International Typographical Union, No. 15 (Rochester, NY) Records on Microfilm, 1872-1980
Collection Number: 5667 mf
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
International Typographical Union No. 15 (Rochester, NY) Records on Microfilm, 1872-1980
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5667 mf
Abstract:
Meeting minutes, papers and correspondence
Creator:
International Typographical Union (ITU)
Quanitities:
0.67 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The International Typographical Union (ITU) was an US trade union for the printing
trade for newspapers and other media. It was founded on May 3rd, 1852 in the United
States as the National Typographical Union, and changed its name to the International
Typographical Union in 1869 after it began organizing members in Canada.
ITU President W.B. Prescott led the ITU in 1897 to win a 48-hour work week and a
standard wage scale for all printers. During the Great Depression, the ITU introduced
the 40-hour work week across the industry at no cost to employers as a way to share
the fewer jobs available. That ITU initiative spread to other unions and has since
been codified across the labor sector by federal legislation in the U.S. establishing
the 40-hour work week.
As the work of typographers' declined with automation, computers and mechanization
of the print media, the ITU was disbanded. In 1986, a majority of ITU mailers voted
to merge with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the remaining typographers
joined the Communications Workers of America. Before its dissolution, the ITU was
the oldest union in the United States.
A negative copy is available upon request.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
International Typographical Union, No. 15 (Rochester, NY) Records on Microfilm #5667
mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
Related Collections: 5345: International Typographical Union, Local 6 Legal Files 5436: International Typographical Union Local 252 (Binghamton, NY) Minutes and Related
Papers 5811: International Typographical Union Local 62 (Utica, NY) Minute Book 5957: International Typographical Union Local 6 Strike Clipping File
Names:
International Typographical Union of North America.
International Typographical Union of North America. Local 15 (Rochester, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Labor unions -- New York (State) -- Rochester
CONTAINER LIST
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Date
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Series I: Meeting Minutes, Papers and Correspondence
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Reel 1 | 1 |
1872-1878
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Reel 1 | 2 |
1898-1907
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Reel 2 | 1 |
1980-August 1916
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Reel 2 | 2 |
Sept., 1916-April, 1924
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Reel 3 | 1 |
May, 1924-1929
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Reel 3 | 2 |
1930-1932
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Reel 4 | 1 |
1933-1934
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Reel 4 | 2 |
1935-1936
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Reel 4 | 3 |
1938-1939
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Reel 4 | 4 |
1940-1940
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Reel 4 | 5 |
1942-1943
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Reel 4 | 6 |
1944-1945
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Reel 4 | 7 |
1946-1947
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Reel 4 | 8 |
1948-1950
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Reel 4 | 9 |
1951-1953
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Reel 5 | 1 |
1954-1957
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Reel 6 | 1 |
1958-1959
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Reel 6 | 2 |
1960
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Reel 6 | 3 |
1962
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Reel 6 | 4 |
1963
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Reel 6 | 5 |
1964
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Reel 6 | 6 |
1965
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Reel 6 | 7 |
1966
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Reel 6 | 8 |
1967
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Reel 6 | 9 |
1970
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Reel 6 | 10 |
1971
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Reel 6 | 11 |
1972
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Reel 6 | 12 |
1973
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Reel 6 | 13 |
1974
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Reel 6 | 14 |
1975
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Reel 6 | 15 |
1976-1977
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Reel 6 | 16 |
1978-1979
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Series II: Executive Board Minutes
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Reel 6 | 17 |
1923-May, 1924
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Reel 6 | 18 |
June 1924 -1928
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Reel 6 | 19 |
1931
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Reel 6 | 20 |
1933-1939
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