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Box 1

 Container

Contains 40 Results:

Debs, Eugene V., 1973

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Labor leader, socialist organizer, and founder of the American Railway Union. The folder contains the publication: Debs, Theodore. 1973. Sidelights: Incidents in the Life of Eugene V. Debs. Terre Haute, IN; Chicago, IL: Marguerite Debs Cooper; C. H. Kerr.

Dates: 1973

Gompers, Samuel, 1925

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Founding labor leader and long‑time president of the American Federation of Labor. The folder includes photocopies of the publication's introduction: Gompers, Samuel. Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1925.

Dates: 1925

Gotbaum, Victor, January 1985

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

New York City labor leader and executive director of District Council 37, a public employees’ union. Photocopies of the magazine The Business of New York, Manhattan Inc are included in the folder.

Dates: January 1985

Lincors, Anna, 1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Labor activist and organizer. The folder includes the essay: Sandeiss, Katherine L. “Among My Own People”: An Oral History of Anna Lincore’s Involvement in the Men’s Clothing Unions, 1907–1930. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University, 1980. Not for quotation without permission.

Dates: 1980

Meany, George, 1979 - 1980

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Labor leader and first president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Dates: 1979 - 1980

Newman Pauline, 1951 - 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20-21
Scope and Contents

Labor organizer and social reformer with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The folder includes an oral history interview (1976), Folder 1 of 2; and handwritten and typed notes, photocopies of articles (Folder 2 of 2) (1951-1976).

Dates: 1951 - 1976

Randolph, A. Philip, 1979

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Civil rights and labor leader, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African American-led labor union.

Dates: 1979