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

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SUBJECT CONTENT

A

Abner, Willoughby*

14

Affirmative action; labor mediation; civil rights; employment discrimination, 1940s-1973

ACLU Oakland County Branch

5

Michigan politics; abortion; school prayer; senior citizen housing in Birmingham, Mich.; housing discrimination; anti-Vietnam War activity; James Lafferty, 1970-84

ACLU of Michigan/Metropolitan Detroit Branch

23.5

Academic freedom; censorship; church and state; civil liberties; police brutality; HUAC; legal assistance to prisoners, 1952-66

Adamcyk, Stephen

S

UAW Ford Local 400, 1937-72

Adams, Joseph

S

UAW Dodge Local 3, 1939

Adams, Mark Radio Program

3.5

Detroit Employers Assn. Radio Program (WWJ), 1948-49

Adat Shalom [JCA]

28

Adat Shalom Synagogue history; Detroit Jewish community, 1940-75

AFSCME Organizing Department

5.5

Public employee organizing; elections; strikes; P.F. Ciampa; Jerry Wurf, 1967-72

AFSCME President’s Office: Arnold Zander

57.5

AFSCME founding; international labor affairs, 1927-62

AFSCME Program Development Department

5.5

AFSCME women's issues, 1964-77

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer: Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee

20

Organizing public sector workers, 1939-68

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer’s Office

84.25

AFSCME locals and councils, 1964-77

AFT Human Rights and Community Relations Department

3

Racism in education; school segregation; Oceanhill-Brownsville; San Francisco teacher strike; Sandra Feldman; Albert Shanker; David Selden, 1965-75

AFT Local 1700: Archdiocesan Teachers Federation (Chicago)

3.5

Organizing in the Archdiocese of Chicago; Seton strike of 1968, 1962-77

AFT Local 2003: Hawaii Federation of College Teachers

S

Organizing, 1970-72

AFT Local 231: Detroit Federation of Teachers

34

School desegregation; freedom of speech; millage campaigns; teacher strikes; community control of schools; 1930s-1970s

AFT Local 231: Detroit Federation of Teachers/Wayne University Chapter

1

Wayne State University faculty union, 1941-57

AFT Local 29: Panama Canal

7.5

Panama Canal Zone; teachers, 1918-81

AFT Local 691: Kansas City Federation of Teachers

39, 7 spbks

Contract negotiations; strikes; desegregation in Kansas City schools; educational reform; AFT-NEA rivalry, 1942-84

AFT National Defense Fund

7.75

Contract violations; civil liberties, 1937-68

AFT Office of the President

22

Teacher strikes and contract negotiations; school desegregation; Oceanhill-Brownsville; Charles Cogen; David Selden; education legislation; job stress, 1960-74

AFT Secretary-Treasurer's Office

5.25

AFT administration and organizing, 1928-67

AFT State Federations

8

State legislation; collective bargaining; salaries; President's Office material included from national office, 1922-67

AFT/Wisconsin Federation of Teachers Local 3605 (Western Wisconsin Technical Institute)

5.5

Wisconsin Federation of Teachers; collective bargaining and arbitration for Wisconsin college faculty; education in Wisconsin; Wisconsin vocational and adult education, 1972-89

AFT: Massachusetts Federation of Teachers

12

Collective bargaining; strikes; public education in Massachusetts, 1952-80

Alatorre, Richard

1

Farm labor; Teamsters union, 1969-76

Alexander, Gabriel

4.5

National War Labor Board; American Arbitration Association; 1944-76

Alexander, Moses

.5

IWW; Idaho labor unrest, 1917-18

All Unions Committee to Shorten the Work Week

S

First National Conference, Detroit, 1978

Allard, John

5

UAW aerospace locals; retirees, 1943-78

Allen, Winfred G., Jr.

.25

Debs, DeLeon, Haywood research materials, 1972-78

All-Peoples Congress

1

Advocacy group literature (civil rights, peace movement, etc.) distributed at meeting in Detroit in 1981

Almblad, Carl

24

Urban renewal, city planning, and economic development in Detroit; historic preservation in Detroit; Detroit Medical Center, 1913-88

ALPA Atlanta Field Office

55

Airline mergers; air traffic controllers strike; skyjacking, 1949-85

ALPA Engineering and Air Safety Department

136

Air safety; air traffic controllers; aircraft engineering; airplane crashes; FAA; strikes; SST; Ted Linnert; Carl Eck, 1955-70

ALPA Governmental Affairs Office

3.5

Air carrier safety; airport security; hijacking; pilots' benefits, 1971-72

ALPA Kansas City Field Office

42

Mergers; strikes; safety, 1940-71

ALPA President’s Department*

6

Airline mergers; strikes, airport security, 1965-75

ALPA Region 5

5

California, Alaska and Hawaii; air safety, 1962-74

Alpern, Harriet Cooper

6

Women’s movement and mass media, 1964-83

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America & Midwestern States Joint Board

1

Tailors, cleaners, dyers and laundry workers, 1909-68

Amann, Peter H.

