| | Abstract: | Local 427 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union was chartered in 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, as District 427 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. It merged with the Retail Clerks International Association in 1979 to form the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. District 427 established the Community Health Foundation in 1964, with the cooperation of the Retail Clerks Local 880. The Foundation merged with Kaiser in 1969. The collection consists of minutes, newsletters, correspondence, convention proceedings, reports, contracts, clippings, financial and membership records, subject files, papers of presidents Sam Pollock and Frank Cimino, and records of or material pertaining to affiliated locals and unions, including Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 500, Cleveland Fur Workers Local 86, The Canton Federation of Labor and the Cleveland AFL-CIO. | |
