Part 1 (U.S. Mss 118A): Original Collection, 1937-1960
Physical Description: 4.8 cubic feet (10 archives boxes and 5 volumes) 
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains the General Files, chiefly correspondence, of the Wisconsin State Industrial Union Council, with material arranged in chronological order under separate subjects. Most of the papers carry dates between 1950 and 1958, although a very few are dated as early as 1946.

Besides the general correspondence there are a number of Special Files in this collection, one of which is the papers on the Anti-Communist Drive. Some correspondence is included, but there is a larger amount of newspaper clippings, relating to the expulsion of communists from the state council and from the local unions of Wisconsin in 1946 and 1947.

The PAC file (Political Action Committee) contains papers relating to C.I.O. political activities in Wisconsin, with some information relating to Communism and to Fascist groups. There are many letters to United States Representatives from the various Wisconsin Congressional Districts, and copies of their voting records. Some of the papers relate to a PAC Institute in the Fourth and Fifth Congressional Districts, and a series of bulletins to the membership date from 1953 to 1958. One folder contains information on publicity techniques. Another file shows the voting of the 1946 and 1954 Wisconsin elections. Two folders of letters, public statements, and clippings concern the refusal of dock workers to load the freighters Fossum and Divina at Milwaukee where they were attempting to discharge cargoes of clay for the Kohler Company, which was being struck by Local 833 of the United Auto Workers.

Labor-management agreements between many Wisconsin employers and local labor unions make up the contents of four boxes. A few of these are typewritten documents, and the remainder are mimeographed or printed. Some of these bear the signatures of the negotiators. Besides standard labor contracts, there are some special labor-management contracts relating to fringe benefits like health insurance and retirement programs.

The Governor's Industrial Development Committee is the subject of the correspondence in another special file. President Charles W. Schultz of the Wisconsin State Industrial Union Council was a member of the committee from 1952 to 1955.

The Merger Committee file, 1955 November 22-1960 July 26, deals with the unification of the Wisconsin State Industrial Union Council with the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor. The file contains the original merger agreement, signed May 29, 1958, and preliminary drafts, as well as annotated drafts of the constitution for the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. The other records of the joint merger committee and the joint merger sub-committees, are included with the merger agreements of out-of-state unions.

Also included are five scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, 1937-1948.

Series: General Files

Agriculture, Food Processing, 1954 January 6-1954 April 29

Alcohol, 1953 July 2-1957

Apprenticeship

Automation, 1954-1957

By-laws, 1954-1957

Chiropractors, 1956-1957

Civil Defense, 1953

Criminal Code, Wisconsin, 1953

Explosives

Employment of the Physically Handicapped

Executive Council Minutes, 1954

Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC), 1950

Farmers, 1957 April

Fluoridation, 1957

Garnishment of Wages, 1953

Guaranteed Annual Wage, 1955

Health Insurance Plan-Ross, 1953-1955

Hearing Loss, 1953-1956

Highway Safety-Governor's Commission, 1953-1954

Hoover Committee Findings-Wisconsin Committee, 1953-1955

United Hospitals Fund-Milwaukee County, 1953-1955

Human Rights, 1953

Lakeshore College, 1954-1955

Legislation-State CIO Approach, 1952-1956

Mental Health, 1953

Migrant Labor, 1953-1955

Mines and Excavations, 1953

Minimum Wage, 1955

Municipal and County Employees Legislation, 1955

National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1953-1958

Off-shore Oil Bill, 1953

Public Assistance Records, Confidentiality of, 1952-1953

Radio and Television, 1954-1957

Reapportion, 1952-1953

Sanitation, General Orders on, 1954-1955

School for Workers, 1953-1955

Senate and Assembly Bills, 1954-1955

Taxation, 1953-1954

Taft-Hartley Law, 1953-1954

Teachers-Legislative, 1950-1954

Unemployment Compensation Advisory, 1952-1956

Unemployment Compensation Correspondence, 1952-1956

United Nation-Wisconsin Association, 1953-1955

Veterans, re-employment, 1958

Advisory Committee to Establish Minimum Wages for Women and Minor Employees, 1948-1955

