Summary Information

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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