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Publisher Ed Finkelstein donated the records of the St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-St. Louis on June 19, 1990.
In 1935, while studying architecture at Washington University, Maury Rubin founded the St. Louis Labor Tribune. It originally appeared as a broadsheet monthly entitled the Union Labor Advocate and changed its name in June 1937. In the second issue, Rubin teamed with Carpenters District Council leader Dick Adams to report on the poor quality of construction work at local non-union housing projects. The report, and week-end leafletting of the construction sites by the newspaper, led to union organizing of nearly the entire St. Louis construction industry. This in turn led to the continued low cost of housing in the metropolitan St. Louis area.
Rubin guided the development of the Labor Tribune for its first forty years along with a colorful staff that gave the newspaper character. Staff members included Ben Sabol, a cane-wielding photographer and who brought a ladder to his shoots facilitating wide-angle perspectives on group labor photographs; editorial chief Harry Winkeler, a devout anti-Communist whose red-bashing editorials were reprinted by newspapers around the country; and a phone-bound ad salesman, Harry Barge.
A staunch opponent of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Maury Rubin also organized an AFL affiliated union for journalists in St. Louis in 1937, the Advertising, Publicity and Newspaper Representatives Local 20711. The Labor Tribune staff later reorganized under Local 47 of the Newspaper Guild, after the 1955 AFL-CIO merger. Even since that time, however, the Labor Tribune's support of the AFL against the CIO has kept most CIO unions from subscribing.
In 1947 the Labor Tribune began to organize another labor newspaper in East St. Louis called the Southern Illinois Labor Tribune. The new paper was printed in the National Stockyards, the site of the Livestock Reporter. The Southern Illinois Labor Tribune closed its advertising and circulation office in East St. Louis after refusing to fall victim to a protection racket. In 1955, Rubin offered his help to the AFL to start an official newspaper to report on organized labor in Indiana. Gene San Soucie, president of AFL Teamster Joint Council 69 for the state of Indiana, served as the associate editor. St. Louis Labor Tribune advertising salesman Joe Gordon later handled the Indiana paper's business operations. Rubin attempted to continue the Indiana Labor Tribune after San Soucie died in an airplane crash in 1973, but economic factors eventually caused it to fold.
The St. Louis Labor Tribune built its reputation by being in the forefront of national issues that affected labor. It took strong positions against the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act and the Landrum-Griffin Amendments in 1959. Locally, it opposed anti-collective bargaining measures by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the Newspaper Guild, exposed shoddy workmanship and promoted worker safety. The paper was supported in part by Maury Rubin's ownership of Quality Beverages, a beer distributorship. In March 1957 the St. Louis Labor Tribune changed its broadsheet format to that of a tabloid.
Ed Finkelstein, Maury Rubin's nephew, joined the newspaper for a summer job when he was fourteen years old. After receiving a by line for writing an obituary, he decided to pursue journalism as a career. He graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia's journalism school in 1959 and began serving as an information officer for the Strategic Air Command. When he left the service, Finkelstein returned to the Labor Tribune as an executive assistant
to Maury Rubin. At odds with the staid Rubin, Finkelstein left the paper in the late 1960s and joined the Regional Industrial Development Corporation.
In 1970 Finkelstein began a public relations firm, Union Communications, in the interest of bettering the image of organized labor with local business. Jim Templeton became one of his first employees and later became the Tribune's managing editor. Much of the firm's business involved covering stories that appeared in the Labor Tribune. Finkelstein renegotiated his way back into the Labor Tribune operation with his uncle Maury, who was cognizant of his aging staff and the criticism the paper was receiving as having grown stagnant. Shortly thereafter Rubin retired as publisher emeritus. He died in 1984.
