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Title: UAW LOCAL 600 COLLECTION Type: Papers Date: 1935-1966 (Predominately 1945-1950) Size: 1.75 linear feet, 3.5 manuscript boxes ID#: 176-UAW OCLC: |
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Scope & Contents
The papers of the UAW Local 600 were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in March of 1967, and were opened for research in April of 1983.
UAW Local 600 was chartered August 9, 1938, but did not gain much worker support until the Rouge plant-wide strike of April 1, 1941. The first UAW contract with Ford Motor Company was signed June 20, and ratified by the Local July 22, 1941. In 1949 Local 600 called a strike against Ford over the issue of speed-up on the assembly lines. Numerous Local 600 officers were the target of anti-communist investigations during the McCarthy era, and investigations by the Un-American Activities Committee began as early as 1947. With 50,000 to 80,000 members in various periods, Local 600 has been both the largest and the most controversial local in the UAW, and was a center of anti-Reuther sentiment.
Local 600 was organized into separate plant units. During the period 1941-1950, there were as many as nineteen. Each unit sent delegates to a General Council which determined the policies of the Local, and occasional mass meetings were held.
This collection consists mainly of the minutes and reports of the Executive Council, which met weekly. An index to important subjects in the minutes will be found on pages 4 through 7.
communism
contract negotiations
health and safety
seniority issues
strike issues
Henry Ford II
Governor Murray Van Wagoner
Paul Ste. Marie
Joseph Twyman
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1. Agreements; UAW and Ford
2. Certificates, Union Training Course
3. Clippings; Ford Strike 1941
4. Clippings; Miscellaneous 1937-1943
5. Correspondence 1941-1966
6. Crenshaw, Joe; Notes 1943-1947
7. Election leaflets, June 1945
8-16. Executive Board Meeting Minutes, Nov. 23, 1943 – Dec. 21, 1943 and May 2, 1945 – Nov. 25, 1946.
1-14. Executive Board Meeting Minutes, Dec. 2, 1946 – April 18, 1950
1-3. Executive Board Meeting Mintues, 1951 – 1953
4-5. General Council Meeting Minutes/Committee Reports, 1951, 1953
1. Membership Cards and Receipts, Picket Cards; 1937-1955
2. Misc.: instructions to employees, pay envelopes, receipt book, etc. 1932-1944 and undtated material
3. National War Labor Board – Ford Motor Co., 1944
4. Periodicals, 1941, 1951, 1956
5. Regulations for Governing Local 600, 1946
6. Reports; Election Committee, May 8, 1949
7-11. Reports; Financial Secretary, Sept. 1942-May 1944
12. Reports; Plant Committee, June 1945-Jan. 1946
13. Reports; Seniority Committee
14. Reports; Miscellaneous, June 1945 and undated
15. The Umpire, Oct. 1945
16. Unadjusted Grievance, 1943
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following payday:10/25/49:5, 11/1/49: 4
city employees: 12/6/49: 4
policy on: 1/3/50:7
Allis-Chalmers Strike: 11/25/46:2, 12/2/46:2,6 & 7, 12/9/46:4, 12/16/46:2, 1/13/47:9,
2/17/47:3, 4/28/47:4, 2/3/47:5, 5/26/47:4, 8/4/47:2-3
American Youth for Democracy: 9/4/46:5, 10/28/46:7
Communists and Communist Sympathizers: 10/25/48:5, 11/1/48:4, 11/16/48:4-5,
11/1/49:3 & 6-7
negotiation: 5/26/47:3, 6/2/47:1-2, 7/7/47:4
Negotiation Committee: 7/31/45:3
ratification: 8/25/47:2-3, 9/2/47:2, 9/8/47: 3-4, 9/22/47:2. 10/11/49:6
vacation clause: 12/20/46:1-2
co-operatives: 11/3/47:2, 1/49/48:7, 6/1/48:5
Davis-Bacon Act, Davis-Bacon (back pay) claims: 6/5/45:6, 6/12/45:2, 12/6/46:6,
6/23/47:2, 8/25/47:6, 9/2/47:2 & 5, 9/13/49:4, 9/20/49:2
decentralization (Ford): 2/10/50:3
disabled workers: 6/5/45:2, 1/17/50:3
discrimination, racial: 10/28/46:7, 2/14/50:7
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Elections
controversy in production oundry: 5/5/47:3
Election Committee, strike vote: 6/9/47:2
