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
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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INFORMATION FOR USERS
AFT Local 2 Records #5279. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives,
Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5015: Teachers Union of the City of New York Records 5019: AFT Executive Council Transcript of Hearing of Local 5 5020: AFT Executive Council Transcript of Hearing of Local 537 5279: AFT Local 2 Records 5417 mf: AFT Local 2 Scrapbook on Microfilm 5845: AFT Local 616 (Rochester, NY) Federation of Classroom Teachers Records
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
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Report of the Spirit - (Factionalism)
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Executive Board resigns
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Progressive Group - Factionalism pre-1935
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Other Local unions comments on the Split
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Controversy in 1935
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Most essential documents in the local #5 history
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Split and reorganization
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Material re: Split
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Split: Clippings, Trail Reports, etc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Factionalism
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1935 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Clippings on the Split
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Split - preservation of local #5
|
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| 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
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Committee of 100 - For union defense
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Statement before AFT Executive Board on Local #2 factionalism
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Linville, CCNY attack on
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Defense of union
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
CIO organization of teachers
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Guild constitution and bylaws
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Folder on history of Local #5 - Local #2 relationship
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Membership applications
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Membership campaign material
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Membership committee - Henry Hillson, Chairman
|
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Membership list of Guild
|
1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Membership resignations, deaths, expelled book
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Membership resignations
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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
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Material for Local #5 ouster
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1940 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Organizing Committee
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Organizing propaganda, Guild - Folder #1
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Organizing propaganda, Guild - Folder #2
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Organizing propaganda, Guild - Folder #3
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Policy and bylaws
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Provisional committee
|
1941 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Songs and the guild (and other)
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Membership drive
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1950 |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Membership resignation
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1948-1949 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Communists and Left Wingers in Local #5
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Communism and socialism
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
The Communist Teachers Issue - Folder #2
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Communist tactics in a trade union HR Linville
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
The Communist Teachers Issue - Folder #1
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| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Pre and post trial correspondence
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1932-1933 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
The Communist Teachers Issue - Folder #3
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
McCarthy censure file
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Congressional investigation - Communism
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1952 |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Daily Work clippings on the union split
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Communism - various news articles and correspondence
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Independent group in the teachers union (Trotskyites)
|
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| Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Feinberg questionnaire
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| Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Feinberg subversive folder
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| Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Left-Wing material
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Election of officers
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1948 |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Election of officers
|
1949 |
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Scope and Contents
including Executive Board
|
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| 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.
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| Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Souvenir Journal
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1954-1956 |
| Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Meeting reports
|
1942 |
| Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Mrs. Rebecca Simonson - President of Guild
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Scope and Contents
Resume, correspondence, etc.
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| 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
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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
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence, etc
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| 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
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Adult elementary school teachers chapter
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Clerks chapter
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Trade teachers group
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Westinghouse teachers guild
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Dieticians chapter
|
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| 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
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Legislative Program
|
1939 |
|
Scope and Contents
Dr. Lefkowitz
|
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| 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
|
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| Box 4 | Folder 26 |
College Affairs Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Code of Conduct - Ethics
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Code of Ethic Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Coordinating Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Democratic Human Relations Committee (AFT)
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Democratization of School Administration Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Educational Policies Committee (Wartime Curriculum)
|
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| 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
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Elementary School Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Emergency Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Equality in Education Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Expansion Fund Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Joint Committee of Teachers Organization
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Guild Committee (General List of)
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Jewish Labor Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 18 |
Junior High School Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 19 |
Juvenile Delinquency Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 20 |
High School Affairs Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 21 |
Labor and Community Relations Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 22 |
Labor Committee on Schools
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 23 |
Laboratory Assistants Committee
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 24 |
Librarians Committee [fodler 1 of 2]
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| Box 5 | Folder 25 |
Librarian's Committee [folder 2 of 2]
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| Box 5 | Folder 26 |
Library Committee (May Dunn)
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| Box 5 | Folder 27 |
Membership Committee (correspondence)
|
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| Box 5 | Folder 28 |
Mental Hygiene Committee
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| Box 6 | Folder 1a |
Pension Committee
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Scope and Contents
3 folders
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| Box 6 | Folder 1b |
Pension Committee
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 1c |
Pension Committee
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Pension Committee - Mr. Louis Goldman
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Problem Areas Committee
|
1942 |
|
Scope and Contents
Joint TG & TGA
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| Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Professional Problems, Advisory Committee on
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Reorganization Committee
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Resolution Committee
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Sex Education Committee
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Shower Attendants Committee
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Social Committee
|
1947-1948 |
| Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Slow-Learner Committee
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 11 |
Supervision, Report of Committee on
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Scope and Contents
included is a 192 page report titled: "Supervision in the Elementary Schools"
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| Box 6 | Folder 12 |
Taxation and Finance Committee
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 13 |
Teachers Interest Committee
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 14 |
Veterans Committee
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 15 |
Vocational Committee - Lawsuit
|
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| 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
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 26 |
Academic Freedom Committee - Current Folder
|
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| Box 6 | Folder 27 |
Academic Freedom Committee - Documents of Committee
|
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| 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.)