6.5

Black Legion research materials, 1929-80

American Association of University Women of Michigan

33, 1 spbk

Abortion; child care; education; parochiaid; pay equity; sexism in education; women’s and educational issues advocacy, 1903-91

Amrhein, George

S

UAW organizing in Chevrolet plant, Norwood, Ohio, 1939-54

Anderson, Alfred and Rose

4

IWW in Chicago area and U.S., 1905-36

Andras, Ted

.5

UAW; broadcasting; radio station WDET-FM, 1947-56

Ashbaugh, Carolyn

S

UFW-related, 1979

Ashleigh, Charles

S

IWW; Communism in U.S. and abroad, 1910-1920s

Association for Union Democracy

20

Union democracy; painters’, steelworkers' and seamen's unions, 1937-82

Association of Flight Attendants: Dallas

3.5

Contract negotiations; union finances, 1952-80

Austin, Henry W.

.25

United Steelworkers of America locals, 1951-79

B

 

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Bailey, J. Edward III

.5

Detroit African-American photojournalist, 1950s-1980s

Baldinger, Wilbur and Mary Alice

25

Newspaper Guild; civil liberties; radical right, 1929-76

Ball, Don

S

UAW Public Review Board, 1961

Barbash, Jack

122

Bureau of Labor Statistics; civil rights; CIO; National Labor Relations Board; radical organizations; Socialist Party of America; social security; UAW; US Department of Labor; United Mine Workers; Wage Stabilization Board; War Production Board; WPA, 1930s-1980s

Bartell, Henry W.

S

UAW Local 3 (Dodge Main), 1935-39

Basso, Joseph

6.5

Wayne County AFL-CIO; Frank and George Murphy; IBEW, 1927-68

Baur, Estar

S

Anti-Communist legislation in Michigan, 1950s

Beasley, Olive R.

1.5

Michigan FEPC; AFSCME, 1948-73

Beckman, Charles

5

Early UAW strikes; women; civil rights, 1933-62

Bellant, Russ

.5

Anti-draft, 1970-81

Bernstein, Julius

29

Printed material related to race relations, education, labor unions, Jewish issues and socialism, 1916-77

Bernstein, Meyer*

.5

United Steelworkers of America elections, 1964-69

Bernstein, Thelma

.5

AFSCME Local 1640; social service workers, 1966-69

Berthelot, Helen W.

.5

CWA; Michigan Democratic Party, 1950s

Betts, Glen R.

.5

UAW Local 22; Michigan United Labor County School,  1962-75

Betts, William W.

2.5

ALPA, 1944-71

Biagi, Charles

.25

Civil rights issues in New Jersey, 1960-76

Binkowski, Don

S

Polish-Americans; UAW Local 51, 1976

Bishop, Dorothy Hubbard*

1

WPA; workers' education; Flint sit-down, 1929-68

Bishop, Merlin*

1

Flint sit-down; Kelsey-Hayes; workers' education,     1936-37

Blaich, John

.5

UAW Local 600 (tool and die unit), 1941-47

Bluestone, Irving: Saturn Corporation

.75

Saturn Corporation; General Motors; UAW Local 1853 (Spring Hill, tenn.); Co-management/team production labor relations model; Michael Bennett, 1985-95

Boggs, James and Grace Lee

21

Malcolm X; NOAR; cybernation; black power; community development in Detroit and Michigan; crime; environmental protection; radicalism; Michigan Committee for Organizing the Unemployed; Native Americans; China; racism; religion, 1950-93

Booker, Eula

.5

African-American vice-president of UAW Local 630,  1950-79

Booth, Philip

.5

Hunger March of 1932; ACLU; United Federal Workers Association Local 10, 1922-45

Bordner, Robert

S

Founding of The Newspaper Guild, 1933-58

Boys Republic

6.75

Juvenile delinquency; Detroit social service agencies; institutional care of children; Homer T. Lane, 1890-1983

Brewer, George and Grace*

2

Eugene Debs; socialism in Kansas, 1905-68

Bricklayers and Masons International Union of America

.25

Executive Board materials, 1889-92

British Columbia Teachers' Federation

S

Teaching labor history in Canada, 1976-77

Brizio, E. J.

