Part 1 (Mss 298, Micro 1137): Original Collection, 1934-1966
Physical Description: 11.2 c.f. (28 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm) 
Arrangement of the Materials: The records are arranged in an alphabetical subject file.
Scope and Content Note

Part I of the records covers the period from 1934 to 1966 and consists of correspondence, contract negotiation materials, contracts, grievances, prepared testimony before the Federal Communications Commission and Congressional committees, mimeographed and printed arbitration and court decisions, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and testimony and evidence presented to the CIO Trial Committee. With the exception of monthly summaries for Broadcast Local 1 from the mid-1950s, there are virtually no financial records. (Biennial financial reports may be found in the Officers' Reports to the Biennial Conference in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.)

The files give excellent coverage to union activities involving Western Union, Broadcast Local 1, and Teleregister Local 876, and to Federal Communications Commission hearings involving mergers in the telegraph industry. Other aspects of union activity, including the HUAC hearings, are sparsely covered, and such areas as representation of airline employees and involvement in the telephone industry are not documented in these records except for mention in biennial reports.

American Cable and Radio Corporation

All-America Cable and Radio, 1942-1949, undated

Commercial Cable, 1939, 1945-1948, 1961, undated

Commercial Cable and Mackay Radio Telegraph Strike, 1948-Court Cases 1951

Mackay Radio Telegraph

General

1934-1936

1937-1938

1941-1947

Brentwood Strike of 1948

General, 1948-1950

Press Clippings

Strike Bulletins (issued by Local #9, California), 1948

Strike Flash, 1948

Organization and Elections, ARA Raid, 1949-1950

Coast Guard Licensing of Coastal Employees, 1952

Proposed Merger of Mackay, Commercial Cable, and All-America Cables-FCC Docket No. 9093, 1947-1949

Pay Schedules and Related Materials, early 1950s

Organization and Elections

General, 1948-1952

CTU-AFL Bulletins, 1951-1952

Election Materials, circa 1952-1953

General, 1953

National Labor Relations Board-Case No. 2RC-4670, 1953, July 30
Note: See also Globe Wireless, and Local 10 records (call number Mss 321).

American Telephone and Telegraph
Note: See FCC Docket No. 16258 and FCC-Hearings on Submarine Cables

Automation, 1957

Biography Reference File

Board of War Communications-“Enforcement of Board of War Communications order No. 25, ” 1942, December 11

Broadcast Department

Negotiations and Contracts

ARTA Negotiations with KYW, 1937

WBNX

1937-1955

1957-1964

WDAS, 1953, 1957-1960, undated

WHAT, 1938-1939, 1944-1962, undated

WIBG

1939-1952

1953-1956

1957-1959

1960-1962, undated

WIP, 1946, 1950, 1956, 1958-1959

WLIB

1943-1949

1950

1951

1952-1954

1955-1963, undated

WPEN

1935, 1938, 1944-1954

1955-1962, undated

Miscellaneous Radio Station Contracts, 1938-1949, 1957

National Labor Board Arbitrations, 1938

National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians, 1944-1946

General Correspondence, 1945-1952, undated

Press Clippings, 1939-1947

FCC-Proposed Changes in Operators' Licenses, 1947-1950, undated

FCC Hearings on Remote Control Operation of Transmitters, 1952-1956, undated

Local #1

Publications (mimeographed)-Legisletter, Newsletter, Off Mike, Private Line, circa 1943-1950

Atlantic Branch membership Lists, 1946, undated

Financial records, 1949-1964, undated

IBEW, 1950-1952, 1959, undated

Publications-Stand-By, 1952, July-August

Correspondence-Eugene Dupree, 1951-1958, undated

General Correspondence

1953-1958

1959-1966, undated

Cabinet Committee on Telecommunications Policy and Organization, 1954, November-1955, January

Canadian Communications Association, 1953, undated
Note: See also Locals No. 2, 4, 4, and 6 in these papers; and the Local 111 records (call number Mss 302).

Civil Rights Activities, 1961-1965

Commercial Cable
Note: See American Cable and Radio Corporation.