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Advisory Committee on Teachers Salaries
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Meyer Committee on Teachers Salaries
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Board of Education: Salary Schedules
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Report on teachers Salaries
|
1947 |
| Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Campaign for single salary
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Barnett, Sidney - Academic Freedom Committee Chairman
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Re: Hammond - Morgan Law
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| Box 7 | Folder 12a |
Loyalty oath material
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Scope and Contents
2 large folders
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| Box 7 | Folder 12b |
Loyalty oath material
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| Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Membership Material and dismissal cases
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Academic Freedom Committee Minutes and agenda of meetings
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 15 |
National Academic Freedom Committee
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 16 |
National Academic Freedom Committee, AFT
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 17 |
Academic Freedom Committee - other organizations
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 18 |
Principles of Academic Freedom
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 19a |
Re: Rapp-Coudert Investigation - clippings
|
1941 |
|
Scope and Contents
2 folders
|
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| Box 7 | Folder 19b |
Re: Rapp-Coudert Investigation - clippings
|
1941 |
| Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Recommendations and reports for a better system vol. #1
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Recommendations and reports for a better system vol. #1
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Teachers Examination Committee - correspondence
|
1948-1955 |
| Box 8 | Folder 4 |
Applications for teaching license
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 5 |
General petition and resolutions
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Brameld, Theodore - case
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 7 |
Champlain College
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Hartmann, George - case
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 9 |
Gioia, Andrew O. - case
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| Box 8 | Folder 10 |
Dushane, Eleanor - case
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| Box 8 | Folder 11 |
Gutride, Minnie - case
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| Box 8 | Folder 12 |
Civil and academic rights
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 13 |
Mandell, Benjamin - case (Re: recall, etc.)
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| Box 8 | Folder 14 |
Lenz, Harold - case
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| Box 8 | Folder 15 |
Problems and grievances
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1934-1935 |
| Box 8 | Folder 16 |
Rubin, Isadore - case
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 17 |
Lanzer, Irving R. - case (Swadesh - City College)
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| Box 8 | Folder 18 |
Klein, Henry - case
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| Box 8 | Folder 19 |
Heitner, Louis - grievance case
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| Box 8 | Folder 20 |
Weyler, David - case
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 21 |
Predergast, Laurence E. - case
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| 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.
|
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| Box 8 | Folder 26 |
Miscellaneous problems: equalizing hours, retention of substitutes, day-care nurseries
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 1 |
Absences
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 2 |
Accident insurance
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 3 |
Campaign for Louis Goldman
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 4 |
Campaign for Rudolf Holley (Pres. of NYC Council)
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 5 |
Campaign for Vincent Kassenbrock
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 6 |
Capital building projects
|
1924-1947 |
| Box 9 | Folder 7 |
Cost of living material
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 8 |
Democratic human relations
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 9 |
Dewey, John (biographical material)
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 10 |
End term clerical work
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 11 |
Equalization of hours (vocational schools)
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 12 |
Excessing of teachers
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 13 |
Feinberg law - salaries
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 14 |
HRLP Fund - Henry Linville Pension Fund
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 15 |
In-Service courses
|
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| Box 9 | Folder 16a |
Lincoln school
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Scope and Contents
2 folders
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| Box 9 | Folder 16b |
Lincoln school
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Scope and Contents
2 folders
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| Box 9 | Folder 17 |
Membership meetings
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| Box 9 | Folder 18 |
Nation magazine ban (correspondence, et al.)
