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Title: Shelton Tappes Collection Genre: Papers, Dates: 1934-1989 Size : 1 linear foot, 1 storage box, 1 oversize folder ID #: 220 OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor &
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Shelton
Tappes was born in Omaha, Nebraska on March 27, 1911 and came to Detroit in the
late 1920s. A UAW member since
1937, Mr. Tappes was particularly active in the organization of the Production
Foundry Unit at the Ford Rouge plant in 1941. He was a part-time organizer for the Foundry Unit, the first
Foundry Unit chairman, and a member of the negotiating committee that secured
the UAW's first contract with Ford Motor Company in 1941. He served as recording secretary of
Local 600 from 1942 through 1944.
Defeated for a fourth term, he later went to work on the staff of Ken
Bannon, where he was recognized as a top authority on contract interpretation
and grievance procedure. From 1954
until his retirement in 1976, Mr. Tappes served as an international
representative for the UAW in the Ohio area. He was active throughout his life in a number of civil
rights organizations and was one of the UAW's most vocal advocates for
African-American representation on the UAW executive board. Mr. Tappes died in 1991.
A
transcript of an oral interview with Shelton Tappes may be found in the Blacks
in the Labor Movement series of oral histories on deposit at the Reuther
Library.
Afro-American
automobile industry workers
Afro-American
labor leaders
UAW Local
600 Production Foundry Unit
UAW-Ford
Motor Company strike, 1949
World War II and the UAW
Robert P. Griffin
A few contracts and constitutions have been placed in the Archives Library, and a few photographs and buttons have been transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Collection.
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1-98 Addes to testify at
damage trial; clippings, 1946
1-21 African Americans in
U.S. history; clippings, 1960s
1-37 Automation and Foundry
Production, n.d.
1-30 Auto worker wages; UAW,
1947
1-11 B & E Machine
Products; NLRB case, 1958
1-55 Black power; article,
1968
1-68 Carver, George
Washington; clipping, 1942
1-70 CIO; welcome to new
members, 1934
1-26 Citizens’ Housing
and Planning Council; newsletter, 1945
1-85 Compensation and
Housing Dept.; report, 1946
1-34 Congress and labor;
UAW, 1945
1-100 Correspondence, misc.,
1963-70
1-24 Detroit Committee for a
Permanent FEPC, 1945
1-50 “Detroit: Heart
of the Arsenal”; clipping, 1943
1-83 FEPC Railroad hearing
cancellation, 1943
1-31 Fisher Industries;
organizing, 1957
1-64 Ford Drive Rally, 1941
1-63 Ford strike; clipping,
letter, 1949
1-101 Ford strike; songs,
1949
1-38 Foundry Dept.;
newsletter, 1958
1-78 Foundry Machine Shop
Fraternity, 1941
1-57 Frankensteen, Richard;
speech, 1945
1-79 International
Afro-American Museum; newsletter, 1970
1-58 Labor-Management
Production Committees, 1942
1-95 Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights; Tappes’ delegate card, 1952
1-15 Local 2; Eye Opener; 6th anniv. edition, 1958
1-71 Local 200, Windsor;
clipping, 1948
1-41 Local 600, 1950
1-27 Local 600; activities,
1940s
1-69 Local 600; Chicago
Convention, 1942
1-16 Local 600; committee
mtg. and grievances, 1942
1-22 Local 600, decline of;
clipping, 1967
1-75 Local 600; election,
1941
1-44 Local 600; election
leaflet, n.d.
1-87 Local 600; election
leaflet, n.d.
1-59 Local 600; election
leaflet, 1949
1-62 Local 600; election
leaflet, 1949
1-91 Local 600; election
leaflet, 1951
1-10 Local 600; elections;
leaflet, 1943 c.
1-49 Local 600; Exec. Board
mtg., 1947 Oct
1-74 Local 600; Exec. Board
mtg., 1947 Oct, Nov
1-60 Local 600; General
Council mtg., 1941 Dec
1-46 Local 600; resolution,
n.d.
