SUPPLEMENTARY GUIDE TO PROCESSED COLLECTIONS

Since 1974 Published Guide (July 2001, revision)

 

©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor & Urban Affairs

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NAME OF COLLECTION

SIZE         linear ft

SUBJECT CONTENT

 

N

 

  

 

National Caucus of Labor Committees

4.5

Lyndon LaRouche candidacy; socialist education; U.S. foreign policy, 1965-82

 

National Council of Jewish Women: Detroit Section [JCA]

8, 29 spbks

Detroit Jewish community; Jewish philanthropy; United Jewish Charities; Young Women’s Hebrew Assn.; Anti-Defamation League; Jewish refugee assistance programs; Big Sister movement; North End Clinic; Camp Jeddo; Jewish Social Service Bureau; Jewish Children’s Home, 1891-1941

 

National Organization for Women (NOW) Downriver Chapter

13.75

Michigan women’s issues; Loretta Moore, 1971-88

 

National Sharecroppers Fund*

46

Black and Mexican migrant laborers and tenant farmers; Southern rural poverty and programs to alleviate it,   1937-85

 

National University Extension Association: Conferences and Institutes Division

11.25

Adult education; outreach programs, 1952-87

 

National War Labor Board

69

NWLB proceedings and public hearings, 1942-47

 

Nelson, Mercedes

1

AFT-Minnesota, Independent Caucus, 1935-71

 

New Detroit, Inc.

232

1967 Detroit riot and aftermath; housing discrimination; economic development; educational reform; police-community relations; race relations; crime; black power; Detroit politics; racism, 1967-75

 

Newspaper Guild Local 13

5.5

Columbus, Ohio local; decertification issue, 1934-86

 

Newspaper Guild Local 82: Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild

6.5

Seattle-Tacoma local; collective bargaining; strikes; 1972 suit vs. U.S. Bureau of Prisons, 1950-76

 

Newspaper Guild*

128

Collective bargaining and organizing in the newspaper industry; Chicago Hearst strike, 1939-40; Philadelphia strike, 1946-48; CIA involvement in Latin American labor organizing; ICFTU; labor and anti-Communism, 1933-73

 

Nichols, Tony

.25

UAW Local 406 (Long Beach, Calif.), 1938, 1941

 

Nomura, Tatsuro

1

Books and articles regarding IWW translated from Japanese, 1920-73

 

Norris, Harold

14.5

National Lawyers Guild; ACLU; civil rights; Detroit politics; Michigan Constitutional Convention, 1941-68

 

Nowak, Stanley and Margaret*

4.25

Communism; women; Michigan Senate; denaturalization case, 1938-57

 

O

 

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O'Connor, Harvey*

26.5

American League for Peace and Democracy; coal miners; House Un-American Activities Committee; Hull House; McCarthyism; National Unemployment League; Oil Workers International Union; petroleum industry; Pittsburgh politics; Progressive Party; steel industry; steel strikes, 1919-83

 

Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 10

7

White collar workers; union organizing in the Detroit area, 1929-83

 

Ohio Federation of Teachers

6.5

Teacher strikes; arbitration files, 1972-84

 

Oliver, William*

8.5

UAW Fair Practices Dept.; NAACP; racial discrimination in housing; Sunnyhills Housing Cooperative (Milpitas, Calif.), 1950-84

 

Organization in Solidarity with Central America

21

Nicaragua; El Salvador; Archbishop Oscar Romero; human rights advocacy groups; Central American politics, 1977-95

 

Orr, Charles*

10

International labor; ICFTU; ILO, 1912-70

 

Ovington, Mary White

5.75

Civil rights; NAACP; family history, 1854-1948

 

Owosso Education Association

4.5

Collective bargaining; National Education Association; Michigan Education Association, 1914-68

 

P

 

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Palmer, Francis R. "Jack"

.25

UAW Local 659 (Flint, Mich.); escalator clause; no-strike pledge; labor politics, 1933-67

 

Palmer, William

7

Michigan legislature; Flint bus strike of 1937; Michigan politics, 1932-41

 

Parker, Paul

1

UAW Local 659 (Flint, Mich.); Michigan legislature; Michigan politics; University of Michigan, 1939-70

 

Parks, Rosa

3

Civil rights movement, 1955-76

 

Pellusch, Jana

S

Second CLUW convention, 1975-76

 

Peoples Song Library*

2

Labor and folk songs, 1940-70

 

Pfaff, Henry J.