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| Box 9 | Folder 19 |
Peace education: conference on
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1937 |
| Box 9 | Folder 20 |
Publicity, clippings
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| Box 9 | Folder 21 |
Quinn-Issacs Bill
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| Box 9 | Folder 22 |
Questionnaire - sent out by Ray R. Peck (controversy over authorization)
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| Box 9 | Folder 23 |
Questionnaire on rating system
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| Box 9 | Folder 24 |
Criticism of Mayor LaGuardia
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| Box 9 | Folder 25 |
Radio programs
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| Box 9 | Folder 26 |
Recognition issue (by Board of Education)
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| Box 9 | Folder 27 |
Special subjects teachers
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| Box 9 | Folder 28 |
Speeches (on various topics)
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| Box 9 | Folder 29 |
Selection of a superintendent
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| Box 9 | Folder 30 |
Substitutes
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| Box 9 | Folder 31 |
Supervisor members (Discussion on)
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1952 |
| Box 9 | Folder 32 |
Taxation and finance - information
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| Box 9 | Folder 33 |
Teaching as a profession
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| Box 9 | Folder 34 |
Teachers Guild - union finance
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| Box 9 | Folder 35 |
Vocational schools
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| Box 9 | Folder 36 |
Youthbuilders
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| Box 9A | Folder 1 |
Publicity, Clippings
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| Box 9A | Folder 2 |
Questionnaire
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Scope and Contents
Sent out by Ray R. Peck. Controversy over authorization
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| Box 9A | Folder 3 |
Questionnaire on Rating System
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| Box 9A | Folder 4 |
Criticism of Mayor LaGuardia
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| Box 9A | Folder 5 |
"Recognition" Issue
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Scope and Contents
By Board of Education
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| Box 9A | Folder 6 |
Radio Programs
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| Box 9A | Folder 7 |
Special 'Subjects' Teachers
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| Box 9A | Folder 8 |
Speeches
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Scope and Contents
On various topics
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| Box 9A | Folder 9 |
Substitutes
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| Box 9A | Folder 10 |
Teachers' Guild: Union Finances
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| Box 9A | Folder 11 |
Selection of a Superintendent
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| Box 9A | Folder 12 |
Discussion on Supervisor Members
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1952 |
| Box 9A | Folder 13 |
Taxation and Finance Information [folder 1 of 2]
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| Box 9A | Folder 14 |
Taxation and Finance Information [folder 2 of 2]
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| Box 9A | Folder 15 |
Teaching as a Profession
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| Box 9A | Folder 16 |
Vocational Schools
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| Box 10 | Folder 1 |
Federal aid - the crisis in education
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| Box 10 | Folder 2 |
Federal aid to education - volume #1
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| Box 10 | Folder 3 |
Federal aid to education - volume #1
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| Box 10 | Folder 4 |
Federal aid - general correspondence
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| Box 10 | Folder 5 |
State aid to education
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| Box 10 | Folder 6 |
Financial aid to education - state aid
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| Box 10 | Folder 7a |
State aid - taxation and finance
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Scope and Contents
2 folders
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| Box 10 | Folder 7b |
State aid - taxation and finance
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Scope and Contents
2 folders
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| Box 10 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence with State Legislators (Re: state aid to education)
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| Box 10 | Folder 9 |
Taxation for education - general, miscellaneous
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| Box 10 | Folder 10 |
Committee on Religious instruction
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| Box 10 | Folder 11 |
Teaching religious education
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| Box 10 | Folder 12 |
Religion in the schools - Folder #1
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| Box 10 | Folder 13 |
Religion in the schools
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| Box 10 | Folder 14 |
Religion in education
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| Box 10 | Folder 15 |
Religious instruction: Committee, correspondence
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1937-1940 |
| Box 10 | Folder 16 |
Religious Released Time #1
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| Box 10 | Folder 17 |
Released Time #2
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| Box 11 | Folder 1 |
AFT Executive Board - National
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| Box 11 | Folder 2 |
AFT Materials to and from other locals
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| Box 11 | Folder 3 |
AFT correspondence with locals
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| Box 11 | Folder 4 |
AFT News, Press and publicity bulletins
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| Box 11 | Folder 5 |
AFT national miscellaneous folder
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| Box 11 | Folder 6 |
Folder on Eklund, John (Pres.)
