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Summary Information
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America Records
1903-1980
- Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
Micro 935; Audio 1402A; PH 3977; M73-235; M79-516-M79-517;
M80-118; M80-496; M84-042; M88-010; M90-247; M96-131; plus film and video call
numbers
502 reels of microfilm (16 mm), 49 audio recordings, 30 films, and
1 video recording; plus additions of 101.8 cubic feet (76 records center cartons, 29
archives boxes, 25 flat boxes, 28 card boxes, and 1 oversize folder)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
(AMCBWNA), an international union formed in 1897, and its predecessors. In 1979 AMCBWNA
merged with the Retail Clerks International Union (RCIU) to become the United Food and
Commercial Workers (UFCW). The microfilmed records primarily document high level policy
making during the post-World War II leadership of Earl Jimerson, Thomas Lloyd, and Patrick
Gorman. Included are International Executive Board minutes and correspondence with
individual locals, informational mass mailings, and convention planning files. Subject files
(1919-1980) document relations with the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters, and the internationals with
which the Amalgamated eventually merged, particularly the UPWA and the RCIU; major meat
packers and grocery store chains, the War Labor Board, the National Labor Relations Board,
and the U.S. Department of Labor. Additional files concern internal operations, convention
planning, the Amalgamated Labor Life Insurance Company, and charitable interests of the
union leadership such as cancer research and numerous Jewish organizations. The information
about locals includes material on strikes, contracts, disciplinary cases, and jurisdictional
disputes.
Additional unprocessed records, 1903-1979, are also summarized in this
finding aid. They include additional administrative records and incomplete files of the Fur
and Leather, Packinghouse, Poultry, Research, and Retail departments and the Washington,
D.C. office. Among these records are additional IEB minutes, scant documentation of the
1903-1921 era, indexes, publications, subject files, clipping scrapbooks, and photographs.
The departmental records vary according to the sector of the economy or function
represented, but they often include information on individual locals and their respective
leaders, employers, contracts and master agreements, and legislation. The Research
Department files are the most extensive, including reference and subject files containing
background information and economic survey data and files on national negotiations,
primarily 1945 to 1961.
This finding aid is itself available on microfilm (call number Micro 2090). The
Photographs and Other Visual Materials series is not included in the microfilm version of
the finding aid.
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