AFT Local 2 Records, 1918-1957
Collection Number: 5279

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
AFT Local 2 Records, 1918-1957
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5279
Abstract:
Office files of the Teachers Guild, Local #2 of the American Federation of Teachers.
Creator:
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
AFT Local 2
Quanitities:
24.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

The Teacher's Union, Local 5, was organized in 1916 as an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, (AF of L) by Henry R. Linville, Abraham Lefkowitz and a few other pioneering teachers in New York City.
Perhaps the most significant contribution of the T.U. during those early years was its fight on behalf of civil liberties, an area in which it would later become a formidable combatant. Its principal target was the repeal of the Lusk laws, statutes which allowed for the revocation of a teacher's license "if he is not of good moral character -- or if by act or utterance he shows that he will not support the constitution of the State or of the United States of America."
During the 1920's the T.U. continued its fight for increased salaries commensurate with the higher cost of living, reduced classroom size, tenure for teachers, improvements in the pension system, and increased state aid education. Unfortunately, the results rarely met the organization's expectations.
About 1925, organized political factions began appearing within the T.U.'s ranks. After 1929, two such groups were dominant in their opposition to the majority organization: the "Rank and File" group which represented the official Communist Party of America, and the "Progressive" group which represented a faction within the Communist movement opposed to the official party.
The leadership of Local 5 soon realized that it was helpless in the factional battle that ensued because of an overly liberal constitution, which had been designed to insure the rights of all minority groups whatever their objectives. In an attempt to rid its house of revolutionary elements, on October 27, 1932, at a large membership meeting, a Committee of Five was selected to try five members of the Rank and File group and one member of the Progressive group on the charge of disruptive conduct.
John Dewey, chairman, delivered the unanimous report of the Committee on April 29, 1933 before a Membership meeting of approximately 800. As was anticipated, the Committee reported that the primary cause of the intolerable strike within the Teachers' Union was due to the existence and activity of the two Communist organized factions. With the support of both the Executive Board and the Delegate Assembly, the local petitioned the national office to investigate the local and sought to have the local's old charter revoked so that a new local might be formed without the Communist element.
In May 1935, the national office sent an investigating committee composed of its president, secretary-treasurer and its Washington representative. The Committee's finding was that the local union "was 'helpless' and 'completely at the mercy of a small obstructionist group in the local', and that the obstructionist's group was itself 'not free to formulate its own policies but was subject to a political force which is itself fundamentally opposed to basic principles for which the union attends.'"
Despite this report of the investigating committee, a request by the administration of the Teachers Union to reorganize the local was turned down at the A.F.T. National Convention in August 1935 by a vote of 100 to 79. As a result, October 1, 1935, Henry R. Linville and Abraham Lefkowitz led eight hundred dissatisfied members out of the Teachers Union and into the newly formed independent Teachers Guild. Also among the seceding members were all the officers (with the exception of one) and a majority of the Executive Board.
In 1936, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, as a result of testimony taken before a sub-committee in Washington, recommended to the American Federation of Teachers that it revoke the charter issued to Teachers Union Local 5. The A.F.T., however, did not see fit to abide by this recommendation.
On March 15, 1938 the Greater New York Central Trades and Labor Council suspended the Teachers Union from membership in its organization. Also in March, Teachers Union, Local 5 was expelled from the Joint Committee of Teachers Organizations of New York City.
Again in 1941, the subject of Local 5's charter revocation came up before the American Federation of teachers. However, this time the Executive Council recommended (with one dissenting vote) revocation and their action was overwhelmingly endorsed by the delegates at the Conventions in August 1941, at Detroit. After having its charter revoked, the Teachers Unions continued as Local 555 of the United Public Workers of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The C.I.O. in February 1950 expelled the United Public Workers due to its alleged Communist domination. The Teachers Union, however, continued its association with the U.P.W. until it withdrew in February 1952.
Finally, in 1964, at the suggestion of Rose Russell, one of the T.U.'s guiding lights, the annual convention dissolved the T.U. with the recommendation that its members unite with the other forces in the New York City Teacher's Movement. On June 20, prior to the 1941 Convention, the Teachers Guild accepted the offer of a charter and was reunited with the American Federation of Teachers. Although it retained its name of the Teachers Guild, it was now designated Local 2, AFT.