S

Coughlin, Father Charles, 1926-46

Brooks, Charles

2

UAW Local 444, Chrysler, Canada, 1948-77

Brookwood Labor College: Mark and Helen Norton Starr

25

Communism; International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union; labor songs; trade unions in Great Britain, Japan, and Tanganyika; political action; workers' education,  1917-72

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes

4

Railroad workers; BMWE Ladies’ Auxiliary, 1899-1988

Brown, Ivan*

15

UAW Local 952; apprenticeship; UAW Region 1D,    1941-69

Brown, Louise (Sally) Langdon

.5

Early childhood education; Detroit Public Schools; Schoolcraft Gardens Cooperative; Merrill-Palmer Institute, 1960s

Brown, Raphael and Olga

S

United Textile Workers organizers, 1933-35

Bueno, Floyd

2

UAW Locals 333 and 1364 (GM locals in Oakland, Calif.), 1937-87

Burati, Valery

4.5

American economic policies; post-World War II Japan, Asia, and Africa, 1932-76

Burt, George

1.5

Director of UAW Canadian Region; Canadian Congress of Labor, 1940-53

C

 

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Cable, Chester

1.5

ACLU of Michigan/Metropolitan Detroit Branch, 1965-83

Cahn, William

2

ILGWU; UE; racial discrimination in employment, 1940s-1970s

Calvert, Mellie and Herbert S.

.5

IWW; industrial labor colony in Siberia, 1920s

Campbell, Clarice T.

1

Correspondence with historian, Arthur W. Calhoun; social history of the American family; the South, 1962-79

Canterbury, Tom and Janet

.25

Civil rights; SNCC (Lowndes County, Ala.), 1963-66

Cappon, Lester

.5

Alabama coal and iron industry; strikes, 1888-1935

Carey, James B.

7.5

International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers; United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America; international labor movement; CIO/AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department, 1936-73

Carlson, Robert E.

S

Steel Workers Organizing Committee (Bethlehem Steel Johnstown Plant), 1941-42

Carrick, Louis B.

S

Personal history; IWW, 1912-35

Cavanagh, Jerome P.

331.5

Detroit mayor 1962-70; 1967 Detroit riot; Detroit Police Dept.; federal poverty programs; urban redevelopment programs; housing; Detroit and Michigan politics; New Detroit, Inc.; Detroit race relations, 1960-79

Center for Community Change

37

African Americans; agribusiness; Appalachia; child development; Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty; civil rights; community organizing; Head Start programs; low-income housing; migrant workers; poverty; United Farm Workers; VISTA, 1960-79

Chalmers, W. Ellison*

.5

Early history of the auto unions, 1926-38

Chapman, Gordon W.

4.5

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer, 1934-67

Cherboneau Place Cooperative

2

Detroit Teachers Housing Corporation; Lafayette Park urban renewal project, 1959-86

Chicago Union Printers Baseball Association

S

Union Printers International Baseball League; baseball tournaments, 1970-84

Children’s Hospital of Michigan

33.5

History of Children’s Hospital, 1886-1989

Children's Hospital of Michigan: Director of Laboratories

12

Dr. Wolf Zuelzer, Director and Professor of Pathology at WSU, 1940-80

Chinoy, Ely

7.5

Materials related to the writing of Automobile Workers and the American Dream and Assembly Line, 1936-83

Chrapkiewich, Joseph

1.5

UAW Locals 78 and 174, 1946-62

Christenson, Edith L.*

6

Women; cooperatives and adult education, 1909-74

CIO Executive Board Minutes

18 mf reels

University Publications of America edition, 1935-55

CIO Executive Board Minutes and Proceedings

6 mf reels

1938-55

CIO Housing Committee: Leo Goodman

5.5

Housing; atomic energy; Congress; foreign affairs,     1940-56

CIO Political Action Committee (PAC)

17

Civil rights; Democratic Party politics; elections; labor legislation; national health care legislation; Taft-Hartley Act, 1943-1960s

CIO Secretary-Treasurer’s Office     [Part 3]

18

James Carey’s files; UE; anti-Communism; expulsion of left-led unions from CIO; HUAC, 1936-74

CIO Washington Office

43.5

Walter Reuther presidential files; international labor; legislation; politics, 1950-56

Citizens for a United Detroit

.25

Detroit open housing, 1964

Civil Rights Congress of Michigan*

49.5

Discrimination; fascism; Congressional committees,    1933-63

Clark, Charles J.

