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Title: Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Collection
Creator:
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (Calif.)
Identifier/Call Number: URB.LACFL
Physical Description:
234.48 linear feet
Physical Description:
691 Gigabytes
Date (inclusive): 1860-2018
Abstract: The Los Angeles County Federation of
Labor (LACFL) is the umbrella organization for an alliance of hundreds of affiliated local
labor unions and labor organizations in Los Angeles County, California. It was established
in 1894 and operated under the name Los Angeles County Central Labor Council (LACCLC) for
many years. Due to a split between the AFL and CIO on the national level the the National
CIO chartered the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council in May 1937, which maintained a separate
existence from the LACCLC for two decades. By early 1959 the Greater Los Angeles CIO
Council, and six AFL affiliated Central Labor Councils — Los Angeles County, Long Beach,
Pomona, San Gabriel Valley, San Pedro-Wilmington, and Santa Monica — merged to create the
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO (LACFL). The Los Angeles County Federation
of Labor Collection consists primarily of administrative records that document the
activities of the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council and the Los Angeles County Central Labor
Council (LACCLC) prior to their merger, and then the post-merger Los Angeles County
Federation of Labor (LACFL) from 1860 through 2018. Materials in the collection cover the
general operations of all of these organizations including their main governing bodies, as
well as all of their departments and committees.
Language of Material:
English.
Historical Note:
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) is the umbrella organization for an
alliance of hundreds of affiliated local labor unions and labor organizations in Los Angeles
County, California. It was established in 1894. The LACFL is the local-level central body
which is affiliated with the state-level, California Labor Federation (previously California
State Federation of Labor) as well as the national-level, American Federation of
Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Their mission is to support organized
labor and collective bargaining in order to improve the lives of workers. They also work to
ensure that progressive political leaders who support workers' rights are elected to
office.
In 1884 six Los Angeles local unions - Printers, Carpenters, Plasterers, Painters,
Bricklayers, and Tailors – joined together to form the first Central Labor body, but it was
short lived. Then, in 1894 the first Central Trades Council, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, was organized. Due to the depression of 1896 to 1897 the Central Trades
Council, Building Trades Council and Allied Printing Trades Council found it necessary to
merge into one Labor Bureau until 1901 when the Central Labor Council was again reorganized
and received a new charter from the American Federation of Labor thereby forming the
organization which has operated continuously since that date and now constitutes the Los
Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL). It operated under the name Los Angeles County
Central Labor Council (LACCLC) for many years.
In 1935, the National AFL had an internal split, and John L. Lewis created the Committee
for Industrial Organizations which would later become the Congress of Industrial
Organizations (National CIO) in 1938. Consequently, the National CIO chartered the Greater
Los Angeles CIO Council in May 1937, which maintained a separate existence from the LACCLC
for two decades.
In 1955 the National AFL and National CIO merged. This set in motion statewide mergers and
countywide mergers between AFL and CIO organizations. By early 1959 the Greater Los Angeles
CIO Council, and six AFL affiliated Central Labor Councils — Los Angeles County, Long Beach,
Pomona, San Gabriel Valley, San Pedro-Wilmington, and Santa Monica — merged to create the
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO (LACFL).
The LACFL is led by the Executive Board which consists of 40 Vice Presidents including a
Chair, who meet once a month. The House of Labor is their monthly meeting of representatives
from affiliate unions where reports are given from the various departments within the LACFL.
The LACFL also runs standing committees and departments such as their Council on Political
Education (COPE) which sets labor's political agenda, endorses candidates and supports
campaigns that benefit working families. In the past the "Supreme Governing Body" of the
Federation was the monthly Federation Meeting composed of delegates from each affiliated
union, and the Executive Board was made up of 35 Vice Presidents, a President, and an
Executive Secretary-Treasurer who carried out the policies, programs and instructions of the
delegates between meetings. Below you can find a partial list of LACFL executives:
LACFL Presidents:
Thomas Ranford (ca. 1947-1959)
Albert T. "Blackie" Lunceford (ca. 1959)
George B. Roberts (ca. 1959-1964)
Irvin Mazzei (ca. 1964-1972)
J. J. Rodriguez (ca. 1972-1988)
Ricardo Icaza (ca. 1988-?)
