Title: Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO Council: Tom Turner Collection Type: Records Date: 1920-1984 (Predominantly, 1968-1984) Size: 124 linear feet, 1 oversize folder ID#: 53 OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs HEFA.01d.update |
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Scope & Contents
Tom Turner served as president of the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO Council from 1969, when the Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb County AFL-CIO Councils merged, until 1986. Prior to his election as president, Turner worked in the United Steelworkers of America Local 1299 as a steward in the Checking Department. He worked his way through the administrative ranks with the USWA and was appointed to the staff of District 29 in 1964. The following year Turner went to work for the Wayne County AFL-CIO as the administrative assistant to President Al Barbour. In 1967 he won election to the organization's vice presidency. The Wayne County AFL-CIO Council's Executive Board elected him president in 1968. The Executive Board of the Metro Detroit Council approved his election overwhelmingly at the merger convention in 1969.
Turner was active in the civil rights movement, serving as president of the Detroit NAACP from 1968 until 1970. He sat on the national board of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, and on several committees of New Detroit, Inc. He also served on the board of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and on the National Council for Health Planning and Development. Other organizations in which he has been involved include the United Foundation's Labor Participation Committee, the Metro Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Trade Union Leadership Council, the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation, and the Oakland-Livingston Human Services Agency. He has been a staunch advocate of youth programs like the Boy Scouts and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Detroit.
This addition to the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO Council Collection consists primarily, though not exclusively, of correspondence, reports, minutes, and clippings relating to the administration of President Tom Turner and to his career as a labor and civic leader. It also documents the work of the Council and its affiliated locals, including their political and community service activities, both prior to and during Mr. Turner’s tenure as president.
A. Philip Randolph Institute
Affirmative action programs--Michigan
AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education
AFL-CIO merger
Afro-American civic leaders--Michigan
Afro-American labor leaders--Michigan
AFSCME (metro Detroit locals)
AFT (metro Detroit locals)
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
Building trades--Segregation
Civil rights movements--Michigan--Detroit
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
Community development, Urban--Michigan
Comprehensive Health Planning Council
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation
Detroit Federation of Labor
Detroit Plan
Discrimination in employment--Michigan--Detroit
Histadrut
Hospitals--Michigan--Detroit
Human Resources Development Institute
J. P. Stevens Co. boycott
Labor and laboring classes--Education
Labor Day parades
Labor movement--Michigan
Medical care--Michigan--Detroit
Michigan Democratic Party
Michigan State AFL-CIO
NAACP (National & Detroit Branch)
Occupational training--Michigan--Detroit
Office & Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU)
Race relations--Michigan--Detroit
School integration--Michigan--Detroit
SEIU (metro Detroit locals)
South East Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA)
Teamsters (metro Detroit locals)
Trade Union Leadership Council
Trade-unions--Political activity
Unemployment--Michigan--Detroit
United Food & Commercial Workers
United Foundation
United Minorities/Women Leadership Training Project
United Steelworkers District 29
Wayne County AFL
Wayne County (Mich.)--Politics and government
A large number of constitutions, by-laws, contracts, books, newspapers and constitutional convention proceedings received with this collection have been transferred to the Archives Library, and numerous photographs and items of memorabilia have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection.
124 storage boxes
1 oversize folder
Series I, Subject Files, 1920-1984, Boxes 1-114 To Series Index [Large Files]
Series II, Executive Board and Delegate Body Minutes and Constitutional Conventions, 1920-1984, Boxes 115-124, To Series Index
PLEASE NOTE: Folders are computer-arranged alphabetically within each series in this finding aid, but may actually be dispersed throughout several boxes in the collection. Note carefully the box number for each folder heading.
To Series I Index [Large Files]
Executive Board and Delegate Body Minutes and Constitutional Conventions
115-28 AFL-CIO (national); const. conv., 1969
117-6 Civil Rights comm.; mins., 1973 Oct-Dec
123-21 Comm. to Draft Resolution on Soviet Brutality in Hungary, 1956-58
124-14 Const.; changes to, 1971
119-37 Const. comm., 1961-67