CIO

Certification of Affiliation (ACA with CIO), 1938, November 16

General, 1941-1950

New York State Council, 1947-1950

“Trial” Committee-ACA Statement, 1950, April 11

Trial Exhibits, 1950
Scope and Content Note: Includes press clippings, 1938, July-1950, January.

AFL-CIO Merger-Notice to ACA Members, 1955

Constitution-Draft of Proposed Constitution of the American Radio Telegraphists Association, 1937

Employment, circa 1939-1940

Federal Communications Commission

Docket No. 6512-Government Rates Under the Post Roads Act, 1943, June, undated

Docket No. 6517
Note: See Western Union Telegraph Company-Merger with Postal Telegraph and Divestment of International Cables.

Docket No. 9093
Note: See American Cable and Radio Corporation-Proposed Merger of Mackay, Commercial Cable, and All-America Cables.

Docket No. 9276

Speed of Service Regulations, 1948-1949

Speed of Service Studies, 1951, 1954, 1961-1962, undated

Docket No. 10151
Note: See Western Union Telegraph Company-Merger with Postal Telegraph and Divestment of International Cables.

Docket No. 11061-Screening of License Applicants, 1954-1956, undated

Docket No. 14154-Wide Area Data Service (WADS), 1961-1964

Docket No. 14251-Telpak, 1961-1962, 1964, undated

Docket No. 14650-Telegraph Investigation

General Materials

1961-1963

1964-1966, undated

Dallas Smyth Testimony (November 1964), 1962-1964, undated

William Bender Testimony (, November 1964)

Statement

Supporting Materials

1963-1964

1964-1965

Delays, 1962-1964, undated

Speed of Service Study, 1963, October, undated

“Plant Department, ” 1963, undated

Draft with Exhibit Attachments, 1963, undated

Miscellaneous Materials, 1962, undated

Hearings on Submarine Cables, 1963-1964

Docket No. 16258-Charges for Communication Service, ATT, Bell System, 1965-1966, undated

Nomination of George C. McConnaughey, 1953-1955, undated

Miscellaneous

1942-1949

1950-1960

1961-1967, undated

General Correspondence

A, 1945

E, 1958-1959

F, 1956

G, 1952, 1961

H, 1954-1961

J, 1956

M, 1954, 1958, 1966

N, 1956, 1961, 1965

O, 1961

P, 1945, 1960

S, 1953-1958

V, 1955-1956

W, 1954-1958, 1964

Y, 1956

Miscellaneous Non-Union Organizations

A-M, 1944-1963, undated

N-S, 1949-1964, undated

Globe Wireless, Ltd., 1938-1953, 1960, undated
Note: See also American Cable and Radio Corporation.

“Health, ” 1940, undated

History-“Materials Collected for a History of the ACA,” 1937-1952, undated

House Committee on Un-American Activities

General Materials, circa 1952-1963, undated

Watkins Decision, 1957

Grumann, Frank, and Bernard Silber

Appearance Before HUAC and Subsequent Court Cases, 1957-1964, undated

Court Cases-Printed Materials, 1960-1961

National Committee and New York Countil to Abolish HUAC, 1960-1964, undated

“Informers,” 1950-1957, undated

Labor Unions-United States

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, 1950-1964

International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, 1952-1966, undated

United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, 1952-1962, undated

Miscellaneous Unions, 1944-1966

Labor Unions-Foreign

Sindicato Provincial de Trabajedorese Cablegraficos y Radio-telegraphicos de la Habana, 1949, 1955-1960, undated

Sindical du Personnel de la Western Union (Paris), 1955-1959

The Western Union (European Division) Cable Employees Association, 1959-1963

Miscellaneous Foreign Unions, 1954-1963

Legislation-U.S. Federal

Miscellaneous, 1938-1942, 1949, 1954, 1959

Wage and Hour Bills, 1937-1950, 1955, 1961, undated

Public Law #351, 1941-1945, undated

Amendment of Fair Labor Standards Act, 1945

Taft-Hartley Act

General, 1946-1949, 1953, undated

Press Clippings, 1947-1949

Butler and Goldwater-Rhodes Bills, 1953-1954

McCarran Act, 1954
Note: See also Senate Subcommittee to Investigate...the Internal Security Act.

