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

Part 2 (Mss 734): 1988 Additions, 1937-1974
Physical Description: 8.4 c.f. (8 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note

The 1988 Additions (which were donated to the Historical Society in 1978) cover the period 1937-1974 and are divided into two general categories: internal administrative records of the union, and subject files, plus a small group of miscellany. The administrative records include important documentation not available in the materials received from the union in earlier donations-chiefly minutes of the executive board, 1940-1968, officers' correspondence, 1937-1965, and convention files, 1938-1964. As a result of this new material, the overall quality of the collection as a resource for research is greatly improved.

The ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS pertain to the international union and document the activities of its officers, activities in the headquarters, and interactions between the international and its local membership. Included is a constitution; materials pertaining to biennial elections, biennial conventions, and executive board meetings; officers' correspondence; and publications.

The biennial election records cover the period 1954-1966 and generally document the union's election procedures on both an international and local level. The biennial convention files date from 1938 to 1964 and include proceedings, resolutions, and correspondence. Additional information about the biennial conventions may be found in the holdings of the Society Library. (This material partially duplicates the archival record.)

Records of the International Executive Board meetings include minutes, resolutions, and correspondence. These records document, although not completely, the 4th through the 71st IEB meetings and cover the period 1940-1968. Also included is detailed information on votes and decisions of the board, 1945-1967. Of special note among the material on conferences is material pertaining to ACA's 1966 affiliation with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The officers' correspondence covers the period 1937-1973 and is arranged chronologically by officer. One folder contains correspondence sent to international executive board members, 1953 to 1965. Also included are various publications issued by and for ACA members and covering the period from 1941 to 1952. Additional publications are available in the Society Library.

The SUBJECT FILES are arranged alphabetically. Most material is arranged by company name and thereunder by union, although there are a few exceptions to this. Most company files include correspondence, together with agreements, arbitration, and negotiation material. On the whole, they provide good coverage of labor-management relations. Some material filed under the heading “Local Records” consists of minutes, by-laws, correspondence, and miscellaneous records of several ACA locals. Also in the subject files are materials which document ACA's loss to the Communication Workers of America in the 1966 election at Western Union, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings documenting a strike by radio and cable workers in the early half of 1948, materials on ACA's position on the Western Union-Postal Telegraph merger, and records concerning ACA activity during the McCarthy era. The subject files also include publications issued by various unions and companies (especially COMSAT), materials concerning ACA's relation with Congress of Racial Equality, Federal Communications Commission hearings and dockets, and material pertaining to labor spies.

The MISCELLANY includes examples of election ballots, letters to the international union regarding opportunities for employment, newspaper clippings, statements, and arbitration awards concerning related unions.

Series: Administrative Records

International constitution

Drafts and proposals, 1940-1974, undated

Correspondence, 1937-1974, undated

Affiliation, 1943-1949

Anti-espionage plan, 1941

Charters for locals, 1943-1960

Conferences

Democracy and Autonomy in the CIO, 1949

President's Conference on Occupational Safety, 1954

Conference miscellany, 1953, 1955, 1969

IBT Affiliation Conference, 1966

Contributions to other organizations, 1953-1966

Conventions (Biennial), 1938-1964

Elections (Biennial), 1954-1966

Executive Board

4th-71st meeting minutes, 1940-1968

Decisions and votes, 1945-1967

Officers' correspondence

1937-1952, Rathborne and Selly

1953-1972, Selly

1961-1973, Fitzsimmons

1954-1967, Kehoe and Bender

1953-1965, Correspondence to IEB members

Publications

Challenge (ITT), 1948-1952

FYI (MacKay), 1951-1952

Labor's Outlook

The Log (Broadcast District Local 1), 1941-1942

Telephone News, 1945-1947

Pamphlets, publications, and propaganda miscellany

Series: Subject Files

Alliance for Labor, Proceedings of founding conference, 1969

American Cable and Radio Corporation (ACRC)

