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.
