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Title: Communications Workers of America: District 4 Collection Genre: Records, Date : 1934-1979 (Predominantly, 1955-1975) Size : 99 linear feet ID #: 824 OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs HEFA.01c.update |
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Scope & Contents
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) held its first convention in 1947. An outgrowth of the ineffectual National Federation of Telephone Workers (NFTW), formed in 1938 to provide a centralized framework for the new regional labor organizations that had sprouted in the communications industry after passage of the Wagner Act, it provided a counterbalance to the powerful communications companies, especially the Bell System.
District 4 of the CWA is divided into two collective bargaining areas: Michigan and Ohio. In 1947, Walter Schaar, who had been president of the Michigan Plant Union, an NFTW affiliate, became director (later vice president) of District 4. Serving under him as Michigan director was Herman Shelton. Most of the correspondence in this collection is between Shelton and Schaar and Shelton and District 4’s Michigan international representatives, some of whom, like Patsy Fryman and Eloise Basto, were active in the women’s and civil rights movements as well as on behalf of organized labor.
The CWA District 4 Collection consists primarily of correspondence, reports, minutes, negotiations, convention and legislative lobbying material, grievances, publications, and other records related to the operations of Michigan Bell Telephone Company and the organizing and servicing of Michigan Bell employees.
Affirmative action programs--Michigan
AFL-CIO.--Committee on Political Education
Collective bargaining--Telecommunication--Michigan
Collective bargaining--Telecommunication--Ohio
Employee fringe benefits--Michigan
Grievance arbitration--Michigan
Labor and laboring classes--Education--Michigan
Michigan Bell Telephone Company (MBT)
National Federation of Telephone Workers (NFTW)
Ohio Bell Telephone Company (OBT)
Strikes and lockouts--Telephone--Michigan
Telephone--Employees--Michigan
Telephone--Employees--Ohio
Telephone--Law and legislation
Telephone operators--Michigan
Telephone strike, 1947
Trade-unions--Organizing--Michigan
Trade-unions--Telephone workers--Michigan
Trade-unions--Telephone workers--Ohio
United States.--National Labor Relations Board
United States.--National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
United Way of Michigan
Veterans--Michigan
Wages--Telephone workers--Michigan
Women in trade-unions--Michigan
Women’s rights
Eloise Basto
Joseph Beirne
Daniel Carr
Glen Hanson
Patsy Fryman
Lloyd LaChapelle
Walter Schaar
Herman Shelton
A number of photographs, posters, audio tapes and film reels were transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Collection, and some local constitutions, by-laws, contracts and convention material have been placed in the Archives Library.
99 Storage Boxes
Series I, Administrative Files, 1937-1979, Boxes 1-32 & 95-97, Series I Index [Large files]
Series II, Pat Fryman Files, 1934-1979, Boxes 33-51, Series II Index [Large files]
Series III, Bargaining and Grievance Files, 1940-1979, Boxes 52-85 & 98-99, Series III Index [Large files]
Series IV, Local Files, 1946-1979, Boxes 86-91, p. 54 Series IV Index [Large files]
Series
V, Legal Documents, 1943-1973, Boxes
92-94, p. 57 Series
V Index
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Series I Series II Series III Series IV Large Files |
92-11 Analysis of state laws on mediation arbitration, 1952
94-32 Arbitration award summaries, 1965-71
94-33 Arbitration award summaries, 1970-73
94-34 Arbitration cases, 1965-73
92-19 Cousens, Leon; Commercial Telephone Workers Association; bills, 1947
93-1 CWA; amalgamation documents, 1948
92-28 CWA and AT&T; arbitration, 1963
94-20 CWA and Bloomer Telephone Company, 1952
94-7 thru 8 CWA and Eastern Illinois Telephone Company, 1951
94-24 CWA and Food Service, 1952
94-26 CWA and General Tel Company, 1953
94-17 CWA and General Telephone of Indiana, 1953
94-23 CWA and General Telephone of Indiana, 1954
94-15 thru 16 CWA and Illinois Bell Telephone Company, 1954
94-4 CWA and Indiana Bell Telephone Company, 1951
94-6 CWA and Indiana Bell Telephone Company, 1951
94-14 CWA and Indiana Bell Telephone Company, 1954
94-19 CWA and Long Lines Credit Union, 1953
93-48 CWA and MBT (Michigan Bell Telephone Co.); arbitration, n.d.