S

IWW; rubber industry, 1973-74

 

Philleo, Norman E.

S

Knights of Labor membership applications, 1880s

 

Pilch, Alex

8.5

Michigan legislature; parochiaid; busing; open housing; abortion; education, 1967-72

 

Pisarski, Robert

.5

Michigan hospital unions, 1949-74

 

Polaner, Helen and Mardy

1.25

Detroit Federation of Teachers; Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Locals  505 and 705; National Maritime Union-Seafarers International Union 1940s jurisdictional dispute; Josephine Gomon, 1940s-1960s

 

Pollock, Sam

2.5

Ohio right-to-work legislation; misc. labor, 1827-1958

 

Porter, Philip D.

.25

UAW Unemployment Compensation Department,     1939-47

 

Posey, Thomas E.

7.5

Labor economics; Agency for International Development programs; international labor organizations, 1926-77

 

Poyfair, Will

S

Diaries of workers at Buick Motor Co. (Flint, Mich.), 1905-22

 

Pragan, Otto

3

International Chemical Workers; labor education, 1941-61

 

Press Associates, Inc.

19

Weekly news release packets for labor press, 1954-80

 

Probe, Jacob

.25

UAW Local 157 (Fisher Body), 1940-42

 

PROD, Inc.

.75

Teamsters dissident group; trucking industry safety,   1972-79

 

Purdy, Edward

.25

UAW Local 99 (Fruehauf Trailer Co.); UAW Citizenship Department; Wayne County Board of Supervisors,    1944-68

 

Q

 

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Quarry Workers International Union of North America

S

Lanesville, Mass. Branch #81 ledger, 1906-14

 

R

 

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Rabinovitz, Samuel

1

National Child Labor Committee; migrant workers;          J. P. Stevens boycott, 1966-79

 

Radlow, Sophia

S

Walter Reuther’s physical therapist’s correspondence, 1948-51

 

Ranco, Leo

.25

Factionalism in Teamster Local 938 (Toronto), 1961-79

 

Ravitz, Mel

73

Detroit government and politics; 1967 Detroit riot; southeastern Michigan regional planning; health care planning; Coleman Young; Dennis Archer; Detroit race relations; Detroit urban renewal; Detroit police-community relations, urban sociology, 1940s-1990s

 

Read, Esther H.

S

Early automobile history in Essex County, Mass., 1976

 

Reist, Richard

1.25

Lansing Federation of Teachers Local 1620

 

Repas, Robert

S

NRA, 1933-34; photos of Ludlow, Colorado Mining Massacre, 1914

 

Rhode Island Federation of Teachers

9

AFT-related, 1946-82

 

Richter, Irving

1

CIO history; Taft-Hartley; Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; Communists in the UAW, 1934-88

 

Riger, Morris

4

Japanese trade unions; Japanese economy; TWUA,    1936-86

 

Riseman, Harry

S

Socialist labor organizations, old-age pensions, 1930-36

 

Robinson, Archie W.

28

AFL-CIO history; George Meany; agricultural implement industry; auto industry; electrical workers; maritime industry; public employees; railway workers; steel industry; labor unions; collective bargaining; news media and labor; Johnson administration; Kennedy administration; Truman administration; National War Labor Board; politics; Flint sit-down strike; UAW; United Mine Workers; United Steelworkers, 1927-80

 

Robinson, Remus

16.5

Detroit health care; discrimination in health care and medical education; civil rights; education in Detroit; desegregation; Detroit politics; Northern High School Incident of 1966; Sherrill School Parents vs. Board of Education, 1928-70

 

Roderick, Barry

S

Left-wing political activities in Alaska, 1981-83

 

Rogoff, Marvin

1

International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, 1960-71

 

Rugh, Jack

6

California unions; handicapped workers, 1942-71

 

Ryan, William A.

2

Parochiaid; Michigan legislature, 1968-70

 

S

 

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Saari, Gene

17

Organizing mine workers; United Steelworkers of America; International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers; Calumet & Hecla, Inc.; Copper Range Railroad Company; Hanna Mining Company, 1913-79

 

Sadlowski, Edward

4

United Steelworkers of America; 1973-74 union elections; Steelworkers Fight Back dissident movement, 1964-76

 

Salandini, Reverend Victor P.

