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University of California, Berkeley, labor agreement files

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0098

Abstract

Collection of union contracts with employers from around the country, organized alphabetically by industry. Box 1. ""A-C,"" including bakery, brewery, building trades, canning (Stockton cannery agreements, 1939-1940). Box 2 ""S,"" including: shipbuilding (Bethlehem and other Bay Area shipyards, 1935-1941), steel, stereotypers, street railway (including agreements between the Market Street Railway, Pacific Greyhound Lines, San Jose Railroads, National Service Service Company [Treasure Island], and East Bay Transit and various locals of the Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees, 1935-1940), sugar refining, teamsters (including various agreements covering Bay Area oil tank, soft drink, laundry, ice wagon, Folger Company, farm products, asphalt, Safeway, lumber, bottlers, building materials, drivers, Box 3 Teamsters (cont.) bakery, milk, taxi, and draymen), telephone and telegraph, textiles, typesetters (including San Francisco newspapers), upholstery, vegetable oil and warehouse (including many ILA Local 38-44 agreements).Special note: Box 1 contains a copy of the first Steelworkers contact with United States Steel, 1937. Box 2 contains the first agreements in the wake of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike.

Dates

  • 1917 - 1949
  • Majority of material found within 1935 - 1941

Extent

3.75 Cubic Feet ( (3 cartons))

Language of Materials

English

Processing Information

Processed with Abstract Blake note (7-7-2010): Assigned accession number for the approximate year the collection was received and an accession record was created for the collection. Acid-free folders with labels, but not numbered. Boxes covering the letters "D-R" are missing.

Status
In Progress
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository

Contact:
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571