Finding Aid for the United Office and Professional Workers of America Records, ca. 1929-1957

Office Files

CIO

Box 1, Folder 1

1949, National CIO - general.

Box 1, Folder 2

1949, CIO Convention - correspondence.

Box 1, Folder 3

1948, CIO Convention Proceedings - Portland, Oregon - November 1948.

Box 1, Folder 4

1949, CIO - National (?) - UOPWA International.

Box 1, Folder 5

1948-1949, CIO - California State Convention.

Box 1, Folder 6

1950, National CIO - local statements.

Box 1, Folder 7

1948-1949, CIO - union policy in practice.

Box 1, Folder 8

1949-1950, National CIO - clippings.

Box 1, Folder 9

1949, National CIO - UOPWA trials.

Box 1, Folder 10

n.d., Anti-Discrimination Committee.

Box 1, Folder 11

1944-1947, Banking.

Box 1, Folder 12

1942-1946, Title companies.

Commercial and Distributive

Box 1, Folder 13

1948-1949, CIO Interference in UOPWA.

Box 1, Folder 14

1948-1949, CIO Councils, etc.

Scope and Content Note

Includes membership affiliation record (including estimated membership & PAC contributions), confidential.

Box 1, Folder 15

1937-1947, National office - [UOPWA].

Contracts

Box 2, Folder 1

1943-1951, Contracts.

Note

Box 2 is no compromise size.

Box 2, Folder 2

1943-1944, Contracts - Title Guarantee and Trust.

Box 2, Folder 3

1947-1951, Contract information.

Box 2, Folder 4

1945, Contracts - Curtis Wright.

Box 2, Folder 5

1947, Contracts - Cutter Laboratories.

Box 2, Folder 6

1947, Contracts - Shell development.

Box 2, Folder 7

1946-1950, Contracts - social services.

Box 2, Folder 8

1948-1954, Union contracts.

Government Agencies

Box 2, Folder 9

1946, California - minimum wage.

Box 2, Folder 10

1946-1947, California - Tenney Committee.

Box 2, Folder 11

1945, Statements & briefs - congressional committees.

Box 2, Folder 12

1939-1946, National Labor Relations Board.

Box 2, Folder 13

n.d., National Wage Stabilization Board (empty).

Box 2, Folder 14

1945, National War Labor Board - Little Steel Report - February 12, 1945.

International Union - DPOWA

Box 2, Folder 15

1942-1946, National War Labor Board.

Box 2, Folder 16

n.d., U.S. Postal regulations (empty).

Box 3, Folder 1

n.d. (post-World War II), International Union - foreign policy.

Box 3, Folder 2

1946, International Union - salary policy.

Box 3, Folder 3

1947-1948, International Union - Taft-Hartley.

Box 3, Folder 4

1950, International Union - Convention, 1950 - ... Resolutions.

Box 3, Folder 5

1944-1950, International Union - correspondence - general.

Box 3, Folder 6

1946-1947, International Union - correspondence - Merrill [Lewis Merrill].

Box 3, Folder 7

1946-1947, International Union - correspondence - technical.

Box 3, Folder 8

1950, International union - DPOWA merger.

Box 3, Folder 9

1945, International Union - FAECT merger.

Insurance

Box 3, Folder 10

1949-1950, Local 178.

Box 3, Folder 11

1943-1950, Insurance.

Box 3, Folder 12

1946-1949, Insurance.

Box 3, Folder 13

1937-1943, Division conferences.

Insurance Division

Box 3, Folder 14

1945-1950, 178 - Hancock.

Box 3, Folder 15

1945-1949, Policy and procedure.

Box 3, Folder 16

1945-1946, Unity Mutual.

Box 3, Folder 17

1946, Golden State.

Box 3, Folder 18

n.d., American National - mailing lists (empty).

Box 3, Folder 19

n.d., Social service.

Box 4, Folder 1

1946, Technical.

Note

Box 4 is no compromise size.

Box 4, Folder 2

n.d., Radio.

Box 4, Folder 3

1946, Hospital.

Box 4, Folder 4

1946, Banking.

Box 4, Folder 5

n.d., Transportation plan - San Francisco.

Box 4, Folder 6

1946, UOPWA - West Coast Region.

Box 4, Folder 7

1949, Southern California Council.

Box 4, Folder 8

1948-1949, Regional Executive Committee.

Box 4, Folder 9

1948-1949, General Regional - (exc. insurance).

Box 4, Folder 10

1947-1948, Miscellaneous.

Box 4, Folder 11

1948, Prudential - Los Angeles Local 178 and West Coast releases.

Box 4, Folder 12

1948-1949, Prudential.

Box 4, Folder 13

1946-1949, Miscellaneous.

Box 4, Folder 14

1947-1948, Local 178 Los Angeles - leaflets.

Box 4, Folder 15

1947-1949, West Coast region.

Box 4, Folder 16

1946, Organizing plans.

Box 4, Folder 17

1949, Accountant's Report for the year ending June 30, 1949.

Box 4, Folder 18

1950-1951, Reports to International.

Publications

Box 5, Folder 1

1938, 1939, 1950, Champion (May 1938), Vocational Trends (June 1939). Union Research Facts and Figures, vol.1 no.1 (May 23, 1950).

UOPWA

Box 5, Folder 2

1940-1950, Per capita reports, bulletins, press releases.

Box 5, Folder 3

n.d., Strike welfare guides.

Box 5, Folder 4

1948, Third Round Collective Bargaining Kit for CIO Unions in the Los Angeles Area, February 27, 1948.

Box 5, Folder 5

1950, Union Labor Committee - Unions expelled by CIO.

Box 5, Folder 6

1946-1947, Resolutions, reports to members, press releases, Lewis Merrill resignation.

Box 5, Folder 7

1947, Statement of the UOPWA... [on proposed amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act].

Box 5, Folder 8

1949-1950, Classified.

Lewis, Richard

Box 5, Folder 9

1948, Insurance.

Box 5, Folder 10

1945-1947, Personal.

Box 5, Folder 11

n.d., Expense report forms (blank).

Local Unions

Box 5, Folder 12

1944-1948, West Coast region.

Box 5, Folder 13

1946-1949, Region - West Coast.

Box 5, Folder 14

1946-1951, Local 253 (including former Local 9).

Box 5, Folder 15

1949, Local 253 - retail credit.

Box 5, Folder 16

1947-1950, Social Service - Los Angeles - (Local 95).

Box 5, Folder 17

1949-1950, Duarte (including arbitration) - Local 95 - Los Angeles.

Box 5, Folder 18

1947-1950, Jewish Community Council (including Arbitration).

Box 5, Folder 19

1946-1947, Local 34 - San Francisco, 1946-1947.

Box 6, Folder 1

1948, Insurance industry.

Box 6, Folder 2

1948-1949, Clippings - CIO and UOPWA activities.

Box 6, Folder 3

1946-1950, Statement re Harry Bridges, correspondence, ephemera] - labeled National Labor - Releases, 1946.

Scope and Content Note

Includes statement by Richard Lewis concerning indictment of Harry Bridges, correspondence between Richard Lewis and Bernard Lusher, and ephemera for related labor issues, 1946-1950.

Box 6, Folder 4

1941, News - UOPWA Press Service.

Box 6, Folder 5

1948-1951, Follow-up.

Box 6, Folder 6

1948-1949, Prudential master plan.

Box 6, Folder 7

1948-1950, International - printed leaflets and bulletins.

Scope and Content Note

Includes UOPWA poster re Prudential Insurance.

Box 6, Folder 8

n.d., [file FE PRF868T254?] - No file present - Out marker dated 25 October 1982.

Box 6, Folder 9

n.d., Prudential (empty).

Box 6, Folder 10

1948-1953, Clippings - UOPWA locals.

Box 6, Folder 11

1943-1944, Clippings - general.

Box 6, Folder 12

1944, White Collar Conference, 1944.

Box 6, Folder 13

1943-1953, Correspondence from National on insurance.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters from Richard Lewis, Lewis Merrill.

Box 6, Folder 14

1945-1953, Metropolitan - Organizing.

Note

Penciled note on folder 1944-1945.

Box 6, Folder 15

1944, RD general correspondence with West Coast locals - officer list.

Box 6, Folder 16

1944-1951, Correspondence, financial analysis - DPOWA, [local and national reports...].

Box 6, Folder 17

1948-1951, International Union - correspondence.

Box 7, Folder 1

1947-1949, Local 75.

Box 7, Folder 2

1948-1949, Region - Social Service Division.

Scope and Content Note

West Coast Regional Office - UOPWA.

Box 7, Folder 3

1947-1949, [West Coast Regional Council].

Scope and Content Note

With correspondence and reports.

Box 7, Folder 4

1947, Banking.

Box 7, Folder 5

1946-1950, [Correspondence with local chapters and regional office, and related documentation].

Note

Folder title Ins. Conf. Credentials has been crossed out.

Box 7, Folder 6

1948-1950, Correspondence, bulletins - [local, regional, national].

Note

Folder title CIO Councils has been crossed out.

Box 7, Folder 7

1945-1949, Correspondence, confidential report, [UOPWA statement on Mundt-Ferguson bills...].

Note

Folder title (Miscellaneous) - Filing.

Scope and Content Note

Includes California Intelligence Bureau confidential report - White Collar Workers Association, 1945, correspondence with William Piehl, Doris Walker, John Schuyten, and with regional and local offices.

Box 7, Folder 8

1948, West Coast region.

Box 8, Folder 1

1936, BS and AU 12646 - Elections of officers.

Box 8, Folder 2

n.d., ACTU.

Scope and Content Note

How to de-control your union of communists, by Reverend Chalres Owen Rice.

Box 8, Folder 3

1940, Group insurance.

Box 8, Folder 4

1949, Prudential home office.

Box 8, Folder 5

1949, Personnel practices.

Note

Folder title Personnel practises.

Box 8, Folder 6

1947, Photographs

Scope and Content Note

Photogaphs of picket lines at Cutter Laboratories, Radio Guild, Shell.

Box 8, Folder 7

1940-1941, Publicity guide.

Box 8, Folder 8

n.d., Magazine articles re West Coast.

Box 8, Folder 9

1947-1950, National Social Services division.

Box 8, Folder 10

1944-1950, National Labor Action Committee.

Box 8, Folder 11

1949, Los Angeles Social Service.

Box 8, Folder 12

1950, Cedars of Lebanon.

Box 8, Folder 13

1946-1948, Local 225 - Oakland - leaflets re Cutter, Shell.

