Greater Buffalo Industrial Union Council Records
Collection Number: 5254
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Greater Buffalo Industrial Union Council Records, 1939-1964
Collection Number:
5254
Creator:
Greater Buffalo Industrial Union Council
Quantity:
7 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents) .
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
This collection contains the office files of the Greater Buffalo Industrial Union Council from its organization in 1937 to their merger with the Buffalo Federation of Labor in 1958. Include general administrative records, materials relating to labor legislation, relations with member organizations, relations with New York State Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the national CIO, relations with international labor organizations and with the public.
Language:
Collection material in English
Local industrial union councils operated on a city, county, or district basis and were composed of the CIO local unions within
these areas. The industrial union councils were under the control of the CIO, but the CIO did not force its nationals
and internationals to make their local unions join the local councils. The Local councils, like the state councils, were
coordinating agencies designed to serve the local unions within their area.
"The objects of the Council shall be to secure united action of all locals of national and international unions and organizing
committees and local industrial unions and industrial union councils affiliated to the CIO within its jurisdiction and
through united action to protect, maintain and advance the interests of all working people in its territory, to extend
unionism on the basis of industrial organization, to secure and enforce legislation in the interests of the working people,
to promote recognition and acceptance of collective bargaining in industry, and to increase public understanding of the
labor movement."
-CIO Model Constitution
The Greater Buffalo Industrial Union Council was organized in 193T. The council participated in organizing work and engaged
in politics: municipal, state and national. It tried to cultivate a favorable public opinion toward CIO unions. The
council sometimes engaged in various types of educational work, such as forming study classes and encouraged the formation
of education committees in local unions.
Include general administrative records, materials relating to labor legislation, relations with member organizations, relations
with New York State Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the national CIO, relations with international
labor organizations and with the public.
General administrative records (1938-1958) include correspondence, publications, resolutions, reports, minutes and ballots
concerning the sentiment of the GBIUC on various state and federal legislative proposals, political endorsements,
veterans' affairs, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations relations, local strikes, and various
other local union matters. Specific issues covered in these records include employment stabilization after World War II;
unemployment insurance and workmen's compensation; industrial safety and hygiene; jurisdictional disputes and raiding
between the Niagara, N.Y. locals of the United Automobile Workers and the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers;
strikes at Remington Rand, Bell Aircraft, and the National Carbon Company; and the merger of American Federation of Labor
(A.F. of L.) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) unions in Buffalo.
A resolutions file (1939-1958) includes matters coming before the GBIUC for its endorsement or opposition. These include proposed
new or amended federal, state, or county legislation and public issues of interest to organized labor. Among the
issues acted upon were the Hatch-Ball-Burton Bill, S.1171; a national health bill; the Taft-Hartley Act, the St. Lawrence
power project; time-and-a-half provisions for county workers; and the imposition of state sales tax in New York. The GBIUC
also expressed its opinion on the issues of runaway shops, social security, unemployment, a guaranteed annual wage, slum
clearance and low rent housing, World War II defense issues, and the anti-communist campaign of the 1950's, among others.
The collection contains files relating to the Council's relations with its member organizations, including correspondence,
reports, resolutions, surveys, legislative materials, and publications (1939-1959). These records concern financial
matters, and affiliated local activities, including strikes, contract negotiations, and arbitration. Also included is
a survey of the thirty-five affiliated member organizations on the impact of post World War II reconversion and employment.
GBIUC relations with the New York State CIO Council are documented in resolutions, reports and correspondence between the
two organizations. Discussed are right-to-work laws, the New York State Disability Benefits Law, a rent control bill,
unemployment insurance, and workmen's compensation, among other issues.
The Council's varied political activities are recorded throughout the collection but particularly in its legislative action
files (1940-1959). These include correspondence, resolutions, legislative materials, statements, and surveys. Municipal
correspondents include Bernard J. Dowd (mayor of Buffalo), Francis E. Franczak (Buffalo Department of Health), and Leo
J. Hagerty (district attorney, Erie County) as well as officials of the Buffalo Common Council, the Buffalo Policemen's
Organization, the Buffalo Port Authority, the City of Lackawanna, the Erie County Board of Supervisors and County Department
of Social Welfare. New York State correspondents include Stanley J. Bauer (senator), Frederick T. Devlin (assistant
attorney general), Charles W. Halloran (acting industrial commissioner, Department of Labor), Averell Harriman (governor),
and Walter J. Mahoney (senator), as well as other representatives of the State Assembly, Department of Labor, and Public
Services Commission. National legislative correspondents include Homer E. Capchant (senator), Chester C. Gorski (congressman),
Irving M. Ives (senator), Jacob K. Javits (senator), James M. Mead (senator), John R. Pillion (congressman), Edmund