116-56 Const. Conv., 1980
118-3 Const. conv. # 2, 1961
124-1 Const. conv. # 2, 1961
124-2 Const. conv. # 2; secretary's report, 1961
118-4 Const. conv. # 3, 1963
124-3 Const. conv. # 3, 1963
118-5 Const. conv. # 4, 1965
124-4 thru 8 Const. conv. # 4, 1965
118-6 thru 7 Const. conv. # 5, 1967
124-9 thru 10 Const. conv. # 5, 1967
117-1 Const. conv. # 5; changes, 1967
118-8 Const. conv. # 6, 1969
115-27 Const. conv. # 6, 1969
120-19 Const. conv. # 6, 1969
124-11 thru 13 Const. conv. # 6, 1969
124-15 thru 21 Const. conv. # 7, 1972
115-9 Const. conv. # 8, 1976
117-3 Const. conv. # 8, 1976
115-4 Const. conv. # 8; committees., 1976
115-3 Const. conv. # 8; communications re:, 1976
124-22 Const. conv. # 8; credentials, 1974
115-10 Const. conv. # 8; report of Pres. Turner, 1976
115-26 Const. conv. # 8; resolutions, 1976
115-25 Const. conv. # 8; roll call, 1976
119-4 Const. conv. # 9, 1980
119-12 thru 13 Const. conv. # 9, 1980
117-4 Const. conv. # 9; delegation, 1980
115-11 Const. conv. # 10, 1980
115-1 Const. conv. # 10, 1982
115-2 Const. conv. # 10; committees., 1982
115-12 thru 15 Const. conv. # 10; delegates, 1982
123-1 Const. convs., 1963, 1965
119-14 Const. convs.; thank-you letters for speeches at, 1969-80
123-27 thru 28 Constitution comm., 1956
116-47 thru 53 COPE (Comm. on Political Education), Exec.; mins., 1976 Apr-1977 Sep
119-25 COPE, Exec.; mins., 1970
122-17 COPE; mins., 1959-63
117-9 COPE; mins., 1964-68
119-23 COPE; mins., 1968 Jun, Oct
123-32 thru 35 Delegate Body; mins., 1952 Jan-1963 Nov
118-11 thru 13 Delegate Body; mins., 1968 Jan-1970 Oct
118-14 Delegate Body; mins., 1971 Jan-Oct
118-15 thru 26 Delegate Body; mins., 1972 Jan-1974 Oct
120-1 thru 8 Delegate Body; mins., 1972 May-1979 Oct
119-31 Delegate Body; mins., 1972 May-Nov
119-32 Delegate Body; mins., 1973 Jan-1974 Apr
116-31 thru 46 Delegate Body; mins., 1976 Jan-1979 Feb
119-16 thru 17 Delegate Body; mins., 1979 Mar-Apr
117-10 thru 20 Delegate Body; mins., 1980 Jun-1982 Jan
115-20 thru 23 Delegate Body; mins., 1980-84
116-57 thru 59 Delegate Body; resolutions and corr., 1959-62
121-2 Detroit Federation of Labor; mins., 1924 Jan-1935 Jul
121-3 thru 7 Detroit Federation of Labor; mins., 1938 Jan-1958 Dec
123-31 Detroit Federation of Labor; mins., 1956 May-1958 Dec
121-8 Detroit Federation of Labor; special mtgs.; mins., 1952 May-1954 Sep
123-29 Detroit Labor News Union Building and Tradesman comm., 1955-57
122-18 thru 19 Detroit Union Label League; treasurer's books for receipts and expenses, 1926-31
119-10 Education and Civil Rights Comm., 1970
119-30 Education and Civil Rights Comm.; mins., 1969-71
119-7 thru 8 Education and Civil Rights Comm.; mins., 1970 Jan-1973 Jan
123-25 Education Comm., 1957
117-8 Education Comm., 1973-74
119-9 Education Comm.; corr., agendas, 1965-66
119-11 Education Comm.; mins., mtg. calls, 1966-67
119-22 Environment Comm.; waterways; fund cutbacks; corr., 1973
117-2 Environmental Comm., 1974
115-16 thru 18 Environmental Comm.; mins., reports, corr., 1973-76
119-33 Exec. Board; attendance book, 1943
119-15 Exec. Board; corr., 1979 Aug
122-1 thru 15 Exec. Board; mins., 1948 Sep-1963 Dec
123-2 thru 3 Exec. Board; mins., 1963-66
120-9 thru 14 Exec. Board; mins., 1964 Jan-1972 Jul
115-19 Exec. Board; mins., 1968 Nov-Dec
118-27 thru 30 Exec. Board; mins., 1968-71
123-6 thru 19 Exec. Board; mins., 1972 Jan-1974 Dec
119-3 Exec. Board; mins., 1975 Jan-1976 May
116-1 thru 30 Exec. Board; mins., 1976 Jan-1979 Mar
120-18 Exec. Board; mins., 1977 Sep
120-17 Exec. Board; mins., 1978 Nov
119-18 Exec. Board; mins., 1979 Apr
117-22 Exec. Board; mins., 1980 Aug-1983 Oct
119-1 Exec. Board; mins., 1980 Jan-Aug
117-21 Exec. Board; mins., 1981 Jul
119-2 Exec. Board; mins., 1984
123-4 Exec. Board; notes, 1974
123-5 Exec. Board; notes, 1974
119-29 Exec. Board; rules governing, 1969
118-31 Exec. Board; special mtg. mins., 1971 Jun
119-21 Exec. Comm.; mins., 1958 Dec-1962 Feb
119-20 Exec. Comm.; mins., 1963 Sep
117-7 Exec. Comm.; mins., 1966 Jan
119-26 Exec. Comm.; mins., 1969-70
123-30 General mtg.; mins., roll call, 1956 May-1958 Dec
123-24 Health Comm., 1956
123-23 Histadrut Comm., 1953
123-22 Human Rights Comm., 1956-58
120-16 Human Rights Comm.; mins., 1974-75
119-34 Hunger Task Force; mins., 1973
123-20 Labels Comm., 1958
115-7 Merger const.; Det. AFL and CIO 3-man comm., 1957
115-24 Merger; Det. AFL and CIO, 1958
115-5 thru 6 Merger; Det. AFL and CIO; committees. and conv.; 1956-58
118-1 thru 2 Merger; Det. AFL and CIO; conv., 1958
119-27 Merger; Det. AFL and CIO; mins., 1957
115-8 Merger; Det. AFL and CIO; subcommittee. mins., corr., 1956-58
118-9 thru 10 Merger; Det. and national AFL and CIO, 1955
120-15 Mich. State AFL-CIO; const. conv., 1973
116-54 Mich. State AFL-CIO; const. conv., 1976
116-55 Mich. State AFL-CIO; conv. resolutions, 1978
117-5 Officers' mtgs., 1962-64
119-24 Officers' mtgs.; mins., 1968-69
119-35 Organization Comm., 1959-68
122-16 Political Action Policy Comm.; mins., 1949 Aug-1958 Jun
119-5 Poverty Comm., 1967
119-6 Senior Citizens Comm., 1979
119-28 Senior Citizens Comm.; mins., 1976
119-36 Standing comms.; members, 1967
119-19 Trade Union Leadership Comm., 1970
121-1 Union Printing Co.; mins., 1920 Sep-1933 Nov