Finkelstein's combining of the newspaper and Union Communications helped restore the Labor Tribune's finances, which had suffered from the gambling loss of Rubin's beer distributorship. It also brought two important members to the paper's staff: managing editor Jim Templeton and reporter/photographer Sherwood Kirker. Finkelstein's experiences with RIDC and public relations left the paper with a less confrontational style and one that aimed more to promote cooperation between labor and business. Nevertheless, the St. Louis Labor Tribune remained an influential defender of labor causes. It worked ceaselessly to expose worker safety hazards and the poor quality of non-union construction and has helped organized labor groups against anti-labor legislation. It played a particularly important role in defeating Right-To-Work legislation in 1977. In 1984 the St . Louis Labor Tribune and the Southern Illinois Labor Tribune merged to form the St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The St. Louis Labor Tribune collection consists primarily of over 78,000 photograph negatives that comprised the Tribune's photograph morgue. The negatives have been indexed as part of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection's NEWPHOTO database. The St. Louis Labor Tribune collection also contains correspondence, memoranda and reports documenting the history of the St. Louis Labor Tribune; personal correspondence of its founder Maury Rubin; and records of the Advertising, Publicity and Newspaper Representatives Local 20711, the journalists union that Rubin help found; and bound volumes of an entire run of the Indiana Labor Tribune, 1955-1973, that Rubin also helped found. The collection also includes many photograph prints that have subject but no chronological identification.
Divided into seven series: 1. The St. Louis Labor Tribune, 1932-1970s, folders 1-61; 2. Advertising, Publicity and Newspaper Representatives Local 20711, 1937-1976, folders 62-91; 3. Subject Files, 1965-1968, folders 92-169; 4. Newsclippings, 1961-1968, folders 170-191; 5. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1955-1973, 17 volumes; 6. Photograph prints, undated; 7. Negatives.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
SERIES 1 - The St. Louis Labor Tribune, 1932-1970s. Folders 1-61. Includes signed application blanks for the American Federation of Labor; Audit Bureau of Circulations records, 1937-1950; correspondence, 1935-1970s; editorial cartoons, newsclippings and data for issues of the Labor Tribune, 1940s-1950s; correspondence concerning printing equipment, 1939-1966; applications for a reporter's position, 1963; Maury Rubin's press credentials, 1960; and the personal correspondence of Maury Rubin, 1947-1963. Arranged alphabetically.
SERIES 2 - Advertising, Publicity and Newspaper Representatives Local 20711, 1937-1976. Includes agreements with the Labor Tribune; audit report forms; constitution and by-laws; correspondence; meeting minutes; financial reports of the journalists' union founded by Maury Rubin. Also includes some personal correspondence of Maury Rubin, 1972-1973. Arranged alphabetically.
SERIES 3 - Subject Files, 1965-1968. Newsclippings, reports and other data used as a research file for the St. Louis Labor Tribune. Arranged alphabetically by subject.
SERIES 4 - Newsclippings, 1961-1968. Newsclippings from the St. Louis Labor Tribune. Arranged chronologically.
SERIES 5 - Indiana Labor Tribune, 1955-1973. Seventeen bound volumes. Arranged chronologically.
SERIES 6 - St. Louis Labor Tribune, 1987, 1 volume.
SERIES 7 - Photograph prints. This series includes very little chronological identification of the prints. Divided into two sub-series: Prints and Oversize, both arranged alphabetically by subject.
SERIES 8 - Negatives. Divided into five sub-series, all arranged alphabetically and chronologically within alphabetical divisions: 1. Union and Group Names; 2. 35MM Series, a separate series comprised of only 35mm negatives; 3. People; 4. Events; and 5. Nitrate Negatives. These negatives are included as part of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection's photograph database.
FOLDER LISTING
BOX 1 (125123)
