Summary Information

Title: Cigar Makers' International Union of America. Local 162: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1881-1969

Creator:

• Cigar Makers' International Union of America. Local 162 (Green Bay, Wis.)

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 78

Quantity: 3.0 cubic feet (5 archives boxes and 4 flat boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

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

Abstract:

Records of a local of the Cigar Makers' International Union of America, founded in Green Bay in 1881, which reached a peak membership of 94 members in 1905. The records include correspondence, 1892-1927, consisting primarily of printed circulars from the CMIU headquarters and locals and other unions providing documentation of strikes and other issues in the labor movement, especially for 1916 to 1919; membership records, 1882-1927; financial records, 1881-1920; and records, 1944-1969, of the cigar manufacturing business of one member, Peter Rutten.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0078

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