Wisconsin Citizens Committee on Educational Television

Workmen's Compensation, 1952-1956

Workmen's Compensation Advisory Committee, 1957

Series: Special Files

Anti-Communist Drive

Transcript of Congressional Subcommittee on Education and Labor Hearing on Communistic Influences in Labor, 1947 March 17, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Political Action Committee (PAC)

Freighters Fossum and Divina (Local 883, UAW-CIO)

Publicity Techniques

Actiongrams

1953 February-1954 December

1955 January-December

1956 January-December

1957 January-1958 May

, 1946 and , 1954 Elections

Delegates PAC Institute, 1954, 4th and 5th Congressional Districts

PAC Meetings

2nd Congressional District

3rd Congressional District

4th Congressional District

5th Congressional District

6th Congressional District

7th Congressional District

8th Congressional District

9th Congressional District

10th Congressional District

Labor-Management Agreement Booklets

Labor-Management Agreement Packets

Governor's Industrial Development Committee, 1952-1955

Joint Merger Committee

Correspondence, 1955-1958

Merger with AFL Rules, State and Local

Agreement to Merge

Merger Agreements of out-of-state Unions, Constitutions, and By-Laws Booklets

Merger Agreements of out-of-state Unions, Constitutions, and By-Laws Packets

Out-of-State Merger Agreement, AFL-CIO

Scrapbooks

1937 July-August

1937 August-December

1938 September-October

1938 October

1948

Part 2 (M2003-103, Audio 1921A): Additions, 1938-1958
Physical Description: 1.4 cubic feet (1 records center carton and 1 archives box), 6 photographs (1 folder), and 2 tape recordings 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1938-1959, consisting largely of research files arranged alphabetically by subject. Also included are executive board minutes, financial files, meetings and conferences records, and administrative reports. The photographs consist of images of Kent Pillsbury and his family.

Actiongram, 1957-1958

The Breeze, local 356 UPA-CIO newsletter, 1950

Executive board minutes, 1946-1958

Financial statements, 1956-1958

Full employment program, 1954

FYI-personal, 1950-1953

General fund reports, 1954-1958

Kohler strike, 1954

La Follette, 1945

Lakeshore College, 1950

Laury, E.H., case, 1945-1946

Legislation, Wisconsin, 1951

Longshoremen, 1951

MacArthur, Douglas, undated

Manitowoc, 1958

Manpower, 1951

McCarthy

Foreign policy, 1951

General, 1950-1952

Magazine, Smear, Inc., 1951-1954

Meetings and conferences, 1950

Migratory workers, 1953

Milwaukee County Industrial Union, 1949-1951

Milwaukee mayor's race, 1944

Milwaukee newspaper guild, 1946-1952

Mobilization, ESA material, 1950-1951

“Nash incident,” peace petitions, 1950

Nash local 75 and 72, 1951

Nash local 75 history, 1938-1945

Negro Labor Council, 1952

Old Line Life strike, 1950

PAC-Wisconsin voting records, 1951-1953

Packinghouse Workers, 1951

Pellant, Howard P., 1953

Phillips, Norberg, 1952

Pillsbury, Kent, 1952-1953

Plankinton packing, 1951-1953

Political action, 1946-1955

Propaganda, anti-labor, 1951

Public relations, 1953

Reports, 1953-1954

St. Lawrence Seaway, 1950-1952

Wisconsin taxes study, 1956

Photographs
Scope and Content Note: The photographs consist of images of Kent Pillsbury and his family.

Wisconsin CIO Convention, 1956
Physical Description: Reel-to-reel tape 

Wisconsin State CIO programs for week of July 30 through August 3
Physical Description: Reel-to-reel tape