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| Box 11 | Folder 7 |
Folders (2) on Kuensli, Irving R. (Sec.-Treas., AFT)
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| Box 11 | Folder 8 |
Folder on Megel, Carl (Pres.)
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| Box 11 | Folder 9 |
Folder on Selden, David (AFT Field Representative)
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| Box 11 | Folder 10 |
Folder on Mrs. Chas. Shipman
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| Box 11 | Folder 11 |
Folder on Mrs. Rebeca Simonson
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| Box 11 | Folder 12 |
Delegates Assembly Minutes
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1938 |
| Box 11 | Folder 13 |
AFT Conventions
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1941 |
| Box 11 | Folder 14 |
AFT Conventions
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1954 |
| Box 11 | Folder 15 |
AFT Conventions
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1948 |
| Box 11 | Folder 16 |
AFT Conventions
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1950-1951 |
| Box 11 | Folder 17 |
AFT Conventions
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1957 |
| Box 11 | Folder 18 |
Delegates Assembly Minutes
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1943-1946 |
| Box 11 | Folder 19 |
Delegates Assembly Minutes
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1947-1948 |
| Box 11 | Folder 20 |
Delegates Assembly Minutes
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1947-1948 |
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Scope and Contents
And attendance
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| Box 11 | Folder 21 |
Delegates Assembly Minutes
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1950-1951 |
| Box 11 | Folder 22 |
Delegates Assembly Minutes
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1951-1953 |
| Box 11 | Folder 23 |
Delegates Assembly Minutes
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1954-1955 |
| Box 11 | Folder 24 |
Delegates, general correspondence with
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| Box 11 | Folder 25 |
AFT per capita reports - receipts
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| Box 12 | Folder 1 |
Allied Civil Service Conference
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| Box 12 | Folder 2 |
Central Trades and Labor Council
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| Box 12 | Folder 3 |
Joint Civil Conference and PEA
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1941-1942 |
| Box 12 | Folder 4 |
Local #537, New York College Teachers Union
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| Box 12 | Folder 5 |
Liberal Party
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| Box 12 | Folder 6 |
NY State Department of Labor, Mediation Board
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| Box 12 | Folder 7 |
NY State Education Department
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| Box 12 | Folder 8 |
NY State Federation of Labor
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| Box 12 | Folder 9 |
Public Education Association
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| Box 12 | Folder 10 |
Rand School - Guild Cooperative Course
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| Box 12 | Folder 11 |
Service Bureau for Intercultural Education
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| Box 12 | Folder 12 |
UNESCO and United Nations
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| Box 12 | Folder 13 |
White House Conference
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1951 |
| Box 12 | Folder 14 |
Womens Trade Union League
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| Box 12 | Folder 15 |
World Organization of the Teaching Profession
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| Box 12 | Folder 16 |
Empire State Federation of teachers Unions Correspondence, etc.
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1953 |
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Scope and Contents
Jan. 1953
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| Box 12 | Folder 17 |
Empire State Federation - Miscellaneous
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| Box 12 | Folder 18 |
Empire State Federation of teachers Unions Correspondence, etc.
