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Title: FRANK CORMIER AND WILLIAM EATON COLLECTION

Genre: Papers

Date: 1966-1972

Size: 3.75 linear feet

ID#: 1099

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©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Scope & Contents

The papers of Frank Cormier and William Eaton were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in January of 1983 by William Eaton and were opened for research in March of 1987.

Frank Cormier, a native of Massachusetts, was educated at Northwestern University. He began his newspaper career in Chicago in 1951 and in 1954 he was assigned to Washington to cover economic and financial affairs. In 1962 Mr. Cormier began covering the White House and by 1970 had become Senior Wire Service Correspondent. Mr. Cormier has also written, Wall Street Shady Side, and Presidents are People Too.

William Eaton was born in Chicago, Illinois in December of 1930. After earning his B.S. in 1951 and his M.S. in 1952 from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, he began his newspaper career at the City News Bureau of Chicago. In 1857 he began covering labor news for United Press International. From 1966-1976 Mr. Eaton served as Washington Correspondent for the Chicago Daily News after which time he began his current employment at the Los Angeles Times.

In addition, in 1970 Mr. Eaton was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and received the Sidney Hillman Award for his stories concerning the financial interests of Supreme Court nominee Clement F. Haynsworth. William Eaton has also been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University where he studied labor problems, economics, and history.

The papers of Frank Cormier and William Eaton reflect their research and writing of the book Reuther.

Subjects

Politics

Reuther

Walter Reuther

UAW

 

Correspondents

Prentice Hall Publishers

Victor Reuther

Frank Winn

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Transfers

Three photographs which were used as captions for Reuther, and a number of taped

Oral Histories relating to Walter Reuther and the UAW, have been placed in the Archives Audio-Visual Collection. Some of these tapes correspond to the transcripts in Series II. A list of these tapes can be found on page 9. A small number of UAW newspapers and other labor related literature received with this collection are available in the Archives Library.

 

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UAW Collections

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Contents

5.5 manuscript boxes

2 index card boxes

Series I. Boxes 1-2 Series I Box List

Correspondence, clippings, transcripts, and other materials relating to Walter Reuther and the UAW. This material was compiled as a resource for writing the book Reuther. 1966-1970.

Series II. Box 2 Series II Box List

Oral history transcripts relating to Frank Cormier and William Eaton’s interviews with various persons including Walter Reuther. 1967-1970.

Series III. Boxes 4-7 Series III Box List

Correspondence, clippings, and drafts of chapters relating to Frank Cormier and William Eaton’s Reuther. 1968-1972.

 

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Series I

Boxes 1-2

Correspondence, clippings, note cards, transcripts, and other material concerning Walter Reuther and the UAW. This material was gathered for the writing of the book Reuther. Files are arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically within each file.

Box 1, Research

  1. Clippings regarding Walter Reuther, 1966-70
  2. Clippings regarding Walter Reuther, 1966-70
  3. Clippings regarding Walter Reuther, 1966-70
  4. Contract Negotiations Chronology, 1945-67
  5. Miscellaneous material regarding Walter Reuther and the UAW, 1967-68
  6. Miscellaneous material regarding Walter Reuther and the UAW, 1967-68
  7. News Releases regarding research for Reuther, 1967-69
  8. News Releases regarding Walter Reuther and UAW, 1970
  9. Pamphlets; Labor, various dates
  10. Reuther, Walter P., 1969-70
  11. Research, 1937-70

Box 1A, Research

Note Cards; Research

Box 2, Research

  1. Research, 1937-70
  2. Research, 1937-70
  3. UAW Administrative Letter, 1966-68
  4. UAW News Releases; regarding Walter Reuther, 1967-70
  5. UAW News Releases; regarding Walter Reuther, 1967-70

Series II

Box 2

Transcripts from interviews conducted in conjunction with the authors’ research. Files are arranged alphabetically by interviewee.