The Teachers Guild during this period increased in both size and strength. In March, 1960, the Teachers Guild merged with the CATU (Committee of Action Through Unity) to form the United Federation of Teachers. Under the auspices of the New York City Labor Department and empowered by the Board of Education, a representation election was scheduled and held on December 15, 1961. The results were overwhelmingly in favor of the U.F.T. (Local 2, AFT) and so the following August the Board of Education and the U.F.T. entered into their first collective bargaining relationship.
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Preferred Citation

AFT Local 2 Records #5279. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

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SUBJECTS

Names:
American Federation of Labor
Americans for Democratic Action
Brookwood Labor College
Communist Party of the United States of America
National Education Association of the United States
New York (N.Y.). Board of Education.
New York Teachers Guild
Teachers Guild
United Nations
Austin, Warren Robinson
Count, George
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971.
Eaton, Charles Aubrey
Green, William, 1872-1952
Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946
La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947
Lefkowitz, Abraham
Lie, Trygvi
Linville, Henry
Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942
O'Dwyer, William, 1890-1964
Perkins, Frances, 1882-1965
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Vandenburg, Arthur Hendrick

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
Report of the Spirit - (Factionalism)
Box 1 Folder 2
Executive Board resigns
Box 1 Folder 3
Progressive Group - Factionalism pre-1935
Box 1 Folder 4
Other Local unions comments on the Split
Box 1 Folder 5
Controversy in 1935
Box 1 Folder 6
Most essential documents in the local #5 history
Box 1 Folder 7
Split and reorganization
Box 1 Folder 8
Material re: Split
Box 1 Folder 9
Split: Clippings, Trail Reports, etc.
Box 1 Folder 10
Factionalism
1935
Box 1 Folder 11
Clippings on the Split
Box 1 Folder 12
Split - preservation of local #5
Box 1 Folder 13
Committee to save AFT
1940
Box 1 Folder 14
Minutes of Local #5, AFT
1925-1935
Box 1 Folder 15
Committee of 25 - For union defense
Box 1 Folder 16
Committee of 100 - For union defense
Box 1 Folder 17
Statement before AFT Executive Board on Local #2 factionalism
Box 1 Folder 18
Linville, CCNY attack on
Box 1 Folder 19
Defense of union
Box 1 Folder 20
CIO organization of teachers
Box 1 Folder 21
Guild constitution and bylaws
Box 1 Folder 22
Folder on history of Local #5 - Local #2 relationship
Box 1 Folder 23
Membership applications
Box 1 Folder 24
Membership campaign material
Box 1 Folder 25
Membership committee - Henry Hillson, Chairman
Box 1 Folder 26
Membership list of Guild
1939
Box 1 Folder 27
Membership resignations, deaths, expelled book
Box 1 Folder 28
Membership resignations
1947-1948
Box 1 Folder 29
The Teachers Union: A Social Study
1937
Box 1 Folder 30
Guild: Union Attmepts at Unity
1939-1940
Box 2 Folder 1
Local #5 New: Re: Revocation of charter
Box 2 Folder 2
Material for Local #5 ouster
1940
Box 2 Folder 3
Organizing Committee
Box 2 Folder 4
Organizing propaganda, Guild - Folder #1
Box 2 Folder 5
Organizing propaganda, Guild - Folder #2
Box 2 Folder 6
Organizing propaganda, Guild - Folder #3
Box 2 Folder 7
Policy and bylaws
Box 2 Folder 8
Provisional committee
1941
Box 2 Folder 9
Songs and the guild (and other)
Box 2 Folder 10
Membership drive
1950
Box 2 Folder 11
Membership resignation
1948-1949
Box 2 Folder 12
Communists and Left Wingers in Local #5
Box 2 Folder 13
Communism and socialism
Box 2 Folder 14
The Communist Teachers Issue - Folder #2
Box 2 Folder 15
Communist tactics in a trade union HR Linville
Box 2 Folder 16
The Communist Teachers Issue - Folder #1
Box 2 Folder 17
Pre and post trial correspondence
1932-1933
Box 2 Folder 18
The Communist Teachers Issue - Folder #3
Box 2 Folder 19
McCarthy censure file
Box 2 Folder 20
Congressional investigation - Communism
1952
Box 2 Folder 21
Daily Work clippings on the union split
Box 2 Folder 22
Communism - various news articles and correspondence
Box 2 Folder 23
Independent group in the teachers union (Trotskyites)
Box 2 Folder 24
Feinberg questionnaire
Box 2 Folder 25
Feinberg subversive folder
Box 2 Folder 26
Left-Wing material
Box 3 Folder 1
Election of officers
1948
Box 3 Folder 2
Election of officers
1949
Scope and Contents
including Executive Board
Box 3 Folder 3
Elections - officers and Executive Board
1950
Box 3 Folder 4
Guild elections
1951
Box 3 Folder 5
Elections
1952
Box 3 Folder 6
Elections
1953-1954
Box 3 Folder 7
Ballot results
1954
Box 3 Folder 8
Elections
1955
Box 3 Folder 9
Form letters
1938-1940
Box 3 Folder 10
Minutes, nominations, etc.
