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George A. Patterson papers
Correspondence, meeting minutes, grievance reports, membership lists, company-union material, agreements, newsclippings, pamphlets, and other papers regarding George A. Patterson's role as a leader in the unionization of steel workers in the Chicago area in the 1930s, and later organizing activities and service to steel workers' unions in Illinois and Wisconsin as a staff member of United Steelworkers of America (USWA),
Joe Jacobs papers
Biographical materials, correspondence, research files, legal documents, newsletters, press releases, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks (2 volumes; newsclippings 1938), and other papers of Joe Jacobs, a Chicago labor lawyer. Most of the collection relates to Jacobs' work with labor unions, including the Chicago Teachers Union, Upholsterers' International Union, United Steelworkers of America, Amalgamated Transit Union, and Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
United Steelworkers of America, District 31 collection of visual materials
Photoprints relating to USWA, District 31, whose purpose is to provide plant level union leaders in northern Indiana (St. Joseph, LaPorte, Porter & Lake counties) and Illinois (Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Grundy, Will & Kankakee counties) with services and skilled advice. Subjects include union leaders including the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (1930s), especially Joseph Germano, director of District 31 from
United Steelworkers of America, District 31 records
Correspondence, reports, minutes, contracts, grievances, arbitrations, appeals to the international union, dues reports, political campaign materials, newsletters, newsclippings, publications, and other records related to the operations of the United Steelworkers of America, District 31, serving northern Illinois and Indiana, and to the activities and policies of USWA's international office in Pittsburgh (Pa.). Topics include the Steelworkers Organizing Committee, local unions
United Steelworkers of America, Local 1033 records
Meeting minute books, attendance ledgers, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, grievances, pamphlets, and other administrative records of the United Steelworkers of America, Local 1033. Topics include political and union elections, union policies, safety issues, and relations with Republic Steel Corporation and its successors. Local 1033, with an office at 11731 South Avenue O on the far Southeast Side, represented workers at