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21	Title:	Cuyahoga County Workers Alliance Records
	Creator:	Cuyahoga County Workers Alliance
	Dates:	1936-1939
	Abstract:	The Workers Alliance of America was formed in 1935 as a merger of predominantly socialist and communist-led unemployment councils. It represented workers from Works Progress Administration projects throughout the United States. The Cuyahoga County Workers Alliance coordinated the WPA Cleveland Newspaper Digest Project and represented the interests of its workers. This project created "The Annals of Cleveland," a collection of newspaper article abstracts that documented the history of Cleveland, Ohio, from the 1818-1876. The collection consists correspondence, newsletters, proceedings, programs, resolutions, speeches, and telegrams.
	Call #:	MS 5225
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cuyahoga County Workers Alliance \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Ohio Workers Alliance \| United States. Works Progress Administration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Workers Alliance of America
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22	Title:	James Horton Papers
	Creator:	Horton, James
	Dates:	1955-1974
	Abstract:	James Horton (b. 1934) was the business representative for the Building Service and Maintenance Union, Local 47, Cleveland, Ohio. He helped the union organize workers in several Cleveland hospitals and nursing homes. The collection consists of mimeograph letters from Local 47 of the Building Service and Maintenance Union to hospitals, nursing homes, other unions, and union members concerning meetings, strikes, recruitment of members, and organizing procedures. Also included are collective bargaining agreements, copies of newspaper clippings on the union and James Horton, personal papers of Mr. Horton, and printed materials concerning his band (1955-1974).
	Call #:	MS 3736
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Horton, James, 1934- \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Service industries workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Service industries workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Collective labor agreements -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Collective labor agreements -- Service industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Bands (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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23	Title:	Marvin Clinton Harrison Papers
	Creator:	Harrison, Marvin Clinton
	Dates:	1915-1954
	Abstract:	Marvin Clinton Harrison (1890-1954) was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer and Ohio state senator who specialized in the areas of accident and labor law. The collection consists of briefs, depositions, medical reports, exhibits, case notes, precedents, authorizations, correspondence, proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission, newspaper clippings, settlement notices, receipts, personal papers, and letters from Harrison to his father.
	Call #:	MS 3799
	Extent:	24.40 linear feet (25 containers)
	Subjects:	Harrison, Marvin Clinton, 1890-1954. \| Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.) \| Iron and steel workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio. \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Little Steel Strike, U.S., 1937. \| Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Labor laws and legislation -- Ohio. \| Accident law -- Ohio. \| Legislators -- Ohio. \| Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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24	Title:	Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union, Local No. 56 Records, Series II
	Creator:	Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union, Local No. 56
	Dates:	1935-1983
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union, Local No. 56, was chartered in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891 as the Cleveland Printing and Pressmen's Union, No. 56. It became the Cleveland Printing Pressmen's and Assistants Union, Local No. 56, in 1929, after merging with the Cleveland Pressmen's Assistants Union, Local No. 45. The present name was adopted after a merger in 1973 with the Stereotypers and Electrotypers International. The collection consists of constitutions, histories, minutes, grievances, agreements, proceedings of conventions, and correspondence.
	Call #:	MS 4172
	Extent:	3.01 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union. Local No. 56. \| Collective bargaining -- Printing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Printing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Printing industry -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Collective labor agreements -- Printing industry -- United States. \| Industrial relations -- United States. \| Labor -- United States. \| Printing industry -- United States. \| Wages -- Printers -- United States. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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25	Title:	Cleveland Newspaper Guild, Local 1 Records
	Creator:	Cleveland Newspaper Guild, Local 1
	Dates:	1933-1983
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Newspaper Guild, Local 1 was founded in 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, and chartered in 1934. Editorial employees of the Cleveland Press and Cleveland News had previously organized in 1933 as the Cleveland Editorial Workers Association, which then united with other newspaper guilds to form the American Newspaper Guild. The first contract of the national Guild was successfully negotiated in 1934 with the Cleveland News by William Davy, executive secretary of Local #1 for its first 30 years. By 1935, the Guild had adopted the industrial-union form of organization and in 1937, Local #1 expanded to include all non-mechanical employees. By 1944, the guild included workers at the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Catholic Universe Bulletin, followed by the Cleveland Citizen, Cleveland Union Leader, Call & Post, and others. In 1968 the Canton Repository became a unit of Local #1, and in 1969 the Massillon Evening Independent local merged with the guild. Cleveland hosted the 50th anniversary convention of the national Guild in 1983, when members voted to merge with the International Typographical Union to form the Media Workers International Union. The collection consists of minutes, notices, general office files, membership files, correspondence, financial files and newspaper clippings relating to the history, administration, and daily activities of Local #1 and its units, as well as conventions and affiliations with other locals of the American Newspaper Guild. The collection also contains files regarding Local #1's activities as part of the Cleveland and Ohio AFL-CIO, as well as awards to members of the local for merit and service towards print journalism and the American Newspaper Guild. Furthermore, there is material on several strikes Local #1 was involved in during 1946, 1956, and a 129-day strike in 1962-1963.