1947-1948
Box 3 Folder 11
Officers meetings -agendae
1947-1948
Box 3 Folder 12
Officers meetings - agendae
1947
Box 3 Folder 13
Executive Board - Officers correspondence, meetings, etc.
1948-1952
Box 3 Folder 14
Officers meeting agendae
1949
Box 3 Folder 15
Minutes, notices of meetings, etc.
1941
Box 3 Folder 16
Rally letters
1954
Box 3 Folder 17
Mimeograph, letters, etc.
Box 3 Folder 18
Souvenir Journal
1954-1956
Box 3 Folder 19
Meeting reports
1942
Box 3 Folder 20
Mrs. Rebecca Simonson - President of Guild
Scope and Contents
Resume, correspondence, etc.
Box 3 Folder 21
Spring Conference
1947
Box 3 Folder 22
Spring Conference
1948
Box 3 Folder 23
Spring Conference
1949
Box 3 Folder 24
Spring Conference
1951
Box 3 Folder 25
Spring Conference
1952-1953
Box 3 Folder 26
Spring Conference
1954
Box 3 Folder 27
Spring Conference
1955
Box 3 Folder 28
October Conference - Printed programs
1935-1940
Box 3 Folder 29
Fall Conference
1948-1950
Box 3 Folder 30
Conference Board - Notice of meetings
1938-1939
Box 3 Folder 31
Conference Board
1944-1946
Box 3 Folder 32
Legislation
1952-1954
Box 3 Folder 33
Legislation
1954-1955
Box 3 Folder 34
Legislative Briefs
1948-1949
Box 3 Folder 35
Legislative Bulletins
1950
Box 3 Folder 36
Legislative Bulletins and Briefs
1948-1949
Box 3 Folder 37
Legislative Bulletins and Briefs
1950-1951
Box 3 Folder 38
Legislative Bulletins and Briefs
1951-1952
Box 3 Folder 39
Legislative Bulletins and Briefs
1953-1954
Box 3 Folder 40
Legislative Material
1954
Box 4 Folder 1
Legislative Committee
1939
Box 4 Folder 2
Legislative Committee
1947
Box 4 Folder 3
Maloff, Rubin - Assistant Legislative Representative
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, etc
Box 4 Folder 4
Budget, Taxes and finances for education
1937-1942
Box 4 Folder 5
Statements on budgets, finances
1938-1941
Box 4 Folder 6
Educational budget material
1943-1944
Box 4 Folder 7
Legislation and education budget
1945-1946
Box 4 Folder 8
Board of Education budget hearings
Box 4 Folder 9
Adult elementary school teachers chapter
Box 4 Folder 10
Clerks chapter
Box 4 Folder 11
Trade teachers group
Box 4 Folder 12
Westinghouse teachers guild
Box 4 Folder 13
Dieticians chapter
Box 4 Folder 14
Teachers Guild Association Materials
1938-1940
Box 4 Folder 15
Teachers Guild Association Materials
1935-1938
Box 4 Folder 16
Teachers Guild Association Materials
1939-1941
Box 4 Folder 17
Teachers Guild Association Materials
1943-1945
Box 4 Folder 18
Teachers Guild Association Materials
1946-1947
Box 4 Folder 19
Legislative Program
1937
Scope and Contents
and prior
Box 4 Folder 20
Legislative Program
1939
Scope and Contents
Dr. Lefkowitz
Box 4 Folder 21
Legislative Program
1939-1941
Box 4 Folder 22
Legislative Program
1945
Box 4 Folder 23
Legislative Program
1946-1947
Box 4 Folder 24
Legislative Program
1947-1948
Box 4 Folder 25
Associated Teachers Interest Committees
Box 4 Folder 26
College Affairs Committee
Box 5 Folder 1
Code of Conduct - Ethics
Box 5 Folder 2
Code of Ethic Committee