Ron Herrera (ca. ?-2022)
Yvonne Wheeler (2022-)
LACFL Executive Secretary-Treasurers:
L. W. Butler, LACCLC Secretary (ca. 1909-1915)
C.L. Myers, LACCLC Secretary, (ca. 1915-1921)
J.W. Buzzell, LACCLC Secretary (ca. 1925-1943)
William J. Bassett (ca. 1943-1967)
Sigmund Arywitz (ca. 1967-1975)
William "Bill" Robertson (ca. 1975-1993)
James "Jim" Wood (ca. 1993-1996)
Miguel Contreras (ca. 1996-2005)
Martin Ludlow (ca. 2005-2006)
Maria Elena Durazo (ca. 2006-2014)
Rusty Hicks (ca. 2014-2019)
Greater Los Angeles CIO Council Executive Secretary-Treasurers:
Philip "Slim" Connelly (ca. 1939-1951)
Albert T. "Blackie" Lunceford
Scope and Contents
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Collection consists primarily of administrative
records that document the activities of the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council and the Los
Angeles County Central Labor Council (LACCLC) prior to their merger, and then the
post-merger Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) from 1860 through 2018. Materials
in the collection cover the general operations of all of these organizations including their
main governing bodies, as well as all of their departments and committees. Materials include
political campaign literature, correspondence, ephemera, meeting minutes, pamphlets,
political advertisements, speeches, and newspaper clippings which provide in-depth insights
into the complex issues of industrial unionism, states' rights, and the elective process in
California. The collection is arranged in six Series. Pre-merger materials are collected in
Series I, II, and III, with some photographic pre-merger material in Series V and some
audiovisual pre-merger material in Series VI. Post-Merger Materials are covered in Series
IV, V, and VI.
Series I.
Files of the Executive Secretaries, documents the
pre-merger activities of the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council and has been divided into two
Subseries: Subseries A. Philip "Slim" Connelly Papers (1938-1966) and Subseries B. Albert T.
"Blackie" Lunceford Papers (1945-1961).
Subseries I.A.
Philip "Slim" Connelly Papers, documents the
activities of Philip "Slim" Connelly during his role as the Executive Secretary of the
Greater Los Angeles CIO Council and has been further subdivided into eight Subseries: 1. Los
Angeles CIO Council - Administrative Files (1941-1951), 2. Los Angeles CIO Council - General
Correspondence (A-Z) (1943-1949), 3. Los Angeles CIO Council - Committees, Councils and
Departments (1942-1952), 4. Los Angeles CIO Council - Affiliate Unions (1939-1951), 5.
Non-Affiliate Organizations (1940-1952), 6. Local, State and National Government - Labor
Relations (1938-1952), 7. General Subject Files (A-Y) (1940-1951), and 8. Non-Manuscript
Material (1944-1966). Each subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Subseries I.B.
Albert T. "Blackie" Lunceford Papers, documents
the activities of Albert T. "Blackie" Lunceford during his role as the Executive Secretary
of the Los Angeles CIO Council (he would later become the President of the LACFL). This
Subseries has been further subdivided into six Subseries: 1. Los Angeles CIO Council -
Administrative Files (1945-1959), 2. Los Angeles CIO Council - Committees, Councils and
Departments (1947-1959, 3. Los Angeles CIO Council - Affiliate Organization Files
(1948-1961), 4. Non-Affiliated Organizations (1948-1959), 5. Local, State and National
Government - Labor Relations (1948-1957), and 6. General Subject Files (A-W) (1947-1959).
Each subseries is arranged alphabetically.
Series II.
