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LABOR HISTORY

The Special Collections Library has begun mounting selected finding aids on the Web, representing only a small portion of the processed collections. These Special Collections Library finding aids were tagged in Encoded Archival Description (SGML) and exported in XML-compliant HTML versions.

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~LABOR HISTORY ~

• John Black Memorial Service Video Recording, 2006 [HCLA]
  Printable PDF document [HCLA]
  
  Microcassete recording of memorial service for John Black, political and labor activist, former president of the Service Employees International Union, District 1199P.
  
  
• Julia L. Maietta Papers, 1937-1981 (bulk 1964-1980) [HCLA]
  Printable PDF document [HCLA]
  
  Documents the career of Julia Luigia Maietta as a labor organizer, union representative, Democratic Party activist and candidate in Pennsylvania, and national labor and women's advocate.
  
  
• George Maloney, Jr.'s Coopers' Union Local 15 Collection, 1938-1961 [HCLA]
  Printable PDF document
  
  Chronicles the mindset and actions of leading labor union members who represented Coopers' International Union of North America, Local Union Number Fifteen of Chicago, Illinois.
  
  
• Rayfield Mooty Oral History Interview by James B. Stewart, circa 1990 [HCLA]
  Printable PDF document
  
  VHS video recording (and DVD access copy) of an oral history interview with Rayfield Mooty, USWA Organizer and co-founder of the Committee of Black Steel Workers.
  
  
• James Nelson Papers, 1915-1984 (bulk 1934-1955) [HCLA]
  Printable PDF document
  
  The collection includes manuscripts and subject files for a book on the formation of District 50 of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) in the early 1930s and an unpublished manuscript devoted to the union career of labor leader John Brophy.
  
  
• Order of Railway Conductors of America Local 160 Records, 1884-1927 [HCLA]
  Printable PDF document
  
  Railroad union records.
  

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