UTU Ladies' Auxiliary Iowa Joint Board Minutes, 1913-1972
Collection Number: 5196
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
UTU Ladies' Auxiliary Iowa Joint Board Minutes, 1913-1972
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5196
Abstract:
This collection consists of two bound volumes: a minutes book of the Iowa State meetings
of the Ladies' Auxiliary and the "Travelling Bible," awarded to local Kansas chapters.
Creator:
United Transportation Union (UTU)
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen [BRT] was founded in 1883 in Oneonta, N.Y. as
a protective and insurance organization. It was established to represent members'
interests in obtaining a satisfactory contract with management. The first Canadian
lodge was established in Moncton, New Brunswick in 1885, and the first Ladies' Auxiliary
was organized in Fort Gratiot, Michigan in 1889 by Sophia Granger, wife of Henry Granger,
treasurer of St. Clair Lodge 241, with the support of the wives, sisters, and mothers
of the St. Clair Lodge members.
The purpose of the organization was to promote social interaction and mutual aid
among the spouses of operating railroad workers in this craft. The rail service members
of the BRT included conductors and their assistants, dining car stewards, ticket collectors,
train baggagemen, brakemen, and train flagmen. The yard service members of the BRT
included yardmasters, yard conductors, switchtenders, foremen, flagmen, brakemen,
switchmen, car tenders, operators, hump riders, and car operators.
In 1969, the BRT merged with three other railroad labor unions to form the United
Transportation Union [UTU]. The Ladies' Auxiliary was granted its new charter from
the UTU in 1970.
Inclusive date range: 1913-1972
Bulk dates: 1913-1972
This collection contains two bound volumes. One is the Minutes of the Iowa State
Union Meetings of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and
its successor, the Iowa Joint Board, Ladies' Auxiliary of the United Transportation
Union. The minutes include such information as where the meetings were held, which
Locals were represented, the various order of business discussed at the meetings,
and, in the minutes of the 1969 meeting, discussion about the merger of the BRT into
the UTU.
The second volume is a King James Bible, referred to in correspondence as the "Travelling
Bible for State of Kansas, Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen."
This book was given as an award to the Kansas Local that had admitted the greatest
number of new members from one year's meeting to the next. The list of Locals it was
awarded to is inscribed on the front flyleaf.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
UTU Ladies' Auxiliary Iowa Joint Board Minutes #5196. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Publications
Names:
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Ladies' Auxiliary.
United Transportation Union. Ladies' Auxiliary. Iowa Joint Board.
United Transportation Union.
Subjects:
Railroads--Employees.
Trade-unions. Railroads. United States.
Trade-unions. United States. Women's auxiliaries.
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 |
Travelling Bible for State of Kansas, Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen
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1948-1970 |
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Scope and Contents
This bible was awarded at each State Meeting to the Local that had admitted the largest
number of new members in the previous calendar year. Awarded between 1948 and 1970,
with annotations by the winning Locals on the front flyleaf. Bookplate reads: "Presented
to District No. 3, from Mary A. Anderson, Sixth Vice-Grand President, L.A. to B. of
R.T."
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Minute Book, Iowa State union meetings of the Ladies' Auxiliary
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1913-1972 |
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Scope and Contents
Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of railroad Trainmen, 1913-1969; Ladies' Auxiliary
of the UTU, 1970-1972
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