Box 8, Folder 14

1948-1949, Local unions - 34 & 225 mainly.

Box 8, Folder 15

1948, Prudential - San Francisco releases

Scope and Content Note

Includes letter to Harry Bridges, 23 September 1948.

Box 8, Folder 16

1948, Metropolitan - releases.

Box 8, Folder 17

John Hancock negotiations - releases - bulletins.

Publicity

Box 9, Folder 1

1940-1946, Miscellaneous.

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, statistical reports, membership lists, publications, minutes.

Box 9, Folder 2

1940-1948, Miscellaneous.

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, minutes, ephemera.

Box 9, Folder 3

1944-1945, National Insurance Division, 1945-1944 - 3-2.

Box 9, Folder 4

1948, Fraser correspondence - re secession of insurance agents from UOPWA, 1948.

Scope and Content Note

Includes carbon copies of letters as well as photostatic reproductions.

Box 9, Folder 5

1948, Other regions.

Box 9, Folder 6

1944-1948, Press and government releases.

Box 9, Folder 7

1945, Press release and charter - [UOPWA].

Box 9, Folder 8

1943-1948, [Southern California Conference].

Box 9, Folder 9

1945-1948, Local 19 New York - social service leaflets.

Box 10, Folder 1

1946-1949, Northern California Sub-regional Council.

Box 10, Folder 2

1945-1948, Financial.

Box 10, Folder 3

1942-1946, [Social services locals and divisions].

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, issues of White Collars, The Office Worker, photograph of 1943 California CIO conference.

Box 10, Folder 4

1945-1950, UOPWA - [national and local].

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, administrative minutes, reports.

Box 10, Folder 5

1947-1953, Local 9 Los Angeles - leaflets - later local 253.

Box 11, Folder 1

1947-1949, [Publications on labor issues].

Scope and Content Note

[Includes:] Monthly Labor Review, vol.69 no.5 (November 1949), Industrial Bulletin, vol.28 no.6 (June 1949), and Survey of Personnel Practices in Los Angeles County, no.14 (August 1947) by Richard 0. Sensor & Mary Faith Martin.

Box 11, Folder 2

1951, Prices - clippings.

Box 11, Folder 3

n.d., Cost of living (empty).

Box 11, Folder 4

1949, Wages and personnel data.

Box 11, Folder 5

1948-1949, UOPWA - research [White collar workers salaries].

Box 11, Folder 6

1944-1950, Clippings.

Clippings and Discussion Material

Box 11, Folder 7

1949 [No further description available].

Publicity

Box 11, Folder 8

1948, Classification and salary scales - [clerical positions].

Note

Folder title is Filing - Newspapers.

Box 11, Folder 9

1948-1949, CIO Convention - U.O.P.W.A. Statements.

Box 11, Folder 10

1944-1945, Publications.

Note

Folder title is Publications to file - news.

Box 11, Folder 11

1945-1946, [Foreign white collar workers].

Scope and Content Note

The Clerk: the Federated Clerks' Union of Australia, 2 issues.

Box 12, Folder 1

1935-1936, The Ledger - (BS & AU - AFL).

Scope and Content Note

Issues of The Ledger, publication of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants' Union (Local 12646), including vol.1 no.1 (January 15, 1935).

Publications

Box 12, Folder 2

1947-1950, Publications - Leaders Bulletin.

Scope and Content Note

Issues of the UOPWA bulletin, including no.1 (November 7, 1947).

Box 12, Folder 3

1940, Organizers' Bulletin, UOPWA-1940.

Scope and Content Note

Issues of Organizers' Bulletin, including vol.1 no.1 (January 1940).

Box 12, Folder 4

1941, Organizers' Bulletin.

Publicity

Box 12, Folder 5

1942-1944, Organizers' Bulletin.

Salaries

Box 13, Folder 1

1929-1945, White collar salary trends-1929-1933-1939, 1943-1945.

Scope and Content Note

Prepared by Salary Information and Research Department, UOPWA, October 1945.

Box 13, Folder 2

1947, [Wage proposals].

Scope and Content Note

Wage proposals for Poultry Producers of Central California (Petaluma branch) and Shell Development Corporation.

Box 13, Folder 3

1945, [Insurance plan for UOPWA employees].

Scope and Content Note

Underwritten by John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance, Boston.

Box 13, Folder 4

1943-1945 (?), Salaries - clerical.

Box 13, Folder 5

1945, Salary Bulletin - UOPWA.

Scope and Content Note

Issues of U.O.P.W.A. Bulletin, including vol.1 no.1 (February 1945), and no.3-5. Lacking no.2.

Box 13, Folder 6

1943-1950, Salaries - social service.

Box 13, Folder 7

1935-1936, White collar workers - middle class - New Masses articles.

Strikes

Box 13, Folder 8

1947, Strike plans.

Scope and Content Note

re Shell Development Company.

Box 13, Folder 9

n.d., Prudential - strike plans (empty).

Box 13, Folder 10

1948, Strike plans - Federation.

Scope and Content Note

re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations.

Box 13, Folder 11

1950, Federation - injunction.

Scope and Content Note

re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations.

Box 13, Folder 12

1947-1952, Federation - Report outline & special files.

Scope and Content Note

re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations.

Box 14, Folder 1

1950, Local 95.

