International Union of Operating Engineers. Local 311: Records, 1906-1967

Container Title
Series: Part 1, 1906-1951
Scope and Content Note

In Part 1, the materials have been grouped into five main divisions: General Correspondence and Miscellaneous Reports and Business Papers; Correspondence with the International President and the International Secretary-Treasurer; Special Correspondence; Minutes; and Financial.

The Special Correspondence file includes a list of the Milwaukee area firms for which correspondence and records of negotiation are retained, followed by 70 folders of general correspondence and labor contracts, arranged by name of person or organization with whom letters were exchanged. These are filed in alphabetical order. Similar files are in Part 2.

The Minutes section contains minutes from general meetings of Local 311 from 1906 to 1950. The file lacks the minutes from August 1910 to July 1921; April 1939 to July 1942; and April 1946 to November 1948. (Minutes for meetings of Local 311 from 1947 to 1959 can be found in Part 2.) Also in the Minutes section are minutes of the meetings of the Executive Board from September 1931 to November 1948. (Minutes of Executive Board meetings for January 1948 to December 1962 are in Part 2.)

The Financial file in Part 1 consists of an expense journal, October 1934 to December 1937. More extensive financial records are in Part 2 under these headings: “Cash book,” “Daybooks,” “Dues Records,” “Expenditures and Receipts,” “Ledgers,” “Note Payments,” and “Social Security Payroll Record.”

