| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Ohio Townsend Plan, Inc. Records
| | | | Creator: | Ohio Townsend Plan, Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1935-1974 | | | | Abstract: | The Ohio Townsend Plan was a branch of the Townsend National Recovery Plan, Inc., formerly known as the Old Age Revolving Pension Plan, which was established by Dr. Francis E. Townsend of California in 1934. The collection consists of minutes, resolutions, organizational material, correspondence, programs, newsletters, song books, rosters, financial records, speech transcripts, news clippings, and miscellaneous material. Included is correspondence of Francis E. Townsend and Charles Wetterman. | | | | Call #: | MS 3872 | | | | Extent: | 2.40 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Ohio Townsend Plan, Inc. | Old age pensions -- United States. | Pensions -- United States. | Income maintenance programs -- United States. | Retirement income -- United States. | Pension trusts -- United States. | Aged -- United States -- Political activity.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 427 Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 427 | | | | Dates: | 1944-1983 | | | | Abstract: | Local 427 of the United Food and Commercial Workers is a Northeast Ohio labor union representing employees involved in the sale or processing of food, especially butchers, packing-house workers and fur industry workers. It was known until 1979 as Meat Cutters District 427 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, when the international merged with the Retail Clerks International Union to become the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Sam Pollock served as president, 1953-73, and was succeeded by Frank Cimino, who later became an officer of the international body. The collection consists of records of District 427 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and its predecessor, District Union 427 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, and consists of correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, contracts, and publications relating largely to the administration of the union, the provision of benefits to its members, and negotiations with employers, particularly the packing-house, meat, and fur industries, as well as independent and chain-operated retail food stores. The collection includes important material relating to the administration of the union's pension fund by the Board of Trustees, as well as the papers of district officials Sam Pollock and Frank Cimino. Included is material relating to health care and health maintenance organizations and low-income housing sponsored by the union. | | | | Call #: | MS 4463 | | | | Extent: | 60.00 linear feet (60 containers) | | | | Subjects: | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Local 427 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. District Union 427 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Industry Pension Fund Board of Trustees -- Archives. | Meat Cutters Active Political Club (Cleveland, Ohio) | Food industry and trade -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio. | Butchers -- Labor unions -- Ohio | Packing-house workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio. | Fur workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio. | Clerks (Retail trade) -- Labor unions -- Ohio. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Political activity. | Food industry and trade -- Ohio. | Packing-houses -- Ohio. | Meat industry and trade -- Ohio. | Grocery trade -- Ohio. | Retail trade -- Ohio. | Fur trade -- Ohio. | Collective labor agreements -- Food industry -- Ohio. | Collective labor agreements -- Meat industry -- Ohio. | Pension trusts -- United States -- Investments. | Old age pensions -- United States. | Welfare funds (Trade-unions) -- Ohio. | Insurance, Health -- Ohio. | Health maintenance organizations -- Ohio. | Poor -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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