Box 2, Oral Histories

6. Oral History; Bannon, Ken, Jun 1968

7. Oral History; Barbash, Jack, n.d.

8. Oral History; Bishop, Merlin D., 1967-68

9. Oral History; Bluestone, Irving and Winn, Frank, Jun 1968

10. Oral History; Carey, James B., Dec 1967

11. Oral History; Conway, Jack, 1967-68

12. Oral History; Dubinsky, David, Feb 1968

13. Oral History; DuBrow, Evelyn, Feb 1968

14. Oral History; Farnum, Billie S., Oct 1967

15. Oral History; Frankensteen, Richard T., Jun 1968

16. Oral History; Fraser, Douglas, Jul 1968

17. Oral History; Goldberg, Arthur J., Feb 1970

18. Oral History; Harris, Thomas E., Dec 1967

19. Oral History; Harrison, George, Feb 1968

20. Oral History; Jones, David R., Feb 1968

21. Oral History; Kirkland, Lane, Feb 1968

22. Oral History; Lawrence, William H., n.d.

23. Oral History; Leonard, Richard, Dec 1967

24. Oral History; Livingston, John M., Feb 1969

25. Oral History; Lombardo, Frank, May 1968

26. Oral History; Lovestone, Jay, Feb 1968

27. Oral History; Meany, George, Mar 1969

28. Oral History; Miller, Saul, Goldfinger, Nat and Grime, John, Feb 1968

29. Oral History; O’Brien, William M., Jan 1968

30. Oral History; Owens, Patrick J., Jun 1968

31. Oral History; Potofsky, Jacob, Feb 1968

32. Oral History; Rauh, Joseph L., Dec 1967

33. Oral History; Reedy, George, Jan 1968

34. Oral History; Reuther, Victor, 1967-68

35. Oral History; Reuther, Walter, Feb 1968-Aug 1969

36. Oral History; Robinson, Archie, Feb 1968

37. Oral History; Scholossberg, Stephen, May 1968

38. Oral History; Schrade, Paul, May 1968

39. Oral History; Seaton, Louis G., Jun 1968

40. Oral History; Sullivan, David, Feb 1968

41. Oral History; Walsh, Joe, Feb 1968

42. Oral History; Weinberg, Nat, Jul 1968

43. Oral History; Widman, Michael F., Dec 1967

44. Oral History; Winn, Frank, Oct-Nov 1967

45. Oral History; Woodcock, Leonard, May-Jun 1968

46. Oral History; Zack, Al, Feb 1968

Box 3, Oral Histories

Note Cards; regarding Oral History transcripts

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Series III

Boxes 4-7

Correspondence, clippings and drafts of chapters related to the writing and publishing of Reuther. Much of the material is actual drafts or commentary regarding the book, but there is also material on the process of publishing. Files are arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically within each file.

Box 4, Reuther

  1. Clippings; regarding Reuther, 1970-71
  2. Correspondence; regarding Reuther, 1968-72
  3. Notes; Introduction, 1969-70
  4. Notes; Chapter One, 1969-70
  5. Notes; Chapter Two, 1969-70
  6. Notes; Chapter Three, 1969-70
  7. Notes; Chapter Four, 1969-70
  8. Notes; Chapter Five, 1969-70
  9. Notes; Chapter Six, 1969-70
  10. Notes; Chapter Seven, 1969-70
  11. Notes; Chapter Eight, 1969-70
  12. Notes; Chapter Nine, 1969-70
  13. Notes; Chapter Ten, 1969-70
  14. Notes; Chapter Eleven and Twelve, 1969-70
  15. Notes; Chapter Thirteen, 1969-70
  16. Notes; Chapter Fourteen, 1969-70
  17. Notes; Chapter Fifteen, 1969-70
  18. Notes; Chapter Sixteen, 1969-70

