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Summary Information
Automation Fund Committee Records
1959-1970
- Automation Fund Committee
Mss 83; Tape 946A; AC 345
4.0 c.f. (10 archives boxes), 2 tape recordings, and 1 film
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of a committee composed of company, union, and neutral representatives which sought remedies to the displacement of workers when Armour and Company modernized its meatpacking operations and closed plants in the 1950's and 1960's. Financed by Armour, the committee commissioned studies and surveys; made recommendations to minimize displacement, some of which were incorporated into labor contracts between Armour and the Meat Cutters and Packinghouse Workers union; and provided direct assistance to workers in several cities where Armour plants closed. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, clippings, reports, questionnaires, and statistics. Administrative records, reports from committee studies and projects, and a subject file on labor issues comprise about half the collection. The remaining papers are files on plant closings where the committee actively assisted workers being laid off. Of these, committee projects at Kansas City and Omaha are particularly well documented.
English
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