-1970, of the Atlanta Typographical Union, Local 48, consist of correspondence, minutes, financial documents, and printed material. They illuminate in detail the activities of the local -- membership campaigns, internal judicial and business matters, dealings with the Atlanta Typothetae and individual employers, and strikes and lockouts. Much of the strike material concerns a series of strikes from 1921 to 1932 to obtain shorter work hours. The fight for the 44-hour week from 1921 to 1926 is recorded at length. The records during the years 1930-1939 reveal how the union suffered severe effects from the Great Depression. Included among the correspondents are American Federation of Labor President William Green; International Typographical Union Presidents William Prescott, John McFarland, James Lynch, Charles Howard, and Claude Baker; Atlanta Typographical Union President W. M. Fudge and Secretary Walter Grant; and Tom Watson, former U.S. Senator and Populist candidate for President.

Dates

Creation: 1895-1939, 1948-1970

Creator

International Typographical Union. Local 48 (Atlanta, Ga.) (Organization)

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research use.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Georgia State University is the owner of the physical collection and makes reproductions available for research, subject to the copyright law of the United States and item condition. Georgia State University may or may not own the rights to materials in the collection. It is the researcher's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and obtain permission from the copyright holder before publication, reproduction, or display of the materials beyond what is reasonable under copyright law. Researchers may quote selections from the collection under the fair use provision of copyright law.

The oversized material is stored off-site. Allow at least 2 working days for retrieval.

Historical Note

Atlanta Typographical Union, Local 48 received its charter in 1860, and was rechartered in 1882.

Extent

9.3 Linear Feet (in 20 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract:

The records, 1895-1939; 1948-1970, of the Atlanta Typographical Union, Local 48, consist of correspondence, minutes, financial documents, and printed material. They illuminate in detail the activities of the local -- membership campaigns, internal judicial and business matters, dealings with the Atlanta Typothetae and individual employers, and strikes and lockouts.

Arrangement

Arranged into 6 series from the original bound volumes.

Offsite Storage

The oversized material is stored off-site. Allow at least 2 working days for retrieval.

Acquisition Information

Atlanta Typographical Union, Local 48 donated its materials in 1971. Additional materials donated in 1973.

Online Availability

Most of the photographs in this collection have been digitized and are available online at Georgia State University Library's Digital Collections.

Related Materials

Related Materials in This Repository

Separated Materials Note

During processing, materials were separated to other Southern Labor Archives Printed Collections.

Separated to Southern Labor Archives Printed Collection

International Typographical Union Convention proceedings, 1926
Georgia Federation of Labor, "Report of Executive Board of the Georgia Federation of Labor Giving Attitude of Candidates in Georgia Toward the Workers," 1939

Separated to Southern Labor Archives Photographic collection

Several photographs, some oversized were separated to the Southern Labor Archives Photographs Collection

Separated to the Southern Labor Archives Contracts collections

See International Typographical Union contract collection

Separated to Georgia State University Library general collection

ITU Bulletin, (incomplete), 1912-1944

Processing Information

Processed by Robert Dinwiddie, 1972. These records were originally bound into twenty-six record books. To insure the preservation of the records and to make their contents more easily usable, the books were disassembled. The original chronological arrangement of the records was maintained, but since the contents of several books overlapped, similar types of material--i.e. correspondence, minutes, financial documents, legal documents and printed material--were placed together. Two of the books contained tables of contents, four had indexes. These six listings have been filed together and numbered one through six. A notation appears on folders indicating those bodies of material to which these indexes and contents apply.