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1950-1953 |
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Scope and Contents
Sept. 1950-1953
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| Box 12 | Folder 19 |
Empire State Federation of teachers Unions Correspondence
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1948-1950 |
| Box 12 | Folder 20 |
Empire State Federation of teachers Unions Convention
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1947 |
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Scope and Contents
November 8, 9, 1947
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| Box 12 | Folder 21 |
Board of Education correspondence - A - E
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| Box 12 | Folder 22 |
Board of Education correspondence - F - L
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| Box 12 | Folder 23 |
Board of Education correspondence - M - R
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| Box 12 | Folder 24 |
Board of Education correspondence - S - Z
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| Box 12 | Folder 25 |
Board of Education, Miscellaneous
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1948-1950 |
| Box 12 | Folder 26 |
Board of Education, Miscellaneous
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1950-1954 |
| Box 12 | Folder 27 |
Board of Education, Miscellaneous
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1954 |
| Box 12 | Folder 28 |
Board of Education, Budget Correspondence
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| Box 12 | Folder 29 |
Correspondence - Gannon, Edmund J. (Personnel)
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| Box 12 | Folder 30 |
Correspondence - Greenberg, Dr. Jacob (Dept. Supt.)
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| Box 13 | Folder 1 |
AFT Convention resolutions - submitted by the Guild
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| Box 13 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence - Jansen, William (Superintendent)
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| Box 13 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence - Levitt, Arthur (Pres. B of E)
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| Box 13 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence - Moss, Maximillian (Pres. B of E)
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| Box 13 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence - Wade, John E. (Supt. of schools)
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| Box 13 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
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| Box 13 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence with Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia
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| Box 13 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence with Mayor William ODwyer
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| Box 13 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence with miscellaneous elected officials
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| Box 13 | Folder 10a |
Correspondence - Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz
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Scope and Contents
3 folders
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| Box 13 | Folder 10b |
Correspondence - Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz
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| Box 13 | Folder 10c |
Correspondence - Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz
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| Box 13 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence - on Lefkowitz testimonial dinner
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| Box 13 | Folder 12a |
Correspondence - A Mark Levien (Legal Counsel)
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Scope and Contents
3 folders
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| Box 13 | Folder 12b |
Correspondence - A Mark Levien (Legal Counsel)
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| Box 13 | Folder 12c |
Correspondence - A Mark Levien (Legal Counsel)
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| Box 13 | Folder 13 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder B
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| Box 13 | Folder 14 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder C
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| Box 13 | Folder 15 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder D
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| Box 13 | Folder 16 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder E
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| Box 13 | Folder 17 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder G
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| Box 13 | Folder 18 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder H
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| Box 13 | Folder 19 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder I
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| Box 13 | Folder 20 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder L - M
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| Box 13 | Folder 21 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder N
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| Box 13 | Folder 22 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder P
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| Box 13 | Folder 23 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder S
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| Box 13 | Folder 24 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder T
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| Box 13 | Folder 25 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder V
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| Box 13 | Folder 26 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder W
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| Box 13 | Folder 27 |
Miscellaneous Correspondence - Folder X - Z
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| Box 13 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence with NY University Student Council
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| Box 14 | Folder 1 |
News Releases
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1937 |
| Box 14 | Folder 2 |
News Releases
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1940-1941 |
| Box 14 | Folder 3 |
News Releases
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1943-1944 |
| Box 14 | Folder 4 |
News Releases
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1944-1945 |
| Box 14 | Folder 5 |
News Releases
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1947 |
| Box 14 | Folder 6 |
Press Releases
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1948 |
| Box 14 | Folder 7 |
Press Releases
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1950-1954 |
| Box 14 | Folder 8 |
AFT National Office - Bulletins, Releases, etc.
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1946 |
| Box 14 | Folder 9 |
AFT National Office - Bulletins, etc.
