Title: UAW War Policy Division: Women's Bureau Collection

Type  :  Records                 

Dates: 1942-1945 (Predominantly 1944)                   

Size   : 2.5 linear feet, 5 manuscript boxes

ID    #:  640-uaw              

OCLC:                    

©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs

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The papers of the Women's Bureau of the UAW War Policy Division were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in March of 1974 by the UAW.

 

The Women's Bureau program under the direction of Mildred Jeffrey developed recommended policy and programs affecting women union members, with special consideration given to seniority, safety standards, maternity leave practices and other problems relating to the employment of women. The Bureau also developed techniques for involving women in general union activities and in developing their sense of union citizenship. Out-of-plant problems, such as child care, shopping, transportation, etc., were handled through special union counseling programs.

 

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Subjects

Absenteeism and Turnover

Child Care Week

Community Services

Conferences and Training Programs

Counseling Programs

Equal Pay

Michigan State Day Care Committee

Nurseries

School Lunches

Warren Township, Michigan, Child Care Program

Women's Conference National Committee

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Correspondents

 

George Addes                   Katharine Lenroot            Dorothy Roosevelt

Anna Berenson                 E. J. Lever                       Arnold Serwer

Andrew W. L. Brown          Mary Ann Loeser              Frank Slaby

Caroline Burlingame          Anthony Luchek               R. J. Thomas

Edward Connor                 Frank Marquart                Harold G. Webster

Louise R. Grooms              Ben May                          Rhoda Weston

Anne Gould                       Helen Mills                       J. H. Wishart

Mary Herling                     Victor G. Reuther

 

 

Transferred

60 photographs of the Fort Knox Trip and 7 miscellaneous photographs have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection. Numerous pamphlets concerned with labor and education have been placed in the Archives Library.

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Related Collections

Mildred Jeffrey Collection         300

UAW War Policy Section           263-uaw     

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Contents

Series I, Boxes 1-5

               Correspondence, reports, minutes, articles, clippings, newsletters, questionnaires and printed material constituting the office files generated by Mildred Jeffrey when she became Director of the Women's Bureau in January of 1944. Most of the materials deal with the situation of the working mother and the efforts of the Bureau in creating services to aid women working in plants. The files are arranged alphabetically by topic and cover the period of January 1942 - December 28, 1945.

 

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Containers

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[Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Box5]

 

Series I

Boxes 1-5

 

1-Box   

 

1. Absenteeism and Turnover - Correspondence, March 1944 - December 1945

2.                                         - Conferences and Articles

3.                                         - Clippings, July 1943 - March 1944

4. Accidents - Clippings

5. Agencies

6. Air Raid Warden Manpower Survey

7. Applications for Jobs

8. Automotive Council for War Production

 

9. Budget - Clipping

 

10. Campaign Material - Presidential Election

11. Canada - Employment of Women in Canadian Gun and Rifle

            Factories, January 1942

12. Carry-Out Service

13. Cartoons

14. Cartoon plates

15. Central Information and Referral Center

16-17. Child Care - Correspondence, December 1942 - October 1944

18.                        - Articles and Publications

19.                        - Clippings, August 1942 - December 1944

20. Child Care Committee - New York State

21. Child Care - Dearborn, Michigan

22. Child Care Week

23. Child Labor

24. Child Recreation

25. Child Welfare Council

26. Child Welfare Legislation

 

2-Box  

 

1. Children's Bureau

2. Children's War Service

3.     CIO War Relief

4. Citizen's Planning and Housing Council

5. Civilian Goods Surveys

6. Clothing Shortage - Clippings

7. Committee on Day Care of Children

8. Community Chest and. Councils

9. Community Information Services

10. Community Services for Women War Workers Pamphlets

11. Conferences

12. Constitution - Model for Industrial Union Councils

13. Consumer

14. Consumer Cost of Living

15. Consumers League of Michigan

16. Correspondence A-Z

17. Council of Social Agencies

 

18. Detroit Council for Youth Services

19. Detroit Victory Council

20. Discrimination

21. District Council News

 

22. Education Department - UAW-CIO

23. Elections of Locals - Clippings, March 1944-April 1944

24. Emergency Information and Maternity Care Program

 

3-Box  

 

1. Employment

2. Employment - Digest of Information on Wartime Employment of Women

3. Equal Pay

4. Family Aid

5. Federal Works Agency

6. Federal Works Agency Deficiency Appropriation

7. Food

8. Fort Knox Trip

9. Fort Knox Trip Delegates Reports

 

10. Great Britain

11. Income Tax Information - UAW-CIO - Educational Flying Squad Ford Local 600, February 1944

12. Infant Care

13. In-Plant Feeding

14. Inside Germany Reports - Issued by the American Friends of German Freedom, May 1944

15. InterCultural and Racial Conference

16. International Labor Office Conference

 

4-Box  

 

1. Jeffrey, Mildred - Personal

2. Job Opportunities -- Clippings, August 1943 - April 1944

3. Joint Child Welfare Council

4. Joint Clearance Body on Labor Participation in Health and Welfare Planning

5. Juvenile Program

 

6. Michigan State Day Care Committee

 

7. New York Canteens

8. Nurseries

 

9. Other Counseling Programs

 

10. Peter Pan Board of Directors - Nursery

 

11. Petoskey Center, Detroit, Michigan - Boarding School and Nursery

 

5-Box

 

1. School Lunches

2. Summer Camps

3. Surveys (Child Care)

4. Teen-Age Workers

5. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

6. Utopia Children's Center, New York City

7. War Chest Nurseries

8. Warren Township, Michigan - Day Care Center

9. Wayne County Youth Guidance Committee

10-12. Women's Bureau Questionnaire, Regions 1-9A

13. Women's Conference - National Committee

14. Women's Labor Deleoation from Britain

15. Working Conditions - Pamphlets

 

 

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Index

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Addes, George, 1-15

 

Berenson, Anna, 2-2, 2-24, 3-5, 3-6, 4-8, 5-1

Brown, Andrew W. L., 2-1, 2-17

Burlingame, Caroline, 1-15, 1-21, 2-2, 2-9, 5-8

 

Connor, Edward, 2-4

 

Grooms, R. Louise, 2-11

Gould, Anne, 1-17, 5-8

 

Herling, Mary, 1-17, 5-8

 

Lenroot, Katharine, 2-1

Lever, E. J., 2-13

Loeser, Mary Ann, 1-16

Luchek, Anthony, 1-15

 

Marquart, Frank, 2-11

May, Ben, 5-8

Mills, Helen, 1-1

 

Reuther, Victor G., 1-1, 1-15, 1-16, 1-22, 2-4, 2-20, 5-13

Roosevelt, Dorothy, 1-12

 

Serwer, Arnold, 1-16

Slaby, Frank, 1-17

 

Thomas, R.J., 1-1, 3-6, 5-10, 5-13

 

Webster, Harold G., 1-25

Weston, Rhoda, 5-6

Wishart, J. H., 1-16

 

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