ACA miscellany, 1958, 1964, undated

Communication Workers of America (CWA), 1964

National Labor Relations Board arbitration regarding CWA, 1949-1953

American Radio Association (ARA), 1947-1949, undated

American Telephone and Telegraph

Correspondence and clippings regarding rate regulation and anti-trust, 1961-1966

AT&T-Long Lines

CWA Local 1150 election propaganda, 1966-1968

ACA election propaganda, 1966-1967

Anti-ACA material

CIO charges against ACA and other unions, 1949, 1955

ACA compliance status with NLRA section (h)

ACA statements to the Judiciary committee, 1954-1955

Miscellaneous correspondence and statements

Bell Telephone, CWA Local 2590, Correspondence, convention reports, membership development statistics, and miscellany, 1967-1968

Broadcasting Department, agreements and correspondence, 1952-1962

Bunker-Ramo Corporation

Agreements

Union election, 1965

ACA and International Association of Machinists election propaganda, 1965

Miscellaneous correspondence and grievance file

Cable and Wireless/Western Union International; San Juan, Puerto Rico

Correspondence, 1969-1970, undated

Agreements and FCC hearings, 1970

Job classification and cost of living information

Canadian Overseas Telecommunication Corporation, Radio and Cables Department Overseas Communication Union, agreements, 1957-1965

Columbia Records, ACA agreements and correspondence, 1967-1970

Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT)

Correspondence, 1964-1966

Annual reports, 1965-1970

Reports to shareholders, 1965-1971

Reports to President and Congress, 1966-1970, and miscellaneous pamphlets

Statements by COMSAT officials, 1966-1968

News releases, 1966-1971

Miscellany, newspaper clippings, and photographs

Communication Workers of America

Publications, propaganda, and miscellany

Anti-ACA propaganda

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), correspondence and leaflets, 1960-1964

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Dockets

Reports of the Board of War Communications on telegraph service to the FCC

1942-1943

1942-1947

Insurance organizing

Correspondence, 1958-1972, undated

Agreements, 1969-1972, undated

NLRB hearings, 1967-1971, undated

Miscellany

International merger (RCA, WU, ACRC), correspondence and statements, 1954-1958

International Telephone and Telegraph World Communications

ACA, 1964-1965

CWA Local 1172, 1951-1960

CWA, 1960-1970, undated

San Juan, Puerto Rico, election, 1969

Local records

Local 1, by-laws, correspondence, arbitration, and miscellany, 1972

Local 9

Provisional by-laws, 1969

Minutes, 1943-1969

Correspondence, 1943-1970, undated

Financial statements, 1947-1968

Newsletters (Spearhead,Hot Line), 1963-1964

Miscellaneous records

Local 40

By-laws, undated

Minutes, 1961-1966

Correspondence and union election propaganda regarding Western Union

MacKay Radio and Telegraph Company

Correspondence, 1938-1950

Agreements

National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET)

Correspondence, 1967

Arbitration, agreements, and negotiations, 1960-1971

National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc. vs. Subversive Activities Control Board, 1962

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), arbitration, correspondence, and miscellany

Radio Communications Association-Alaska Communications (Alascom)

Correspondence, 1971, undated

Negotiations and agreements, 1971

Teamsters publications and newspaper clippings

Strike scrapbook, radio and cable, 1948

Smythe, Dallas W., correspondence and essays, 1972-1973

Statements, miscellaneous

Technical, Electronic and Communications Union, New York, election propaganda, 1966-1967

Telegraphists' and Postal Clerks Union-Australian Third Division, correspondence, 1952-1961

Tropical Radio Telegraph Company, correspondence, 1966, 1969-1970

Western Union

ACA

Articles of agreement covering employees in U.S. North American Division, 1964-1966

NLRB and FCC arbitration, 1938-1948

, 1962 union election propaganda

Commercial Telegraphers' Union (CTU)

