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Standard Coil Organizing Campaign Collection (UE vs.
IUE-CIO),
1949-1954, n.d.
MSS 058
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Title: Standard Coil Organizing Campaign Collection (UE
vs. IUE-CIO),
Date (inclusive): 1949-1954, n.d.
Collection number: MSS 058
Creator:
Unknown
Extent:
1 half-box
1/6 linear foot
1/6 linear foot
Repository:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and
Research
Los Angeles, CA 90044
Abstract: Flyers and other materials pertaining to the
fight between three unions, the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers
of America (UE), the International Union of Electrical, Radio, & Machine
Workers, Congress of Industrial Organizations (IUE-CIO), and the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), over the right to represent Standard
Coil workers in 1951-1953. Also a few pamphlets published by the UE and flyers
on other concerns of the day.
Language:
English.
Donated to the Library by Alan Bomser on February 22, 1994.
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[Identification of item], Standard Coil Organizing Campaign
Collection (UE vs. IUE-CIO), Southern California Library for Social Studies and
Research, Los Angeles, California.
In the early 1950s three unions vied for the right to represent the
workers at the Standard Coil plant in Los Angeles. The unions were the
independent United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), the
International Union of Electrical, Radio, & Machine Workers, Congress of
Industrial Organizations (IUE-CIO), and the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers (IBEW), which was affiliated with the American Federation of
Labor. The UE, which had been representing Standard Coil, was replaced by the
IUE-CIO in 1952. IUE-CIO tactics included calling the UE leadership communist.
Shirley Davis, whose name appears on a few of the documents, including pay
records from Standard Coil and Louis Brothers, may have originally collected
these materials.
The collection includes flyers, pamphlets, some handwritten notes, a
holographic manuscript "The History of the Jensen Strike" (5pp), and other
miscellany. The pamphlets file includes a 1953 calendar, a children's story,
two issues of the UE Steward (April and November 1952), the Employment Benefit
Plan for the Hoffman Radio Corp. Laboratories, and other materials. The
miscellaneous file includes information on other concerns of the day including
a poem comparing the Japanese internment with the execution of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg, anti-Korean War flyers, information on the Wesley Robert Wells case,
and the like.
Non-UE (United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America)
pamphlets have been moved to the Library's Pamphlet files.
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