Employer-Employee Relations Initiative, "Right-to-Work,"
consists primarily of the committee files of William J. Bassett, Executive-Secretary
of the Los Angeles County Central Labor Council, AFL, who managed the Save-Our-State
Committee Campaign through early 1959. The files include campaign literature,
correspondence, ephemera, minutes, pamphlets, political advertisements, speeches, and
newspaper clippings. The series is divided into five Subseries: A. Los Angeles County Labor
Committee to Save-Our-States (No on Proposition 18) Campaign (1941-1959), B. Right-to-Work
Initiative (Yes on Proposition 18) Campaign (ca. 1944, 1957-1958), C. State Right-to-Work
Initiative (Pro/Con) (1957-1958), D. National Right-to-Work Issues, Subject Files (A-Z)
(1945-1960), and E. Photographic Material (1958). Each subseries is arranged
alphabetically.
Subseries II.A.
Los Angeles County Labor Committee to Save-Our-States
(No on Proposition 18) Campaign,
includes materials related to the Edmund G. (Pat)
Brown for Governor campaign of 1958; attendance cards and correspondence related to the Los
Angeles Central Labor Council; board member lists, brochures, correspondence, fliers,
meeting minutes and other materials related to the Save-Our-State campaign; and similar
materials created by the Los Angeles County Central Labor Council, and affiliated and
non-affiliated labor and union organizations.
Subseries II.B.
Right-to-Work Initiative (Yes on Proposition 19)
Campaign,
includes correspondence, fliers, brochures, pamphlets, political
advertisements, and newspaper clippings related to Senator William Knowland's campaign for
governor and his support for the Employer-Employee Relations Initiative "Yes on Proposition
18" Campaign; and similar materials collected by the Los Angeles County Labor Committee to
Save-Our-State during the 1958 battle against the "Right-to-Work" Initiative.
Subseries II.C.
State Right-to-Work Initiative (Pro/Con),
includes booklets, correspondence, fact sheets, fliers, newspaper and magazine articles,
position statements, press releases, seminar minutes, pamphlets, reports, and speeches
related to the Employer-Employee Relations Initiative/"Right-to-Work."
Subseries II.D.
National Right-to-Work Issues, Subject Files
(A-Z),
includes articles, books, brochures, correspondence, fliers, legislative
bills, newsletters, pamphlets, press releases, programs, reports, and related documents
collected by the Los Angeles County Committee to Save-Our-State on the National
"Right-to-Work" Campaign.
Subseries II.E.
Photographic Material and Posters, consists
primarily of images related to the No on Proposition 18 Campaign. Along with posters on a
variety of subjects.
Series III.
Pre-Merger Records (1902-1965) consists of
additional pre-merger records for the separately administered local AFL and CIO
organizations: the Los Angeles County Central Labor Council (LACCLC), the Long Beach Central
Labor Council, the Pomona Central Labor Council, the San Gabriel Valley Central Labor
Council, the San Pedro-Wilmington Central Labor Council, the Santa Monica Central Labor
Council, and the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council. The series is divided into two Subseries:
Subseries A. AFL Affiliated Central Labor Councils (1902-1965) and Subseries B. Greater Los
Angeles CIO Council (1940-1960) which are both organized alphabetically.
Subseries III.A.
AFL Affiliated Central Labor Councils, contains
the administrative records for the pre-merger Central Labor Councils including the Los
Angeles County Central Labor Council (LACCLC), the Pomona Central Labor Council, the San
Gabriel Valley Central Labor Council, the San Pedro-Wilmington Central Labor Council, and
the Santa Monica Central Labor Council. Although the Long Beach Central Labor Council was
the fifth council to merge with the LACCLC, their records are not included here, save for
one book of minutes from 1918. There is also a small amount of materials from other central
labor councils: Orange County, Pasadena, San Diego and Honolulu. The daily operations of
these organizing bodies are documented as well as programs and events they organized,
political campaigns, strikes and demonstrations. The administrative papers of the executive
secretaries including William J. Bassett, the administrative papers from committees and
departments, convention papers, resolutions, as well as papers and correspondence from
affiliated local unions are also included. Some of LACFL's efforts to oppose Right-to-Work
laws are also documented in this series. Unless otherwise labeled, the materials are
generated from the LACCLC. A large portion of the materials document the Union Label
Committee of the Allied Printing Trades' publication,
The Southland
Almanac
(referred to as
The Almanac,) as well as
the Union Label Council's Annual Trades Show, The Union Products and Services Show, and the
meeting minutes of the LACCLC Executive Board and Council. Unless otherwise labeled all
unions mentioned in folder titles are Los Angeles based. For example, the "Allied Printing
Trades Council" is the "Los Angeles Allied Printing Trades Council."