Scope and Content Note

re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations.

Box 14, Folder 2

1949-1950, Federation - contract.

Scope and Content Note

re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations. Includes Memorandum of Understanding (January 20, 1950) and Extracts from Award.

Box 14, Folder 3

1949-1950, Federation - Negotiations.

Scope and Content Note

re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations.

Box 14, Folder 4

1949-1950, Federation - Correspondence with Managementt & Board.

Scope and Content Note

re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations.

Box 14, Folder 5

1949-1950, Federation - International Union.

Scope and Content Note

re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations.

Box 14, Folder 6

1949-1950, Federation - National Social Services Division.

Scope and Content Note

re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations.

Box 14, Folder 7

1950, Federation - UOPWA locals.

Scope and Content Note

re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations.

Box 14, Folder 8

1950, Federation - Loretta Levin itinerary].

Note

Folder title is Fed - Loretta Levin corresp. re Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations.

Box 14, Folder 9

1949, Federation - membership lists.

Federation - General Schedules

Box 14, Folder 10

1950.

Strikes

Box 14, Folder 11

1949-1950, Federation - financial statements.

Box 14, Folder 12

1949-1950, Federation - leaflets to community.

Box 14, Folder 13

1949-1950, Federation - leaflets to members no.95.

Box 14, Folder 14

1949-1950, Leaflets to social work field.

Box 14, Folder 15

1949-1950, Federation - press releases.

Box 14, Folder 16

1949-1950, Federation - clippings.

Box 14, Folder 17

1948-1950, no.95 - Union Action Letter.

Box 14, Folder 18

1949-1950, Federation - picket schedules.

Box 14, Folder 19

1949-1950, Newspaper clippings of Jewish Social Service Employees Strike Local - 95 - UOPWA - Master file.

Note

Compiled by Mark Keats.

Box 14, Folder 20

1950, Federation - strike bulletins.

General Executive Board - Minutes

Box 15, Folder 1

1942-1944, General Executive Board - Minutes.

Box 15, Folder 2

1945-1946, General Executive Board - Minutes.

Box 15, Folder 3

1947, General Executive Board Minutes.

Box 15, Folder 4

1948-1950, General Executive Board Minutes.

Administrative Committee - Minutes

Box 16, Folder 1

1942-1943, Administrative Committee Minutes.

Box 16, Folder 2

1944, Administrative Committee Minutes.

Box 16, Folder 3

1945, Administrative Committee Minutes.

Box 16, Folder 4

1946, Administrative Committee Minutes.

Box 16, Folder 5

1947, Administrative Committee Minutes.

Box 16, Folder 6

1948-1949, Administrative Committee Minutes.

Box 16, Folder 7

1949-1950, Administrative Committee Minutes.

Constitution

Box 17, Folder 1

1946-1948[?], Constitutional charter[?].

Scope and Content Note

Amendements to the Seventh Constitutional Convention, with copies of the UOPWA constitution, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1948.

Box 17, Folder 2

1937, Report of the UOPWA... 1937 to the Committee for Industrial Organization.

Box 17, Folder 3

1939, Report to the General Executive Board UOPWA.

Box 17, Folder 4

1946, Salaries - hospital - Franklin Hospital - wage brief.

Contracts

Box 17, Folder 5

1951, Agreement... between Bell Manufacturing... and Distributive, Processing and Office Workers.

Constitution

Box 17, Folder 6

1950, Convention call of the UOPWA.

Scope and Content Note

With bulletins.

Publications

Box 17, Folder 7

1947, Wage policy and collective bargaining for white collar & professional workers.

Scope and Content Note

Report by Lewis Alan Berne.

Box 17, Folder 8

1940?, Unions for social workers?

Scope and Content Note

Reprint of article by Ray Gordon, Trend, Fall 1940.

Research Material[?]

Box 17, Folder 9

1941, Wages, war and living costs... prepared by Research Department, American Newspaper Guild.

Publications

Box 17, Folder 10

1948, Publications for political action.

Scope and Content Note

Publications kit issued by CIO Political Action Committee.

Box 17, Folder 11

1946?, C.I.O. publications - Citizen C.I.O. and The CIO: what it is and what it does.

Financial Statements

Box 17, Folder 12

1947-1950, Financial statements.

Publications

Box 17, Folder 13

n.d., Joe Worker and the story of labor, by Nat Schachner and Jack Alderman.

Scope and Content Note

History of labor presented in comic book format.

Financial Statements

Box 17, Folder 14

1940-1947, Financial reports - [UOPWA].

Scope and Content Note

Includes payroll, organizing and defense funds, statement of assets and liabilities, analysis of local and national union income, and related material.

Publications

Box 18, Folder 1

1944, White collar day - mass meeting - Los Angeles - January 21, 1944.

UOPWA - West Coast Region

Box 18, Folder 2

n.d., Letterhead (blank).

Box 18, Folder 3

1947-1949, Finances.

Box 18, Folder 4

1946, West Coast Regional Council.

Box 18, Folder 5

1946-1948, Bulletins, communications, memos, etc.

Box 18, Folder 6

1946-1948 [Northern California Council].

Box 18, Folder 7

1946-1948, West Coast Regional - minutes.

Box 18, Folder 8

1946-1948, Southern California Sub-regional Council - Northwest.