Correspondence, 1941-1966, undated

Articles of agreement

Arbitration

Local 1 financial statement

Fact Sheet and Bulletin, 1952-1962

Telegrams and newspaper clippings

CWA

Local 1177, 1966 union election

Correspondence and miscellany

Western Union-Postal Telegraph merger

Correspondence, 1942-1969

Agreement, 1943

Legislative bills

Statement and reports, 1944-1966, undated

Miscellany

Willmark Agency, Labor spies information

Miscellany

Part 3 (M2000-050): Additions, 1940-1999
Physical Description: 25.0 c.f. (25 record center cartons) 
Scope and Content Note: Although the dates for these additions span from the 1940s to the 1990s, the bulk of the materials date from the 1960s through the 1980s. Included are correspondence, negotiation and arbitration materials, grievances, contracts, information regarding health and pension benefits, as well as testimony provided to the Federal Communications Commission, National Labor Relations Board and congressional committees. Also included are materials concerning various strikes, including strikes by non-communications workers who were not affiliated with the ACA. Major employers documented by the addition include Western Union, RCA, MCI, and TRT. Locals which are well documented by the addition include locals 111 and 10.

LU 111 General Correspondence, 1990-1993

Division Chronological file, 1968

ACA/IBT first conference, 1966

First Division Board Meeting, 1969

General division correspondence, 1966-1967

ACA Teamster Journal Submissions

ACA mimeo material, 1961-1966

NABET organizing, 1967

ACA General correspondence, 1980-1989

Local 111-10 merger, 1988-1989

TRT, 1976-1977

NCR Strike Committees, 1976

Agreements, 1973-1984

Industry merger protest to FCC, 1950-1959

ACA v. United Brands, TRT to stop sale of TRT

ACA v. RCA to stop closings of coastal stations

LUI II & WUI negotiations & agreement, 1972-1973

FCC Docket 19544, problems of Public Coast Radiotelegraph Stations

ACA appeal to deny General Electric & MCI from transferring control of RCA Communication

