United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America. Education Department: Records, 1934-1968
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Title: United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America. Education Department: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1934-1968

Creator:
  • United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America. Education Department
Call Number: Mss 262; Disc 137A

Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 2 disc 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 United Rubber Workers' Education Department consisting of intermittent files of publications, photographs, handouts, minutes, constitutions, and other printed materials. The material relates to the department's educational function and documents the history of the union, affiliation with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, organizing efforts in the 1940s, the controversy in various states concerning right-to-work legislation, the 1954 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company strike, and especially the 1957-1958 O'Sullivan Rubber Corporation strike in Winchester, West Virginia. Records include a union songbook and a transcript of an interview with John D. House, the first president of Goodyear Local 2. The disc recordings include union songs sung by Joe Glazer.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00262
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