Miscellaneous

Box 18, Folder 9

1949-1953, Union.

Scope and Content Note

Includes bulletins, clipping ( Daily News, 21 May 1951, p.5, Order union vote at film studio), letter to Richard Lewis? from Rose, 26 October 1949, re a 1937 strike.

Box 18, Folder 10

1953, Announcement 11 May 1953].

Scope and Content Note

re DPOWA agreement with CIO.

Box 18, Folder 11

1944, 1950, UOPWA - [miscellaneous].

Scope and Content Note

Statement re Fair Labor Standards Act, Statement of assets and liabilities (1950) and Resolutions (1950).

UOPWA - Financial

Box 18, Folder 12

1942-1945, UOPWA financial secretary's manual.

Miscellaneous

Box 18, Folder 13

1945, 1965, n.d., UOPWA Bulletin (March 1945) Labor Trends (10 April 1965) How to de-control your union...

Scope and Content Note

Includes How to de-control your union of communists, by Reverend Charles Owen Rice.

Labor Issues - Clippings

Box 19, Folder 1

1946-1948 and n.d., Clippings file - UOPWA maintained], January 1946-March 1948.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: Labor Herald, Washington State C.I.O. News, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Call Bulletin, San Francisco Register, San Francisco News, Daily Worker, Daily People's World, P.W., P.D.

Newspapers and Periodicals

Box 19, Folder 2

1947, Labor Herald, Southern California. August-December 1947.

Physical Description: 12 items.

Scope and Content Note

1947: August 12, 19, 26; September 23; October 7, 21, 28; November 18; December 9, 16, 23, 30.

Box 19, Folder 3

1948, Labor Herald, Southern California. January-May 1948.

Physical Description: 14 items.

Scope and Content Note

1948: January 6, 13, 20, 27; February 3, 10, 17, 24; March 9, 23; April 6, 13, 20; May 11.

Box 19, Folder 4

1949, Labor Herald, Southern California. July 26 and August 9, 1949.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 19, Folder 5

1950, Labor Herald, Southern California. August 29, 1950.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 19, Folder 6

1947, Labor Herald, Northern California. March-December 1947.

Physical Description: 20 items.

Scope and Content Note

1947: March 7; April 22; June 10, 24; July 29; August 5, 26; September 2, 9, 16, 23; October 7, 21, 28; November 4; December 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.

Box 19, Folder 7

1948, Labor Herald, Northern California. January-December 1948.

Physical Description: 22 items.

Scope and Content Note

1948: January 6, 13, 20, 27; February 3, 10, 17, 24; March 2, 9, 16, 30; April 6, 13, 27; May 4, 11, 18, 25; August 31; October 5; December 14.

Box 19, Folder 8

1948, Labor Herald, California. January-December 1948.

Physical Description: 24 items.

Scope and Content Note

1948: January 20; March 30, 8, 15, 22, 29; July 6, 13, 20, 27; August 3, 10, 17, 24; September 7, 14, 21; October 5, 19, 26; November 23, 30; December 7, 21.

Box 19, Folder 9

1949, Labor Herald, California. January-November 1949.

Physical Description: 19 items.

Scope and Content Note

1949: January 4, 11, 18, 25; February 1, 8, 15, 22; March 1, 8, 22; April 19; May 3, 17, 31; July 12, 26; August 23; November 29.

Box 19, Folder 10

1950, Labor Herald, California. January-March 1950.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

January 31; March 28.

Box 19, Folder 11

1951, Labor Herald, California. January 2, 1951.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 19, Folder 12

1950 and n.d., Labor Herald, Warehouse Edition and unidentified. February 28, 1950 and n.d.

Physical Description: 3 items.

Box 20, Folder 1

1947, Daily Worker. January-December 1947.

Physical Description: 72 items.

Scope and Content Note

January 11, 13, 15, 25.
February 11, 13, 24, 26, 27, 28.
March 2, 3, 7, 13, 19, 20.
April 1; May 5, 8, 26.
June 2, 8-10, 14, 30.
July 4, 7, 11, 12, 15, 17, 19-22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31.
August 1, 2, 4, 5, 7-9, 11-16, 18, 19, 24.
September 6, 10, 13.
October 6, 8, 24, 28.
November 20, 23, 25.
December 5, 11, 12, 17, 28.

Box 20, Folder 2

1948, Daily Worker. January 1948-January 1949.

Physical Description: 54 items.

Scope and Content Note

1948: January 6, 11, 23; February 18, 25, 27; March 3-5, 10, 24; April 3, 9, 23; May 5, 11, 17, 18, 20, 25; June 2, 4, 14, 17, 29; July 13; August 12, 17, 26; September 27, 28; October 20, 22, 24, 29; November 4, 5, 25, 26, 30; December 1, 2, 13, 17, 20, 21, 24, 29, 30.
1949: January 7, 10, 12, 13, 16.

Box 20, Folder 3

1944, 1945, Office and Professional News. December 1944-June 1945.

Physical Description: 5 items.

Scope and Content Note

1944: December, v.d.
1945: January, February and June, v.d.

Box 20, Folder 4

1944-1950, C.I.O. News, National and Washington State Editions. September 1944-May 1950.

Physical Description: 32 items.