Box 5 Folder 3
Coordinating Committee
Box 5 Folder 4
Democratic Human Relations Committee (AFT)
Box 5 Folder 5
Democratization of School Administration Committee
Box 5 Folder 6
Educational Policies Committee (Wartime Curriculum)
Box 5 Folder 7
Educational Policies Committee [folder 1 of 3]
1954
Box 5 Folder 8
Educational Policies Committee [folder 2 of 3]
1954
Box 5 Folder 9
Educational Policies Committee [folder 3 of 3]
1954
Box 5 Folder 10
Educational TV Committee
Box 5 Folder 11
Elementary School Committee
Box 5 Folder 12
Emergency Committee
Box 5 Folder 13
Equality in Education Committee
Box 5 Folder 14
Expansion Fund Committee
Box 5 Folder 15
Joint Committee of Teachers Organization
Box 5 Folder 16
Guild Committee (General List of)
Box 5 Folder 17
Jewish Labor Committee
Box 5 Folder 18
Junior High School Committee
Box 5 Folder 19
Juvenile Delinquency Committee
Box 5 Folder 20
High School Affairs Committee
Box 5 Folder 21
Labor and Community Relations Committee
Box 5 Folder 22
Labor Committee on Schools
Box 5 Folder 23
Laboratory Assistants Committee
Box 5 Folder 24
Librarians Committee [fodler 1 of 2]
Box 5 Folder 25
Librarian's Committee [folder 2 of 2]
Box 5 Folder 26
Library Committee (May Dunn)
Box 5 Folder 27
Membership Committee (correspondence)
Box 5 Folder 28
Mental Hygiene Committee
Box 6 Folder 1a
Pension Committee
Scope and Contents
3 folders
Box 6 Folder 1b
Pension Committee
Box 6 Folder 1c
Pension Committee
Box 6 Folder 2
Pension Committee - Mr. Louis Goldman
Box 6 Folder 3
Problem Areas Committee
1942
Scope and Contents
Joint TG & TGA
Box 6 Folder 4
Professional Problems, Advisory Committee on
Box 6 Folder 5
Reorganization Committee
Box 6 Folder 6
Resolution Committee
Box 6 Folder 7
Sex Education Committee
Box 6 Folder 8
Shower Attendants Committee
Box 6 Folder 9
Social Committee
1947-1948
Box 6 Folder 10
Slow-Learner Committee
Box 6 Folder 11
Supervision, Report of Committee on
Scope and Contents
included is a 192 page report titled: "Supervision in the Elementary Schools"
Box 6 Folder 12
Taxation and Finance Committee
Box 6 Folder 13
Teachers Interest Committee
Box 6 Folder 14
Veterans Committee
Box 6 Folder 15
Vocational Committee - Lawsuit
Box 6 Folder 16
Salary Campaign material
1938-1941
Box 6 Folder 17
Salary data clippings
1946
Box 6 Folder 18
Salary fight
1946
Box 6 Folder 19
Salary Campaign
1948-1949
Box 6 Folder 20
Salary Campaign
1949
Box 6 Folder 21
Salary Campaign
1949-1950
Box 6 Folder 22
Salary Campaign - forms, releases, etc.
1949-1950
Box 6 Folder 23
Salary Campaign - correspondence -
1950-1951
Box 6 Folder 24
Salary Strategy Committee - Etta Greenberg (Chairman)
1950-1951
Box 6 Folder 25
Salary Campaign - Coaches Fund
Box 6 Folder 26
Academic Freedom Committee - Current Folder
Box 6 Folder 27
Academic Freedom Committee - Documents of Committee
Box 7 Folder 1
Salary Campaign
1951-1952
Box 7 Folder 2
Salary Campaign
1952-1953
Box 7 Folder 3
Salary Campaign
1955
Box 7 Folder 4
Salary Committee - (forms, releases, etc.)