Arbitration # 1330-0490-80, LU10 v. RCA Global, 1982

F.M.C.S. 88-14230, LU 111 v. WUI, 1988

New Jersey Civil L-01122-91, Neville Carrington v. RCA

NLRB # 2-CA-22967, LU 111 v. WUI, 1988

, 1992 LU 111 & NCR negotiations

Arbitration # 1330-1885-85, LU 10 v. RCA Global

Arbitration # 1330-0539-79, LUI 10 v. RCA Global

NLRB # 22-CA-17223, LU 10 v. RCA

Arbitration # 1330-1492-83, LU 10 v. RCA, 1986

Arbitration # 1330-0953-79, LU 10 v. RCA

Arbitration # 74-30-0049-83, LU 9 v. RCA

Arbitration # 1330-14660-84, LU 10 v. RCA

Arbitration # 1330-0956-85, LU 10 v. RCA

FCC # I-T-C-87-117 (TC) WUI

NLRB # 2-RC-17952 & # 2-RC-17953, LU 10 v. RCA

Arbitration # 1330-11262-88, LU 111 v. RCA

Court of Appeals # 80-7424, ACA v. RCA

FCC # I-T-C-3005, ACA v. WUT

Peter Duran v. RCA separation case

FCC # ENF-88-1, LU 10 v. RCA & MCI 1989

LU 111 & FTC negotiations

NLRB # 2-RC-18560, LU 10 v. RCA

U.S. District Court # 78-856-ma, George Meehan v. FTC & LU 10

Arbitration # 13-300-01711-92, LU 111 v. NCR

Pension Suit, LU 10 v. RCA

NLRB # 2-CA-22966, LU 10 v. RCA

NLRB # 22-CB-5944, LU 9

NLRB #22-CA-15842, LU 10 v. RCA

NCR Grievances

TRT Grievances

Arbitration # 1330-081 8-80, LU 10 RCA

1985 Benefit Plan, LU 9 & LU 10 v. RCA

Arbitration ACA v. RCA, 1963

LU 10 v. RCA, NLRB #22-CB5686

FCC Correspondence, 1973-1975

Notices regarding RCA lockout, 1968

Discipline File, 1978 lockout

RT telephone arbitration, 1971-1972

Arbitration, 1964

“BR” File, 1969-1970

Minutes of membership

Notices to membership, 1971-1972

RCA America, 1977

NLRB

WPA

RCA agreement

AT&T merger correspondence, 1962

RCAC negotiations, 1961

, 1959-1960 Merger documents and correspondence

LU 111 & MCI health & welfare plan

TRT/LU 111 agreements, 1980, 1982, 1988

LU 111 general correspondence with foreign unions anti-trust telegraph investigation, 1963

