Description
The collection includes scrapbooks regarding AFL-CIO activities, press clippings, photographs, correspondence, special meeting
minutes, executive meeting minutes, regular meeting minutes, and financial records, and bound volumes of the Council's newspaper,
The San Diego Labor Leader.
Background
The San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council is heir to the San Diego Federated Trades and Labor Council, which was created
in 1891. The Federated Trades and Labor Council was originally comprised of members of the Typographical Workers, Cigar Makers,
Longshoremen, and Sailors Unions. In 1970, the Imperial County Labor Council merged with the San Diego Federated Trades and
Labor Council to form the present San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council. The Council is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
Restrictions
The copyright interests in some of these materials have been transferred to or belong to San Diego State University. The nature
of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish
must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. Permissions
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
Availability
This collection is open for research.