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International Association of Machinists, District Lodge 751 Boeing strike scrapbook, 1944-1948.

 Collection
Identifier: larc-srp-0008

Scope and Contents

Scrapbook documenting the strike between the International Association of Machinists (IAM), Lodge 751 and Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle, Washington. Contains newspaper clippings from the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligence, and The Militant from April 29 th through September 21 st, 1948. The scrapbook also includes: Picket Line Briefs, volume 1, nos. 2 - 110, incomplete, April 23 -September 2, 1948; strike ephemera (flyers, leaflets, etc.); radio speech transcript by Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States President, Farell Dobbs, broadcast on station KING, Seattle, Washington, August 21, 1948; and the 1944 contract between Boeing Aircraft Company and the IAM.

Dates

  • 1944-1948

Extent

0.71 Cubic Feet (Legacy container count: 1)

Language of Materials

English

Location

Vault: 13:04:B

Processing Information

Accession 1987/005 separated into two collections, Household Workers Rights Project Records and this scrapbook. Union WAGE newspapers removed.

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