Scope and Content Note

Issues from National Edition: September 1944; January 1945; February and November 1946; May, July-September, November and December 1947; January, March, August, October and November 1948; May, July, October-December 1949; February, March and May 1950.
Issue from Washington State Edition: October 1948.

Box 20, Folder 5

1946, 1947, NM (magazine). March 1946-August 1947.

Physical Description: 6 items.

Scope and Content Note

March 5 and 26, 1946; January 7, March 4, April 22 and August 26, 1947.

Box 20, Folder 6

1946-1948 and 1957, San Francisco Labor Clarion. October 1946-September 1957.

Physical Description: 18 items.

Scope and Content Note

1946: October 18, November 29 and December 6.
1947: January 31, February 7, April 4 and 25; May 23 and 30; June 6 and 13; September 19; December 12.
1948: January 23; February 20; March 12 and 26.
1957: September 5.

Box 20, Folder 7

1947-1949, The Worker. August 1947-February 1949.

Physical Description: 10 items.

Scope and Content Note

1947: August 3 and 17. 1948: Febraury 29; March 7; June 6; November 7 and 28.
1949: January 23; February 13.

Box 20, Folder 8

1947, 1950, The Dispatcher. August-October 1947 and September 1950.

Physical Description: 5 items.

Scope and Content Note

1947: August 8 and 22; September 5; November 3.
1950: September 1.

Box 20, Folder 9

1949-1950, Career. January 1949-June 1950.

Physical Description: 17 items.

Scope and Content Note

1949: January 1 and 15; March 15; April 1 and 15; May 1 and 15; June 1 and 15; July 1 and 15; August 15; September 1.
1950: February 1; May 1 and 31; June 15.

Box 20, Folder 10

1950, Champion.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

1950: August.

Labor Issues - Clippings

Box 20, Folder 11

1938-1953, Miscellaneous clippings.

Physical Description: 7 items.

Scope and Content Note

Articles from 1938: Herald Tribune, People's World, S.S.W.B, Business Week.
Articles from 1939: Labor Front, San Francisco.
Articles from 1947: Union Power, M.C.S. Voice.
Articles from 1953: Unity News.

Newspapers and Periodicals

Box 21, Folder 1

1946, Daily People's World. September-December 1946 and n.d.

Physical Description: 17 items.

Scope and Content Note

September 13, 16, 21, 26, 27, 30; October 4, 17, 21, 24, 31; November 20, 26, 29; December 7, 28.

Box 21, Folder 2

1947, Daily People's World. January-December 1947.

Physical Description: 58 items.

Scope and Content Note

January 3, 15, 23, 30, 31; February 12; March 3, 21, 27, 28; April 3; May 5, 22, 24, 31; June 3, 5-7, 10, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25; July 5, 7, 15, 18, 22, 24, 30, 31; August 4, 7-9, 12-15, 19, 20, 30; September 12, 18; October 21; November 5, 6, 20, 26, 28; December 2-4, 11, 22.

Box 21, Folder 3

1948, Daily People's World. 1-48 to 12-48.

Physical Description: 50 items.

Scope and Content Note

January 7, 13, 24; February 13; March 1, 3, 12, 19, 23, 30; April 2, 12, 13, 15, 19, 21; May 7, 29; June 4, 10, 14, 16, 21, 23, 24; July 19-21; August 13, 17, 19, 20, 24; September 2, 9, 17; October 13; November 5, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30; December 3, 8, 10, 27, 30, 31.

Box 21, Folder 4

1949, Daily People's World. January-March 1949.

Physical Description: 7 items.

Scope and Content Note

January 3, 12, 25; February 3, 17, 24; March 21.

Box 21, Folder 5

1947, New York Herald Tribune (July 18, 1947), Oakland Tribune (October 15, 1947).

Physical Description: 2 items.

Box 21, Folder 6

1947, C.T.A.L. News. 10-47 and 12-47.

Physical Description: 3 items.

Scope and Content Note

October 20, 27; December 1.

Box 21, Folder 7

1948, San Francisco Examiner (May 26), and San Francisco News (May 28).

Physical Description: 2 items.

Duplicates

Box 21, Folder 8

1945-1950, Bulletins, newspapers, and clippings: duplicates. February 1945-May 1950.

Physical Description: 15 items.

Scope and Content Note

UOPWA Bulletin: February-June and September 1945.
Labor Herald: April 22 and August 5, 1947; February 3 and March 16, 1948; May 3, 1949.
Daily Worker: March 1, 1948.
Career: May 15, July 15 and September 1, 1949; May 31, 1950.

Newspapers and Periodicals

Box 22, Folder 1

1937-1938, Scrapbook - UOPWA maintained. April 1937-September 1938.

Physical Description: 61 items.

Scope and Content Note

San Francisco Chronicle: May-October 1937; December 1939; January-May 1940.
San Francisco Examiner: July-October 1937; December 1939.
L.H.: October-November 1937; November 1939.
San Francisco News: May-October 1937.
San Francisco C. Bulletin: May-July 1937.
San Francisco News: 1938 (n.d.); November-December 1939.
P.W.: September 1938; December 1939.

Labor Issues

Box 22, Folder 2

1939-1947 & n.d., Clippings - maintained by UOPWA. December 1939-December 1947 & n.d.

Physical Description: 205 items.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco C. Bulletin, San Francisco News, Labor Clarion, New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, New York World Telegaph, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Spokane Daily Chronicle, Spokesman Review, Oakland Post, Dispatcher, Los Angeles Daily News, Labor Herald, P.W., P.M., and P.E.