Subseries: General Correspondence and Miscellaneous Reports and Business Papers
Box   1
Folder   1
General Correspondence and Miscellaneous, 1935-1940, 1945, 1948
Box   1
Folder   2
Board and Officers' Absentee Excuses, 1936-1940, January
Box   1
Folder   3
Board of Stewards Materials, 1937, undated
Box   1
Folder   4
Elections and Results (Resignations - Committees), 1935-1939
Box   1
Folder   5
Entertainment Committee, 1936-1942
Box   1
Folder   6
Grievances, 1937-1938
Box   1
Folder   7
License Committee, 1938-1939
Box   1
Folder   8
Time and Expense Statements, 1939-1941
Box   1
Folder   9
Wisconsin Power and Operating Engineers League, 1938-1939
Subseries: Correspondence With International President and International Secretary-Treasurer
Box   2
Folder   1
Correspondence with General President, William E Maloney, 1940, September - 1942, October
Correspondence with General Secretary-Treasurer F. A. Fitzgerald
Box   2
Folder   2
1927-1936
Box   2
Folder   3
1937-1939
Box   2
Folder   4
1940-1942
Subseries: Special Correspondence
Box   3
Folder   1
List of the Milwaukee area firms for which correspondence and records of negotiations are retained in the IUOE, Local 311 Special Correspondence files that follow
Box   3
Folder   2
Abbot Crest Hotel, 1939-1941
Box   3
Folder   3
Abel and Bach, Inc., 1942-1943
Box   6
Folder   13
Albert G. Seeboth Company, 1941-1943
Box   3
Folder   4
Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company, 1942, undated
Box   3
Folder   5
August C. Beck Box Company, 1936-1946
Box   3
Folder   7
Breweries and Malt Houses, 1945, undated
Box   3
Folder   8
Cargill, Inc., 1936-1938
Box   3
Folder   9
Carpenter Baking Company, 1942-1943
Box   3
Folder   10
Carrollville Glue Works, 1941-1943, undated
Box   4
Folder   3
Charles Hess Sausage Company, 1934-1939
Box   3
Folder   11
Cleaners and Dyers, 1937
Box   3
Folder   12
Clover Lane Dairy, 1940-1950
Box   3
Folder   13
Columbia Hospital, 1941
Box   3
Folder   14
Cudahy Brothers Packing Company, 1942
Box   3
Folder   15
Cudahy Tower Apartments, 1937-1941
Box   3
Folder   16
Dairies, 1938
Box   6
Folder   9
Department of Safety Engineering, 1939
Box   3
Folder   17
Eastern Laundry Company, 1938
Box   3
Folder   18
Eclipse Molded Products Company, 1945-1949
Box   3
Folder   19
Eva Caroline Home Laundry Company, 1946-1950
Box   3
Folder   20
Falk Corporation, 1937-1949
Box   3
Folder   21
Filer and Stowell Company, 1939-1940
Box   3
Folder   22
Filtration Plant, 1939
Box   3
Folder   23
Foxhead and Waukesha Brewery, 1941
Box   3
Folder   24
Gaylord Container Corporation, 1948-1950
Box   3
Folder   25
Gillen Woodwork Corporation, 1938-1941
Box   3
Folder   6
H. Bremer Company, 1937-1945
Box   4
Folder   1
Harnischfeger Corporation, 1937-1941
Box   4
Folder   2
Heil Company, 1941
Box   4
Folder   4
Hilty-Forster Lumber Company, 1937-1946
Box   4
Folder   5
Holeproof Hosiery Company, 1936-1943
Box   4
Folder   6
Home Wet Wash Laundry Company, 1940-1943
Box   4
Folder   7
Hospitals, 1940
Box   4
Folder   8
International Harvester Company, 1934-1941
Box   6
Folder   1
J. J. Newberry Company, 1937-1941
Box   3
Folder   26
John Graf Company, 1934
Box   4
Folder   10
Kearney and Trecker Corporation, 1944-1945
Box   4
Folder   11
Kieckhefer Container Company, 1934-1935
Box   4
Folder   12
Laundries, 1939-1942
Box   4
Folder   13
Meckelburg Sash and Door Company, 1940-1946
Box   4
Folder   14
Michaels' Packing Company, 1936-1937
Box   4
Folder   15
Millwork Sash and Door, 1937-1938
Box   5
Folder   2
Milwaukee, City of, 1934-1941
Box   4
Folder   16
Milwaukee Boiled Ham Company, 1937-1946
Box   4
Folder   17
Milwaukee Coke and Gas Company, 1934-1942
Box   5
Folder   1
Milwaukee County, 1932-1941
Box   5
Folder   3
Milwaukee Gas and Light Company, 1942
Box   5
Folder   4
Milwaukee Ordinance Plant, 1942-1944
Box   5
Folder   5
My Laundry Company, 1938-1951
Box   5
Folder   6
Nabisco Company, 1948-1949
Box   5
Folder   7
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, 1942-1950
Box   5
Folder   8
National Knit, 1938-1940
Box   5
Folder   9
National Straw Works, 1937-1938
Box   6
Folder   2
Northwestern Lithograph Company, 1940, undated
Box   6
Folder   3
Northwestern Weiss Manufacturing Company, 1943-1945
Box   6
Folder   4
Paper Makers Chemical Corporation, 1934-1940
Box   6
Folder   5
Pfister and Vogel Leather Company, 1940
Box   6
Folder   6
Potomac Engineering Company, 1946-1947
Box   6
Folder   7
Republican Hotel, 1942-1948
Box   4
Folder   9
Robert A. Johnson Company, 1936-1941
Box   6
Folder   8
Rockwell Manufacturing Company, 1934
Box   6
Folder   10
St. Mary's Hospital, 1935
Box   6
Folder   11
Schuster, Incorporated, 1938-1944
Box   6
Folder   12
Seaman Body Corporation, 1932-1941
Box   6
Folder   14
Sperry Candy Company, 1934-1937
Box   6
Folder   15
Towne Theatre, 1946
Box   3
Folder   27
W. T. Grant Company, 1943
Box   6
Folder   17
West Side Manufacturing Company, 1941-1946
Box   6
Folder   16
Western Leather Company, 1934-1946
Box   6
Folder   18
Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Company, 1934
Box   6
Folder   19
Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company, 1936
Subseries: Minutes
General Meetings of Local 311
Box   7
Folder   1
1906 January 29-1907 July 5
Box   7
Folder   2
1907 July 19-1910 August 5
Box   7
Folder   3
1921 July 1-1930 September 19
Box   7
Folder   4
1930 October 17-1935 June 28
Box   7
Folder   5
1935 July 12-1939 April 26
Box   7
Folder   6
1942 July 8-1946 April 22
Box   7
Folder   7
1948 November 16-1950 June 20
Executive Board Meeting
Box   7
Folder   8
1931 September 9-1937 February 10
Box   8
Folder   1
1937 February 18-1941 February 26
Box   8
Folder   2
1946 May 13-1948 November 15
Subseries: Financial
Box   8
Folder   3
Expense Journal, 1934, October 12-1937, December 22