Finding Aid to the William Neal Coleman Iron Workers International Union Collection larc.ms.0390
Biography of William Neal Coleman
History of Iron Workers International Union
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Series 1: National 1953-1986
Circular letters 1956-1968
Organizing-general 1966-1979
Organizing campaigns 1956
Organizing materials 1955-1957, undated
Havco Metal MFG. Co. stipulation agreement 1959
Construction Metal Work Corp. stipulation 1959
Organizing meeting minutes 1964 October-1971 June
Minutes 1969-1972
Firms Comprising the National Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers 1959
Miscellaneous 1966-1967
Election material undated
Regional conference 1971 July 29
Bargaining between Butler Manufacturing and Local 624 1972-1973
International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers 32nd Convention 1964 October
33rd convention 1968
34th convention 1972
35th convention 1976
37th convention 1986
Staff meetings 1955-1959
Coleman - General Organizer undated
James V. Cole personal files 1959-1973
Glazener, E.G. personal files 1959-1969
Health insurance 1955-1960
St. Louis staff conference 1970
Local union charges and trials: Instructions and forms 1963-1971
Form letters undated
Reports 1953-1984
Special reports 1960-1980
Miscellaneous special reports 1963-1968
George Cross weekly reports 1974-1976
Carlos Garcia weekly reports 1964
Frank Kroenig weekly reports 1970-1976
Weekly reports from various representatives 1962-1984
General Treasurer and Secretary correspondence undated
Correspondence 1934-1986
General Organizer W.R. Trotter negotiations: Shopmen's Local Union No. 627 and the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company 1964
W.N. Coleman personal files 1959-1974
W.N. Coleman personal files - correspondence 1961
Metal Industries Association negotiations 1969-1970
Labor newsletters and reports: AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Report; Labor's Economic Review; California Department of Employment News Letter; Economic Trends and Outlook; USO News Service 1956-1959
Standards of Apprenticeship for Ornamental Metal Fabricators 1956
Western States and Western Canada Apprenticeship and Training Conference, Portland, Oregon 1980, June 11-13
American Health Profiles, Inc. 1972-1973
Sheet Metal Work Pattern manual undated
Pattern-making manual undated
Safety Manual for Ironworker Journeymen and Apprentices, Manual IV 1973
Safety Workbook for Ironworker Journeymen and Apprentices undated
Steel fabrication course outline and course work undated
Sheet Metal Pattern Drafting and Shop Problems 1961
Ironworkers Fabrication Manual 1957
District Council minutes 1962-1985
District Council general correspondence 1972-1976
Shopmen's Business Agents' Meeting 1977-1980
Memo from COPE 1973-1976
Steel Fabricators Association of Southern CXalifornia, Inc. 1981
Assignments 1953-1976
Dues receipts 1971-1983
Ironworkers stickers 1981
U.S. International Trade Commission Hearings 1978 January
Steel imports notes and clippings 1977-1978
Miscellaneous 1978-1983
Series 2: Local 509 (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1946-1984
Organizing meetings 1974-1980
Correspondence 1971-1984
Contract termination 1963-1983
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services notices 1969-1972
National Labor Relations Board 1964-1983
Organizing 1974-1984
Contract Opening 1971-1982
Special reports by General Organizer William N. Coleman 1971-1984
Nominations 1968
General 1964-1980
Election of Officers 1976-1982
National Prepaid Health Plan 1974-1975
Investigations of grievances 1970-1983
Donald V. Ball 1970-1971
Ronald G. Prohaska 1973-1975
Darrel E. Shelton 1975
McNamara trial 1950
Di Pinto Manufacturing Company 1984
A. J. Bayer Company 1976
Absolute Steel 1981
Accurate Steel Fabricators, Inc. 1980
Adams Iron Works 1974-1976
Air Logistics 1973-1977
Airport Iron Works 1983
Alcorn Fence Company 1973-1980
Amber Steel Co., Inc. 1973-1974
Ana Rebar, Inc. 1981
Anchor Post Products 1967-1982
Anderson Fence Company 1973-1980
Bellis Steel Co., Inc. 1973-1978
Besteel Company 1974-1977
Blue Diamond negotiations 1969
Brisbane Iron Works Inc. 1976
Brownyard Structural Steel Co. 1974-1983
Bryce W. Parker, Inc. 1974-1982
Buckner-Wilson Fabricators 1978-1982
Burgeof Reinforcing Steel Contractor, Inc. 1971-1980