CWA v. ACA elections, 1967

Pension trust documents, 1960s

ACA elections, 1962

Contract negotiations with WUT, 1966

ACA v. WUT arbitration, 1962

WUI divestment correspondence, 1962

ACA/WUT contract negotiations, 1962

ACA elections, 1962

ACA/IBT bylaws and affiliations, 1966-1968

LU 111 general correspondence, 1982

TRT strike benefits correspondence, 1980

WUI/LU 111 agreement, 1981-1984

TRT strike preparations, 1984-1987

TRT/LU 111 General discussion meeting, 1983

TRT New York agreement, 1982

TRT Southern agreement, 1982

TRT Southern agreement, 1988

ACA Convention proceedings, 1960-1964

Union money, 1962

Broadcast organizing & mimeographed materials, 1967

Strike Material, 1984

Dental and health material, 1983-1984

“CL” Office Sunday closing file, 1970

RCA contracts, 1976-1987

French Cable Company, 1956-1961

Reuters organizing, 1979

ACA general correspondence, 1970-1979

FCC hearings on Public Cost Radio Telegraph stations, 1974

Correspondence with Rabinowitz & Boudin law offices, 1948-1972

Correspondence & documents on international deregulation act, 1979

WUI contract correspondence, 1978

LU 111 elections, 1978

LU 111 general correspondence, 1978

Industry merger correspondence, 1965

ACA/IBT third conference, 1971

RCAC branch office closings

Underwriters adjustment company agreement, 1975

House Sub-Committee testimony on merger, 1978

Merger hearings, 1960-1961

General Division correspondence

ACA/IBT fourth conference, 1974

Notices, membership meetings, bulletins and minutes, 1980s

LU 9 and LU 10 General correspondence, 1980s

LU 10 & FTC agreements

Special Trade Division Conference, 1979

ACA/IBT fifth conference, 1977

Branch office closure

Contract and benefit information, 1973-1993

LU 111 Puerto Rico correspondence

RCAC traffic diversion through Tangiers, 1969

Retirement information

Miscellaneous LU 111 information

Deregulation correspondence, 1982

RCA branch office closing, 1978

MCI layoff settlement agreement, 1989

NLRB # 2-CA-17200 & # 2-CB-8304, LU 111 v. WUI

NLRB # 2-RC-1 7482, LU 111 v. TRT

New York State Human Rights case # ES-63004-77, Erma Jacobs

Human Rights # 86-4374, Bellesfield v. RCA

Human Rights # 171880175, Vera Maftis v. LU 10

Human Rights # ES 51597-77, ACA

#I-T-C-84-037, LU 9 v. Guam Telegraph Authority

NLRB # CV85-1914, John Manzolillo v. WUI

Civil Court # 86-419, Dayna Hu v. LU 111 & MCI

NLRB # 2-RC-1 8550, LU 111 & LU 3 v. Reuters

Arbitration against NCR on contract violation, 1987

Arbitration # 1330-0490-80, LU 10 v. RCA Global, 1980

Evelyn Miura arbitration, 1986

NLRB # 2-CA-19243, John Iozia v. TRT

New York Supreme Court # 12042184, LU 111 v. WUI

Human Rights ES-53000-77

NLRB #22-CA-12875

Merger documents and correspondence, 1940s

WUI Cable pension plans, stock option plans and RCA pension

Memos of agreement between LU 10 & RCAC, 1968

Election dispute between LU 10 & RCAC, 1973

LU 10 v. RCAC, 1967-1978

NLRB

Memo of agreements LU 10 & RCAC, 1963

LU 10 & French Cable labor agreements, 1960s

LU 10 & French Cable insurance plans

LU 10 & RCAC agreement, 1978

LU 10 General correspondence, 1960s

LU 10 v. RCAC on Public Coast Station closing, 1969-1970

LU 10/RCAC agreement, 1983

LU 10 American Arbitration correspondence, 1973

LU 10/RCAC Technical Training reorganization

FCC Radio Marine, 1972

ACA/Teamsters, “News & Views” 1982-1985

FCC reports on merger, 1949-1950

Coast stations responses, 1972

Communication Act-Repeal of Sec. 222, 1977

ACA response to FCC on Gordon Hempton letter, 1974

Resolutions from ACA Conference, 1974

FCC Docket #14650, 1965

Miscellaneous correspondence and communications

Health and Benefit meetings LU111, 1977-1981

LU111 Group Dental correspondence, 1978

CIGNA/LU111 account 04415027 correspondence, 1987

LU11 Self-insured optical plan, 1981

MCI public opinion correspondence, 1982

Memo of agreement LU111 & WUI-TAS, 1977

LU111 by-laws, 1972

LU111 educational conference, 1983

LU111-TAS Milwaukee contract, 1984

LU111 by-laws, 1972

LU111 & WUI retirement plan amendment, 1976

LU111& WUI Puerto Rico amendment, 1977

LU111& WUI articles of agreement, 1972

LU111 & WUI contract, 1977

LU111 & WUI general correspondence, 1967-1972

Merger correspondence, 1959

LU111 bulletins, 1972

FCC testimony and exhibit on merger, 1958

Business user's correspondence on merger, 1958

Merger material, 1958-1959

Correspondence with Trustees, 1975-1984

Jacobsen legal advice on MCI strike, 1985

WUI-SF/ULP? Hoskings

NLRB #2-RC-17426 WUI data processing election, 1976

American Arbitration #13-300-01262 Division of Labor, 1986

EEOC #021-74-0968 & o21-75-1008 Conciliation Agreement

WUI v. LU111 order to show cause, Docket #84, CIIIIV.3175 (JFK)

WUI v. LU111, 1984

LU111 v. TRT, NLRB # 12-ca-11260, unfair labor practices, 1984

TRT grievances, 1984

LU111 v. TRT 32-30-045-84

LU111/TRT contract, 1982

Joseph Doherty correspondence, 1991

Permanent replacement workers correspondence, 1991

New York State AFL-CIO affiliation

FCC #114331 Coast Station Operations,

RCA Alaska & LU959 ACA/IBT agreement

LU 10 General correspondence, 1979

LU10 TRT organizing, 1964-1965

NLRB, 1980

IRS pension, 1980

LU 10 & RCA technical training correspondence, 1978

Grievances & 1972 agreement LU9 & RCA, 1978

Worksheets for RCAC contract printing etc, 1970

RCA v. Local 10 ACA, 1965

General Correspondence, 1970-1977

Canada contract LU111/WUI, 1968

London Correspondence LU111/WUI, 1971-1974

Third Division Conference in New York City, 1971

ACA Pension Plan, 1966-1978

ACA/Tropical radio correspondence, 1975

Organizing correspondence NCR & Columbia Records, 1969-1977

ACA-ABT 4th division executive board meeting at International Hotel, New York City, on October 14, 1971

Vincent Attardi-correspondence, 1972-1973

ACA-IBT 5th division Executive Board Meeting (at Division office, December 10, 1971), , 1971