P. Radwan (congressman), and Anthony F. Tauriello (congressman).
Subjects discussed in this correspondence include workmen's compensation, the Condon-Wadlin Bill, apprenticeship standards,
New York State health and safety legislation, unemployment insurance, anti-discrimination and anti-labor legislation,
civil rights, conservation, housing, wage legislation and price control, taxes, social security, the Missouri Valley Authority
and the St. Lawrence Seaway project.
Also included in these records are correspondence and other documents relating to the GBIUC's activities with the Congress
of Industrial Organizations, labor groups around the world and various Buffalo, N.Y. and regional social organizations
(ca. 1940's-1950's).
Names:
Bauer, Stanley J.
Capchant, Homer (Homer Earl)
Devlin, Frederick T.
Dowd, Bernard J.
Gorski, Chester C.
Harriman, Averell, 1891-1986
Ives, Irving McNeil, 1896-1962.
Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986
Mahoney, Walter J., 1908-1982
Mead, James M.
Pillion, John R.
Radwan, E.P. (Edmund P.)
Tauriello, Anthony F.
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education
Bell Aircraft Company
CIO Council (N.Y.)
Greater Buffalo Industrial Union Council (CIO)
International Union, United Automobile Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (A.F. of L.)
International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)
National Carbon Company
New York (State). Department of Labor.
New York (State). Legislature. Assembly.
New York State CIO Council
Remington Rand, inc.
United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America
United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947.
Subjects:
Foreign workers--United States.
Anti-communist movements--United States.
Civil rights--New York (State)
Cost and standard of living--United States.
Employment stabilization--United States.
Guaranteed annual income--United States.
Hours of labor--United States.
Industrial hygiene--United States.
Industrial safety--United States.
Insurance, Disability--New York (State)
Unemployment Insurance--New York (State)
Labor laws and legislation--New York (State)
Labor laws and legislation--United States.
Sales tax--New York (State)
Social security--United States.
Strikes and lockouts--New York (State)
Tax collection--New York (State)
Labor unions--New York (State)--Buffalo--Political activity.
Labor unions--New York (State)--Political activity.
Labor unions--United States--Political activity.
Veterans--Employment--United States.
Workers' compensation--New York (State)
Housing. New York (State). Law and legislation.
Health Insurance. Law and legislation. United States.
Open and closed shop. Law and legislation. New York (State)
Race discrimination. Law and legislation. United States.
Runaway shops. United States.
Strikes and lockouts. Aircraft industry. United States.
Strikes and lockouts. Coal mining industry. United States.
Strikes and lockouts. Electronic industries. United States.
Trade-union merger. New York (State). Buffalo.
Trade-unions. New York (State). Local unions.
Trade-unions. New York (State). Niagara Falls. Jurisdictional disputes.
Wages. County employees. United States.
Wages. Minimum wage. United States.
Geographic Subjects:
United States. Public works.
Form and Genre Terms:
Records (documents)
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Greater Buffalo Industrial Union Council Records #5254. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell
University Library.