Burkett Fence Company 1975-1982
CECO Corporation 1946-1981
CECO Corporation negotiations 1969
Construction Metal Work Corp. agreements 1959
Crane Hoist Engineering Corp. 1972-1980
Crown Fence & Supply Co., Inc. 1972-1982
Delta Steel Co. 1974-1977
Douthitt Steel negotiations 1969
Duncan Fabricators Inc. 1977-1982
Economy Steel negotiations 1969
F. C. Russell Company 1956
F. H. Larrabee Iron Works 1974-1982
Federated Employers of Nevada, Inc. 1965-1972
Fence Companies correspondence 1964-1974
Film City Ornamental Iron Works 1974-1978
Financial Welding Services, Inc. 1981
Flintkote Company 1971-1972
Franklin Reinforcing Steel Co. 1976-1978
General Conveyor, Inc. 1977-1982
General Metal Fabricators 1975-1982
George D. Widman, Inc. 1974-1977
Global Erectors, Inc. 1973
Grano Steel Corporation 1974-1980
Great West Steel Industries, Inc. 1973-1974
Halsey Machine and Manufacturing Company 1977-1982
Harold G. Belmer Reinforcing Steel 1974-1975
Henderson's American Fence Company 1972-1982
Judson Steel Corporation 1972-1977
Kudko Diversified Inc. 1967-1971
Keith-Duke, Inc. 1973-1974
Klinger Steel Co. 1981
Lambert Steel Company, Inc. 1974-1977
Les Wing Steel Fabrication, Inc. 1980-1983
Link-Belt Company 1965-1972
Los Angeles Fencing Co. 1972-1982
Ludlow-Saylor Division of General Steel Industries, Inc. 1976-1983
Marathon Steel Company 1974-1978
Meridian Iron Works, Inc. 1976-1977
Metalcrafts Products Company 1962-1974
Millbar, Inc. 1974-1975
Modern Alloys, Inc. 1980
Pascoe Steel Corp. 1972-1980
Pacific Placing Corp. 1971-1977
Penn-Griff Steel Co. 1974-1982
Republic Steel Corp. 1968-1974
Rebar Engineering, Inc. 1973-1977
Reinforced Rod companies negotiations 1964-1965
Richwell Steel Co., Inc. 1977-1981
Riverside Steel Construction Company & Riverton Industrial Steel Construction Co. 1967-1972
Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc. 1959
Steel Fabricators Association of Southern California, Inc. negotiations 1969
Standun Inc. Metal Fabrication Division, formerly SSP Standum Inc. 1974-1975
Santa Ana Steel 1969-1982
Soule Steel Company negotiations 1961-1983
Southern California Fence Company 1972-1982
Star D Iron Works, Inc. 1977-1982
Steel Construction Service, Inc. 1974-1977
Steel Fabricators Association of Southern California, Inc.
Negotiations 1974
Proposal 1972
Old 1963-1972
Bargaining Agreements and negotiations 1967-1983
Steg Mfg. Co. 1975-1976
Strong Steel 1976-1977
Taylor Steel Company- Reinforcing Rod Division 1971-1972
Taylor's Steel & Welding, Inc. 1977-1983
Tubular Structures Corp. of America negotiations 1961
U.S. Steel Supply Division, U.S. Steel Corporation 1962-1976
United Iron Works 1974-1982
Varco-Prudence, Inc. 1969
Vista Steel Company 1974-1975
Wagner Steel, Inc. 1977-1982
Warnel Corp. 1974
Waterbury Products Company 1975
The Way Co. 1971-1975
West Coast Metalcrafts 1974-1981
Western Steel Council representing reinforcing rod companies 1971-1981
Winter & Bain, Inc. 1974-1983
Yale Reinfocing Steel Co. 1974-1975
Independent Shops correspondence and agreements 1972-1974
Agreements and By-Laws 1958-1972
Misc. Companies 1968-1983
Shops Out of Business 1964-1983
Series 3: Various Locals 1955-1986
Local 75 (Phoenix, Ariz.) General 1967-1969
Idaho Maryland Industries, Inc. and International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 428 (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1961-1962
Local 506 (Seattle, Wash.)
Sash Companies, Seattle, Washington and vicinity 1967-1969
Washington Metal Trades Inc. 1968-1971
Negotiations-Various Companies 1966-1971
General correspondence 1964-1970
Local 507 (Denver, Colo.) resolutions 1974-1975
Local 511(Spokane, Wash.) general 1967-1980
Local 516 (Portland, Or.) general 1968-1980
Local 562 (Salt Lake City, Utah)
General correspondence 1965-1983
Organizing surveys 1965
Reports - Ronald L. Parsons 1982
Reports - Dennis R. Toney 1977
Allen Steel Company 1979-1982
Allison Steel Manufacturing Company 1964-1970
C F & I Fabricators of Utah 1979-1985
Crager Wire & Iron 1982-1983
Marathon Steel Company 1977-1985
McNally Mountain States Steel Company 1979-1985
Metals Manufacturing Company 1982-1986
Provo Steel & Supply Company 1979-1985
Soule Steel Co. 1979-1985
Tech-Steel Incorporated 1970-1979
Western Steel Company, Salt Lake City, Utah 1962-1981
Negotiations-Various Companies 1964-1982
Local 581 (Tacoma, Wash.)