Subseries III.B.
Greater Los Angeles CIO Council, contains
records from the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council prior to the 1959 merger. Materials also
cover the state-level California CIO, the national-level CIO, and some local affiliated
unions. Unless otherwise labeled the materials are generated from the Greater Los Angeles
CIO Council. The materials document CIO annual conventions, correspondence, finances, and
more, plus and a small portion of the Executive Secretaries' administrative records. The
majority of the Greater Los Angeles CIO Council's records including a more complete set of
the Executive Secretaries' administrative papers (Philip Connelly and Albert T. Lunceford)
prior to the 1959 merger can be found in Series I.
Series IV.
Post-Merger Records, 1860-2018 (with the bulk of
materials dating from 1955-2011), documents the administrative and operational recorders of
the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) following the merger of the Greater Los
Angeles CIO Council with the Los Angeles County Central Labor Council (LACCLC), the Long
Beach Central Labor Council, the Pomona Central Labor Council, the San Gabriel Valley
Central Labor Council, the San Pedro-Wilmington Central Labor Council, and the Santa Monica
Central Labor Council in 1959. The majority of the records are dated from 1955 onwards after
the national level AFL-CIO began merging. The series is divided into three Subseries:
Subseries A. Administration (1860-2018) and Subseries B. Committees and Departments
(1940-2005), and Subseries C. Affiliate and Nonaffiliate Organizations (1954-2017) which are
all organized alphabetically.
Subseries IV.A.
Administration, contains the administrative
files of the LACFL stretching across multiple Executive Secretary-Treasurers and Presidents.
These materials are largely generated from the daily operations of the Executive Secretaries
(and their supporting staff) including W.J. Bassett, Sigmund Arywitz, William Robertson,
James "Jim" Wood, and Miguel Contreras, and Maria Elena Durazo.
Materials include correspondence with affiliated unions, delegate information, internal
election documents, general correspondence, meeting minutes, convention documents,
newsletters, strike posters, and subject files on larger projects and focuses such as
Immigration Reform, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) materials, and more. Executive
Board meeting minutes and the larger general Delegate "Federation Meeting" minutes are bound
together and filed as "Executive Board and Federation Meeting Minutes". A large portion of
material covers training and research around anti-union efforts such as "labor consultants"
i.e. anti-union lawyers, and tracking of cases, elections, and petitions with the National
Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
There is also a large amount of materials from the Communications and the Public Relations
Department as well as the Research Department. Both the Communications Department and the
Research Department operated out of the Executive Secretary's office and were not separate
Committees or official Federation Departments. Therefore, their papers reside in this series
rather than the following series Series IV.B. Committees and Departments. The Communications
Department papers document the press releases generated by the LACFL and other papers
including Communications Director, Hilda Delgado's, files, Rudolf "Rudy" Garcia's files,
Neal Sacharow's files, Miguel Contreras's speeches, and press clippings about the Federation
and its efforts. The Research Department papers included the Research Director, Goetz
Wolff's, files, general research files labeled by topic, and larger research and grant
projects associated with the Center for Regional Employment Strategies (CRES).
Documentation pertaining to the merger of the National AFL as well as the mergers of local
central labor bodies can be also found in this series. These records cover the time period
leading up to and during the 1959 National AFL-CIO merger.
Papers from state and national level AFL-CIOs (California Labor Federation and National
AFL-CIO) that were generated from direct correspondence with the LACFL and passed through
the Executive Secretaries' offices were filed in this series while more general printed
material generated from the state and national level AFL-CIO's such as convention papers
were filed with Series IV.C. Affiliated and Nonaffiliated Organizations.
This series also contains a library of leaflets which are informational flyers, pamphlets
and newsletters. They are divided into two types: "Company" which are anti-union leaflets
generated by corporations and employers, and "Union" which are pro-union leaflets generated
by the unions.
