| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Joseph William Shiffman Papers
| | | | Creator: | Shiffman, Joseph William | | | | Dates: | 1923-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph William Shiffman (1891-1967) was Cleveland, Ohio, electrical engineer and founder of the Bell Electric Company (originally the Telephone Construction Company). He chose not to enter the management of the company and instead drew wages as a laborer and joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He served as president of the union from 1927-1931. He petitioned the armed forces to admit him despite his age and was commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy in 1943, at the age of fifty-one. The collection consists of correspondence, military service applications, medical records, discharge affidavits, agreements and arbitrator's decision relating to the IBEW and Bell Electric Company, legal briefs for Bell Electric Company vs. Ohio Bell Telephone Company, time books of Telephone Consultation Company, newspaper clippings, transcripts, birth certificate, receipts, commencement program, amendment to wills, death notices, and other miscellany. | | | | Call #: | MS 3939 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Shiffman, Joseph William, 1891-1967. | Electric engineers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric industry workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | International Brotherhood of Electrical Works, Local Union 1377 Records
| | | | Creator: | International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 1377 | | | | Dates: | 1939-1972 | | | | Abstract: | Local 1377 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers was the Cleveland (Ohio) local of electrical manufacturing workers originally set up to represent employees of the Leece-Neville Company. By the mid-1950s, however, the local had absorbed several units of Local 38, and included manufacturing units, maintenance units and radio and sound units, including appliance repairmen and mobile/microwave technicians. Peter J. Zicarelli served as business manager, 1950-1970s. The local was involved in jurisdictional disputes with Local 38 and representational disputes with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America and with independent workers' organizations such as the Electrical Workers Alliance at Leece-Neville and the Picker X-Ray Employees Union. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, contracts and agreements, financial records, membership rosters, grievance and arbitration proceedings, civil litigation records, organizing files, newspapers and periodicals. The collection focuses on the day-to-day operations of an amalgamated local, with the various problems accompanying a mixed membership, and includes material on the jurisdictional disputes with IBEW Local 38 and the representational disputes with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, as well as labor-management conflicts and general conditions in the Cleveland electric industries, especially General Electric, Leece-Neville, Westinghouse and Picker X-Ray. The collection includes extensive material relating to the AFL-CIO Committee on Collective Bargaining, established in 1966 to negotiate an industry-wide contract with GE and Westinghouse and the eight major unions it represented. Also includes files of Local 1377 officials Peter J. Zicarelli, Gordon M. Freeman, Joseph Keenan, and H.B. Blankenship and material regarding the role of women in the local. | | | | Call #: | MS 4502 | | | | Extent: | 18.0 linear feet (18 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Zicarelli, Peter J. | Freeman, Gordon M. | Keenan, Joseph D. | International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 1377 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 38 (Cleveland, Ohio) | United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Local 707 (Cleveland, Ohio) | General Electric Corporation. | Leece-Neville Company. | Westinghouse Electric Corporation. | Electric industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric industry workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric industry workers -- Labor unions -- United States. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Jurisdictional disputes. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Recognition. | Collective bargaining -- Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Electric industries -- United States. | Collective labor agreements -- Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Employee fringe benefits -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Wages -- Electrical industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women in trade-unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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