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This collection consists of materials relating to the ILRF's work in monitoring the labor components of American trade agreements with other countries. Materials include reports, legislation, correspondence and publications pertaining to labor relations and workers' rights in the countries of trading partners.

Abstract The collection contains newspaper clippings, magazine articles, trial transcripts, publicity materials, copies of congressional hearings, photographs, videocassettes, vinyl records and audio tapes. This material covers a variety of background materials on James R. Hoffa, covering the time period from 1956, when Hoffa was Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, past his disappearance in 1975 to the election of his son, James Hoffa Jr., as General-President of the...

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This collection contains material amassed by Jerome T. Barrett pertaining to his career as a labor mediator and commissioner and director of the Office of Technical Services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. There are also materials related to the United States Consilitation Service (USCS) founded in the Department of Labor in 1913.

The material dates between 1913-2013.

Abstract The Labor Publications and Printed Material Collection is an artificial collection created by the Special Collections and University Archives from a variety of sources. This collection contains publications and printed materials related to labor organization in the United States. The material dates from 1861-2011. The collection consists of various materials published by union and non-union organizations. Significant topics include labor attitudes towards wages, civil rights, gender...

Abstract The collection is comprised of printed copies of various union constitutions and their by-laws, as well as contractual, wage and working condition agreements between unions and their employers, dating from 1883-1999. The majority of the unions represented are related to the railroad industry, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees, and the United Transportation Union. Also...

Abstract This collection consists of 14 series. Series 1 contains microfilm reels of a range of documentation created by various departments and offices of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The microfilm reels were selected for copying by James Neff in the 1990s. Series 2 contains files having to do with IBT history. Series 3 contains files having to do with IBT locals. Series 4 contains miscellaneous newspapers produced by IBT. Series 5 contains biographies and news clippings pertaining...

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This collections contains the papers of Larue A. "Bud" Moore, a International Brotherhood of Teamster member who served as president of local 696. The collection contains the certificates and coorespondence of Larue Moore from 1964-1976.

Abstract Lessons of the Sixties is an organization dedicated to documenting the efforts and lessons learned by local DC Metropolitan Area activists, students, organizers and those who dreamed of building a better world through new ideas, political advocacy, local organization building, and other means in the years 1960-1975. Since 2010, the Institute for Policy Studies has served as the organizational home for the Lessons of the 60s providing office space and infrastructural support. Since 2010 the...

Scope and Contents Subseries contains materials created by the Office of Convention and Conference Management (later Conferences and Facilities Management). The files include materials detailing the planning and management of the annual conventions, memoranda, hotel and convention center information, meeting arrangements, convention delegate packets, reports on conventions, and news coverage of later annual meetings.These records provide excellent insight into the management of hosting conventions...

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Collections contains the moving image and audio recordings produced or held by the National Education Association. The collection contains three series reflecting the recording's purpose. The three series are:

Conventions; Educational Material; and Promotional Material.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of photographs created by or for the National Education Association in the course of its work. The series are divided up according to either the purpose the photograph was intended for, the publishing department or the people/places in the photographs.There are eight series in the collection, the Congressional Contact Teams Photographs, Conventions Photographs, Division and Departments Photographs, Government Relations Photographs, Miscellaneous...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the commissions of the NEA. The collection contains nine series reflecting the bodies and their records. The nine series are: the Commission on Coordination of Research Agencies, Commission on Professional Rights and Responsibilities, Educational Policies Commission, Joint Commission on the Emergency in Education, National Citizens Commission for Public Schools, National Commission for the Defense of Democracy, National Commission on Teacher Education and...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the committees of the NEA. The collection contains twenty-six series reflecting the bodies and their records. The twenty-six series are: the Citizenship Committee, Committee of Constitutional Compliance, Committee on Educational Finance, Committee on International Relations, Compliance Committee, Committee on Planning and Organizational Development, Committee on Professional Ethics, Committee on Tenure and Academic Freedom, Committee on Women's Concerns, Committee...

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This collection documents the councils of the NEA. The collection contains six series reflecting the offices that created or held these records. The six series are: Council for Research in Education, Council of National Organizations on Children and Youth, Higher Education Council, National Council of Education, Council on Instruction, and National Council on Teacher Retirement.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the many departments of the NEA. It contains sixty series reflecting organizational bodies and their records. The sixty series are: The American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, the American Association of School Administrators, the American Association of School Librarians, the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association, the Association for Educational Data Systems, the American Industrial Arts Association, the...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the many divisions of the NEA. The collection contains twenty series reflecting organizational bodies and their records. The fourteen series are:Accounts/Administration, Adult Education, Educational Technology, Employee Relations, Field Operations/Services, Human and Civil Rights, Instruction and Professional Development, Legislation and Federal Relations, Member and Affiliate Relations, Office of Internation Relations, Office of Professional Development...

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This series documents the bodies and tools of governance of the NEA. The series contains ten subseries reflecting organizational bodies and their records.

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This collection contains records held by the NEA archives but not originating from any one office or department. The collection contains nine series reflecting organizational bodies and their records. The nine series are:

American Teachers Association; Arts and Exhibits; Awards; Birmingham Education Association; Joy Elmer Morgan Papers; Organizational History; Programs; Projects; State Affiliates.

Abstract Samizdat, from the Russian "sam" ("by oneself") and "izdatel'stvo" ("publishing house,") means "self published" and designates prohibited publications created in secret and distributed via underground networks during the Soviet era. The Peter Reddaway samizdat collection contains original samizdat materials from the USSR, samizdat documents copied for distribution by Radio Free Europe/Radio liberty, correspondence, petitions, news sheets, articles, memoirs, works of prose and poetry,...

Abstract This collection consists of material gathered and created by the George Washington University Progressive Student Union as a function of their advocacy and campaign work. The type of material in the collection includes flyers, newsletters, correspondence, meeting agendas, newspaper articles, brochures, educational material, campaign material, and organizational records. This material dates from 1966 to 2008 with the majority of the material falling within the dates 1988-1996. Topics...

Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of files from former IBT General President Roy L. Williams' Kansas City office, produced during his tenure from May, 1981 to April, 1983. The largest section of this collection is a variety of correspondence. The majority is correspondence with IBT employees, IBT joint councils and union locals, and transportation companies. The collection also includes correspondence files relating to specific subjects, such as the Central States Pension Fund and...

Abstract The Thomas E. Flynn Papers is a collection of material covering the professional life of Thomas Flynn and his role in labor and unions from 1936 until his death in 1972. This collection contains correspondence, both personal and business related to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, memos, reports, and speeches. The collection also consists of press material such as wires, journals, magazines, and newspapers that were compiled to document union activity. There are also oral history...

Abstract This collection is comprised of non-IBT union newspapers, bulletins and journals dating from 1922-2010. Included are newspapers from a number of AFL-CIO affiliated unions, as well as the United Mine Workers of America, UAW, the Graphic Arts International Union, the American Federation of Teachers, and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, whose publication "The Carpenter" spans the years of 1922 and 1950. Also included is a long run of Convoy Dispatch, published by...

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This collection consists of material relating to the United Brewery Workers Union. Included are historical material, convention proceedings, General Executive Board minutes and general correspondence microfilm, and newspapers. These range in date from 1888-1977.

Abstract This collection houses the correspondence and office records of Executive Director Stephen Coats and other staffers from the United States Labor Education in the Americas Project (USLEAP). It's mission was promoting full respect for labor rights globally, and securing economic justice for workers in Latin America and the Caribbeann. Materials included are Stephen Coats' conference and research notes, drafts of various USLEAP newsletters and reports, assorted activist literature, newspaper...

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The collection consists of files assembled by William Moore during the course of his long association with Teamsters Local 696, Topeka, Kansas. They pertain largely to Teamsters national and international elections, Teamsters conventions, labor law, and legal matters.

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Willis "Tiny" Brown was a Teamster truck driver from Peoria, Illinois. He was a regular participant in A,mmerican Trucking Association "roadeos" which were competitions that tested driving skills. The collection consists mainly of programs for the compeitions and the banquets that were the culmination of the competitions.