Items labeled "Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Building Decor" were previously
framed and hung on the walls of the LACFL administration building.
Materials covering Right-to-Work laws and the LACFL's campaign against Proposition 18
(supplementing the materials in Series II) can also be found in this series.
Materials are arranged alphabetically. Unlike in Series I and II, unions are organized
alphabetically by their full names, rather than their acronyms
Subseries IV.B.
Committees and Departments, contains records
created by the Committees and Departments within the LACFL charged with performing more
detailed work which was too time consuming for the direct attention of the Executive Board.
The records document a vast array of Departments and Committees including, but not limited
to, the Board of Publishers Department and their management of
The
Los Angeles Citizen
from the 1940's through 1983; the Fair Practices and Civil
Rights Committee and their involvement and participation in the Civil Rights Movement during
the 1960s and 70s; and the Union Label Council and their management of the annual Union
Products and Services Show which brought together all kinds of craft and trade laborers for
a convention on a yearly basis.
Some Committee and Department papers can be found in other series. The LACFL had an
internal Consumer Committee. This committee worked to center consumer rights and establish
the Los Angeles Bureau of Consumer Affairs, among other things. Within this committee's
records are correspondence, meeting minutes and administratve records from the state-level
organiztation the Consumer Federation of California (previosuly known as the Association of
California Consumers) and the local chapter called Consumer Federation of California, Los
Angeles and Orange Counties Chapter. Becuase of these organizations' direct communications
with the LACFL committee their records can be found in this series. There are also records
from both the Consumer Federation of California and the Consumer Federation of California,
Los Angeles and Orange Counties Chapter in Series IV.C as they were a non-affiliated,
independently run organization. Many of the records are overlapping, including duplicate
sets of meeting minutes.
The Department of Public Employee Unions' materials document the work of this standing
department. Much of their operational papers including some meeting minutes were originally
filed as "correspondence" files and have been kept in original order.
In 1979 the Organizing Committee and the Strike Coordinating Committee were merged into one
committee: the Organizing and Strike Coordinating Committee. The records for both committees
pre- and post-merger are filed under "Organizing and Strike Coordinating Committee."
Materials related to the Farm Workers Labor Movement, United Farm Workers, and Cesar Chavez
can be found in multiple locations including Special Farm Workers Assistance Committee,
Special Grape Boycott Sub-Committee of the Organizing and Strike Coordinating Committee.
A small number of special Executive Board Sub-Committees were kept with the Executive Board
papers in Subseries IV.A. Administration.
Materials are arranged alphabetically by the creating committee or department.
Subseries IV.C.
Affiliate and Nonaffiliate Organizations,
contains materials generated from affiliated unions, affiliated central labor councils,
nonaffiliated government bodies, and nonaffiliated associated organizations directly related
to LACFL but run separately such as Strengthening Our Lives (SOL), the Labor Immigrant
Assistance Project (LIAP), and the A. Philip Randolph Institute. Represented organizations
include the Community Redevelopment Agency (headed by James "Jim" Wood concurrently while he
was working for the LACFL), The LIAP (a non-profit organization whose primary purpose was to
provide direct legal service to the Latino immigrant community), SOL (an innovative civic
participation and voter registration and education program that focuses on mobilizing the
Latino vote), the Associated In Group Donors (AID), The state level AFL-CIO organization
(the California Labor Federation), the Los Angeles chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union
Women (CLUW), the Consumer Federation of California, Frontlash (the student/youth project
for democratic participation), and many more.
Materials include correspondence, newsletters, meeting minutes, publications, policies,
resolutions, and operational documents from the different organizations. Commonly, personnel
held positions in both LACFL and some of these organizations, like James Wood (Community
Redevelopment Agency) and Jan Borunda (Consumer Federation of California).
Materials are arranged alphabetically by the creating agency or organization.
Series V.
