A&M 0162Labor History Collection of Publications and Artifacts, 1937-1959 A&M 0162Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

1549 University Ave. P.O. Box 6069 Morgantown, WV 26506-6069Business Number: 304-293-3536wvrhcref@westvirginia.libanswers.comURL:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-08-30 07:33:46 -0400.EnglishDescribing Archives: A Content Standard West Virginia and Regional History Center Labor History Collection of Publications and Artifacts A&M 0162 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/2/resources/2482 0.5 Linear Feet Summary: 5 1/2 in. (1 document case, 2 1/2 in.); (1 small flat storage box, 3 in.) 1937-1959 West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/ English Conditions Governing Access

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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Labor History Collection of Publications and Artifacts, A&M 0162, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

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Miscellaneous issues of various labor periodicals, pamphlets, and serial publications, many of which are published by or are about West Virginia labor organizations and issues. Also includes a chart with title: 'Unemployed in the U.S., 1920-1934,' and 43 delegate and guest labor convention badges and ribbons, 1939-1959, mostly from West Virginia labor conventions.

Series include: Series 1. Pamphlets, 1934-1939, 1954, undated (box 1) Series 2. Periodicals, 1937-1950, 1970 (box 1) Series 3. Serial Publications, ca. 1943-1945, undated (box 1) Series 4. Envelope, undated (box 1) Series 5. Chart, undated (box 1) Series 6. Ephemera, undated (box 2)

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 Series 1. Pamphlets (box 1)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1587091934-1939, 1954, undated11-3Scope and Contents

This series includes assorted labor-related pamphlets on topics including the Congress of Industrial Organizations, national and West Virginia state labor legislation, etc.

"C.I.O.-U.A.W. and C.I.O. Foreman's Union Work Together." Detroit: Chrysler Corporation. [4 p.]Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158715193911"Constitution of the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, Adopted by the Forty Ninth Annual Convention, Huntington, West Virginia, August 23-24-25, 1951" [n.p.] 24 p.Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158716undated11"Constitution and By-Laws of West Virginia State Building and Construction Trades Council, Adopted July 16, 17, & 18, 1951 -- at Huntington, W. Va." Wheeling, W. Va.: Printcrafters 16 p.Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158717undated11Green, William. "The Thirty-Hour Week." Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Labor. 47 p.Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158718193511"Jobs the WPA Way." Washington, D.C.: Works Progress Administration; U.S. Govt. Print. Off. (1 Volume unpaged)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158719193611Keller, K.T. "C.I.O. Now Demands Right to Sit on Both Sides of Collective Bargaining." Detroit: Chrysler Corporation. [4 p.]Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158720193912[Letter to the Officers and Members of Disctrict 17, United Mine Workers of America Local Unions from: William, Blizzard, President, Disctrict 17, U.M.W. of A., Charles Payne, Vice-President, District 17, U.M.W. pf A., and R.O. Lewis, Secretary-Treasurer, U.M.W. of A. n.d. 4 p. on 1 folded leaf]Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158721undated12"Nixonized Union -- Threat to the Rank-and-File." Chicago: Labor Today. [4 p.]Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158722undated12Phillips, Wendell. "The Foundation of the Labor Movement." Girard, Kan.: Appeal Pub. Co. 56 p.Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158723undated12"The "Right to Work" (Wreck!: The Significance of State Laws Prohibiting Union Security." Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Labor. 16 p.Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158724195412"Supplemental Agreement, Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, Peabody Coal Company." [n.p.] 54 p.Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158725193413[Untitled printed statement by a committee representing the West Virginia Allied Printing Trades Conference to His Excellency, Governor Okey L. Patteson, Governor of West Virginia and Honorable Members of the Board of Public Works, State of West Virginia, n.p.] 5 p.Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158726undated13"Voting Records of Senators and Representatives, 1947 Through May 1954 (Preliminary)." Washington: Labor's League for Political Education. 35 p.Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158727undated13Series 2. Periodicals (box 1)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1587101937-1950, 197014-6Scope and Contents

This series includes issues of various labor-related periodicals, including "The Bricklayer, Mason, and Plasterer," "The Labor Journal," and "The Progressive Miner."

"The Bricklayer, Mason, and Plasterer," Volume 61, No. 6Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158728June 195214"The Bricklayer, Mason, and Plasterer," Volume 61, No. 7Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158729July 195214"Defender," Volume 1, No. 4Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158730August 194514"Democratic Digest," Volume 22, No. 6Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158731June 194514"The Labor Journal," Spring Edition Volume 4, No. 3Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158732March 194814"The Labor Journal," Primary Edition Volume 4, No. 3-AArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158733May 194814"Memo from PAC," Volume 2, No. 11Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1587341948 May 2715"Memo from PAC," Volume 2, No. 15Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1587351948 November 2215"North American Labor," Volume 1, No. 1Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158736March 194815"Partners," Volume 1, No. 1Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158737January 194815"Partners," Volume 1, No. 2Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158738February 194815"Photo-History," Volume 1, No. 2Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158739July 193716"The Progressive Miner," Volume 59, No. 7Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1587401937 October 2216"The Progressive Miner." Note: volume numbering covered by mailing labelArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1587411937 December 3116"Social Justice," Volume 3, No. 4Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1587421937 January 2516"Telegraph," Volume 55, No. 228Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1587431970 October 116"West Virginia Federationist," Volume 3, No. 2Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/1587441950 September 1516Series 3. Serial Publications (box 1)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158711ca. 1943-1945, undated17Scope and Contents

This series includes issues of various serial publications on topics including West Virginia state legislature, the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, and a convention of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks.

"Report on the 1943 Session of the West Virginia Legislature…to A. F. of L. Membership" by Volney Andrews. [n.p.] West Virginia State Federation of Labor. 56 p.Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158745ca. 194317"Report on the 1945 Session of the West Virginia Legislature…to A. F. of L. Membership" by Volney Andrews. [n.p.] West Virginia State Federation of Labor. 10 p.Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158746ca. 194517"Reports of Officers to Twenty-first Convention of National Federation of Post Office Clerks, September 4th to 9th, 1939."Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158747undated17West Virginia State Federation of Labor. "Reports and Proposed Resolutions to be Acted Upon by the 50th Convention, Clarksburg, W.Va., October 2, 3 and 4, 1952."Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158748undated17Series 4. Envelope (box 1)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158712undated18Scope and Contents

This series contains a mailing envelope which contained a folded color portrait of John L. Lewis on fabric. This portrait is now in the Oversize Photographs Collection.

1 mailing envelope which contained a folded color portrait of John L. Lewis on fabricArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158749undated18Series 5. Chart (box 1)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158713undated19Scope and Contents

This series consists of a chart published by the American Federation of Labor titled "Unemployed in the U.S., 1920-1934."

"Unemployed in the U.S., 1920-1934," Washington, D.C.: American Federation of LaborArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158750undated19Series 6. Ephemera (box 2)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158714undated2Scope and Contents

This series consists of 43 delegate and guest labor convention badges and ribbons, mostly from WV labor conventions including: the WV Federation of Labor, WV Journeyman, Barbers, and Beauticians Convention; American Federation of Labor; AFL-CIO Biennial Convention, etc.

43 delegate and guest labor convention badges and ribbons, mostly from WV labor conventions including: WV Federation of Labor, WV Journeyman, Barbers, and Beauticians Convention; American Federation of Labor; AFL-CIO Biennial Convention, etc.Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/158751undated2