Box 22, Folder 3

1948, Clippings - maintained by UOPWA. January-March 1948.

Physical Description: 28 items.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: Los Angeles Daily News, San Francisco News, New York Herald Tribune, New York World Telegram, New York Times, New York Sun, Brooklyn Eagle, Daily Worker, and P.M.

Publications

Box 22, Folder 4

1940, Personnel Practices in Factory and Office.

Physical Description: Ringbound manual.

Scope and Content Note

Studies in Personnel Policy no.23. National Industrial Conference Board, Incorporated, New York.

Publications by and about UOPWA

Box 23, Folder 1

1946, Insurance Career. vol.2 no.5 (May 1946).

Publications by or about UOPWA

Box 23, Folder 2

1947, Staff. vol.1 no.1-4 (January 1946-May 1947).

Box 23, Folder 3

1947, Technical America vol.1 no.1-5 (February-July 1947).

Box 23, Folder 4

1948, Office and Professional News. vol.15 no.4 (April 1948).

Box 23, Folder 5

1944-1946 and n.d., Welfare in Action. vol.1 no.1-3,5,6-8, 12 (1944), vol.2 no.1-5 (1945), vol.3 no.1-2 (1946), n.d.

Box 23, Folder 6

1940, Guild News (May 1940).

Box 23, Folder 7

1945, UOPWA Bulletin. vol.1 no.1-5 (1945). With special supplement to no.3.

Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union

Box 23, Folder 8

1937, BS & AU Souvenir Journal (March 1937). With another copy.

Publications by or about UOPWA

Box 23, Folder 9

1938, 1940-1942, Stenographers Ball - programs.

Physical Description: 4 items.

Newspapers and Periodicals

Box 23, Folder 10

1969, Modern Office Procedures. vol.14 no.3 (March 1969).

Prudential Insurance

Box 23, Folder 11

1948, Who Runs the Uopwa? (November 1948).

Scope and Content Note

Prudential Insurance publication alleging Communist control of UOPWA.

Publications by or about UOPWA

Box 23, Folder 12

1948, Facts of Life. An economic document. UOPWA no.16-1.

Newspapers and Periodicals

Box 23, Folder 13

1951, March of Labor. vol.3 no.3-4 (March-April 1951).

Box 23, Folder 14

1948, New Republic. October 11, 1948.

Scope and Content Note

Cannibalism in the CIO, p.10.

Box 23, Folder 15

1950, Science & Society. vol.14 no.3 (1950).

Scope and Content Note

White collar unions and professional organizations, by Vera Shlakman, p.214.

Box 23, Folder 16

1933, Labor Unity. vol.8 no.4 (May 1933).

Scope and Content Note

White collar, by C. Albert, p.23.

Box 23, Folder 17

1945, 1946, 1947, New Masses. vol.56 no.10 (September 4, 1945) vol.62 no.1 (December 31, 1946) vol.64 no.4 (July 22, 1947).

Scope and Content Note

White collar blues, by Richard Lewis, p.4 (1945), Capitulation is not the answer, p.12 (1946), and Portrait of an artist: Morris Topchevsky, by Larry Forhman, p.9.

Newspaper and Periodicals

Box 23, Folder 18

1949, Industrial Bulletin. vol.28 no.7 (July 1949).

Scope and Content Note

The typist at home, pp.38-39.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Box 24, Folder 1

1938, Office mechanization. n.p., [1938].

Physical Description: 66pp. Typescript. With photographs.

Scope and Content Note

According to Richard Lewis, this was prepared for the Bureau of Labor Statistics and describes the history of clerical functions and the early history of office machines.

CIO

Box 24, Folder 2

1946, Statement of the California CIO Council.

Physical Description: 2 copies.

Scope and Content Note

re amendment of the wage order and sanitary regulations for women and minors in professional, technical, clerical and similar occupations.

United States Department of Labor

Box 24, Folder 3

1943, Informal hearing... for the finance, insurance, real estate, motion picture, and miscellaneous industries.

Scope and Content Note

Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division.

Box 24, Folder 4

1943, Memorandum... for the finance, insurance, real estate, motion picture, and miscellaneous industries.

Scope and Content Note

Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division. Economics Branch.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Box 24, Folder 5

1940, Conference with research directors of national and international unions. Washington, D.C., 27-28 June 1950.

Box 24, Folder 6

1941, Proceedings. Bureau of Labor Statistics... research directors of national & international unions. Washington, D.C., 19-20 June 1941.

Scope and Content Note

Full title Proceedings. Bureau of Labor Statistics second annual conference with research directors of national and international unions.

Box 24, Folder 7

1942, Proceedings. Bureau of Labor Statistics... research directors of national and international unions. Washington, D.C., 17-18 June 1942.

Scope and Content Note

Full title Proceedings. Bureau of Labor Statistics third annual conference with research directors of national and international unions.

Box 24, Folder 8

1948, Office workers salaries, hours of work, supplementary benefits.

Scope and Content Note

re San Francisco and Oakland.

Box 24, Folder 9

1950, Monthly Labor Review. vol.71 no.1 (July 1950).

Scope and Content Note

With note on cover, pp.113-120, office workers salaries.