Box 5, Reuther

  1. Notes; Chapter Seventeen, 1969-70
  2. Notes; Chapter Eighteen, 1969-70
  3. Notes; Chapter Nineteen, 1969-70
  4. Notes; Chapter Twenty, 1969-70
  5. Notes; Chapter Twenty One, 1969-70
  6. Notes; Chapter Twenty Two, 1969-70
  7. Notes; Chapter Twenty Three, 1969-70
  8. Notes; Chapter Twenty Four, 1969-70
  9. Notes; Chapter Twenty Five, 1969-70
  10. Notes; Chapter Twenty Six, 1969-70
  11. Notes; Chapter Twenty Seven, 1969-70
  12. Notes; Chapter Twenty Eight, 1969-70
  13. Notes; Chapter Twenty nine, 1969-70
  14. Notes; Chapter Thirty, 1969-70
  15. Notes; Index, 1969-70
  16. Notes; Photos, 1969-70

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Box 6, Reuther

  1. Notes; Sources, 1969-70
  2. Notes; Frank Winn regarding Reuther, 1969-70
  3. Pamphlets; regarding research
  4. Reuther; Book, 1970
  5. Reuther; releases, 1970
  6. Reuther; royalty statements, 1970-74

Box 7, Reuther

Index Cards

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Index

Addes, George, 2:11, 2:15,

2:33-24, 2:44

Americans for Democratic

Action, 2:32

Battle of the Overpass,

1:11, 2:6, 2:43-44

Blacks: Racism and Chrysler

Walkout, 1:8; Ford

Strike 1941, 2:6, 2:43

Brookwood Labor College, 2:44

Chrysler Corporation, 1:8,

2:11, 2:29; Strike 1950,

2:16

Communism and UAW, 2:6, 2:11-12,

2:15, 2:25-26, 2:32, 2:34,

2:43-45

Contract Negotiations 1945-67, 1:4

Flint Sit-Down 1937, 1:11, 2:8, 2:14,

2:25, 2:44

Ford Hunger March, 2:8

Ford Motor Company, 1:11, 2:11,

2:35, 2:43; Strike 1941, 2:6,

Strike 1967, 1:1, 1:11

Frankensteen, Richard, 2:8, 2:11,

2:23, 2:26, 2:44

General Motors Corporation, 1:7,

1:11, 2:1, 2:11, 2:45

Guaranteed Annual Wage, 1:5-6

Kelsey-Hayes Strike 1936, 2:8,

2:15, 2:44

Martin, Homer, 1:2, 2:8, 2:12,

2:14-15, 2:23, 2:26, 2:36,

2:44

Meany, George, 1:1-2, 1:7, 2:6-7,

2:11, 2:17-18, 2:21, 2:32

Murray, Philip, 2:10, 2:15, 2:17-18

Reuther (book), Box 4-7

Reuther, Roy, 1:1, 2:8, 2:33, 2:41

Reuther, Walter, Box 1-7; Anti-

Communism, 2:7, 2:17;

Death, 1:3, 1:8, 2:48;

Europe, 2:8, 2:34-35;

Haywood Fight 1952, 2:10,

2:17-18; Politics, 1:2, 1:11,

2:11, 2:13, 2:16-17, 2:21,

2:32-34, 2:38; Roosevelt,

Eleanor, 2:10, 2:35; Social

Issues, 1:2-3, 1:5-7, 1:11,

2:4-5, 2:11, 2:42; Socialism,

2:8; UAW-CIO Break, 1:1-2,

1:11, 2:3, 2:6-8, 2:11-13,

2:16-17, 2:19, 2:21, 2:27,

2:31; Vietnam War, 1:10-11,

2:11, 2:38

Reuther, Victor, 4:2*

Reuther, Victor, 1:1, 2:8, 2:11, 2:21,

2:26, 2:33, 2:41

Thomas, R.J., 2:11-12, 2:23-24,

2:26

UAW and Democratic Party, 1:2-3,

1:6, 2:11, 2:14, 2:45

Truman, Harry, 2:11, 2:45

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