Photographic Materials (1886-2015), includes contact
sheets, negatives, prints and digital photos. The materials document the LACFL
administration, their members and leaders, activities, events, political campaigns, strikes,
picket lines, demonstrations, social gatherings, and holiday celebrations, among other LACFL
related subjects. These materials document notable union members and the events put on by
the unions as well as its affiliates both pre-merger and post-merger. In addition to labor
leaders and LACFL events, the photographs contain images of national and local political
figures such as Dianne Feinstein, Walter Mondale, Bill Clinton, Tom Bradley, Gray Davis, Pat
Brown, Jerry Brown, Hubert Humphrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many more; civil rights
leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Malcom X, and others; as well as
celebrities including Jean Stapleton, Sally Field, and Janet Lee. The photographs contain
many original prints that were marked for editing and then published in labor publications
like the
Federation News, the
Los
Angeles Citizen,
and the
California AFL-CIO News.
Photographers include Guy Crowder, Slobodan Dimitrov, George Gray, Cliff Kalick, Evelina
Paredes, Lewis Jacobs, Neil Jacobs and many more.
Although the majority of the collection's photographs can be found in this series, there
are others interspersed throughout the collection where they were originally filed by the
creator. Wherever possible folders containing photographs in other series are labeled with
the word "Photograph" in the folder title.
Prior to 1983 the LACFL kept their prints and negatives separate. Consequently, this series
is divided into two Subseries: Subseries V.A. Negatives and Contact Sheets (1966-1983) and
Subseries V.B. Photographs (1886-2015)
Subseries V.A.
Negatives and Contact Sheets, contains the
negatives, which are labeled according to an internal alpha-numerical identification system,
as well as some corresponding contact sheets. The folders are labeled with these local
identifiers in the form of "CF-###," "CF" standing for "County Fed" as the LACFL referred to
themselves. Each CF number is associated with an event or an individual that is the subject
of that set of negatives. The original envelops have handwritten notes indicating the
event/subject and can be found alongside the negatives in each folder. Materials are
arranged alpha-numerically by the County Fed identifier.
Subseries V.B.
Photographs, contains printed photographs as well
as digital photographs. There are many corresponding photographic prints which have the CF
identifiers written on that back of the print. Wherever possible these CF identifiers are
also included in the folder titles for those prints. If a CF identifier is present on the
print it most likely has a corresponding negative in subseries V.A. with additional
handwritten information on it. There are also occasionally 35mm negatives that match the
photographic prints in these folders. Materials are arranged alphabetically by
subject/event/individual.
Series VI.
Audiovisual Materials (1940-2018), contains media
that documents the larger labor movement as well as internal LACFL events and programs.
Materials include raw footage shot by LACFL covering strikes and rallies, celebrations,
speeches, promotional videos and more; recordings of LACFL events, rallies, and political
campaign events; commercial documentaries; recorded clips from news and radio programs
pertaining to LACFL and the labor movement; and video programs and audio recordings produced
by the LACFL as well as other affiliate and non-affiliate organizations.
Notable items include video news releases and education videos produced by the Labor
Institute of Public Affairs (LIPA) which was a television production institute created by
the National AFL-CIO; a collection of "We Do the Work" shows produced by The Working Group
which was an independent media production company based in Oakland, California that created
shows about labor; as well as an extended copy of KABC's "Say it With a No" television
program which was a telethon produced by the Citizen's Committee Against Proposition 18
(Right-to-Work) that included many celebrities, musical productions, and speeches from labor
and political leaders including Harry Truman, Goodwin Knight, Pat Brown, and Eleanor
Roosevelt.
The LACFL also kept a DVD library that includes recorded clips from local and national news
programs covering stories about or related to the LACFL (Maria Elena Durazo appearances on
TV) or their endorsed political candidates (Antonio Villaraigosa, Gray Davis, Barack Obama
and more); commercially produced documentaries relating the labor movement; and recordings
of LACFL events (Miguel Contreras's Memorial), rallies and affiliated unions' events (Martin
Luther King annual breakfast and parade). This library contains approximately 250 individual
videos that can be found in the digital folder "LACFL DVD Library" alongside a detailed
index with more information about the contents of each video.
Other topics represented in the audiovisual materials are union art shows, pickets and
rallies, training seminars, conventions, political campaign news clips, Cesar Chavez's
memorial, late 1940's footage of the city of Los Angeles and promotional union videos.