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Box 1 | Folder 15 | 1951 | |
Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1941-1964 | |
Box 1 | Folder 28 | 1949 | |
Box 1 | Folder 27 | 1942-1944 | |
Box 1 | Folder 26 | 1957 | |
Box 1 | Folder 25 | 1947 | |
Box 1 | Folder 24 | 1945 | |
Aug. 6th - Nov. 12th
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Box 1 | Folder 23 | 1947-1958 | |
Box 1 | Folder 22 | 1946 | |
Box 1 | Folder 21 | 1947 | |
Box 1 | Folder 20 | 1949 | |
Box 1 | Folder 19 | 1952 | |
Box 1 | Folder 18 | 1946 | |
Box 1 | Folder 30 | 1949 | |
Box 1 | Folder 16 | 1948 | |
Box 1 | Folder 31 | 1948 | |
Box 1 | Folder 14 | 1949 | |
Box 1 | Folder 13 | 1952 | |
Box 1 | Folder 12 | 1958 | |
Box 1 | Folder 11 | 1953-1955 | |
Box 1 | Folder 10 | 1954 | |
Box 1 | Folder 9 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 8 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 7 | 1947 | |
Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1951 | |
Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1947-1949 | |
Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1945-1947 | |
Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1944-1952 | |
Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1945-1949 | |
Box 1 | Folder 17 | 1947 | |
Box 1 | Folder 45 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 59 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 58 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 57 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 56 | 1949 | |
Box 1 | Folder 55 | 1947 | |
Box 1 | Folder 54 | 1946 | |
Box 1 | Folder 53 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 52 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 51 | 1949 | |
Box 1 | Folder 50 | 1947 | |
Box 1 | Folder 49 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 48 | 1950 | |
Box 1 | Folder 29 | 1950-1952 | |
Box 1 | Folder 46 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 60 | 1950-1958 | |
Box 1 | Folder 44 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 43 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 42 | 1952-1958 | |
Box 1 | Folder 41 | 1955-1957 | |
Box 1 | Folder 40 | 1943 | |
Box 1 | Folder 39 | 1945 | |
April 23rd - Oct. 29th
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Box 1 | Folder 38 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 37 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 36 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 35 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 34 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 33 | 1946-1958 | |
Box 1 | Folder 32 | 1950 | |
Box 1 | Folder 47 | 1946 | |
Box 2 | Folder 12 | 1953 | |
Box 2 | Folder 1 | 1939-1940 | |
Box 2 | Folder 23 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 22 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 21 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 20 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 19 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 18 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 17 | 1958 | |
Box 2 | Folder 16 | 1957 | |
Box 2 | Folder 15 | 1956 | |
Box 2 | Folder 25 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 13 | 1954 | |
Box 2 | Folder 26 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 11 | 1952 | |
Box 2 | Folder 10 | 1951 | |
Box 2 | Folder 9 | 1950 | |
Box 2 | Folder 8 | 1949 | |
Box 2 | Folder 7 | 1948 | |
Box 2 | Folder 6 | 1947 | |
Box 2 | Folder 5 | 1946 | |
Box 2 | Folder 4 | 1944 | |
Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1946 | |
Box 2 | Folder 2 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 14 | 1955 | |
Box 2 | Folder 37 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 49 | 1948-1950 | |
Box 2 | Folder 48 | 1946-1947 | |
Box 2 | Folder 47 | 1944-1945 | |
Box 2 | Folder 46 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 45 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 44 | 1949 | |
Box 2 | Folder 43 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 42 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 41 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 40 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 24 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 38 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 50 | 1951-1958 | |
Box 2 | Folder 36 | 1946-1957 | |
Box 2 | Folder 35 | 1945 | |
September
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Box 2 | Folder 34 | 1945 | |
January
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Box 2 | Folder 33 | 1945 | |
January
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Box 2 | Folder 32 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 31 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 30 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 29 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 28 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 27 | ||
Box 2 | Folder 39 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 12 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 1 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 23 | 1958 | |
Box 3 | Folder 22 | 1957 | |
Box 3 | Folder 21 | 1955 | |
Box 3 | Folder 20 | 1954 | |
Box 3 | Folder 19 | 1953 | |
Box 3 | Folder 18 | 1948 | |
Box 3 | Folder 17 | 1947 | |
Box 3 | Folder 16 | 1946 | |
Box 3 | Folder 15 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 25 | 1955-1958 | |
Box 3 | Folder 13 | 1949-1957 | |
Box 3 | Folder 26 | 1945-1952 | |
Box 3 | Folder 11 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 10 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 9 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 8 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 7 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 6 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 5 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 4 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 3 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 2 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 14 | 1945-1948 | |
Box 3 | Folder 37 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 49 | 1956-1958 | |
Box 3 | Folder 48 | 1954-1955 | |
Box 3 | Folder 47 | 1948-1951 | |
Box 3 | Folder 46 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 45 | 1946 | |
Box 3 | Folder 44 | 1951 | |
Box 3 | Folder 43 | 1954 | |
Box 3 | Folder 42 | 1958 | |
Box 3 | Folder 41 | 1958 | |
Box 3 | Folder 40 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 24 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 38 | 1949 | |
Box 3 | Folder 50 | 1945-1947 | |
Box 3 | Folder 36 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 35 | 1941-1942 | |
Box 3 | Folder 34 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 33 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 32 | 1958 | |
Box 3 | Folder 31 | 1952 | |
Box 3 | Folder 30 | 1948 | |
Box 3 | Folder 29 | 1947 | |
Box 3 | Folder 28 | 1946 | |
Box 3 | Folder 27 | 1955-1958 | |
Box 3 | Folder 39 | 1945-1954 | |
Box 4 | Folder 11 | 1946-1947 | |
Box 4 | Folder 21 | 1945 | |
Box 4 | Folder 20 | 1947-1948 | |
Box 4 | Folder 19 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 18 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 17 | 1945-1946 | |
Box 4 | Folder 16 | 1948-1953 | |
Box 4 | Folder 15 | 1954-1955 | |
Box 4 | Folder 14 | 1950-1953 | |
Box 4 | Folder 1 | 1954 | |
Box 4 | Folder 12 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 24 | 1953-1958 | |
Box 4 | Folder 10 | 1950-1953 | |
Box 4 | Folder 9 | 1946-1948 | |
Box 4 | Folder 8 | 1954-1955 | |
Box 4 | Folder 7 | 1948 | |
Box 4 | Folder 6 | 1950 | |
Box 4 | Folder 5 | 1946-1947 | |
Box 4 | Folder 4 | 1950 | |
