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  • Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives
    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:

    Digital reproductions of selected items in this collection are available electronically as a part of the San Fernando Valley History Digital Library.  

    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.

    Preferred Citation:

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    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Ephemera
    Documents
    Photographs
    Scrapbooks
    Audiovisual materials
    Maps
    Textiles