National Business and Professional Council Project

Box 24, Folder 10

1939?, How starched are white collars today?

Scope and Content Note

Womans Press, New York. In connection with National Business and Professional Council Project, Economic Security.

New York State Department of Labor

Box 24, Folder 11

1941, Cost of living for women workers [cover title].

Scope and Content Note

Title page Adequate maintenance and protection of health for women workers in New York State, September 1940.

John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation

Box 24, Folder 12

1950, Haynes foundation budget for moderate income families. Prices for Los Angeles, September 1949. By Gloria S. Goldberg.

National Industrial Conference Board, Incorporated

Box 24, Folder 13

1950, Job evaluation. Formal plans for determining basic pay differentials.

Scope and Content Note

Studies in personnel policy no.25.

Personnel Research Federation

Box 24, Folder 14

1941, Personnel Journal. vol.20 no.2 (June 1941).

Scope and Content Note

With note on cover, see p.51, esp. p.56. Incomplete issue.

UOPWA

Box 25, Folder 1

1945-1946, Insurance Career. vol.1 no.1-4 (1945) vol.2 no.1-11 (1946).

Scope and Content Note

Bound in 1 volume.

UOPWA - Northern California

Box 25, Folder 2

1946-1948, Report. vol.1 no.1-11 (1946-1947?) vol.2 no.1-2 (1947-1948?).

Scope and Content Note

Bound in 1 volume.

UOPWA

Box 25, Folder 3

1936-1938, Ledger, The. vol.2 no.12 (1936) vol.3 no.1-11 (1937) vol.4 no.1-12 (1938).

Scope and Content Note

Bound in 1 volume. Publication of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers, and Accountants Union, local 12646, A.F.L., and the National Committee of Office and Professional Workers Unions.

UOPWA - Industrial Insurance Agents Union

Box 25, Folder 4

1937-1939, Debit, The. vol.1 no.1-2 (1937) vol.2 no.1 (1938) vol.4 no.6-8, 9-12 (1938) vol.5 no.1 (1939).

Scope and Content Note

Bound with Insurance Career (December 1943) in 1 volume.

UOPWA

Box 25, Folder 4

1943, Insurance Career (December 1943).

Scope and Content Note

Bound with issues of The Debit in 1 volume.

United Electrical and Machine Workers of America

Box 25, Folder 5

n.d. (1940's?), [Union organization].

Scope and Content Note

According to notes by Richard Lewis, this film deals with organizing and collective bargaining in the electrical industry. The film is in poor condition, brittle and already broken in some places.

UOPWA

Box 26, Folder 1

1939-1940, UOPWA News. vol.5 no.1-12 (1939) vol.6 no.1, 3-6, 8 (1940).

Scope and Content Note

Bound in 1 volume.

Box 26, Folder 2

1941-1942, UOPWA News. vol.7 no.1-12 (1941) vol.8 no.1-21 (1942).

Scope and Content Note

Bound in 1 volume.

Box 26, Folder 3

1943-1944, UOPWA News. vol.9 no.1-12 (1943) vol.10 no.1-12 (1944).

Scope and Content Note

Bound in 1 volume. For 1944, 2 issues, July & August, are numbered 7. In November 1944 no.11 was issued in 2 parts.

Box 26, Folder 4

UOPWA News. vol.11 no.1-2 (1945) vol.12 no.3-12 (1945) vol.12 no.1-12 (1946).

Scope and Content Note

Bound in 1 volume. Includes special V-J issue for August 1945.

Box 26, Folder 5

1947-1948, UOPWA News. vol.14 no.1-12 (1947) vol.15 no.1-8 (1948).

Scope and Content Note

Bound in 1 volume.

Publications

Box 27, Folder 1

n.d., Publications (ca. 1943 to 1949).

Physical Description: 5 items.

Scope and Content Note

Taxes to Win (C.I.O.), Operation Eisenhower, It's Your Union They're After (UE- United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America), Stop the Frame-ups Against Our Union (UE), How Big Is Big Business? (C.I.O.).

Box 27, Folder 2

1947, Publications.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

[California]...of the People (Independent Progressive Party of California), Forecasts of the Population of the United States, 1945-1975 (U.S. Department of Commerce).

Box 27, Folder 3

1948, Publications.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

The Cold War On American Labor, (National Labor Committee for Wallace and Taylor), Neither to Right Nor Left (C.I.O.).

Box 27, Folder 4

1949, Publications. 1949.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Scope and Content Note

New Republic Special Section: State of the Union, A Program for Liberal America.

Box 27, Folder 5

1950, Publications. 1950.

Physical Description: 2 items.

Scope and Content Note

The C.I.O. Today, by George Morris, The Vatican Conspiracy in the Trade Union Movement, by George Morris.

Newspapers and Periodicals

Box 27, Folder 6

1944-1947, Economic Outlook. April 1944-December 1947.

Physical Description: 27 items.

Box 27, Folder 7

1948-1950., Economic Outlook. January-May 1950.

Physical Description: 28 items.

Box 27, Folder 8

1949, American Statistician. December 1949.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 27, Folder 9

1949, March of Labor. June 1949.

Physical Description: 1 item.

Box 27, Folder 10

1951, March of Labor. February-December 1951.

Physical Description: 7 items.

Box 27, Folder 11

1952, March of Labor. January-July 1952.

Physical Description: 6 items.

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