Box 7 Folder 5
Advisory Committee on Teachers Salaries
Box 7 Folder 6
Meyer Committee on Teachers Salaries
Box 7 Folder 7
Board of Education: Salary Schedules
Box 7 Folder 8
Report on teachers Salaries
1947
Box 7 Folder 9
Campaign for single salary
Box 7 Folder 10
Barnett, Sidney - Academic Freedom Committee Chairman
Box 7 Folder 11
Re: Hammond - Morgan Law
Box 7 Folder 12a
Loyalty oath material
Scope and Contents
2 large folders
Box 7 Folder 12b
Loyalty oath material
Box 7 Folder 13
Membership Material and dismissal cases
Box 7 Folder 14
Academic Freedom Committee Minutes and agenda of meetings
Box 7 Folder 15
National Academic Freedom Committee
Box 7 Folder 16
National Academic Freedom Committee, AFT
Box 7 Folder 17
Academic Freedom Committee - other organizations
Box 7 Folder 18
Principles of Academic Freedom
Box 7 Folder 19a
Re: Rapp-Coudert Investigation - clippings
1941
Scope and Contents
2 folders
Box 7 Folder 19b
Re: Rapp-Coudert Investigation - clippings
1941
Box 8 Folder 1
Recommendations and reports for a better system vol. #1
Box 8 Folder 2
Recommendations and reports for a better system vol. #1
Box 8 Folder 3
Teachers Examination Committee - correspondence
1948-1955
Box 8 Folder 4
Applications for teaching license
Box 8 Folder 5
General petition and resolutions
Box 8 Folder 6
Brameld, Theodore - case
Box 8 Folder 7
Champlain College
Box 8 Folder 8
Hartmann, George - case
Box 8 Folder 9
Gioia, Andrew O. - case
Box 8 Folder 10
Dushane, Eleanor - case
Box 8 Folder 11
Gutride, Minnie - case
Box 8 Folder 12
Civil and academic rights
Box 8 Folder 13
Mandell, Benjamin - case (Re: recall, etc.)
Box 8 Folder 14
Lenz, Harold - case
Box 8 Folder 15
Problems and grievances
1934-1935
Box 8 Folder 16
Rubin, Isadore - case
Box 8 Folder 17
Lanzer, Irving R. - case (Swadesh - City College)
Box 8 Folder 18
Klein, Henry - case
Box 8 Folder 19
Heitner, Louis - grievance case
Box 8 Folder 20
Weyler, David - case
Box 8 Folder 21
Predergast, Laurence E. - case
Box 8 Folder 22
Quinn, May - case
1946
Box 8 Folder 23
Grievances
1935-1936
Box 8 Folder 24
Grievances
1937
Box 8 Folder 25
Problem of overcrowded classrooms, etc.
Box 8 Folder 26
Miscellaneous problems: equalizing hours, retention of substitutes, day-care nurseries
Box 9 Folder 1
Absences
Box 9 Folder 2
Accident insurance
Box 9 Folder 3
Campaign for Louis Goldman
Box 9 Folder 4
Campaign for Rudolf Holley (Pres. of NYC Council)
Box 9 Folder 5
Campaign for Vincent Kassenbrock
Box 9 Folder 6
Capital building projects
1924-1947
Box 9 Folder 7
Cost of living material
Box 9 Folder 8
Democratic human relations
Box 9 Folder 9
Dewey, John (biographical material)
Box 9 Folder 10
End term clerical work
Box 9 Folder 11
Equalization of hours (vocational schools)
Box 9 Folder 12
Excessing of teachers
Box 9 Folder 13
Feinberg law - salaries
Box 9 Folder 14
HRLP Fund - Henry Linville Pension Fund
Box 9 Folder 15
In-Service courses
Box 9 Folder 16a
Lincoln school
Scope and Contents
2 folders
Box 9 Folder 16b
Lincoln school
Scope and Contents
2 folders
Box 9 Folder 17
Membership meetings
Box 9 Folder 18
Nation magazine ban (correspondence, et al.)