S. 3427 and S. 3428, 1954

Amendments to FCC Act of 1934, 1955-1956

Landrum-Griffin Bill

Bonding, 1958-1960, undated

General, 1959-1962

Legislation-New York (state)

Disability Law, 1950, March 9

Labor and Management Improper Practices Act, 1959-1961

Minimum Wage, 1963-1966

Legislation-New York (city)-Minimum Wage, 1962-1964, undated

Local #2-Marine (Canada), 1946

Local #2-Marine (New Orleans), 1946

Local #2-Marine (Canada)

1943-1946

1947-1953, undated

Local #5-Marine (Montreal), 1946-1951

Local #6-Cable (Canada), 1946-1952

Local #9 (San Francisco), 1965-1966

Local #13 (Honolulu), 1946-1961

Local #40-New York Western Union
Note: See also Western Union.

1943-1948

1949-1950

1951-1952

1953-1955

1956-1959

1960-1961

1962-1966, undated

Local 40 News, 1943, February-June; 1944, March-April; 1947, September

“Report to Local 40 Executive (Board) on Organization and Finance,” 1963, May 7

Election Controversy, 1964

Local #876-Teleregister, 1959-1965

Locals, Miscellaneous Communications to, 1954-1965

Mackay Radio Telegraph
Note: See American Cable and Radio Corporation.

Marine Department

Press Clippings, 1947

Ballot on Affiliation to NMEBA-CIO, 1948

Mexican Telephone Company-Contract, 1948

Mignon, Michael-Defense, 1943-1957

Miscellaneous Papers and Unidentified Fragments, 1942-1966, undated

Miscellaneous Position Drafts, circa 1959-1961

Monopoly-“Anti-monopoly,”, undated

Morgan, Harry, 1945-1949

National Labor Relations Board-U.S. District Court-ACA vs. NLRB, 1946

National War Labor Board-Miscellaneous, 1943-1945

Organizing Committee-Communications Journal

Postal Telegraph Company
Note: See also Western Union Telegraph Company-Merger with Postal Telegraph.

1937-1941

1942-1943

Press Wireless

Press Clippings, 1939-1947

General, 1954, 1963-1965, undated

RCA Communications

Strike-Press Clippings, 1940

General, 1943, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, undated

Labor Dispute-Newspaper Clippings, 1965 August 9-10 and September 10

Radio and Cables Department

1943-1948

1949-1954

Publications, circa 1945

“Radio and the American Communications Association” by Robert George Huck (Master's Thesis), 1947

Rathborne, Mervyn-Critical Biography, 1950, February 17

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano-Convention Greetings and Condolence Message, 1944-1946

Satellite Communications

General, 1959-1962

Dallas Smythe Articles and Correspondence, 1961

“Selective Service”, 1942-1944

Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act
Note: See also Legislation-U.S. Federal-McCarran Act.

Subversive Infiltration in the Telegraph Industry Hearing Transcript, 1951, May-June; 1952, January

General Materials, 1953-1957, undated

Silberman, Charles (publicity director, editor of ACA News-General Correspondence, 1951-1966

Telegraph Department, 1947

Telephone Workers

General, 1942, 1945, 1946

Press Clippings, 1946-1947

1000 Club, 1946-1947

Teleregister Corporation

General

1945-1954

1955-1956

1957

1958-1959

1960-1961

1962-1963

1964-1965

Undated

Disciplinary Actions and Grievances

1955-1959

1960

1961-1962

Peter DeCosmo Grievance Case, 1963

1963-1965, undated

Election (Stamford), 1965

Employee Lists, circa 1962

Grievance and Membership Meeting Minutes, 1956 April-1964 April

Telpak
Note: See FCC-Docket No. 14251.

Tropical Radio Telegraph Company, 1944-1947, 1962, undated

United States Government

Department of Labor, 1944-1965

U.S. District Court C-140-351 Opinion (Selly (ACA) vs. October 1952 Grand Jury), 1953, April 13

Miscellaneous, 1940, 1950, 1954-1965
Note: See also Federal Communications Commission; House Committee on Un-American Activities; Legislation-U.W. Federal; National Labor Relations Board; National War Labor Board; Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act.

