Title: United Transportation Union. Lodge 1293: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1917-1974

Creator:

• United Transportation Union. Lodge 1293 (Altoona, Wis.)

Call Number: Eau Claire Mss AF

Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (1 record center carton, 2 archives boxes, and 2 flat boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the Area Research Center, William D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Eau Claire McIntyre Library / Eau Claire Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of a labor union representing employees of the eastern division of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railroad. Included are minutes, 1917-1923, 1932-1959; correspondence; membership and attendance records; monthly treasurer's reports and information on claims; and miscellaneous communications received from the Grand Lodge of the union. The union was organized in Altoona in 1917 as Local 888 of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; when merger formed the United Transportation Union in 1968, it became Local 1293. Only a small portion of the documentation in the collection relates to the local's history as a member of the United Transportation Union.

Language: English

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The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, formerly the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen, was organized by eight train service employees at Oneonta, New York, September 23, 1883. From its inception the union has endeavored

To unite the Railroad Trainmen; to promote their general welfare and advance their interests, social, moral, and intellectual; to protect their families by the exercise of a systematic benevolence very needful in a calling so hazardous as ours.... (Walter McCaleb, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, New York, 1936, p. 51)

In February, 1917, an organizational meeting was called at Altoona, Wisconsin by A.F. Whitney, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. The purpose of the meeting was to establish a lodge of the brotherhood with jurisdiction over members employed on the eastern division of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railroad (except for yardmen at the Twin Cities). The lodge became Local #888, popularly known as the Chippewa Valley Lodge.

In 1968, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, along with the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and Switchmen's Union of North America, merged to form the United Transportation Union (UTU). At this time, Local #888 became Local #1293, UTU.

The records of the United Transportation Union, Local 1293, formerly Local 888 of Altoona, Wisconsin, span the years 1917 to 1974 and are arranged alphabetically by subject. They provide an informative, although somewhat sketchy, account of the activities of the local, with the emphasis on the period before the formation of the UTU. For this period, the records include fairly complete minutes, membership records, and financial records. There is little general correspondence, however, although there are minutes, circulars, and other communications from the Grand Lodge of the union. Virtually the only records documenting the post-merger period consist of monthly treasurer's reports and fragmentary correspondence concerning member benefits.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Union, via Gerald A. Hagen, Altoona, Wisconsin, 1974-1978. Accession Number: M74-284, M78-264

Processing Information

Processed by John Pfeil and John Fleckner, 1977; additions processed by Carolyn J. Mattern, 2001.

Box   3 Folder   2	Attendance records, 1917-1935
	Claims
Box   1 Folder   1	Through 1952
Box   1 Folder   2-19	1953-1970
Box   1 Folder   20-21	Correspondence, General, 1917-1918, 1922-1924
	Elections
Box   1 Folder   22	General chairman, 1954-1974
Box   1 Folder   23	Local, 1954-1974
Box   1 Folder   24	Financial report, 1917
Box   1 Folder   25, 48	Five Day Week, 1949-1952, 1958
Box   1 Folder   26	General Committee (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha), Minutes, 1917-1933
Box   1 Folder   27	Grand Lodge (Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen), Circulars, 1915-1923
Box   1 Folder   28	Jurisdiction, 1948, 1952-1953
	Membership
Box   1 Folder   29	General application records, 1917-1929
Box   1 Folder   30	Anderson, Arthur N., 1952-1957
Box   1 Folder   31	Cole, George E., 1952-1970
Box   1 Folder   32	Coyle, Frank W., 1951
Box   1 Folder   33	Eckert, Anton F., 1953-1959
Box   1 Folder   34	Fehrenbach, George J., 1948-1966
Box   1 Folder   35	Fogle, E.D., 1963-1972
Box   1 Folder   36	Gilchrist, Theodore J., 1953, 1964, 1966, 1975
Box   1 Folder   37	Larson, Henry, 1947-1970
Box   1 Folder   38	Ludvigson, William, 1943
Box   1 Folder   39	Marvin, Jerry C., 1944, 1955-1961, 1972
Box   1 Folder   40	McKeeth, Robert E., 1971, 1975
Box   1 Folder   41	Mulvaney, William H., 1958-1975
Box   1 Folder   42	Olsen, Carl F., 1946-1971
Box   1 Folder   43	Price, G.K., 1950, 1961
Box   1 Folder   44	Robertson, Matt, 1960-1972
Box   1 Folder   45	Rock, George M., 1953-1969
Box   1 Folder   46	Rouskey, George N., 1954-1957, 1970
Box   1 Folder   47	Thomas, M.P., 1964
Box   2 Folder   1	Membership record book, 1951-1965, and Cash book, , 1949-1957
	Minutes
Box   3 Folder   1	1917-1923
Box   3 Folder   2	1932-1944
Box   3 Folder   3	1944-1959
Box   1 Folder   49	Miscellaneous records, undated
Box   1 Folder   50	Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, 1950-1953, 1960-1965
Box   1 Folder   51	Organizing on Omaha, 1954-1955, 1962-1964
Box   1 Folder   52	Public Service Commission, 1953
Box   1 Folder   53	Reports of the General Chairman (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha), 1929-1933
Box   1 Folder   54	Retirement refund, 1954
Box   1 Folder   55	Rotary board, 1949-1956
Box   1 Folder   56	State Income Taxes, Minnesota and Wisconsin, 1962
Box   1 Folder   57	Strike dependents, 1962
Box   1 Folder   58	Strikes, 1946-1964
Box   1 Folder   59	Treasurers information, 1965-1967
	Treasurer's monthly statements
Box   1 Folder   60-62	1952-1954
Box   4 Folder   1-11	1955-1965
Box   5 Folder   1-5	1966-1970
Box   5 Folder   6	Working conditions, 1958-1961