General Coatings, Inc. 1975
Correspondence 1965-1980
Local 624 (Fresno, Calif.)
Correspondence 1972-1974
Arbitration cases 1962-1984
Negotiations 1968-1977
Proposed agreements 1977
Local 627 (Norwalk, Calif.)
Correspondence 1977
Negotiations 1962-1980
National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. 1964-1970
Agreements and By-Laws 1967-1978
Local 712 (Vancouver, B.C.) negotiations 1968
Local 740 (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Correspondence 1964-1970
Arbitration cases 1963-1976
Contract opening letters 1972-1980
Elections 1967-1984
Alfred Moreno lawsuit 1966-1969
Acme Steel Company 1955-1969
Builders Mfg. Co. 1955
Detroit Steel Joist of Arizona 1967-1968
Evans Steel & Manufacturing Company, Inc. 1971
Pioneer Steel & Mfg. Co. 1963
Agreement between Shopmen's Local Union No. 740 and Cyrus Specialty Steel Company 1980
Reppel Steel & Supply Company, Inc. 1972-1984
Shelter Sales Co. 1983
Techni-Builders Inc. 1970
Western Fabricators Inc. 1963-1964
Local 790 (San Francisco/Oakland, Calif.)
Correspondence 1970-1976
Western Steel negotiations 1966-1978
Agreements and By-Laws 1971-1983
Local 796 (Tucson, Ariz.)
By-Laws 1962
Automation Supply and Engineering Corp. negotiations 1974
Commercial Steel Fabricators, Inc. 1970-1971
Pima Steel Building Co. 1963
Southern Arizona Steel Fabricator's Association 1962
Local 801 (Reno, Nev.)
Correspondence 1964-1983
Contract opening letters 1972-1983
Elections 1966-1982
Anvil Ornamental Products 1970-1972
Great Basin Steel Co., Inc. 1970
H & N Steel Fabricators Inc. 1963
Martin Iron Works negotiations 1964-1984
Martin Iron Works proposed agreements 1972-1984
Reno Iron Works proposed agreements 1972-1984
Reno Iron Works negotiations 1983-1984
Local 803 (Waipahu, Hawaii)
Correspondence 1974-1983
Pacific Fabrication Ltd. 1979-1980
Steel Fabricators & Erectors of Hawaii 1968-1986
Ziegler Steel Service Corp. 1976-1979
Series 4: Conference Materials 1968-1989
COPE Area conference materials 1968
Regional Conference Shop Division, Portland, Oregon 1980, June 9-10
Ironworkers 1989 Regional Conference materials 1989
Series 5: Personal documents 1975-1992
George M. Cross Years of Service award 1992
Mr. and Mrs. W.N. Coleman invitations 1975
Mondale-Ferraro election bumper stickers 1984
Business cards undated
Humorous union ephemera undated
Series 6: Photographs and Illustrations 1960-1996
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers convention photographs 1960-1976
National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. photographs undated
Portraits: Charles R. Anding; Juel D. Drake; John H. Lyons; 1976-1981
Illustrations undated
District Council of Iron Workers of the State of California and Vicinity 1996, October 7
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers 36th Convention of Delegates 1982
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornmamental Iron Workers conference panorama undated
Series 7: Publications 1942-2001
The Labor Directory 1971-1972
Union Security: The Case Against the Compulsory Open Shop circa 1965-1966
Unemployment and Imports in the Steel Industry 1977
Employees' Welfare Plan booklets undated
Insurance benefit and pension fund booklets 1954-1955, undated
Report of proceedings for the forty-sixth and forty-eighth annual conventions of the building and construction trades and the metal trades departments 1955
Instruction manuals undated
Labor law guides undated
Union Agreement Provisions bulletin 1942
AFL-CIO Policy Resolutions 1967
Shopmen's Local Union agreement - blank undated
National Labor Relations Board rules and regulations handbook 1965
General Information and Rules (International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers) undated
Miscellaneous Agreements 1968, 1980
Constitution and By-Laws, District Council of Iron Workers 1953
AFL-CIO Constitution 1973
Constitution of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers 1981-2001
Shopmen Steward's Manual undated
Thalco training manuals 1964-1967
Miscellaneous handbooks and reports undated
Series 8: Artifacts 1948-1981, undated
Dues books for W. N. Coleman 1948-1968
Union Dues Authorization card undated
George M. Cross health insurance cards undated
Notebook with annotations undated
Pencil undated
Union playing cards undated
Pocket organizers 1982, undated
W. N. Coleman union pins undated
W.N. Coleman convention badges 1964-1981