Title: UAW Region 2B Collection Type: Records Date: 1939-1970 Size: 9 linear feet, 9 storage boxes ID#: 1429-uaw OCLC: |
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The UAW organized Region 2B in the Northwest Ohio area in 1939. In 1937, Richard Gosser was elected President of Local 12 in Toledo (chartered in 1936 and the largest local in the region) and five years later he became Director of Region 2B. In 1947, he was elected an International Vice President, and Charles Ballard succeeded him as Director of Region 2B. Gosser retired in 1964, after he was charged and brought to trial for illegally conspiring to obtain tax records from the IRS.
The papers of Region 2B consist of clippings, scrapbooks, yearbooks, correspondence, memos, minutes, proceedings, brochures, reports and biographies related to Gosser's federal trial, the Willys Overland unit of Local 12, and community activities of the region and locals.
Automotive Workers Building Corporation
Beemer Case
Equity League
Gosser Federal Trial
Labor Management Citizens Committee
Local 12 Office Girls Revolt
Pension Fight
Willys Overland Motors Corporation
George Addes Walter Murphy
Charles Ballard Phillip Murray
Richard Gosser Ollie Pecord
Allen S. Haywood Walter Reuther
Emil Mazey
Several photographs have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection and numerous contracts, books, and proceedings received with this collection are available in the Archives Library.
PLEASE NOTE: Folders are computer-arranged alphabetically in this finding aid, but may actually be dispersed throughout several boxes in the collection. Note carefully the box number for each folder heading.