Featured people include political figures such as Gray Davis, Antonio Villaraigosa, and
Karen Bass; celebrities such as Sammy Davis Jr.; and top LACFL figures like James Wood, W.J.
Bassett, Maria Elena Durazo, and Miguel Contreras.
Arrangement of Materials:
Series I: Files of the Executive Secretaries, 1938-1966
Subseries A: Philip "Slim" Connelly Papers, 1938-1966
Subseries 1: Los Angeles CIO Council - Administrative Files, 1941-1951
Subseries 2: Los Angeles CIO Council - General Correspondence (A-Z), 1943-1949
Subseries 3: Los Angeles CIO Council - Committees, Councils and Departments,
1942-1952
Subseries 4: Los Angeles CIO Council - Affiliate Unions, 1939-1951
Subseries 5: Non-Affiliate Organizations, 1940-1952
Subseries 6: Local, State and National Government - Labor Relations, 1938-1952
Subseries 7: General Subject Files (A-Y), 1940-1951
Subseries 8: Non-Manuscript Material, 1944-1966
Subseries B: Albert T. "Blackie" Lunceford Papers, 1945-1961
Subseries 1: Los Angeles CIO Council - Administrative Files, 1945-1959
Subseries 2: Los Angeles CIO Council - Committees, Councils and Departments,
1947-1959
Subseries 3: Los Angeles CIO Council - Affiliate Organization Files, 1948-1961
Subseries 4: Non-Affiliated Organizations, 1948-1959
Subseries 5: Local, State and national Government - Labor Relations, 1948-1957
Subseries 6: General Subject Files (A-W), 1947-1959
Series II: Employer-Employee Relations Initiative, "Right-To-Work," 1941-1960
Subseries A: Los Angeles County Labor Committee to Save-Our-States (No on Proposition 18) Campaign, 1941-1959
Subseries 1: Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, 1957-1958
Subseries 2: Los Angeles Central Labor Council, 1957-1958
Subseries 3: Los Angeles County Labor Committee to Save-Our-State, 1958-1959
Subseries 4: Los Angeles County Central Labor Council, 1956-1958
Subseries 5: Affiliated Labor and Union Organizations (A-Z), 1941-1959
Subseries 6: Non-affiliated Organizations Files (A-Z), 1949-1958
Subseries 7: Newspaper Clippings (chronological), 1957-1958
Subseries B: Right-to-Work Initiative (Yes on Proposition 18) Campaign, ca. 1944,
1957-1958
Subseries 1: Senator William Knowland, 1957-1958
Subseries 2: Organization and Personalities Files (A-Z), ca. 1944, 1957-1958
Subseries C: State Right-to-Work Initiative (Pro/Con), 1957-1958
Subseries 1:Official Reports, 1957-1958
Subseries 2: Newspaper Clippings (chronological), 1957-1958
Subseries D: National Right-to-Work Issues, Subject Files (A-Z), 1945-1960
Subseries 1: Con National Right-to-Work Issues, Subject Files (A-Z), 1945-1960
Subseries 2: Pro National Right-to-Work Issues, Subject Files (A-Z), 1954-1959
Subseries 3: Pro/Con National Right-to-Work Issues, Subject Files (A-Z),
1954-1959
Subseries E: Photographic Material, 1958
Series III: Pre-Merger Records, 1902-1965
Subseries A: AFL Affiliated Central Labor Councils, 1902-1965
Subseries B: Greater Los Angeles CIO Council, 1940-1960
Series IV: Post-Merger Records, 1860-2018
Subseries A: Administration, 1860-2018
Subseries B: Committee and Departments, 1940-2005
Subseries C: Affiliate and Non-Affiliate Organizations, 1954-2017
Series V: Photographic Materials, 1886-2015
Subseries A: Negatives and Contact Sheets (1966-1983)
Subseries B: Photographs (1886-2015)
Series VI: Audiovisual Materials, 1940-2018
Electronic Format:
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, 11/06/1979, 1998, 2000, 2019, and 2021.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ephemera
Documents
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Audiovisual materials
Maps
Textiles