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Box 11

 Container

Contains 41 Results:

Strikes - Government Employees, 1911-1981

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents "Three Strikes," unsigned typescript re the Bethpage, Long Island teachers' strike, the PATCO strike and the Gary, Indiana firefighters' strike, [c. 1981], 9 pages; "The Problem," re strikes by public employees, by the Twentieth Century Fund with Philip Taft, n.d., 21 pages; "Public Collective Bargaining and Social Change," address by Chairman, New York City Office of Collective Bargaining before the American Bar Association, August 6, 1968, 6 pages; notes and photocopies of articles. See...
Dates: 1911-1981

Strikes - Railroad, 1885-1929

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Notes and photocopies of articles; form letters

Dates: 1885-1929

Teachers Guild - Membership Drive, 1941-1959

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents "Should a Teachers Guild Affiliate With Labor?" answering "yes", May 22, 1941; "23 Reasons Why You Should Join the NY Teachers Guild, AFL," n.d., 2 pages; two form letters to Guild members, urging participation in membership campaign, October 15 and November 18, 1941; letter to teachers, criticizing indifference to professional issues, organization, urging membership in Guild, with pencil notation: "Membership Drive, Eastern District High School, May 14, 1948, 2 pages; "A Personal Letter to...
Dates: 1941-1959

Subsidies, Ship, 1899-1922

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

"Ship Subsidy" by Samuel Gompers, stating opposition, copied from the January 1907 Federationist, 5 pages; "Conference Held Tuesday, April 6, 1922 in the Executive Council Chamber, AFL ... to Consider the Ship Subsidy Bill," minutes, 5 pages; notes; clipping from May 20, 1922 International Labor News Service, AFL

Dates: 1899-1922

Taxation, 1921-1953

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents "From the Proceedings of the AFL Convention ..." 1921-25, '29, '31: statements against sales tax; "Memo for Mr. Green," unsigned re AFL position against reduction in income tax, imposition of sales tax, July 13, 1925; "Statement by [AFL representative] W. C. Roberts before the Finance Committee of the U.S. Senate on the Estate Tax," in support, with pencil notation "1927?", 9 pages; "The Sales Tax, Otherwise the Nuisance Tax," unsigned, September 18, 1931, 4 pages; untitled, unsigned,...
Dates: 1921-1953

Strikes - Violence, 1877-1966

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

"Violence in Labor Disputes, 1877-1946," 7 page table showing name of dispute, year, numbers killed and injured, major issues; "Number of deaths by violence in work stoppages, 1937-1964," by U.S. Department of Labor, 1 page; 61 page manuscript, "Violence in Labor Disputes," beginning with p. 22, Table III; 12 page manuscript, "National Guard," list of citations in journals; four page draft, untitled, unsigned, n.d.; notes; reprint of journal article

Dates: 1877-1966

Teachers Guild - Staff Relations Plan/Teachers Council, 1949-1957

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents "Interim Report and Suggested Plan for Staff Relations Procedures in the New York School System," n.d., 11 pages; "Statement of the New York Teachers Guild on the Interim Report of the Special Committee on Staff Relations of the Board of Education," endorsing report with suggested modifications, December 12, 1951, 2 pages; "Committee to Study Staff Relations in the NYC schools," report, February 21, 1952, 14 pages; "Statement of the NY Teachers Guild on the Report of the Committee on Staff...
Dates: 1949-1957

Teachers Guild - Substitutes, 1935-1946

 File — Box: 11, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents Correspondence: (to substitutes, from Guild chair of Substitutes Committee, outlines achievements, October 21, 1942; to Secretary, New York Central Trades and Labor Council, from Guild President, asking support for efforts to eliminate category "permanent substitutes," November 8, 1943; to Governor Dewey from Guild legislative representative, urging signature of bill granting annual salaries, pension and tenure rights to term substitutes, March 24, 1944; to Governor Dewey from Guild...
Dates: 1935-1946