Correspondence with other unions, 1967-1975

Sixth Division board meeting, 1972

LU111/WU1-Tas agreement, 1973

Reports to IBT General President regarding WUI/TAS, 1971-1973

Fifth Division conference, 1977

General correspondence, 1977-1978

Chronological Division correspondence, 1971-1976

General correspondence, 1972

LU10 RCA severance dispute award, Arbitration #1330-0446-68, 1968

LU10 membership meetings reports, 1972

LU10, NLRB draftsmen petition & election, 1972

LU10/RCA branch office closings, 1975

LU111 & NCR, New York Metropolitan District, 1984

LU111 & WUT Canada, 1948

LU111 & NCR New York Metro, 1988

LU111 & WUI contracts, memos of understanding and other agreements between, 1975-1983

LU111 & NCR New York Metro, 1982

LU111 & NCR New Jersey, Administrative District Contract, 1982

LU111 & WUI dataprocessing Corporation, 1976

“The plot to destroy unions”, booklets, 1954-1962

LU111 & WUI memo of agreement, 1987

ACA & WUT agreement, 1964

LU111 & NCR New York Metro, 1982-1984

LU11 & TRT correspondence, 1982-1985

January LU10 general membership meeting, , 1967

LU111 legal service plan, 1982-1983

Local 111 /TRT dental audit correspondence, 1983-1988

LU10 bulletins

General Correspondence, 1981-1982

Membership meetings, attendance, petitions, bulletins, 1981

IBT Joint Council Eastern Conference, 1981

LU10 Hawaii correspondence, 1981

LU10 Puerto Rico, 1981

LU10 Chatham, Massachusetts, 1981

LU10 Miami & Lantana, 1981

LU10/IBT general correspondence, 1981

LU10 Chatham membership meetings, minutes and correspondence, 1984-1987

International correspondence, 1974-1980

Local 9 correspondence, 1964-1987

ACA-FCC correspondence, 1970-1976

LU10 Puerto Rico correspondence & agreements, 1961-1979

Correspondence with other IBT organizations, 1971-1979

Correspondence with LU10/RCA Americom, 1977-1984

LU10 & Rabinowitz & Boudin correspondence, 1967-1969

LU10 Washington office correspondence, 1970-1980

LU10 Miami, 1979-1980

LU10 miscellaneous, 1985

LU10 & RCA Global, 1983

LU10 Chatham, 1985

LU10 New York Membership meetings, 1985

LU10 Lantana, 1985

LU10 Hawaii, 1985

LU10 & RCA Global, 1985

LU10 & Cohen, Weiss & Simon, 1985

LU10 Telecom reports, 1984

LU10 & Cohen, Weiss & Simon, 1984

LU10 & Cohen, Weiss & Simon, correspondence regarding scholarship fund

LU10 Chatham, Lantana, 1984

LU10 Miscellaneous, 1983

LU10 RCA global, 1983

LU10 RCA closure WPA, 1983

LU10 & American Arbitration correspondence, 1983

LU10 bulletins, 1983

Hawaii, 1983

IBT, 1983

LU10 Chatham, 1983

Bulletins and notices to the membership, Americom & Americom Services, 1978

LU10 & FCC, 1978

LU10 & FCC, 1983

LU10 Human rights cases, 1977-1979

LU10 Pension notes, RCA, 1978

LU10/RCA Global negotiations, 1978-1984

LU10/RCA Pension negotiations, 1979

FCC #78-67, upgrading Public Coast, 1978

LU10 RCA lockout, 1978

LU10/Americom negotiations, 1978

LU10 organizing, 1978

TRT/FTC negotiation filings, 1991

TRT pension & medical, 1991

GE grievances, 1998

TRT layoffs & financial information, 1991

GE grievances, George Walsh, 1993

GE grievances, Phyllis Santos, 1994

WUI/LU111-LU9 articles of agreements, 1999

General correspondence, 1971-1993

Area Conference, 1976

National Coalition of Union Women, 1974

LU10 General Correspondence, 1979-1980

LU10 v. FTC civil action #78-856-ma, 1978

