Switchmen's Union of North America Photographs

Collection Number: 5034 P

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

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Switchmen's Union of North America Photographs, 1917-1930

Collection Number:

5034 P

Creator:

Switchmen's Union of North America (SUNA)

Quantity:

0.9 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Photographs.

Repository:

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

Abstract:

Miscellaneous Switchmen's Union of North America related photographs

Language:

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The Switchmen's Union of North America is among the older of the railway brotherhoods. Beginning in 1877 with the formation of a local Switchmen's organization in Chicago, the movement became national when the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association of North America held its first meeting nine years later.

This association was destroyed, as a result of a disastrous lockout by the Chicago Northwestern and the 1888 strike against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy which had equally unfortunate results. Building on what was left of the S.M.A.A., several lodges met in Kansas City in October of 1854 and formed the Switchmen's Union of North America.

By the time of its merger into the United Transportation Union in 1969, the single Chicago labor organization of 1877 had grown to international status with 275 lodges in the United States and Canada having a combined membership of 12,000.

CHRONOLOGY

1877 Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association of North America organized

1886 Switchmen's Association organized

1889 Switchmen's Association affiliated with the Supreme Council of United Orders of Railway Employees

1894 Switchmen's Association dissolved in July

Switchmen's Union of North America organized on October 13

1906 Switchmen's Union of North America affiliated with the American Federation of Labor

1926 Switchmen's Union of North America becomes charter member of the Railway Labor Executives Association

1935 Switchmen's Union of North America affiliated with the Canadian Labor Congress

1969 Switchmen's Union of North America joined with the B.R.T., B.L.F. and E., and O.R.C.B. to form the United Transportation Union

SUBJECTS

Names:

Switchmen's Union of North America -- Photographs.

Form and Genre Terms:

Photographs.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:

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Restrictions on Use:

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Cite As:

Switchmen's Union of North America Photographs #5034 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

RELATED MATERIALS

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
Box 1	Folder 1	The accident Site of J B. Doolen	1917
		May 1, 1917.
Box 1	Folder 2	Various views of site where a man was picked up on February 1, 1917	1917
Box 1	Folder 3	Train Engines
		Includes: engines from Buffalo Creek RR, South Buffalo & NY RR, and Lackawanna RR. (see also collection 5528 P for other Buffalo Creek RR photos)
Box 1	Folder 4	Train Stations
		Includes: Madden Ave Station in Camden, NJ with train Engineer W. Richards; Buffalo Creek Station with tracks and overpass.
Box 1	Folder 5	Cashen, T. C., Buffalo, NY
Box 2		Delegates to the Sixth Biennial Convention, Houston, Texas, 1913 SUNA
Box 2	Folder 1	Delegates to the Sixth Biennial Convention, Houston, Texas, 1913 SUNA
		Map folder
Box 3	Folder 1	Oversize photos: 6 photos sorted out of the 'misc. photos' box that was housed over the mapcase
Box 5OP		Fifth Triennial convention of the Switchmen's Union of North America and the Ladies Auxiliary, Buffalo, NY, June 9, 1930 ; The Switchmen's Union of North America visiting Niagara Falls, June 14, 1930 ; 14th National Convention Switchmen's Union of North A
Box 5OP	Folder 1	panoramic photos - Fifth Triennial convention of the Switchmen's Union of North America and the Ladies Auxiliary, Buffalo, NY, June 9, 1930 ; The Switchmen's Union of North America visiting Niagara Falls, June 14, 1930 ; Convention - S.U. of N. A. - Buff	1918-1930
		14th National Convention Switchmen's Union of North America, St. Louis, MO, May 1918 (not in box 10/2013) - this was originally listed as one of the photos in this box, but was not present when I went thru the photos

Contents

Switchmen's Union of North America Photographs

Collection Number: 5034 P

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