Title: James Lindahl Collection

Genre: Papers,                

Dates: 1937-1953      

Size  : 6 linear feet

Number: 1061            

OCLC #:                

Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor & Urban Affairs

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Scope & Contents

James Lindahl was born in Detroit in 1911.  He served as Recording Secretary for the UAW-CIO Packard Local 190 and edited its newspaper in the 1930s and 1940s.  Mr. Lindahl left the local in 1951 feeling that the labor movement no longer had a place for him.  He earned a Master's degree from Wayne State University in Sociology in 1954 and later earned his living as a self-employed publisher in the Detroit area in various fields including retail, banking, and medicine. 

The James Lindahl Collection contains proceedings, reports, newspaper clippings, and election information pertaining to the UAW-CIO and its Packard Local 190 from the 1930s into the early 1950s.  It also contains Mr. Lindahl's graduate school papers on local union membership and participation.

Subjects

UAW-CIO Packard Local 190          

Ku Klux Klan

Union membership

Packard Motor Car Company

Transfers

Approximately 12 union contracts and by-laws were transferred to the Archives Library.

 

Series Statement

6 Storage Boxes

General files, 1937-1953, Boxes 1-6

 

Contents

[Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Box5] [Box6]

[Box 1]

     1.  Packard; Disputes, 1946-50

     2. Plant (printed material), 1940-50

     3. Company contracts with Local 190

     4. Local Right Wing campaigns, 1937-51

     5. Unity Caucus, 1937-39

     6. clippings, 1947-59

     7.  LU 190; Caucus minutes, 1938-51

     8.  Special meetings, 1948-50

     9.     Homer Martin Progressive Caucus, 1937-39

    10.    Murdock Caucus, 1939-43

    11.    Unity Caucus, 1937-39

    12.    Urban Caucus, 1946-51

    13.  Labor-related clippings, 1941-66

    14.  LU 190; East Side Region Caucus, 1947

    15.  UAW-CIO; Committees, 1943

    16.    Education Meetings, 1940-50

    17.    Executive Board Recommendations, 1940-49

    18.  LU 190; Membership minutes, 1937-43

    19.    Executive election, 1947

    20.    Membership minutes, 1946-51

    21.    Resolutions, 1938-45

    22.    Membership participation, 1937-51

    23.    Union participation, 1937-51

    24.    Election, 1952

    25.    Election results, 1938-50

    26.    Chief stewards, 1939-50

    27.    minutes, 1939-50

    28.    Steward's list, 1938-40

    29.    District Stewards, 1942-50

    30.    Election slates; Local 190, 1937-39

    31.    Guaranteed annual wages, 1950-55

    32.    Local 190 by-laws, 1940-50

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[Box 2]

        1.  Michigan CIO Labor Council News Service, 1947-48

       2-3.  UAW-CIO negotiations, 1937-48

        4.  UAW-CIO International Executive Board (IEB) minutes, 1936-48

        5.  UAW letters/CIO Political Action Committee Newsletter, 1936-56

       6-7.  UAW-CIO conventions, 1937-42

        8. paperwork/files, 1935-55

        9. News Release, 1940-50

    10. "Voice of the CIO" Broadcast, 1936-42

    11.  UAW-CIO letters, reports, 1938-51

    12.    pension plans for Ford, Stesard, Packard, 1950

    13.    resolutions, to the IEB, 1938-51

    14.    meetings of the IEB, 1938-51

    15.    grievance notices, 1948-52

    16.  Legislation, 1940-50

    17.  UAW-CIO election sheets, tallies, 1942-47

    18.    quotations, 1938-39

    19.    Committees, 1938-51

    20.  International Union Workers; memos and corr., 1935-42

 21-22.  UAW-CIO memos and corr., 1935-42

[Box 3]

        1.  Negro discrimination clippings, 1935-51

        2.  UAW clippings, 1937-50

        3.  Carbon Copy, 1941-47 News Flash, 1946-48 PAC, 1946-48

        4.  Far Eastern Survey, 1945-47

        5.  The Hour, 1941-43

       6-7.  In Fact, 1944-48

        8.  "Research Bulletin," 1940-41

        9.  Ku Klux Klan; clippings, letters, agreements, 1930-50

    10.  United Automobile Worker, 1940-50

    11.  Packard Local 190 newspaper, 1939-56

    12.  Citizen CIO Vote Labor, 1937-49

    13.  Detroit Free Press clipping, 1943

    14.  Detroit News clippings, 1937-43

    15.  Local 190 newspaper clippings, 1937-63

    16.  Leaflets, 1944-48

    17.  Flyers, bulletins, comics, 1930-53

    18. "PAC Pipeline," bulletins, 1946-48

    19.  Work to Win newspaper, 1942

    20.  Detroit Times, 1942-50

 21-22.  Clippings and comics, 1939-49

 23-24.  Flyers and bulletins, 1930-53

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[Box 4]

        1.  UAW Washington's Newsflash, 1943-44

        2.  PAC Political Action, 1940-49

        3.  The Score labor mag., 1947-49

        4.  Packard Local 190, Local Union Election Slates, 1945-47

        5.  Clippings and letter, 1938-53

        6.  CIO Pamphlets; John Lewis, 1945-47

        7.  Packard Local 190; Executive Board minutes, 1936-46

        8.  History of Trade Unions in Russia, 1944

        9.  Local 190 leaflets, 1935-51

    10.    EB minutes, 1947-51

    11.  UAW-CIO corr. to local unions, 1937-46

    12.  International UAW Research Bulletin, 1941-44

    13.  International Union UAW-CIO communications, 1940-49

    14.  Packard Motor Car Co., 1937-53

[Box 5]

        1.  Bargaining Bulletin for Chrysler Workers, 196164

        2.  War Policy Division Bulletin, 1942-43

        3.  UAW-CIO Administrative Newsletter, 1948-50

        4.  "Some Institutional Factors in Union Decision Making," by J. Lindahl, 1953

        5.  "Membership participation in a Local Union," by J. Lindahl, 1954

        6.  "An Ecological Study of Seniority Workers," by J. Lindahl, 1954

        7.  "Processes of Decision-Making in a Local Union," J. Lindahl M.A. thesis, 1954

        8.  "The Union Official as an Urban Type," by J. Lindahl, 1953

        9.  KKK letters to members, 1940-41

 10-11.  Buehrle v. Murdock proceedings, 1942

    12.  Ford Motor Co. NLRB cases, 1940

    13. "Bases of Future Labor-Mgt. Cooperation," paper of Lindahl, 1952

 14-15.  LU 190 Grievance notices, 1947-50

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[Box 6]

         Pamphlets and handbooks published by, and relating to, the UAW-CIO, 1940s

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