Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Local P-1: Records, circa 1946-1974
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Title: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Local P-1: Records
Inclusive Dates: circa 1946-1974

Creator:
  • Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Local P-1 (Ottumwa, Iowa)
Call Number: Micro 603; Audio 656A

Quantity: 7 reels of microfilm (35 mm) and 4 tape recordings

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
Records of the Meat Cutters Ottumwa, Iowa, Local P-1, and its predecessor, the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 1, which represented employees of the John Morrell Company plant in Ottumwa until it closed in 1973; plus a few records of Local 1187, which represented workers at Ralston Purina in Ottumwa. Included are minute books; local bulletins, 1954-1973, concerning politics, union elections, community affairs, and work life; and correspondence and subject files, 1945-1973, concerning the Iowa State Federation of Labor and its Committee on Political Education, labor efforts in the 1972 Presidential election, the 1969 strike against Iowa Beef Packers and Neuhoff Packing Company, and contract negotiations. Also included are financial records, 1951-1972; grievance records, 1952-1971; and oral history interviews, some on tape and some as transcripts, 1974, with Virgil Bankson, former chief steward; Frances Calhoon, office steward; Donald Jones; and Earl Richards.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0603
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