3

UFW; boycotts, 1954-73

 

Salmi, Wilbert

S

Workers Alliance of America, 1936

 

Schick, David S.

3

The Newspaper Guild; labor education; Southern Tenant Farmers Union; 1948 Presidential election, 1934-69

 

Schiff, Helen

.5

Socialist Workers Party, 1940-67

 

Schnapper, M. B.

.25

Philip Murray speeches, publications, 1943-46

 

Schrade, Paul

S

UAW bureaucratization; correspondence with Emil Mazey, 1973

 

Schwartz, Louis A.

S

Walter Reuther; Schwartz's artwork, 1957-79

 

SEIU Executive Office Files: David Sullivan

93

AFSCME; contract negotiations; factionalism; organizing; strikes; health care workers; custodial workers; public employees; civil rights; War on Poverty; correspondence with George Meany, Jerry Wurf, John Sweeney, 1937-73

 

SEIU Executive Office Files: William McFetridge

23

AFSCME; contract negotiations; jurisdictional disputes; factionalism; organizing; strikes; Teamsters; Taft-Hartley; right-to-work; Richard Cordtz; James Carey; George Meany; Arnold Zander, 1955-63

 

SEIU International Vice-Presidents

19

Elections; contract negotiations; local mergers; Marina City; organizing security guards and nursing home workers; racing industry; trusteeships; Canada, servicing locals, 1950s-1970s

 

SEIU Local 32B-32J

2.5

Organizing and servicing New York City janitors, window washers, elevator operators; women service workers; Latino and African-American service workers, 1961-81

 

SEIU Microfilm

134 reels

SEIU history; W. L. McFetridge; David Sullivan; George Hardy; Thomas Shortman, 1921-55

 

SEIU Research Department

6

Industry and wage surveys for health care, building service, and recreation and amusement industry workers; membership surveys; contract negotiations, 1942-79

 

SEIU Research Department Historical Files

17

SEIU locals’ history; wages; collective bargaining; industry surveys; benefits, 1916-97

 

SEIU Secretary-Treasurer’s Office Files: Affiliate Officers

7

Local union, joint council and state conference executive affairs, officer appointments, elections and membership activity, 1967-87

 

Seraile, William

.5

Black IWW member, Ben Fletcher, 1921-22

 

Sexton, Brendan

8.5

UAW Education Department; "Eye Opener" radio program; UAW Local 50 (Willow Run), 1938-88

 

Shafarman, Dr. Eugene

.75

Industrial diseases in Detroit; Dies Committee, 1935-78

 

Shafer, Ann

6

Abortion; aged; American Federation of Grainmillers Battle Creek local; Michigan politics; Coalition of Labor Union; employment discrimination; pay equity; Equal Rights Amendment; education; reproductive freedom; women and labor; Watergate, 1950-90

 

Shankar, George

1

Detroit Water Board; dismissal over U.S. loyalty oath; socialism, 1947-68

 

Sheffield, Horace L.

1

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; racial segregation; Trade Union Leadership Council; Detroit and Michigan labor unions; Detroit Plan Group, Inc., 1963-1977

 

Sholem Aleichem Institute [JCA]

5

Secular organization promoting Jewish education, cultural and social activities; Yiddish language, 1950-70

 

Silvey, Ted F.

60

Automation; computer and industrial technology; international labor activities; ICFTU; CIO Reconversion Committee; industrial relations; Ohio AFL-CIO; labor in World War II, 1936-69

 

Simchak, Morag McLeod

1.5

Women’s rights; Equal Pay Act of 1963; United Rubber Workers, 1955-76

 

Simone, Charles J.

S

UAW Local 731 (Eastern Aircraft), 1943

 

Simons, Leonard N. [JCA]

15.5

Jewish studies; Jewish National Fund; Israel; Zionism; Wayne State University; Detroit Jewish community; Temple Beth El; Jewish philanthropy; Simons-Michelson Advertising Agency, 1872-1994

 

Sinai Hospital Guild

31.5

Women volunteers in social service; Detroit hospitals; Detroit Jewish community, 1952-2000

 

Slinkard, Luther M.

