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AFL-CIO Region 5 (Atlanta office) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1985-15
Abstract:

AFL-CIO Region 5 (known as Region 6 until 1973) encompassed Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The records consists of correspondence, newsletters, memos and reports, covering AFL-CIO's stand on political issues and candidates for office, lobbying, political campaigns, internal problems, and general business.

Dates: 1976-1978

AFL-CIO Region 8 records

 Collection
Identifier: L1974-15
Abstract: AFL-CIO Region 8 records are organized into five series: (I) United Textile Workers of America, 1934-1937; (II) Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC)/Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), 1937-1940; (III) Tennessee State Industrial Union Council (TSIUC-CIO), 1940-1953; (IV) Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Region 4 (Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina), 1953-1955; and (V) AFL-CIO Region 8, 1955-1969. The periods of Paul R. Christopher's career as a...
Dates: 1933-1969

Alliance for Labor Action records

 Collection
Identifier: L1974-04
Abstract: The Alliance for Labor Action, intended to be an alternative to the AFL-CIO, was a federation of autonomous unions which acted to promote social concerns and to organize the unorganized. The Alliance, originally the Teamsters and the United Automobile Workers, later joined by the Chemical Workers and the Distributive Workers, was formed in April 1969 and disbanded in December 1971. Records of the Alliance for Labor Action consist primarily of files pertaining to the social concerns, as well...
Dates: 1963-1973

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1986-44
Abstract: The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees(AFSCME), Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) represents public sector workers in the metropolitan Atlanta area, including hospital, sanitation, and other municipal workers. The records of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.), 1949-2001, include correspondence, meeting minutes, membership lists, petitions, constitutions, policy and procedures manuals, grievances, newspaper...
Dates: 1949-2001

Atlanta Labor Council records

 Collection
Identifier: L1977-08
Abstract:

The Atlanta Labor Council was formed in 1958 by the merger of the Atlanta Federation of Trades, AFL, and the Atlanta Industrial Union Council, CIO. Its records are composed of office files, financial documents, membership records, minutes, photographs, and printed material of the Atlanta Labor Council and affiliated organizations, 1915-1969 (bulk 1956-1969).

Dates: 1964-1975

Atlanta Labor Council records

 Collection
Identifier: L1990-21
Abstract:

The Atlanta Labor Council was formed in 1958 by the merger of the Atlanta Federation of Trades, AFL, and the Atlanta Industrial Union Council, CIO. Its records are composed of proceedings, constitutions, contracts, convention materials, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed material of the Atlanta Labor Council and affiliated organizations, 1965-1990 (bulk 1967-1980).

Dates: 1965-1990; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1980

Florida State AFL-CIO records

 Collection
Identifier: L1974-36
Abstract:

Florida AFL-CIO was formed in 1958 with the merging of the Florida American Federation of Labor and the Florida Congress of Industrial Organizations. The collection, 1965-1968, consists of correspondence, minutes, financial documents and printed materials. Correspondence illustrates such primary concerns as labor's role in education; state and national legislation; opposition to the Taft-Hartley Act and the Landrum-Griffin Bill, and its support of Congressman Claude Pepper.

Dates: 1965-1968

Florida State AFL-CIO records

 Collection
Identifier: L1979-19
Abstract:

The records, 1954-1971, of the Florida State AFL-CIO contain financial statements and proceedings of the Florida State AFL-CIO, proceedings of conventions of other state labor bodies, pamphlets pertaining to labor subjects, and correspondence, minutes, and reports of the Florida State Constitution Revision Commission.

Dates: 1955-1975

Mississippi State AFL-CIO records

 Collection
Identifier: L1986-26
Abstract: The Mississippi State Federation of Labor was organized in 1918 and held its annual conventions until 1957, when it became known as the Mississippi AFL-CIO. The collection consists of the records of the Mississippi AFL-CIO and its predecessor, the Mississippi State Federation of Labor from 1947-1986. Records include President Claude Ramsay's correspondence (1959-1986); files relating to affiliated unions (1957-1983); records relating to the Congress of Industrial Organization and the AFL-CIO...
Dates: 1947-1986

Textile Workers Union of America, Local 185 (Dalton, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1982-19
Abstract:

This collection consists of union documentation regarding the foundation and management of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Local 185 and its relationship with the Crown Cotton Mill, both of Dalton, Georgia. The collection concerns the operation and management ACTWUA Local 185 from its establishment in the 1940s through the 1960s.

Dates: 1940s-1960s

United Association of Plumbers and Steam Fitters of the United States and Canada, Local 72 (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1972-33
Abstract:

The records of the United Association of Plumbers and Steam Fitters of the United States and Canada, Local 72 (Atlanta, Ga.), 1952-1972, consist of correspondence dealing primarily with disputes with other unions over jurisdictional limits and with the entrance requirements, training, examination, restriction and certification of apprentices.

Dates: 1952-1972

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AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education 1
AFL-CIO. Region 5 1
AFL-CIO. Region 8 (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
AFSCME. District Council 14 (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
AFSCME. Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Alliance for Labor Action 1
American Federation of Teachers 1
American Flint Glass Workers' Union 1
Biemiller, Andrew J. (Andrew John), 1906-1982 1
Bonanno, Nicholas S. 1
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (U.S.) 1
Colmer, William Meyers, 1890-1980 1
Crown Cotton Mills Co. (Dalton, Whitfield County, Ga.) 1
Democratic Party (Miss.) 1
Democratic Socialists of America 1
Evers, Charles, 1922- 1
Florida State AFL-CIO 1
Gartin, Carroll, 1913-1966 1
Griffin, Charles H. (Charles Hudson), 1926- 1
Haywood, Allan S., 1888-1953 1
International Brotherhood of Teamsters 1
International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Local 528 (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
J.P. Stevens & Co. 1
Jackson Police Officers Association (Jackson, Miss.) 1
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985 1
Kehrer, E. T. 1
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
Knight, Thomas, 1919- 1
Loyal Democrats of Mississippi 1
Meany, George, 1894-1980 1
Mississippi AFL-CIO 1
Mississippi Advisory Committee for the Statewide Planning for Vocational Education 1
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party 1
Mississippi State Federation of Labor 1
Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996 1
National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees. District 1199 1
Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989 1
Powell, Daniel A., 1911- 1
Ramsay, Claude E., 1916-1986 1
Ray, Richard, 1941- 1
Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970 1
Riffe, John, 1904-1958 1
Schnitzler, F. William (Frank William), 1904- 1
Smith, Frank E. (Frank Ellis), 1918-1997 1
Smith, Stanton E. (Stanton Everett), 1905- 1
State Advisory Committee for the Mississippi Employment Security Commission 1
Textile Workers Union of America. Local 185 (Dalton, Ga.) 1
United Association of Plumbers and Steam Fitters of the United States and Canada 1
United Association of Plumbers and Steam Fitters of the United States and Canada. Local 72 (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
United Farm Workers of America 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights 1
United States. National Labor Relations Board 1
United States. Office of Economic Opportunity 1
United States. Southeastern Regional Manpower Advisory Committee 1
United Textile Workers of America 1
Waller, Bill, 1926-2011 1
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981 1
Williams, John Bell, 1918-1983 1
Winter, William F. 1
Wright, Fielding (Fielding Lewis), 1895-1956 1
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