The CRFT papers include correspondence, minutes, treasurer's reports, membership lists, resolutions and policy statements, copies of AFT and CRFT constitutions, newspaper clippings, committee reports, speeches by CRFT officials and miscellany.
The correspondence, 1943-1968, is arranged chronologically by day. Although incomplete and often routine, the correspondence does reflect both internal and external union activities.
The minutes, 1942-1967, provide the most comprehensive record of CRFT activities.
Both the newsletters and the newspaper clippings document the CRFT's “public face.” The newsletter, originally entitled the AF of T News subsequently became the AFT Newsletter, then The Federation News and Views, and currently is entitled The Craftsman. There is a fairly complete run from 1957 to 1966. The newsletters have been removed from the collection and deposited in the SHSW library.
