Title: International Typographical Union. Local 106: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1908-1958

Creator:

• International Typographical Union. Local 106 (Madison, Wis.)

Call Number: U.S. Mss 122A

Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (3 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Records of the International Typographical Union (ITU) local representing newspaper, institutional, and job shop printers in Madison, Wisconsin. The bulk of the collection consists of monthly reports, 1929-1953; minutes, 1944-1952; apprentice records; and various financial and benefit records and ledgers, 1908-1956. There is also a slim correspondence file, mainly 1940-1958, which documents the relationship between the local and its members, employers, and the international union. Of special interest are the union's reactions to the 1948 merger of the Capital Times and the Wisconsin State Journal as Madison Newspapers Inc., and an invitation to re-affiliate with the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor after the international affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.

Language: English

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The Madison Typographical Union, Local No. 106 of the International Typographical Union, includes membership of newspaper, institutional, and job shop printers in the area around Madison, Wisconsin.

The correspondence and other documents are a record of daily relationships between the local union and its members, with employers, and with the international union. Except for one letter of 1920, the correspondence covers a period from 1940 to 1958. Letters of December 14, December 24, and December 28, 1948, reveal the union's reaction to the merger of Madison's two daily newspapers. A letter of June 22, 1944, from George Haberman invites the Madison Typographical Union to re-affiliate with the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, since the International Typographical Union had again affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. A letter from International Secretary Don Hurd, August 16, 1951, defines the status of union members in the armed services.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Madison Typographical Union through J.J. Barkenhagen, Madison, Wisconsin, January 20, 1954, and through Vincent Brunker, Madison, Wisconsin, February 28, 1961.

U.S. Mss 122A Box   1	Correspondence, 1920 October 22-1958 September 17
Box   1	Union label agreements
Box   2	Executive Committee minutes
Box   2	Traveling cards, honorable withdrawals
Box   2	Union ballots
Box   2	Membership applications
Box   2	Apprenticeship records
Box   2 Volume   1	Treasurer's ledger, 1945-1949
Box   2 Volume   2	Old age pension roll, 1941-1943
	Applications for mortuary benefit
Box   2 Volume   3	1908-1910
Box   2 Volume   4	1913 January-July
Box   2 Volume   5	1922-1932
Box   2 Volume   6	1933-1936
	Secretary's monthly reports
Box   2 Volume   7	1929-1930
Box   2 Volume   8	1936
Box   2 Volume   9	1952
Box   2 Volume   10	1952-1953
	Cash books
Box   4 Volume   11	1910 January-1913 August
Box   4 Volume   12	1927 May-1932 October
Box   3 Volume   13	1934 November-1941 March
Box   3 Volume   14	1941 April-1949 December
Box   3 Volume   15	1949 January-1956 March
	Minute books
Box   3 Volume   16	1927 June-1935 March
Box   3 Volume   17	1944 January-1952 March
	Ledgers: Dues records
Box   4 Volume   18	1910-1912
Box   4 Volume   19	1913 January-1913 September
Box   4 Volume   20	1913 October-1915 March
Box   5 Volume   21	1918 October-1920 January
Box   5 Volume   22	1926-1927
Box   5 Volume   23	1928-1932