Title: Milwaukee County Industrial Union Council Records
Inclusive Dates: 1938-1948

Creator:

• Milwaukee County Industrial Union Council

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss DU

Quantity: 4.4 cubic ft. (11 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; 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-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of the CIO-affiliated council which was formed in 1938. Records consist of meeting minutes, trial committee records, resolutions, correspondence with the membership and other organizations, financial records, attendance records, and newsletters and reports of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the Wisconsin State Industrial Union Council. Included are World War II materials from the Milwaukee County Council of Defense, and resolutions condemning Nazism and demanding the start of a second front. The correspondence includes documentation on efforts to promote more housing in Milwaukee County, and a confidential memorandum on differences between the MCIUC and Wisconsin State Industrial Union Council (November 18, 1947), which discussed charges of Communist influence and improper representation of Local 1533 at Fairbanks, Morse and Company. There are some materials on the United Electrical, Radio 8 Machine Workers Local 1111 strike against the Allen-Bradley Company (1938-39) and the United Auto Workers Local 248 strike against the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company (1946).

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil000du

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The Milwaukee County Industrial Union Council was formed in 1938 and affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in accordance with the terms of the charter granted by the CIO. Its objectives, according to its constitution, were to "protect, maintain and advance the interests of all working people in its territory, to extend unionism on the basis of industrial organization, to secure and enforce legislation in the interests of the working people, to promote recognition and acceptance of collective bargaining in industry, and to increase public understanding of the labor movement."

Records of the county council, primarily arranged in a chronological “correspondence” file, regardless of the type of document. Thus, meeting minutes, trial committee records, resolutions, newsletters and reports, and correspondence with the membership and other organizations are found together. Other documents, primarily financial in nature, are filed separately.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Milwaukee County Industrial Union Council, May 4, 1953.

Box   1 Folder   1	Audit Records, Tax Returns and Strike Fund Disbursements, 1942-1945
Box   1 Folder   2	Bank Books, Union Ledger Cards, and Financial Records, 1947-1948
Box   1 Folder   3	Bills and Receipts, 1943-1948
Box   1 Folder   4	Constitution, 1938
	Correspondence and other documents
Box   1 Folder   5	1938 January - August
Box   2 Folder   1-4	1938 September - 1941 June
Box   3 Folder   1-4	1941 December - 1943 July
Box   4 Folder   1-4	1943 August - 1944 June
Box   5 Folder   1-5	1944 October - 1945 August
Box   10 Folder   4	1944-1952
Box   6 Folder   1-5	1945 September - 1946 March
Box   7 Folder   1-5	1946 April - August
Box   8 Folder   1-6	1946 September - 1947 April
Box   9 Folder   1-5	1947 May - October
Box   10 Folder   1-3	1947 November - 1948 June
Box   10 Folder   5	Delegate and Attendance Records, 1945-1947
Box   11 Folder   1	Financial Data and Receipts, 1941-1946
	Per Capita Tax Forms
Box   11 Folder   2-3	1947
Box   11 Folder   4	1948
Box   11 Folder   5	Political Action Committee Candidate Questionnaire, 1948