| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Carpenters District Council Records
| | | | Creator: | Carpenters District Council | | | | Dates: | 1910-1973 | | | | Abstract: | The Carpenters District Council is the regional representative in northeast Ohio of locals of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. It was founded in 1888 in Cuyahoga County and extended into Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula counties by 1950. It negotiates contracts for various locals with individual contractors and with the Carpenter Contractors' Association, the Home Builders' Association, and the Building Trades Employers' Association. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes, financial records, grievances and legal proceedings, jurisdictional disputes and decisions, election material, and correspondence. In addition to the records pertaining to the workings of the District Council, the collection includes material on the constituent locals and the Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council, the Carpenter Contractors' Association, and the negotiations in the 1958 building trades lockout in Cleveland. | | | | Call #: | MS 4209 | | | | Extent: | 27.80 linear feet (28 containers and 2 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Carpenters District Council (Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, and Ashtabula Counties, Ohio) | Carpenters -- Ohio. | Collective bargaining -- Construction industry -- Ohio. | Industrial relations -- Ohio. | Labor -- Ohio. | Trade-unions -- Carpenters -- Ohio. | Strikes and lockouts -- Construction workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Ohio -- Occupations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Consumers League of Ohio Records
| | | | Creator: | Consumers League of Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1900-1977 | | | | Abstract: | The Consumers League of Ohio is a political action organization concerned with the welfare of the laboring class. It lobbies for legislation in their interests. It was founded in 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio as a women's group to insure female laborers decent wages, hours and working conditions. Men were admitted in 1921. The collection consists of correspondence, newsletters, reports, speeches, legislative bills and acts, financial and membership records, articles, clippings, and printed material. | | | | Call #: | MS 3546 | | | | Extent: | 32.90 linear feet (30 containers and 69 reels of microfilm) | | | | Subjects: | Consumers League of Ohio. | Pressure groups -- Ohio. | Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio. | Labor -- Ohio. | Working class women -- Ohio. | Work environment -- Ohio. | Wages -- Ohio. | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio. | Consumers' leagues -- Ohio. | Consumer movements -- Ohio. | Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Children -- Employment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Insurance, Unemployment -- Law and legislation -- Ohio.
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