Box 4 | Folder 3 | 1946-1949 | |
Box 4 | Folder 2 | 1955 | |
Box 4 | Folder 13 | 1947-1949 | |
Box 4 | Folder 33 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 44 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 43 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 42 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 41 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 40 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 39 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 38 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 37 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 36 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 22 | 1947-1948 | |
Box 4 | Folder 34 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 23 | 1946 | |
Box 4 | Folder 32 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 31 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 30 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 29 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 28 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 27 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 26 | 1951 | |
Box 4 | Folder 25 | 1948-1950 | |
Box 4 | Folder 45 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 35 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 13 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 1 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 24 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 23 | 1958 | |
Box 5 | Folder 22 | 1957 | |
Box 5 | Folder 21 | 1953-1954 | |
Box 5 | Folder 20 | 1951-1952 | |
Box 5 | Folder 19 | 1949 | |
Box 5 | Folder 18 | 1948 | |
Box 5 | Folder 17 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 16 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 26 | 1949 | |
Box 5 | Folder 14 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 27 | 1949 | |
May to June
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Box 5 | Folder 12 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 11 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 10 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 9 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 8 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 7 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 6 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 5 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 4 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 3 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 2 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 15 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 39 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 51 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 50 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 49 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 48 | 1957 | |
Box 5 | Folder 47 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 46 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 45 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 44 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 43 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 42 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 25 | 1949 | |
Box 5 | Folder 40 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 52 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 38 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 37 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 36 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 35 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 34 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 33 | 1949 | |
Box 5 | Folder 32 | ||
Box 5 | Folder 31 | 1957 | |
Box 5 | Folder 30 | 1958 | |
Box 5 | Folder 29 | 1949 | |
August to November
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Box 5 | Folder 28 | 1949 | |
July
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Box 5 | Folder 41 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 8 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 1 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 14 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 13 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 12 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 11 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 16 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 9 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 17 | 1943-1949 | |
Box 6 | Folder 7 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 6 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 5 | 1946 | |
Box 6 | Folder 4 | 1947 | |
Box 6 | Folder 3 | 1948-1959 | |
Box 6 | Folder 2 | 1943-1945 | |
Box 6 | Folder 10 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 24 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 31 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 30 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 29 | 1945-1948 | |
Box 6 | Folder 28 | 1943-1944 | |
Box 6 | Folder 27 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 15 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 25 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 33 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 23 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 22 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 21 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 20 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 19 | ||
Box 6 | Folder 18 | 1954-1959 | |
Box 6 | Folder 26 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 10 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 20 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 19 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 18 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 17 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 16 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 15 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 14 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 13 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 1 | 1946-1949 | |
Box 7 | Folder 11 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 23 | 1950-1958 | |
Box 7 | Folder 9 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 8 | 1953-1957 | |
Box 7 | Folder 7 | 1953-1957 | |
Box 7 | Folder 6 | 1949-1952 | |
Box 7 | Folder 5 | 1945-1946 | |
Box 7 | Folder 4 | 1940-1944 | |
Box 7 | Folder 3 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 2 | 1951-1957 | |
Box 7 | Folder 12 | 1948-1949 | |
Box 7 | Folder 32 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 42 | 1946 | |
Box 7 | Folder 41 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 40 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 39 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 38 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 37 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 36 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 35 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 21 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 33 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 22 | 1945-1949 | |
Box 7 | Folder 31 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 30 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 29 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 28 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 27 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 26 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 25 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 24 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 43 | 1958 | |
Dec. 22nd
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Box 7 | Folder 34 |