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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 40 Records
| | | | Creator: | National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 40 | | | | Dates: | 1889-1971 | | | | Abstract: | Branch 40 of the National Association of Letter Carriers was established in 1889 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Letter Carriers' Association. In 1890 it joined with other independent associations to form the National Association of Letter Carriers and was subsequently chartered as Branch 40 of the National Association. In 1898 Branch 40 began calling itself the Forest City Branch. It was changed to the William C. Doherty Branch in 1965. In 1970 Branch 40 joined in the union's first strike, a wage dispute, which resulted in a fourteen percent pay raise. It remains active in local and national labor affairs. The collection consists of reports of the treasurer, the trustees, and the financial secretary, dues books, financial journals, minutes of monthly meetings, attendance books, material on a contested election, materials relating to the 1970 strike, union publications, clippings, scrapbooks, and a miscellaneous file. | | | | Call #: | MS 3701 | | | | Extent: | 3.50 linear feet (4 containers and 4 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | National Association of Letter Carriers (U.S.). Branch 40 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Postal service -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Employees. | Collective bargaining -- Postal service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Postal service -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | John J. O'Boyle Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | O'Boyle, John J. Family | | | | Dates: | 1872-2000 | | | | Abstract: | John J. O'Boyle is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, of Irish descent. His mother, Mary Gaughan, was born in County Mayo, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States in the 1920s, eventually settling in Cleveland. John J. O'Boyle's father, John O'Boyle, worked as a mailman in Cleveland. The O'Boyle family participates in Irish American organizations and events in Cleveland. The collection consists of a series of five lectures by British historian James Anthony Froude, answers to these lectures by Reverend Thomas N. Burke, a rebuttal by James A. Froude, an essay, memoirs, newspaper clippings, a pamphlet, and photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4872 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | O'Boyle, John J. | O'Boyle family. | Irish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Postal service -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Employees. | Ireland -- History.
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