Adolph Germer Papers, 1945-1947
Collection Number: 5256
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Adolph Germer Papers, 1945-1947
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5256
Abstract:
This collection consists of the papers Adolph Germer collected on his trip to the
W.F.T.U. meeting and his membersip of the W.F.T.U. Committee for German Affairs.
Creator:
Germer, Adolph
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Mr. Germer was born in Welan, Germany In 1881 and came to the United States in 1888.
His father was a miner, and Adolph went to work in the coal mines of Staunton, Illinois,
when he was eleven years old. He joined the United Mine Workers of America in 1894
and held various offices; among them the United Mine Workers representative to the
World Miners Congress in Amsterdam in 1912. He participated in the Colorado strike
in 1913.
He joined the Socialist Party in 1900, and was its national secretary from 1916 to
1919. He was arrested, tried and convicted of subversion in the famous trial of 1918.
With Eugene V. Debs and Victor L. Berger he wrote the Socialist Party report on the
West Virginia Coal Strike in 1913.
In 1933 he joined the Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers and became an international
organizer He participated in the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations
and was on its staff as an organizer. He was its delegate to the World Federation
of Trade Unions meeting in Prague in 1947.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Adolph Germer Papers #5256. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Germer, Adolph
World Federation of Trade Unions
Subjects:
Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States
Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining -- United States
Coal miners -- Labor unions -- United States
Collective bargaining -- Coal mining industry -- United States
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Personal Correspondence, etc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
World Federation of Trade Unions
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Pamphlets from London Conference
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1945 |
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Scope and Contents
Feb. 5th-7th in Washington
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Reports to Executive Bureau Meeting
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1946 |
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Scope and Contents
September
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Reports of the Meeting of Trade Unions of Trieste
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1946 |
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Scope and Contents
October
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Reports to Executive Bureau Meeting
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1946 |
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Scope and Contents
December 10th in Paris
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Reports to the General Council Meeting
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1947 |
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Scope and Contents
June in Prague
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Resolutions presented to the General Council
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1947 |
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Scope and Contents
June in Prague
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Speeches at Executive Council Meeting
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1947 |
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Scope and Contents
June in Prague
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Pan-African Trade Union Conference
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1947 |
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Scope and Contents
April 10th-13th
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Minutes of the talks between the A.F.T.U. and the Austrian Trade Union
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1947 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Report of the 2nd A.F.T.U. Inquiry Commission on the situation in Germany
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1947 |
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Scope and Contents
January to February
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Office of the Military Government for Germany U.S.: Daily excerpts from the Berlin
Press, Field Reports
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1947 |
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Scope and Contents
February 12th-May 5th
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Releases and Publications
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Czechoslovakia
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Pamphlets on the economy and trade union movement
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1947 |
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Scope and Contents
Collected by Mr. Germer during the W.F.T.U. Council Meeting in June
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