Title: UAW Chrysler Department Collection Type : Records Date : 1938-1985 Size : 102 linear feet ID #: 106-uaw OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs HEFA.01d.update |
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Scope & Contents
A May, 1938 Walter Reuther proposal led to the creation of separate UAW departments to service union members employed by the major automobile manufacturers. General Executive Board Member Richard T. Frankensteen became the UAW Chrysler Department’s first director, after having helped to negotiate the UAW’s contract with the Chrysler Corporation following the tumultuous sit-down strikes of 1937.
Since Frankensteen’s departure as department director in 1940, Leo LaMotte, Emil Mazey, Norman Matthews, Douglas Fraser and Marc Stepp have headed the UAW’s Chrysler Department, which is responsible for planning, developing, negotiating, and administering collective bargaining agreements for Chrysler workers in the United States and Canada.
In 1953, Chrysler purchased Briggs Manufacturing, and five years later the UAW Chrysler Department merged with the Briggs UAW Council. From the 1940s until his retirement in 1978, Arthur Hughes acted as either administrative assistant or assistant director of the Chrysler Department, and many of the files that comprise this collection, containing correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, grievances, contract negotiations and convention material, clippings and other publications, emanated from his office.
Afro-American automobile industry workers
Automobile industry workers--Canada
Automobile industry workers--Health and hygiene
Chrysler Corporation
Collective bargaining--Automobile industry--United States
Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)
Eldon Revolutionary Union Movement (ELRUM)
Factories--Safety measures
Grievance arbitration--United States
Pensions--United States
Plant shutdowns--United States
Retirees--United States
Skilled labor--United States
Strikes and lockouts--Automobile industry--United States
Supplemental unemployment benefits--United States
Trade-unions--Organizing--United States
Trade unions and communism--United States
UAW--Community Action Program
United States.--National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
United States.--War Production Board
George Addes
Richard Frankensteen
Douglas Fraser
Arthur Hughes
Leo LaMotte
Norman Matthews
Emil Mazey
Walter Reuther
Marc Stepp
A large number of books, contracts and newspapers have been transferred to the Archives Library, and some photographs and political campaign memorabilia have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection.
Contents [Large Files]
102 storage boxes
Series I, General Subject Files, 1938-1988, Boxes 1-18, To Series Index
Series II, Local Files, 1941-1984, Boxes 18-29, To Series Index
Series III, Negotiations & Grievances Files, 1939-1985, Boxes 30-102, To Series Index
PLEASE NOTE: Folders are computer-arranged alphabetically within each series in this finding aid, but may actually be dispersed throughout several boxes in the collection. Note carefully the box number for each folder heading.