	Call #:	MS 4299
	Extent:	10.60 linear feet (13 containers)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Newspaper Guild -- Archives. \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Newspaper publishing -- Ohio. \| Newspaper employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Newspaper publishing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Collective labor agreements -- Newspapers -- Ohio. \| Collective labor agreements -- Newspapers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Collective bargaining -- Newspapers -- Ohio. \| Collective bargaining -- Newspapers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Strikes and lockouts -- Newspapers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Strikes and lockouts -- Newspapers -- United States. \| Newspaper Strike, Cleveland, Ohio, 1956. \| Newspaper Strike, Cleveland, Ohio, 1962-1963.
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26	Title:	Jean Y. Tussey Papers
	Creator:	Tussey, Jean Y.
	Dates:	1932-1978
	Abstract:	Jean Y. Tussey, labor union activist, was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. After graduation from Rutgers University in 1938, she worked as a newspaper reporter, machine shop worker, and as a member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). She became a member of Local 53 of the International Typographical Union when she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1951 and joined the staff of the Plain Dealer newspaper as a proofreader. In 1973, she became a full time organizer for Local 53, concentrating on organizing newspaper employees in Lake, Geauga, and Ashtabula counties. Tussey was involved in several women's labor groups, including the Coalition of Labor Union Women, and in general women's groups, including the National Organization for Women, serving as vice president of the Cleveland chapter in 1972. Tussey also edited a collection of writing and speeches by Eugene V. Debs, entitled Eugene V. Debs Speaks (1970), and authored numerous articles on labor history. In 1982, Tussey was a founding member of the Greater Cleveland Labor History Society, serving as president and executive committee member of that organization. The collection consists of reports, minutes, financial statements, agendas, newspaper clippings, and publications.
	Call #:	MS 4525
	Extent:	1.20 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Tussey, Jean Y., 1918- \| International Typographical Union. Local No. 53 (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women labor union members -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Labor unions -- Organizing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Feminists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Feminism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Feminism -- United States. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. \| Pro-choice movement -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Equal rights amendments.
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27	Title:	Federal Knitting Mills Company Records
	Creator:	Federal Knitting Mills Company
	Dates:	1907-1939
	Abstract:	The Federal Knitting Mills Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1905 by several Jewish businessmen. The company produced knit goods, including sweaters, and also supplied fabric to the garment-making industry. The company's national accounts included Sears, Roebuck & Co., Montgomery Ward, and Marshall Field & Co. At its height, the company employed five hundred people at its 125,000 square foot plant. Following the passage of the National Labor Relations Act in 1937, several unions attempted to replace the Cooperative Workers Association, the company union for Federal Knitting Mills. An ensuing strike related to this matter seriously strained the company's finances. Federal Knitting Mills dissolved in December 1937. The collection consists of audit reports, balance sheets, correspondence, legal documents, minutes, newspaper clippings, and a scrapbook.
	Call #:	MS 5051
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Federal Knitting Mills Company (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cooperative Workers Association (Cleveland, Ohio) \| American Federation of Labor. \| American Federation of Labor. Committee for Industrial Organization. \| International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. \| United States. National Labor Relations Board. \| Textile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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28	Title:	Stanley Garfinkel Oral History Collection
	Creator:	Garfinkel, Stanley
	Dates:	1981-1983
	Abstract:	Stanley Garfinkel (1930-1997) was an oral historian, documentarian, and history professor at Kent State University. After college, Garfinkel worked in his family's seven-store chain Garfinkel Shoes. He was appointed office manager of the company in the early 1960s, but was encouraged by his father to pursue his dream of teaching. He obtained a position at Kent State University in 1963 and taught there until his retirement in 1996. Garfinkel had a special interest in oral history. One of Garfinkel's oral history projects was on the garment industry in Cleveland, Ohio. He interviewed several people who worked in or helped shape the garment industry. He then used those interviews to produce a slide show entitled "Rags: 100 Years of the Apparel Industry in Northeast Ohio," and a television documentary entitled "Rags." The collection consists of interview transcripts and scripts.
	Call #:	MS 5106
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Dery, Arthur. \| Gross, Louis N. \| Joseph, Frank E. \| Reinthal, David. \| Saltzman, Maurice. \| Rubinstein, Judah. \| Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Clothing trade -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Oral history -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History.
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