1-96 Local 600; rules for
delegates to conventions, 1949
1-9 Local 600; Spotlite issues, corres., 1941-45
1-51 Local 600;
Veterans’ Dept. mtg., 1947
1-2 Marston workers
organizing, 1957-58
1-45 Michigan Citizens for
Roosevelt; receipt, 1945
1-32 Michigan Credit Union
League, 1942
1-67 Michigan gubernatorial
election; Local 600, 1942
1-7 National CIO Council to
Abolish Discrimination; report, 1945
1-81 National Ford
Conference; minutes, 1941
1-73 National Negro Congress
(Detroit); “Negroes and the National Defense”
speech, 1941
1-47 Negro plumbers
complaint against Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Union
#130, 1942
1-76 “Negro Workers:
Do You Know What Reuther’s Election Means to You?,”
1946
OS
folder “Negroes
and the War”; Office of War Information publication, 1942
1-25 “Negroes in
Combat”; National Negro Congress publication, 1945
1-8 Nowak, Stanley; Defense
Committee, 1942-43
1-35 Organizing leaflets,
n.d.
1-19 Organizing leaflets and
artwork, 1950s
1-6 People’s
Institute of Applied Religion, Inc.; leaflet, n.d.
1-18 Poverty March on
Washington; clipping, 1968
1-53 President’s Day
Comm. on Fair Employment Practices, 1942
1-82 Production Foundry
elevator operators, 1942
1-94 Production Foundry Unit
history, 1941
1-12 Racine Foundry
election, 1942
1-42 Racism; foundry
workers’ resolution, n.d.
1-20 “Reuther for
Negro on the UAW Board”; clipping, 1943
1-54 Reuther, Victor; Det.
Board of Ed. election, 1945
1-93 Reuther, Walter P.;
death of; Tappes to be questioned, 1970
1-65 Reuther, Walter P.;
Farm Equipment “goon raid,” 1949
1-28 Reuther, Walter P.;
last public statement, 1970
1-13 Reuther, Walter P.;
“The Bosses’ Boy,” 1945
1-33 Segregation and Busing;
clippings, 1960s-1970s
1-36 Severance pay clauses
in UAW contracts, 1958
1-89 Social Security, 50th
anniversary of, 1988
1-40 Staff Council
newsletter, 1980
1-99 Stellato, Carl, up for
UAW Regional job; clipping, 1952
1-23 Strike officers, duties
of, 1946
1-43 Tappes for UAW V.P.;
leaflet, n.d.
1-92 Tappes, Shelton;
clipping, 1980
1-17 “This is the
UAW-CIO”; pamphlet, 1954
1-66 Thomas, R.J.;
testimonial, 1945
1-39 Todd-Phillips Home for
Boys; fundraising, n.d.
1-14 “To Unite . . . Regardless”; UAW Education
Dept. leaflet, 1943
1-4 UAW and racism; UAW IEB
statement, 1969
1-29 “UAW-CIO Wants
FEPC”; leaflet, n.d.
1-88 UAW International
Representatives’ manual, 1970 c.
1-90 UAW International
Representatives Staff Council anniv., 1988
1-5 “UAW Washington
Report,” 1980
1-1 United Staff Union; constitution,
etc., 1976
1-48 U.S. War Dept.
statement on fair practices, 1942
1-61 Vaughn, Jackie III;
clipping, n.d.
1-3 Wagner-Murray-Dingell
Social Security bill; article, 1943
1-72 Wayne County CIO
convention preparations, 1946
1-86 West-Side Auto Workers;
leaflet, 1947-48
1-52 “White
Stereotypes of the Negro,” 1944
1-80 Wilson, Martha;
clipping, 1989
1-84 World War II, UAW
effort in, 1942
1-77 World War II; Negro
publishers pledge loyalty, 1942
1-97 World War II; support
for Negro Women in Industry, 1942
1-56 World War II; Win the
War Council, 1940s
Finding Aid end