94-30 CWA and MBT; arbitration cases, 1951-1975
94-11 CWA and Middle States Telephone Company, 1951
94-9 CWA and Noblesville Telephone Company, 1951
93-41 thru 47 CWA and Northwestern Bell, 1952-53
94-1 thru 3 CWA and Northwestern Bell, 1952-53
93-36 thru 37 CWA and Northwestern Bell; arbitration, 1953
94-31 CWA and Ohio Consolidated Telephone Company; arbitration, 1958
94-25 CWA and Richmond Home Telephone Company, 1952
94-10 CWA and South Indiana Telephone Company, 1951
94-18 CWA and Western Electric, 1952
94-21 CWA and Wisconsin Telephone Company, 1952
94-13 CWA and Wisconsin Telephone Company, 1953
93-26 CWA District 4 and U.S. Department of Labor, 1951
93-33 CWA District 7 vs. Northwestern Bell, 1954
93-25 CWA Division 15; legal documents, 1951
93-23 CWA Division 15 vs. MBT, 1950
93-2 CWA Division 43 vs. MBT, 1948
93-12 thru 13 CWA Division 43 vs. MBT, 1948
93-11 CWA Division 44 vs. MBT, 1948
92-35 thru 36 CWA Divisions 43/44 vs. MBT, 1949
93-15 CWA Divisions 43/44 vs. MBT, 1949-50
92-1 CWA; Federation of Long Line Telephone Workers, 1945
92-2 CWA; Hawthorne Pension Case, 1952-53
92-26 CWA; legal administrative documents, 1954
93-22 CWA; legal documents, 1950
93-19 CWA; potential grievance documents, 1950
93-21 CWA; potential grievance documents, 1951
92-12 CWA research; contract survival, 1954
93-24 CWA vs. AT&T; legal documents, 1951
93-17 CWA vs. Elyria Telephone Company, 1951
93-18 CWA vs. Elyria Telephone Company, 1952
93-16 CWA vs. General Telephone Company of Ohio, 1954
93-35 CWA vs. General Telephone of Wisconsin; arbitration, 1953
93-38 CWA vs. Lacrosse Telephone Corporation, 1952
93-27 CWA vs. MBT; legal documents, 1951
93-29 CWA vs. MBT; legal documents, 1951
93-34 CWA vs. Northwestern Bell arbitration, 1953-54
93-28 CWA vs. Ohio Associated Telephone Company, 1951
93-40 CWA vs. Pacific Telephone, 1951-53
93-31 CWA vs. Warshfield Telephone Company documents, 1952
93-39 CWA vs. Western Electric, 1952
93-30 CWA vs. Western Electric; documents, 1953
93-14 Division 44; potential grievance documents, 1951
92-4 thru 5 Elyria Telephone Company; arbitration, 1953
92-32 Harry Hagelberg; for a writ of habeas corpus, 1947
94-5 Illinois Bell Telephone Company, 1951
94-12 Indiana, State of, vs. Jones, 1953
92-31 Legal documents, n.d.
92-30 Legal documents; Livingston, Ross and Miller, 1962
93-10 Local 170; Union Workers of America, 1948
92-25 Local 711; litigation, 1952
92-8 Local 4037; grievance, 1952
93-32 Local 7117 vs. Northwestern Bell, 1954
92-10 MBT; Accounting Department arbitration, 1953-54
92-21 MBT; arbitration, 1947
92-16 MBT, MTEF ( Michigan Telephone Employment Federation); leave of absence dispute, 1945
92-9 MBT; negotiations, 1953
93-9 MET vs. MTEF, 1947
93-3 Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission, 1947-50
92-17 MTEF; Dissolution of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, 1946
92-18 MTEF; dissolved into CWA, 1948
92-33 National Federation of Telephone Workers; Detroit Police Department, 1947
92-15 National War Labor Board, 1945
94-28 National War Labor Board; MBT, 1943
92-24 National War Labor Board; OBT (Ohio Bell Telephone Co.), 1942
94-29 NLRB; cases, 1945-53
94-27 NLRB; Indiana Bell Telephone Company, 1954
93-20 NLRB; legal documents, 1950-51
92-13 NLRB: MBT and MTEF, 1944-46
92-22 thru 23 NLRB; Michigan State Labor Mediation Board, 1949
92-14 NLRB; MTEF, MBT, litigation, 1945
92-20 NLRB: National Federation of Telephone Workers; litigation, 1947
92-6 NLRB; OBT, 952
92-3 NLRB; Western Electric/CWA, 1951
92-7 OBT; grievance litigation, 1952
93-5 People vs. Cheverny, 1947
93-7 Poeple vs. Glantz, 1947
93-6 People vs. Sieloff, 1947
93-8 People vs. Vonk, 1947
93-4 People vs. Wilson, Jack, 1947
94-36 Regional War Labor Board; MBT, MTEF, 1943
92-34 Strike; MBT, 1947
92-27 The Union and Michigan Bell, 1940-51
94-35 Unemployment case; Michigan Supreme Court, 1965
92-29 Wage schedules, n.d.