Box 9 Folder 19
Peace education: conference on
1937
Box 9 Folder 20
Publicity, clippings
Box 9 Folder 21
Quinn-Issacs Bill
Box 9 Folder 22
Questionnaire - sent out by Ray R. Peck (controversy over authorization)
Box 9 Folder 23
Questionnaire on rating system
Box 9 Folder 24
Criticism of Mayor LaGuardia
Box 9 Folder 25
Radio programs
Box 9 Folder 26
Recognition issue (by Board of Education)
Box 9 Folder 27
Special subjects teachers
Box 9 Folder 28
Speeches (on various topics)
Box 9 Folder 29
Selection of a superintendent
Box 9 Folder 30
Substitutes
Box 9 Folder 31
Supervisor members (Discussion on)
1952
Box 9 Folder 32
Taxation and finance - information
Box 9 Folder 33
Teaching as a profession
Box 9 Folder 34
Teachers Guild - union finance
Box 9 Folder 35
Vocational schools
Box 9 Folder 36
Youthbuilders
Box 9A Folder 1
Publicity, Clippings
Box 9A Folder 2
Questionnaire
Scope and Contents
Sent out by Ray R. Peck. Controversy over authorization
Box 9A Folder 3
Questionnaire on Rating System
Box 9A Folder 4
Criticism of Mayor LaGuardia
Box 9A Folder 5
"Recognition" Issue
Scope and Contents
By Board of Education
Box 9A Folder 6
Radio Programs
Box 9A Folder 7
Special 'Subjects' Teachers
Box 9A Folder 8
Speeches
Scope and Contents
On various topics
Box 9A Folder 9
Substitutes
Box 9A Folder 10
Teachers' Guild: Union Finances
Box 9A Folder 11
Selection of a Superintendent
Box 9A Folder 12
Discussion on Supervisor Members
1952
Box 9A Folder 13
Taxation and Finance Information [folder 1 of 2]
Box 9A Folder 14
Taxation and Finance Information [folder 2 of 2]
Box 9A Folder 15
Teaching as a Profession
Box 9A Folder 16
Vocational Schools
Box 10 Folder 1
Federal aid - the crisis in education
Box 10 Folder 2
Federal aid to education - volume #1
Box 10 Folder 3
Federal aid to education - volume #1
Box 10 Folder 4
Federal aid - general correspondence
Box 10 Folder 5
State aid to education
Box 10 Folder 6
Financial aid to education - state aid
Box 10 Folder 7a
State aid - taxation and finance
Scope and Contents
2 folders
Box 10 Folder 7b
State aid - taxation and finance
Scope and Contents
2 folders
Box 10 Folder 8
Correspondence with State Legislators (Re: state aid to education)
Box 10 Folder 9
Taxation for education - general, miscellaneous
Box 10 Folder 10
Committee on Religious instruction
Box 10 Folder 11
Teaching religious education
Box 10 Folder 12
Religion in the schools - Folder #1
Box 10 Folder 13
Religion in the schools
Box 10 Folder 14
Religion in education
Box 10 Folder 15
Religious instruction: Committee, correspondence
1937-1940
Box 10 Folder 16
Religious Released Time #1
Box 10 Folder 17
Released Time #2
Box 11 Folder 1
AFT Executive Board - National
Box 11 Folder 2
AFT Materials to and from other locals
Box 11 Folder 3
AFT correspondence with locals
Box 11 Folder 4
AFT News, Press and publicity bulletins
Box 11 Folder 5
AFT national miscellaneous folder
Box 11 Folder 6
Folder on Eklund, John (Pres.)
Box 11 Folder 7
Folders (2) on Kuensli, Irving R. (Sec.-Treas., AFT)
Box 11 Folder 8
Folder on Megel, Carl (Pres.)
