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Inventory of the Boeing Strike -- Seattle, Washington Collection, 1948
1987/005  
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Description
The scrapbook, predominantly of newspaper clippings from the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligence, and The Militant from April 29th through September 21st, 1948 records the strike between the International Association of Machinists (IAM), Lodge 751 and Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle, WA. The scrapbook also includes: Picket Line Briefs, volume 1, nos. 2 - 110, incomplete, April 23rd - September 2nd 1948; strike ephemera (flyers, leaflets, etc.); radio speech transcript by Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States President, Farell Dobbs, broadcast on station KING, Seattle, WA, August 21st 1948; and the 1944 contract between Boeing Aircraft Company and the IAM.
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives & Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Labor Archives & Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Availability
Collection is open for research.