fraud charges: 6/7/48:4, 8/16/48:4
illegal: 9/4/46:5
procedures: 10/25/49: 4-5
Fair Employment Practices Commission: 4/2/45:1, 6/19/45:2-3, 9/30/46:4, 11/25/46:2,
1/6/47:2, 1/20/47:2, 2/3/47:1, 7/7/47:1-2, 1/11/49:5, 3/28/50:4
factional disputes(American Unionism Committee): 9/16/46:7
farm equipment workers: 6/23/47:3, 6/30/47:4
UAW and CIO dispute, International Harvester: 6/9/47:6
Flying Squadron: 8/12/46:4, 8/25/47:7, 9/2/47:10, 1/19/48:1
see also: strike strategy, Am. Youth for Democracy
Ford Facts
censorship: 1/18/49:8
CIO policy: 8/16/48:4
daily worker competition: 11/1/48:4
Foreman’s Union: 5/12/47:3
foremen: 1/17/50:2
proposed elimination of: 2/10/47:1 (“B” Building)
strike: 5/26/47:7, 6/2/47:1, 6/16/47:2
working on line: 9/23/46:5
four-day work week: 11/15/49:1, 11/17/49:1, 11/48/49:1
General Council members’ walkout: 9/9/46:2
Great Lakes Insurance strike: 1/4/49:2, 1/11/49:4, 1/25/49:7, 4/26/49:2, 6/7/49:3
health and safety: 11/23/43:9, 11/29/49:6, 7/17/45:1-2, 7/24/45:2, 9/9/46:6, 9/30/46,
12/2/46:2, 1/6/47:6, 7/21/47:8, 10/6/47:3, 4/5/48:1, 6/14/48:4, 8/31/48:3,
11/16/48:7, 7/12/49:5
committee on: 1/3/50:4 (unauthorized leaflet)
Health Institute address: 11/15/46:1
jurisdiction of union: 11/15/46:2
Open Hearth Unit: 2/16/48 see also: Strike: Open Hearth
Hester, Edward: 8/4/46:8-9, 9/9/49:4
trial of: 2/3/47:4
charges against Thompson brought by: 5/12/47:6
International Union, unauthorized meeting: 12/13/40:2
meetings, on Company property: 3/28/50:3
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NAACP: 4/2/45:3, 6/12/45:4, 8/12/46:9, 6/16/47:2, 6/15/48:6, 7/6/48:4, 1/31/50:5,
1/18/49:1
“Committee of 100”: 6/16/47:3, 12/7/48:3
Palestine: 9/4/46:2, 9/6/46:4. 2/9/48:7
radio station, ownership of: 9/30/46:10, 10/7/46:4
Reuther, Walter
assassination attempt: 4/23/4/:1 (special meeting)
banquet attendance issue: 11/29/49:6
Thomas attacks in press: 2/3/47:2
Rice discharge: 7/3/45:3
Robeson, Paul: 9/13/42:2, 9/20/49:6
seniority issues: 11/21/43:6, 4/2/45:2, 6/5/45: 1-2, 6/12/45:4, 6/26/45:3, 7/10/45:2,
7/17/45:3, 7/24/45:2, 9/4/46:3, 9/16/46:5, 10/28/46:6, 12/2/46: 3 & 8, 12/20/46:7,
1/29/47:4, 5/12/47:4, 9/8/47:4, 11/24/47:2, 1/17/50:6
see also: Women Workers’ Recall
speed-up: 11/1/48:4-5, 4/26/49:5, 5/3/49:3, 5/17/49:2, 8/23/49:4, 4/4/50:5
Socialist Workers’ Party: 8/12/46:9
steel strike, effects of: 10/25/49: 4 & 6
stoppages: 4/4/50:5
illegal (Axle Building): 1/18/49:7
strike: 11/24/43:8, 7/29/47:2, 5/3/49:6-7, 5/17/49: 2 & 4, 6/7/49:4, 8/16/49:5-6,
8/23/49:6, 3/28/50:3
Advisory Committee: 8/16/49:6, 8/23/49:3, 8/30/49:1
Central Strike Committee funds: 5/17/48:4
fund: 9/9/46:3, 6/7/49:8, 6/14/49:8
notice, filing of: 10/29/46: 2-3
Open Hearth Unit walkout: 10/7/46:1, 10/10/46:1, 10/28/46:3, 10/29/46:1-2,
11/4/46:3, 12/2/46:3, 12/16/46:6, 1/20/47:3, 3/10/47:2, 4/7/47:8
Strategy Committee: 5/5/47:6, 6/2/47:6, 6/23/47:3, 7/29/47:2, 8/4/47:4-5
vote: 7/12/48:1, 4/26/49:2
see also: foreman, stoppages
Taft, Senator: 2/24/47:2
Taft-Hartley Bill, Act: 5/26/47:4-5, 6/23/47: 1 & 7, 6/30/47:3, 7/21/47:2, 8/4/47:7,
9/29/47:4, 11/3/47: 1-2, & 4, 11/24/47:2, 11/24/47:2, 1/12/48:1, 1-26/48:3,
2/29/48:5, 9/6/49:3, 2/10/50:7, 2/14/50:3
Trenton Six case: 8/30/49:4
Umpire, The: 2-9-50:6 (problems under new contract)
Un-American Activities Committee: 6/2/47:5, 8/25/47:8, 11/1/49:7
unemployment compensation, Gov. Williams on: 1/3/50:6
Veterans: 11/23/43:10, 12/14/43, 7/24/45:2, 9/23/46:7, 10/7/46:4, 12/9/46:2 & 4,
12/20/46:3, 1/13/47:2, 1/27/47:6, 4/21/47:4, 7/7/47:6
American Legion Post: 8/11/47:2, 8/23/49: 4 & 5
Veterans’ Council: 9/6/49:4
War Department: 11/23/43:3
Wayne County CIO elections: 11/29/49:2
Women Workers’ meetings: 9/23/46:3
Women Workers’ recall: 9/4/46:2, 9/16/46:4, 9/23/46:4, 12/20/46: 6 & 8, 1/31/47: 1-2,
5/3/49:6
work (production) standards dispute: 12/13/49:4
Cold Heading Unit: 12/27/49:4
Young, Coleman: 6/1/48:4, 6/15/48:5, 7/6/48:4, 7/16/48:2