LU111/NCR Long Island agreement & NLRB cases, 1991

NLRB, 1981

LU10 arbitration, 1982

LU10 & government correspondence regarding Hawaii, 1966-1969

Hawaii, 1969-1987

LU10 General correspondence, 1975-1978

RCA lockout, 1978

LU10 petitions, 1982

LU10 & Chatham, Massachusetts Correspondence, 1982

FCC # 16979 independence of computer & communications services, 1965-1968

Correspondence RCA Global Communications, Inc, 1972-1987

Articles of agreement between WUI and Locals 111 and 9, 1990

FCC #82-540 regarding ownership of Earth Stations, LU111/WUI, 1982

Hearing statements before U.S. House sub-committee, 1978

FCC #721-CSG-TC-79 regarding WUI transfer of control of Airsignal, 1979

FCC # 19544 regarding Coast Station Radiotelegraph, 1972-1976

FCC # TD-2491-2-A, RCA changes in operation, 1978

FCC # 20949 regarding elimination of requirements, 1976

FCC # 20281, regarding International Maritime Satellite Systems, 1974

FCC # 19622, regarding changes in prime time access (TV), 1974

FCC general correspondence, 1966-1973

General inquiries, HUAC opposition, 1967

House Committee On un-American Activities, Opposition, 1951-1957

FCC# 19660, regarding Domestic handling of international traffic, 1973

Coastal stations 19544 and ITT, 1969-1972

Office of telecommunications Policy, 1958-1978

TRT communications, 1971-1973

LU111 general correspondence, 1977

WUI/TRT union technical school, 1979

LU111 general correspondence, 1976

NAARPR (Bricklayers) correspondence, 1987

US Newspaper Guild correspondence, 1984

Rainbow Coalition, 1987-1988

UWSA strike, 1986

RCA strike, 1978

Greyhound strike, 1983, 1990

CWA/NYNEX support, 1989

UMWA strike, 1986-1989

Eastern strike, 1989

Watsonville strike, 1986-1987

General correspondence, 1987

LU1199 Hospital Workers & Danish Peace Breakfast, 1987

Sy Posner Correspondence, 1987

Plant closings, 1987

Hormel P9 strike, 1986-1987

Daily News Strike, 1991

TWA flight, 1986

Conyers bill for shorter workweek, 1986

MCI strike list of union support, 1984

TRT subsidiary sale, 1984

ACA Biennial Convention, 1962

ACA Fifth National Convention, 1940

ACA Eleventh National Convention, 1952

ACA Fourteenth Biennial Convention, 1958

ACA Fifteenth Biennial Convention, 1960

CIO Hearings regarding ACA, 1950

ACA 11th Biennial Convention, 1952

MCI WUI RCA Merger, 1989

MCI / RCA Merger, 1986-1988

MCI / RCA Merger-legal petitions and filings, 1987

MCI / RCA Merger-correspondence and general information, 1987-1988

TRT / FTC Pension Plan negotiating file, 1991

GE Americom Scholarship optical and medical agreements and revisions, 1995

WUI / MCI Supervisor's Pension suit, 1984-1985

NCR organizing, 1992

NCR agreement, 1986

NCR General correspondence, 1977-1983

Anti-Merger related booklets & related materials, 1946-1959

ACA / MACKEY radio agreement, 1942

ACA international constitution, 1942

RCA agreement, 1941

RCA arbitrator's decision and opinion, 1957

WUI strike papers, 1984

Bodall's and Perido's depositions regarding MCI strike, 1984

WUI H&W agreement, 1992-1993

RCA vs. Vera Mattis #171880175, 1988

Porter arbitration settlement-RCA, 1991

LU 10 membership meeting, 1982-1987

LU10 RCA NLRB #2-CB-10999, LU10 RCA arbitration awards #1330-1113-83, 1330-6091-86, 1330-6092-86, 1330-1262-88, 1330-1466-84, 1985

Carrington vs. RCA, 1975-1991