United Steelworkers of America, District 27 records, 1936-1973 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:This collection consists of alphabetized subject files of United Steelworkers of America (USWA) District 27 office including: correspondence; labor-management records; and documents concerning contracts, conventions, education, finances, investigations, legislation, pensions, political action, religion, safety, and wages. Some records date from local union activities in the era of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) (1936-1942) and carry over into the era of the USWA (1942- ). The subject file incorporates extensive correspondence with Ohio companies and local unions, with the national organization, and with the Ohio branch of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Among the correspondents are USWA executives Philip Murray, David J. McDonald, I.W. Abel, Howard R. Hague, and Arthur Goldberg; John S. Johns, a USWA district director; and Herschel Kriger and Lee Pressman, both counsels for labor groups