S

UAW Local 12 (Dana Corporation-Toledo), 1963-76

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

S

Speeches by William Gray III, Andrew Young, and William Lucy at 8th Annual CBTU Convention, 1979

Coalition of Labor Union Women

43

Working women; affirmative action; women’s rights; pay equity; ERA; sexual harassment; 1975 International Women’s Year, 1972-94

Coalition of Labor Union Women- Seattle Chapter

.5

CLUW factions; Coalition for Protective Legislation,  1975-76

Coalition of Labor Union Women-San Francisco Chapter

3

Working women; politics; job discrimination, 1974-87

Cohen, Oscar

.5

Detroit Coordinating Council on Human Relations,     1946-49

Cohen, Ronald

S

Gary, Indiana Teachers Union, 1948-60

Cohl, Sanford

.5

1940 split of Socialist Workers Party

Cole, John

S

UAW contract with Ford Motor Company, 1942

Collier, John and Phyllis*

3

Personal correspondence; diaries; Charles Garland; literary works, 1887-1975

Collins, Virgil

.5

UAW Local 216; GM strike, 1945-46

Columbia Typographical Union        No. 101

19

U.S. Government Printing Office; Washington, D.C. Publishers Association; newspapers in Washington, D.C.; labor activities, 1815-1971

Committee for National Health Insurance

80

European and Canadian health services; U.S. health care; socialized medicine; UAW; Michigan Senator Philip Hart, 1961-88

Commonwealth College

S

"The Commonwealth College Strike Story," 1932

Communications Workers of America District 4

99

National Federation of Telephone Workers; 1947 telephone workers strike; women workers; COPE; Michigan Bell Telephone; Ohio Bell Telephone; collective bargaining; labor arbitration cases; organizing; affirmative action; Walter Schaar; Herman Shelton, 1934-79

Concerned Unionists

.25

UAW left dissidents, 1968-71

Conlin, Joseph P.

S

IWW-related, 1965-79

Cook, Alexander

S

Minute book of UAW Federal Labor Union No. 18331 (Flint, Mich.), 1933-34

Cook, Stanley

S

UAW Local 179 Secretary-Treasurer, 1975

Cook, William

S

Wayne County AFL-CIO, 1957

Cope, Elmer (Ohio Historical Society)

5

Labor education; political action; U.S. role in international trade organizations, 1945-64

Corder, Minnie F.

.5

IWW; garment industry, 1971

Cormier, Frank and William Eaton

3.75

Walter Reuther biographical material

Court, Andrew

4

American Automobile Manufacturers Association; GM economist, 1940-66

Cowen, Richard W. and Constance

S

Garland Fund; philanthropy and reform, 1975

Craft, John

1

UAW Local 212; factionalism; labor education, 1945-77

Crosby, Alexander

.25

Newspaper Guild Local 3; labor press, 1941-42

Crowe, James D.

S

UAW Local 157; tool and die organizing, 1937-38

Cushman, Edward L. [Parts 1-3]

24.5

American Motors Corporation, including 1961 profit-sharing contract with the UAW; labor arbitration; unemployment compensation; Boy Scouts of America; civil rights; education; National Council of Churches, 1943-69

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D'Agostino, John*

4

UAW Retired Workers' Advisory Council; UAW Recreation Department, 1950-81

Daniel, Franz E.*

7.5

Amalgamated Clothing Workers; CIO; TWUA, 1890-1976

Davis, William C.

6.5

ALPA-related, 1931-72

DeCaux, Len and Caroline

8

CIO; anti-Communism; Labor’s Non-Partisan League;      CIO-PAC, 1925-70

Democratic Socialists of America

2.75

Poletown; City of Detroit Task Force on Room and Board Homes, 1972-83

Detroit Allied Printing Trades Council

.5

Kingsport Press strike; Detroit Board of Education boycott (1960s), 1927-77

Detroit Association of Educational Office Employees

4

Secretaries' union, 1942-84

Detroit Coalition to End the War Now!

1.5

Anti-Vietnam War, 1970-73

Detroit Commission on Community Relations/Human Rights Department [Part 3]

96

Affirmative action; African Americans in Detroit; education; 1967 Detroit riot; consumer protection; community organizations; social statistics; employment, housing and health care discrimination; Mexican Americans in Detroit; police-community relations; poverty and welfare; urban renewal, 1940-84

Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam

1

Detroit anti-war activities, 1965-69

Detroit Economic Development Corp