Veterans, 1944-1946, undated

WADS
Note: See FCC-Docket No. 14154.

Western Union Telegraph Company
Note: See also Local #40.

Elections

1937-1940

AWUE Challenge-Press Clippings, 1938-1940

1941-1943

1945 (1944, January-August)

1945 (1944, September-1945, March)

1947

1950-1951

1952 (1951, August-1952, May)

1953 (1952, November-1953, May)

1961 (April)

1962 (1961, November-1962, February)

1966 (1965, January-1966, May)

Undated

Negotiations and Contracts

Sub-local 55-B, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1941

1941-1944, January
Note: See also Western Union-Merger with Postal Telegraph.

1944, February-December
Note: See also Western Union-Merger with Postal Telegraph.

1945

1946

1947-1949

Nationwide Food Service, 1950-1966
Note: See also Western Union-Grievances and Arbitration-Nationwide Food Service.

1950-1951

1952-1953

1954-1956

1957-1958

1960

Hospital Insurance, 1960-1961, 1964

1961-1962

1964, 1966, undated

Strikes

Press Clippings

1938-1942

, 1939 (San Francisco)
Note: See also WU AWUE 1938-1940.

1945-1947, 1952

1952

General

1945, December-1946, January 24

1946, January 25-31

1946, February 1-June 6

Grievances and Arbitration

General

1944-1947

1948

1949

1950

1951-1954

1955-1957

1958-1959

1960-1963

1964-1965

Undated

Messengers' Exemption from Minimum Wage, 1938-1939

Messengers' Gas and Tire Allowances and Wages, 1942

Layoff of Morse Operators, 1944-1949

National Labor Relations Board Case No. 17-R-742, 1944-1946

“Retroactive Pay Cases,” 1946

National Labor Relations Board Case No. 2-T-6-Branch Managers, 1948-1949

Minimum Wage for Messengers, 1949-1950

“Traffic Working Conditions (Compiled by J.F. Kehoe), 1956”

HUAC Suspensions, 1957

“C.D. Mechanization (Including Various Plans and Procedures),” 1959-1960, undated

Mader Pension Case, 1927, 1958, 1960, undated

Minimum Wage for Messengers, 1961

Pensions, 1958-1963, undated

Western Union Telegraph Pensions Paid by Western Union International, 1963-1964

Jersey City Warehouse Closing, 1963-1965, undated

Nationwide Food Service, February 1966
Note: See also Western Union-Negotiations and Contracts-Nationwide Food Service.

Merger with Postal Telegraph

General

1936-1939

1940

1941, February 3-circa April 25

1941, April 30-1942, May 1

1942, May 2-October 2

1942, October 9-1943, June 18

1943, June 25-December 20, 1944, 1945, undated
Note: See also Western Union-Negotiations and Contracts, 1943-1945.

“ACA Exhibits and Statements,” 1942, circa April

“Draft of Proposed Findings”-Domestic Merger, circa 1943

Telegraph Rates, 1943-1953

Curtailment of Service

1944, December 28-1953, September 24

1953, October 5-1954, October 28; 1955-1965, undated

“Senate Material,” 1954, undated

House of Representatives Material, 1954

Divestment of International Cables

FCC Docket No. 6517

1942-1943, 1952-1954

circa 1955-1960, January 29

1960, February 4-1961, February

1961, March-circa 1965

Undated

ACA Exhibits, 1960, post April 1

FCC Docket No. 10151

1951-1954

1955-1959, undated

Miscellaneous, 1952, 1957-1963, undated

International Merger

1949-1960

1961-1965, undated

Communications Policy Board, 1950, February-1951, March, undated

Customer Interest Campaign, 1950-1951

Communications Policy Board-Campus Publicity Campaign, 1951, January 22-February 26, undated

Government-Management-Labor War Production Conference (July 30, 1942), 1942, July-August

Rate Increases, 1946-1947, 1952, undated

“Rate Range Revisions-1957,” 1957-1958, undated

“TFC Shop Committee Meeting-Local #40,” 1961, March 28-29

Miscellaneous, 1940-1965, undated