Box 11 Folder 9
Folder on Selden, David (AFT Field Representative)
Box 11 Folder 10
Folder on Mrs. Chas. Shipman
Box 11 Folder 11
Folder on Mrs. Rebeca Simonson
Box 11 Folder 12
Delegates Assembly Minutes
1938
Box 11 Folder 13
AFT Conventions
1941
Box 11 Folder 14
AFT Conventions
1954
Box 11 Folder 15
AFT Conventions
1948
Box 11 Folder 16
AFT Conventions
1950-1951
Box 11 Folder 17
AFT Conventions
1957
Box 11 Folder 18
Delegates Assembly Minutes
1943-1946
Box 11 Folder 19
Delegates Assembly Minutes
1947-1948
Box 11 Folder 20
Delegates Assembly Minutes
1947-1948
Scope and Contents
And attendance
Box 11 Folder 21
Delegates Assembly Minutes
1950-1951
Box 11 Folder 22
Delegates Assembly Minutes
1951-1953
Box 11 Folder 23
Delegates Assembly Minutes
1954-1955
Box 11 Folder 24
Delegates, general correspondence with
Box 11 Folder 25
AFT per capita reports - receipts
Box 12 Folder 1
Allied Civil Service Conference
Box 12 Folder 2
Central Trades and Labor Council
Box 12 Folder 3
Joint Civil Conference and PEA
1941-1942
Box 12 Folder 4
Local #537, New York College Teachers Union
Box 12 Folder 5
Liberal Party
Box 12 Folder 6
NY State Department of Labor, Mediation Board
Box 12 Folder 7
NY State Education Department
Box 12 Folder 8
NY State Federation of Labor
Box 12 Folder 9
Public Education Association
Box 12 Folder 10
Rand School - Guild Cooperative Course
Box 12 Folder 11
Service Bureau for Intercultural Education
Box 12 Folder 12
UNESCO and United Nations
Box 12 Folder 13
White House Conference
1951
Box 12 Folder 14
Womens Trade Union League
Box 12 Folder 15
World Organization of the Teaching Profession
Box 12 Folder 16
Empire State Federation of teachers Unions Correspondence, etc.
1953
Scope and Contents
Jan. 1953
Box 12 Folder 17
Empire State Federation - Miscellaneous
Box 12 Folder 18
Empire State Federation of teachers Unions Correspondence, etc.
1950-1953
Scope and Contents
Sept. 1950-1953
Box 12 Folder 19
Empire State Federation of teachers Unions Correspondence
1948-1950
Box 12 Folder 20
Empire State Federation of teachers Unions Convention
1947
Scope and Contents
November 8, 9, 1947
Box 12 Folder 21
Board of Education correspondence - A - E
Box 12 Folder 22
Board of Education correspondence - F - L
Box 12 Folder 23
Board of Education correspondence - M - R
Box 12 Folder 24
Board of Education correspondence - S - Z
Box 12 Folder 25
Board of Education, Miscellaneous
1948-1950
Box 12 Folder 26
Board of Education, Miscellaneous
1950-1954
Box 12 Folder 27
Board of Education, Miscellaneous
1954
Box 12 Folder 28
Board of Education, Budget Correspondence
Box 12 Folder 29
Correspondence - Gannon, Edmund J. (Personnel)
Box 12 Folder 30
Correspondence - Greenberg, Dr. Jacob (Dept. Supt.)
Box 13 Folder 1
AFT Convention resolutions - submitted by the Guild
Box 13 Folder 2
Correspondence - Jansen, William (Superintendent)
Box 13 Folder 3
Correspondence - Levitt, Arthur (Pres. B of E)
Box 13 Folder 4
Correspondence - Moss, Maximillian (Pres. B of E)
Box 13 Folder 5
Correspondence - Wade, John E. (Supt. of schools)
Box 13 Folder 6
Correspondence with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
Box 13 Folder 7
Correspondence with Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Box 13 Folder 8
Correspondence with Mayor William ODwyer
Box 13 Folder 9
Correspondence with miscellaneous elected officials
Box 13 Folder 10a
Correspondence - Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz
Scope and Contents
3 folders
Box 13 Folder 10b
Correspondence - Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz
Box 13 Folder 10c
Correspondence - Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz
Box 13 Folder 11
Correspondence - on Lefkowitz testimonial dinner
Box 13 Folder 12a
Correspondence - A Mark Levien (Legal Counsel)
Scope and Contents
3 folders
Box 13 Folder 12b
Correspondence - A Mark Levien (Legal Counsel)
Box 13 Folder 12c
Correspondence - A Mark Levien (Legal Counsel)
Box 13 Folder 13
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder B
Box 13 Folder 14
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder C
Box 13 Folder 15
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder D
Box 13 Folder 16
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder E
Box 13 Folder 17
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder G
Box 13 Folder 18
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder H
Box 13 Folder 19
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder I
Box 13 Folder 20
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder L - M
Box 13 Folder 21
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder N
Box 13 Folder 22
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder P
Box 13 Folder 23
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder S
Box 13 Folder 24
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder T
Box 13 Folder 25
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder V
Box 13 Folder 26
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder W
Box 13 Folder 27
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder X - Z
Box 13 Folder 28
Correspondence with NY University Student Council
Box 14 Folder 1
News Releases
1937
Box 14 Folder 2
News Releases
1940-1941
Box 14 Folder 3
News Releases
1943-1944
Box 14 Folder 4
News Releases
1944-1945
Box 14 Folder 5
News Releases
1947
Box 14 Folder 6
Press Releases
1948
Box 14 Folder 7
Press Releases
1950-1954
Box 14 Folder 8
AFT National Office - Bulletins, Releases, etc.
