Dean Streiff Merger Files: NEA-AFT), 1973-1974

Press release, "AFT-NEA Talks Begin," October 3, 1993; National Education Association Proposal [to the AFT] Regarding the Creation of a Single National Teacher Organization, October 1973; clipping from New York Times, "Teacher Groups End Unity Talks: Proposed Merger of NEA and AFT Collapses," citing incompatibility, March 1, 1974; telegrams from Hobart to NEA officials, expressing alarm at termination of merger talks, March 19, 1974; correspondence by NEA president Helen Wise to NEA Board of Directors and others, charging AFT with intransigence; compilation by National Coalition for Teacher Unity (NCTU) of press releases on termination of merger talks, April 1, 1974; newspaper clippings from the 1960s, sent to Hobart by a teacher to illustrate that NYSUT had not "been alone on the merger pedestal"