Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Records, 1899-1988

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Collection Overview

Title:
Pennsylvania AFL-CIO records
Dates (Inclusive):
1899-1988
Creator:
Pennsylvania AFL-CIO
Abstract:
The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO formed from the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and Pennsylvania Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1959 after the 1955 merger of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Abstract:
This collection includes records of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and Pennsylvania AFL-CIO. It consists of subject and correspondence files, financial records, convention proceedings, books and periodicals, photographs, and scrapbooks, and one LP record (audio).
Collection Number:
1694
Size:
204.8 Cubic feet
Location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library catalog.
Repository:
Special Collections Library. Pennsylvania State University.
Languages:
English

Biographical or Historical Note

The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO was formed in 1959 after the merger of the parent national organizations. It brought together the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, formed in 1902, and the Pennsylvania CIO Council, formed in the late 1930s. The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO was responsible for protecting workers' rights with regard to collective bargaining, conducting member political education and training programs, monitoring legislative politics in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., and endorsing candidates that supported the organization's agenda. In the early twenty-first century it had 900,000 members affiliated with 51 international unions and 1,422 locals, and its activities were coordinated by 34 regional councils within the state.

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Collection Overview

This Pennsylvania labor collection includes subject and correspondence files, financial records, convention proceedings, books and periodicals, photographs, scrapbooks, and a broadcast transcription disc. Among the correspondents are President Harry Boyer, Vice-President Michael Johnson, Treasurer and Vice-President Robert McIntyre, Secretary Harry Block, Frank McGrath, James Mahoney, and Julia Maietta. Approximately one third of these documents date from the years 1943 to 1955, when Boyer served as secretary and then president of the Pennsylvania CIO, an immediate predecessor of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Partial: There are restricted files in this collection.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Records (1694), Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State University.

Processing Information

Processed by Special Collections staff.

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Pennsylvania AFL-CIO

Genre(s)

  • Artifacts
  • Graphic
  • Audio
  • Scrapbooks
  • Photographic

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Collection Inventory

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