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1948 |
| Box 14 | Folder 10 |
Letters to the Editor - NY Sun inter alia
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| Box 14 | Folder 11 |
The Bulletin
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| Box 14 | Folder 12 |
Inside Education
|
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| Box 14 | Folder 13 |
Madison High School Teachers Guild Bulletin
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| Box 14 | Folder 14 |
News from the Guild, Set of
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| Box 14 | Folder 15 |
Past Thirty Days, Complete set
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| Box 14 | Folder 16 |
Washington Newsletter
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| Box 14 | Folder 17 |
The Washington Teacher
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| Box 14 | Folder 18 |
Mimeographed News Letters from NYTG
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| Box 14 | Folder 19 |
AFT General literature
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| Box 14 | Folder 20 |
Pamphlets, miscellaneous
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1940-1941 |
| Box 15 | Folder 1 |
Delegate Reporter - #1-44
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Scope and Contents
to June 1951
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| Box 15 | Folder 2 |
Delegate Reporter - #45-67
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Scope and Contents
to June 1953
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| Box 15 | Folder 3 |
Delegate Reporter - miscellaneous
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| Box 15 | Folder 4 |
New York Sun - Latest News In The Educational World"
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1941 |
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Scope and Contents
various issues in 1941
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| Box 16 | Folder 1 |
New York Sun - Latest News In The Educational World"
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1945 |
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Scope and Contents
all issues of 1945
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| Box 16 | Folder 2 |
Teachers Union News
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1942-1955 |
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Scope and Contents
issues from Sept. 1951-Sept. 30, 1955; various issues from 1942 and 1943
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| Box 16 | Folder 3 |
AFT Local 2 Constitution and releases
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| Box 17 | Folder 1 |
Collection - Material against Board of Educations Informer Resolution
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| Box 17 | Folder 2 |
Scrapbook - clippings
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1946-1947 |
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Scope and Contents
Nov. 1946 - June 1947
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| Box 17 | Folder 3 |
Scrapbook - publicity clippings
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1945 |
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Scope and Contents
general publicity, Karelson resignation - emergency Comm., Quinn case, Colleges
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| Box 17 | Folder 4 |
Scrapbook - newspaper clippings
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1942-1943 |
| Box 17 | Folder 5 |
Scrapbook - Guild publicity
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1941-1942 |
| Box 17 | Folder 6 |
Scrapbook - Membership Drive material
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1936-1938 |
| Box 17 | Folder 7 |
Scrapbook - Teachers Guild Association
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1936-1938 |
| Box 17 | Folder 8 |
Scrapbook - clippings
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1936 |
| Box 17 | Folder 9 |
Scrapbook - Membership Drive material
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1927 |
| Box 17 | Folder 10 |
Scrapbook - clippings
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1923-1925 |
| Box 18 | Folder 1 |
AFT Amendments to National Convention
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| Box 18 | Folder 2 |
AF of T Convention
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1918-1931 |
| Box 18 | Folder 3 |
AFT Correspondence
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1926 |
| Box 18 | Folder 4 |
AFT Federal Aid for Schools
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| Box 18 | Folder 5 |
AFT Philadelphia
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1936 |
| Box 18 | Folder 6 |
AFT Publicity and Literature
|
1938 |
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Scope and Contents
Fall 1938
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| Box 19 | Folder 1 |
AFT Financial Reports
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1920-1931 |
| Box 19 | Folder 2 |
AFT Financial Reports
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1932-1936 |
| Box 19 | Folder 3 |
AFT Financial Reports
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1936-1940 |
| Box 19 | Folder 4 |
AFT Convention, Cedar Pt., OH
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1938 |
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Scope and Contents
Reports/Speeches/etc
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| Box 19 | Folder 5 |
AFT Convention
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1939 |
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Scope and Contents
Aug. 1939
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| Box 19 | Folder 6 |
AFT Conventions
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Scope and Contents
Prior to 1932
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| Box 19 | Folder 7 |
AFT National Convention
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1940 |
| Box 19 | Folder 8 |
AFT Financial Reports
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1920-1940 |
| Box 19 | Folder 9 |
AFT Convention Reports
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Scope and Contents
1920's-1930's
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| Box 20 | Folder 1a |
The American Teacher
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1936-1938 |
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Scope and Contents
3 folders
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| Box 20 | Folder 1b |
The American Teacher
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1936-1938 |
| Box 20 | Folder 1c |
The American Teacher
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1936-1938 |
| Box 20 | Folder 2 |
Publicity & Literature
|
1938 |
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Scope and Contents
Spring 1938
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| Box 20 | Folder 3 |
AFT Releases
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Scope and Contents
no folder
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| Box 21 | Folder 1 |
Arbitration Agreements
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