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Tennessee

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

AFL-CIO Region 5 (Atlanta office) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1982-38
Abstract: The collection consists of records of the AFL-CIO Region 5 (Atlanta, Ga.) and its predecessor, AFL-CIO Region 6 from 1947-1981. Includes correspondence, newsletters, memoranda, proceedings, reports, and printed materials. Materials document the activities of state and local union organizations, labor councils, the AFL, the CIO, and AFL-CIO departments pertaining to political issues, candidates for office, political campaigns, lobbying, the Don Luna case and trial, the J.P. Stevens...
Dates: 1947-1981
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Region 8 (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Region 5 records

 Collection
Identifier: L1985-38
Abstract: In 1955 when the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) merged, it created AFL-CIO Region 8 encompassing Tennessee and Kentucky with Paul Christopher as Director. North and South Carolina became part of Region 5 directed by Carey Haigler. The 1964 reorganization of the AFL-CIO placed Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina in Region 8 with Christopher as Director and Haigler as Assistant Director. After Christopher's death in 1974, Region...
Dates: 1940-1974; Majority of material found within 1956 - 1974
Found in: Special Collections

AFL-CIO Region 10 (Nashville, Tennessee) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1996-15
Abstract

AFL-CIO Region 10 (Nashville, Tennessee) Records contains office files pertaining to state federations and local labor councils in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio, 1964-1993, as well as subject files and 102 videotapes.

Dates: circa 1964-1993
Found in: Special Collections

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board records

 Collection
Identifier: L1996-16
Abstract:

The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board collection contains grievance files, arbitration files, newspaper clippings, publications, meeting minutes, training manuals, contracts, negotiations, union-management meeting transcripts, and correspondence from 1963-1993.

Dates: 1963-1993
Found in: Special Collections

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Tennessee Joint Board records

 Collection
Identifier: L1982-24
Abstract: The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), which represented textile workers throughout the United States, was formed in 1976 out of the merger of The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA). The Joint Board served as an administrative support unit for locals in Tennessee and the southeastern United States. The records of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Tennessee Joint Board (Knoxville, Tenn.),...
Dates: 1940s-1970s
Found in: Special Collections

Charles M. Houk papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1982-07
Abstract:

Charles M. Houk held many prominent labor positions in Tennessee from 1956 through 1963. His papers include correspondence, financial documents, minutes, and legislative reports relating to the Tennessee Committee on Political Education and the Tennessee State Labor Council.

Dates: 1939-1965
Found in: Special Collections

Chattanooga Area Labor Council records

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Identifier: L1977-14
Abstract: Chattanooga Area Labor Council Records includes correspondence, minutes, financial documents, legal papers, and printed materials, relating to the council, the merger of Chattanooga Industrial Union Council into it, politics, union elections, abolition of the poll tax, desegregation of public schools, Taft-Hartley Act, Tennessee laws concerning open and closed shops, Chattanooga Voters' Union, revision of the Tennessee State Constitution, and political education. Correspondents include Ross...
Dates: 1925-1972; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1972
Found in: Special Collections

Communications Workers of America, District 3 records

 Collection
Identifier: L1979-17
Abstract: The Communications Workers of America (CIO) was formed in 1947; the former Southern Federation of Telephone Workers (independent) became CWA Division 49. In 1950, through a reorganization of the structure of CWA, the nine southern states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee became District 3 of the CWA. The records consist primarily of more than 5500 non-precedent grievances filed by the union against its principal...
Dates: 1953-1974
Found in: Special Collections

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
Found in: Special Collections

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
Found in: Special Collections

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
Found in: Special Collections

Eula McGill papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1972-48
Abstract:

Eula McGill was an organizer in the Southern textile factory worker movement of the 1930s. Her papers contain scrapbook material, composed of newspapers, clippings, and programs, which pertains to her organizing activities for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in Tennessee and other topics.

Dates: 1938-1964
Found in: Special Collections

Herman B. Adkins papers

 Collection
Identifier: L1987-25
Abstract: Herman Adkins (1918-1999) was an organizer and regional director in Tennessee and Georgia for United Mine Workers of America District 50, the UMWA's "national department" for industrial workers. Adkins was a board member during the period when District 50 was an independent unit within the UMWA (1961-1968). When District 50 became a separate entity, International Union of District 50, Allied and Technical Workers of America and Canada, Adkins continued to serve as its Atlanta regional...
Dates: 1941-1982
Found in: Special Collections

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Local Lodge 480 (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L2011-13
Abstract: The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 480 of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, also known as the Atomic Local 480, was chartered in 1946. The community of Oak Ridge was developed in 1942 and managed by the Army of the United States to facilitate production of the Atomic bomb for the Manhattan Project during World War II. The Oak Ridge community was kept secret until WWII was over; the union was then formed under the AFL-CIO. The Atomic Local 480 dealt with issues...
Dates: 1938-2010; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1987
Found in: Special Collections

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers contracts collection

 Collection
Identifier: L-contracts_IBEW
Abstract:

The collection consists of 121 agreements, 1937-2000, between various local unions of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and numerous utilities, municipalities, manufacturers, and other entities.

Dates: 1937-2000
Found in: Special Collections

International Union of Operating Engineers contract collection

 Collection
Identifier: L-Contracts_IUOE
Scope and Content of the Collection

The collection contains thirty contracts dated 1952-1995.

Dates: 1952-1995
Found in: Special Collections

Iron Workers Tennessee Valley and Vicinity District Council records

 Collection
Identifier: L1996-12
Abstract:

Donated by John "Joe" Ward Merritt, President of the District Council of Iron Workers of Tennessee Valley Trades and Labor Council, this collection contains speeches, expense reports, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) materials and bound copies of the unions' periodical The Ironworker.

Dates: 1959-1995
Found in: Special Collections

Kingsport (Tennessee) Press Strike Collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1980-37
Abstract: The strike against Kingsport Press began March 11, 1963 and included local bodies of the bookbinders, electrotypers, machinists, printing pressmen and assistants, and typographical unions. Naming themselves the Allied Kingsport Press Unions, the unions managed the strike through the unity committee. The collection, 1961-1967, includes correspondence, legal documents, minutes, newsclippings, printed material, and photographs. Materials document the activities of the bookbinders,...
Dates: 1961-1967
Found in: Special Collections

Matt Lynch collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1988-10
Abstract

The Matt Lynch collection consists of materials regarding Lynch's history of labor organization and reform throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, including his presidency of the Tennessee Labor Council.

Dates: 1950-1980
Found in: Special Collections

Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union contract collection

 Collection
Identifier: L-Contracts_OCAW
Scope and Content of the Collection

The collection contains eight contracts dated 1946-1978.

Dates: 1956-1978
Found in: Special Collections

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