Political Action
Subject
Subject Source: Reuther Taxonomy
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
AFT Inventory Part I Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000348_1
Abstract
Papers consist of correspondence, ballots, proceedings from meetings, clippings, local finances, per capita reports, charter applications. Subjects include integration, federal works programs, loyalty oaths, academic freedom, federal aid to education, communist issues.
Dates:
1914 - 1980
AFT Inventory Part II Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000348_2
Abstract
Contains Series VIII-XIII.
Series VIII State publications, 1950s-1963
Series IX, miscellaneous materials 1935-1964
Series X communications to locals, 1934-1963
Series XI memos and mimeographed materials, 1921-1964
Series XII Locals, 1914-1960s
Series XIII AFT conventions, 1916-1967
Dates:
1914 - 1967
AFT Rhode Island Federation of Teachers Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001349
Abstract
Papers consist of correspondence, reports, organizing materials, minutes and general files. The information contains information about the AFT, actions by the executive board and issues facing various locals in Rhode Island. Important correspondence are with Carl Megel, Senator Claiborn Pell, Albert Shanker, Edward McElroy, and John Fewkes.
Dates:
1946 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1977
Elmer Cope Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000931
Abstract
Part of the Elmer Cope Papers at the Ohio Historical Society. Subjects include: labor education; political action; U.S. role in international trade organizations
Dates:
1945 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1960
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Elmer Cope Papers
NALC Office of the President: Vincent Sombrotto Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001915
Abstract
Vincent R. Sombrotto was elected the 16th president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) in 1978, serving nearly 24 years until his retirement in December 2002. Bolstered by the rank and file movement in the early 1970s, Sombrotto was overwhelmingly elected president following the adoption of reforms he advocated to make the union leadership more responsive to its members. His accomplishments included wage increases, improving working conditions, passing reform of the Hatch...
Dates:
1971 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1979 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1996 - 2002
Workers' Education Local 189 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000954
Abstract
Workers Education Local 189, American Federation of Teachers, was founded in November 1922 as the bargaining agent for the faculty members of Brookwood Labor College. After Brookwood closed its doors in 1937, Local 189 opened its membership to all persons, regardless of geographic location, who were engaged in workers' education. Throughout its existence Local 189 had been active in distributing workers' education materials to other members of the AFT, and to public schools, colleges and to the...
Dates:
1939 - 1977