21

UAW Region 5; UAW Local 570; UAW Local 819; Kohler strike; Bell Aircraft organization drive, 1951; Regional War Labor Board; Roseville, Michigan Planning Commission; Taft-Hartley; Wage Stabilization Board, 1939-70

 

Sloan, Blanding

.25

Federal Theater Project; marionettes, 1928-39

 

Slomovitz, Philip [JCA]

76.5

Jewish community in Detroit; The Jewish News; Anti-Semitism; Zionism; Jewish charities; Arabs; Israel; Histadrut; Jewish biographies; Philip Slomovitz personal papers, 1919-91

 

Smith, Ernest C.

1.5

Freedom Now Party; DFT agency-shop cases; Reverend Albert Cleague; black political action, 1962-77

 

Smith, George

S

IWW member, 1948-55

 

Smith, Howard R.

5

UAW Local 653 (Pontiac, Mich.), 1939-62

 

Smith, Joseph

.25

United Mine Workers District 24 (Michigan), 1908-32

 

Smith, Stanton and Nancy

1

AFT and Communism; AFT Locals 5, 192 and 537, 1938-42

 

Smith, Sydney D.

3

California farm laborers; UFW; Cesar Chavez; California Migrant Ministry; Delano grape strike; church and farm labor, 1960-86

 

Society of Women Engineers                 

94.5

Employment discrimination; pay equity; women in engineering; engineering education; Equal Rights Amendment; Federation of Organizations for Professional Women, 1918-95

 

Society of Women Engineers: Detroit Section

4.5

Correspondence, clippings, membership files, 1952-91

 

Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)*

90

Air quality; economic development; housing; transportation; water quality, 1954-85

 

Southeast Michigan Council of Governments: Detroit Metro Area Regional Planning Commission

7.5

Detroit development; housing; resources, 1947-70

 

Spaniolo, Joseph

3

National Caucus of Labor Committees; U.S. Labor Party; campaigns of Lyndon LaRouche, 1973-81

 

Stark, William C.

1

Cleveland public school problems; clippings, 1975-92

 

Ste-Marie, Paul

.5

UAW Local 600 factionalism/elections; Ford Rouge plant; African-American autoworkers; ACTU; Percy Llewelyn; Homer Martin, 1939-43

 

Stern, Marjorie

7

AFT-San Francisco; women's rights; Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), 1967-75

 

Stevenson, A. E.

.75

Cleveland Industrial Union Council; War Labor Board, 1891-1976

 

Stewart, Irma Mortimer

3

Henry Kraus manuscripts; North American Aviation organizing, 1930-88

 

Strachan, D. Alan

2.5

World War II labor boards; Agency for International Development, 1940-77

 

Student Activists

4.5

SLID; SDS, 1946-66

 

Sugar, Maurice

60.5

UAW legal matters; UAW factionalism; Ford Hunger March; HUAC; radical politics, 1907-89

 

Sullivan, David

2

SEIU Local 32B; Hubert Humphrey presidential campaign, 1950-70

 

Sweet, Sam

4

Anti-Communism; UAW factionalism; Progressive Party, 1938-52

 

T

 

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Taft, Philip

2

IWW; Taft's writings, 1955-72

 

Tappes, Shelton

1

UAW Ford Local 600; 1949 Ford strike; UAW and World War II, 1934-89

 

Tenney, Ruth

7

Detroit housing and urban renewal programs; urban planning; WSU area redevelopment, 1964-74

 

Topdahl, Manilla

.5

AFT; St. Paul Federation of Teachers, 1946-65

 

Tramutola, Larry

.25

United Farm Workers, 1967-79

 

  Trautmann, William E.

.25

IWW; Brewery Workers National Union; Vincent St. John; Daniel De Leon; 1909 Steel workers’ strike, McKees Rocks, Pa.; Lawrence textile workers’ strike; Western Federation of Miners, 1905-20

 

  Tussey, Richard B.

16

Cleveland labor organizing; Ohio politics; Socialist Party; Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen; Industrial Workers of the World; Mechanics Educational Society of America; right-to-work; Taft-Hartley Act; United Food & Commercial Workers, 1940-81

 

Tuxbury, Robert L.

13.75

ALPA, 1947-70

 

U

 

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UAW Aerospace Department

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