Adolph Germer. Papers,
1945-1947

Collection Number: 5256

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
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Compiled by:
Kheel Center Staff
EAD encoding:
Casey S. Westerman, 2005

© 2005 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Adolph Germer. Papers, 1945-1947.
Collection Number:
5256
Creator:
Germer, Adolph
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Files
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
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.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.
PROVENANCE

Donation
SUBJECTS

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

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Cite As:
Adolph Germer. Papers, 1945-1947. 5256. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

Arranged chronologically.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
WFTU Files, 1945-1947.
Personal Correspondence, etc.
World Federation of Trade Unions
Pamphlets from London Conference, February 5-17, 1945
Reports to Executive Bureau Meeting, Washington, September 1946
Reports of the Meeting of Trade Unions of Trieste, October 1946
Reports to Executive Bureau Meeting, Paris, December 10, 1946
Reports to the General Council Meeting, Prague, June 1947
Resolutions presented to the General Council, Prague, June 1947
Speeches at Executive Council Meeting, Prague June 1947
Pan-African Trade Union Conference, April 10-13, 1947
Minutes of the talks between the A.F.T.U. and the Austrian Trade Union, 1947
Report of the 2nd A.F.T.U. Inquiry Commission on the situation in Germany, January-February, 1947
Office of the Military Government for Germany U.S.: Daily excerpts from the Berlin Press (February 12-May 5, 1947); Field Reports
Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund
Releases and Publications
Czechoslovakia
Pamphlets on the economy and trade union movement collected by Mr. Germer during the W.F.T.U. Council Meeting in June, 1947.