SERIES 1 - St. Louis Labor Tribune, 1932-1970s
1. AFL, Signed Application Blanks, nd.
2. AFL Union Records, 1952
3. Anheuser-Busch Strike, 1951
4. Audit Bureau of Circulations, 1937-1945, 1950
5. Census of Manufacturers, 1958
6. Complimentary Letters, 1935-1939
7. Correspondence, 1935-1936
8. Correspondence, 1939
9. Correspondence, 1940-1941
10. Correspondence, 1941-1942
11. Correspondence, 1943-1944
12. Correspondence, 1944
13. Correspondence, 1945-1946
14. Correspondence, 1947
15. Correspondence, 1948
16. Correspondence, 1948
17. Correspondence, 1949-1950
18. Correspondence, 1950
BOX 2 (125124)
19. Correspondence, 1951
20. Correspondence, 1951
21. Correspondence, 1952
22. Correspondence, 1952
23. Correspondence, 1953
24. Correspondence, 1953
BOX 3 (125125)
25. Correspondence, 1954
26. Correspondence, 1954
27. Correspondence, 1955
28. Correspondence, 1956
29. Correspondence, 1958
30. Correspondence, 1959
31. Correspondence, 1961
32. Correspondence, 1962
33. Correspondence, 1963
34. Correspondence, 1963-1964
35. Correspondence, 1964
36. Correspondence, 1965
BOX 4 (125128)
37. Correspondence, 1966-1967
38. Correspondence, 1968
39. Correspondence, 1970s
40. Current News Data, 1959-1960
41. Editorial Cartoons, nd
42. Editorial Cartoons, nd
43. Editorials, nd
44. Ideas, 1939
45. Mary Ryder Community Chest Data, 1952-1954
BOX 5 (125127)
46. Medart's Restaurant Licensing Matter, 1942
47. News for Current Issue, 1944-1945
48. News Release Outlets, 1/5/55
49. Newsclippings, 1940-1962
50. Newsclippings, 1962, 1965
51. Notes About Maury Rubin, 1950s
52. Plan of Procedure, 1939?
53. Political Speech Given By John J. Church, 3/27/41
54. Printing Correspondence, 1939, 1940
55. Printing Equipment Data, 1965-1966
56. Reporter Applications, 1963
57. Maury Rubin's Press Credentials, 1960
BOX 6 (125128)
58. St. Louis Labor Tribune, Vol. 1, #2, January 15, 1932
59. St. Louis Labor Tribune and Other Maury Rubin Correspondence, A-Z, 1947-1963
60 Southern Illinois Labor-Tribune, Renewal Certificate for Trademark, 1959
61. Welch for Governor Labor Committee, 1952
SERIES 2 - Advertising, Publicity and Newspaper Representatives Local 20711, 1937-1976
62. Agreement with St. Louis Labor Tribune, 1961-1964
63. Agreement with St. Louis Labor Tribune, 1961-1964
64. AFL Communications, 1940
65. AFL Local Union Records, 1938-1954
66. AFL Mailers, 1942
67. Annual Report, 1963-64
68. Audit and Bonding, Report Forms, 1961-1974
69. Certificate of Affiliation with the Missouri State Labor Council, 4/56
70. Communications, 1960-1963
71. Constitution and By-Laws, 1958
72. Correspondence, 1937
73. Correspondence, 1937
74. Correspondence, 1938
BOX 7 (125129)
75. Correspondence, 1965
76. Financial Reports, 1974
77. Financial Reports, 1976
78. Financial Statements, 1974-1975
79. Meeting Minutes, 1937-1938
80. Meeting Minutes, 1955
81. Meeting Minutes, 1957-1958
82. Meeting Minutes, 1964-1973
83. Meeting Minutes, 1968
84. Meeting Minutes, 1976
85. Monthly Financial Statements, 1962-1973
86. Personal Correspondence of Maury Rubin, 1972-1973
87. Proposed New Changes and Additions in the Constitution and By-Laws, 1960
88. Constitution and By-Laws, 1960
89. Receipts, 1939-1948
90. Tax Exempt Status, 1944, 1962
91. Tax Exempt Status, 1951-1953
BOX 8 (125130)
SERIES 3 - Subject Files, 1965-1968
92. AEC Atomic Accelerator, 1965-1966
93. Apprenticeships, 1967
94. Automation, 1966
95. Bicentennial (St. Louis), 1966
96. John Birch Society, 1967
97. Chamber of Commerce, 1967-1968
98. City of Hope, 1965
99. Civil Rights, 1964
100. Communications, 1966
101. Congress of Independent Unions, 1967-1968
102. Congress of the U.S., 1965
103. Consumers, Missouri Association, St. Louis Federation, 1966
104. Committee on Political Education, 1968
BOX 9 (125131)
105. Copper Industry, 1968
106. County Welfare Services, 1968
107. Douglas, Senator Paul (D. Ill.), 1966
108. Driving, 1966
109. Drug Pricing, 1968
110. East-West Gateway Co-ordinating Council, 1966
111. Economy, The (General), 1966
112. Editorials, General, 1968
113. Educational Opportunities (Local), 1967
114. Elections (State-City), 1968
115. Elections (Federal), 1968
116. Employment, 1966
117. Farm Workers, 1967
118. Histradut, 1967
119. