United Steelworkers of America, Local 2601 Minute Books and Roster Book on Microfilm, 1942-1961
Collection Number: 5009 mf
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
United Steelworkers of America, Local 2601 Minute Books and Roster Book on Microfilm, 1942-1961
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5009 mf
Abstract:
Include discussions on wages and benefits, workers' education, job safety, union solidarity,
the AFL-CIO merger, the purge of communist members, and various strikes.
Creator:
United Steelworkers of America (USWA)
USWA Local 2601
Quanitities:
0.22 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Includes discussions on wages and benefits, workers' education, job safety, union
solidarity, the AFL-CIO merger, the purge of communist members, and various strikes.
The minute books of Local 2601 of the United Steelworkers of America (Lackawanna,
N.Y.) comment upon the following issues and topics: wage adjustments; premium pay;
wage incentive; unemployment benefits; pensions; holidays ; vacations; workers' compensation;
disability benefits under the Social Security Act; unemployment insurance; safety
on the job; the Labor Relations and Safety Committee; education programs of the Local;
union shops; the importance of buying union made products; the issue of solidarity;
merger negotiations of the A.F. of L. and CIO; United Steelworkers constitutional
violations; the House Un-American Activities Committee; affidavits stating non-membership
in a communist or other subversive group; charges against individuals found guilty
of being members of the Communist Party and expelled from membership; steel company
propaganda; picket lines; strike preparations; the Bethlehem Steel Strike (1959);
the Carrier Corp. Strike in Syracuse, N.Y. (1960); the boycott of Sears, Roebuck Co.
for its anti-union attack against members of organized labor; and elections of officers;
also other routine activities of the Local.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
United Steelworkers of America, Local 2601 Minute Books and Roster Book on Microfilm
#5009 mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
Related Collections: 6046: Archives Union File (AUF)
Names:
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Carrier Corporation
Sears, Roebuck and Company
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
United Steelworkers of America.
United Steelworkers of America. Local 2601 (Lackawanna, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Bethlehem Steel Strike, 1959.
Carrier Corporation Strike, 1960.
Labor unions and communism--United States.
Iron and steel workers.
Boycott. Retail trade. New York (State)
Employee fringe benefits. Steel industry. New York (State). Lackawanna.
Industrial safety. Steel industry. New York (State). Lackawanna.
Insurance, Unemployment. Steel industry. New York (State). Lackawanna.
Open and closed shop. Steel industry. New York (State). Lackawanna.
Pensions. Steel industry. New York (State). Lackawanna.
Strikes and lockouts. Steel industry. New York (State)
Trade-union merger. United States.
Trade-union solidarity. United States.
Trade-unions. Iron and steel workers. New York (State). Lackawanna.
Trade-unions. Iron and steel workers. New York (State). Lackawanna. Local unions.
Trade-unions. New York (State). Lackawanna. Elections of officials.
Trade-unions. New York (State). Lackawanna. Local unions.
Wages. Steel industry. New York (State). Lackawanna.
Workers' compensation. Steel industry. New York (State). Lackawanna.
Workers' education. Iron and steel workers. New York (State). Lackawanna.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Reel 1 |
United Steelworkers Local 2601, Lackawanna, NY - Poster Book - 1948-1960 ; Minute
books - 1942-1952
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1942-1960 | |
Scope and Contents
Negative
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Reel 2 |
United Steelworkers of America Local 2601 (Buffalo, NY) - Minute books 9/52 - 3/6/61
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1952-1961 | |
Scope and Contents
Negative
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