1946
Box 14 Folder 9
AFT National Office - Bulletins, etc.
1948
Box 14 Folder 10
Letters to the Editor - NY Sun inter alia
Box 14 Folder 11
The Bulletin
Box 14 Folder 12
Inside Education
Box 14 Folder 13
Madison High School Teachers Guild Bulletin
Box 14 Folder 14
News from the Guild, Set of
Box 14 Folder 15
Past Thirty Days, Complete set
Box 14 Folder 16
Washington Newsletter
Box 14 Folder 17
The Washington Teacher
Box 14 Folder 18
Mimeographed News Letters from NYTG
Box 14 Folder 19
AFT General literature
Box 14 Folder 20
Pamphlets, miscellaneous
1940-1941
Box 15 Folder 1
Delegate Reporter - #1-44
Scope and Contents
to June 1951
Box 15 Folder 2
Delegate Reporter - #45-67
Scope and Contents
to June 1953
Box 15 Folder 3
Delegate Reporter - miscellaneous
Box 15 Folder 4
New York Sun - Latest News In The Educational World"
1941
Scope and Contents
various issues in 1941
Box 16 Folder 1
New York Sun - Latest News In The Educational World"
1945
Scope and Contents
all issues of 1945
Box 16 Folder 2
Teachers Union News
1942-1955
Scope and Contents
issues from Sept. 1951-Sept. 30, 1955; various issues from 1942 and 1943
Box 16 Folder 3
AFT Local 2 Constitution and releases
Box 17 Folder 1
Collection - Material against Board of Educations Informer Resolution
Box 17 Folder 2
Scrapbook - clippings
1946-1947
Scope and Contents
Nov. 1946 - June 1947
Box 17 Folder 3
Scrapbook - publicity clippings
1945
Scope and Contents
general publicity, Karelson resignation - emergency Comm., Quinn case, Colleges
Box 17 Folder 4
Scrapbook - newspaper clippings
1942-1943
Box 17 Folder 5
Scrapbook - Guild publicity
1941-1942
Box 17 Folder 6
Scrapbook - Membership Drive material
1936-1938
Box 17 Folder 7
Scrapbook - Teachers Guild Association
1936-1938
Box 17 Folder 8
Scrapbook - clippings
1936
Box 17 Folder 9
Scrapbook - Membership Drive material
1927
Box 17 Folder 10
Scrapbook - clippings
1923-1925
Box 18 Folder 1
AFT Amendments to National Convention
Box 18 Folder 2
AF of T Convention
1918-1931
Box 18 Folder 3
AFT Correspondence
1926
Box 18 Folder 4
AFT Federal Aid for Schools
Box 18 Folder 5
AFT Philadelphia
1936
Box 18 Folder 6
AFT Publicity and Literature
1938
Scope and Contents
Fall 1938
Box 19 Folder 1
AFT Financial Reports
1920-1931
Box 19 Folder 2
AFT Financial Reports
1932-1936
Box 19 Folder 3
AFT Financial Reports
1936-1940
Box 19 Folder 4
AFT Convention, Cedar Pt., OH
1938
Scope and Contents
Reports/Speeches/etc
Box 19 Folder 5
AFT Convention
1939
Scope and Contents
Aug. 1939
Box 19 Folder 6
AFT Conventions
Scope and Contents
Prior to 1932
Box 19 Folder 7
AFT National Convention
1940
Box 19 Folder 8
AFT Financial Reports
1920-1940
Box 19 Folder 9
AFT Convention Reports
Scope and Contents
1920's-1930's
Box 20 Folder 1a
The American Teacher
1936-1938
Scope and Contents
3 folders
Box 20 Folder 1b
The American Teacher
1936-1938
Box 20 Folder 1c
The American Teacher
1936-1938
Box 20 Folder 2
Publicity & Literature
1938
Scope and Contents
Spring 1938
Box 20 Folder 3
AFT Releases
Scope and Contents
no folder
Box 21 Folder 1
Arbitration Agreements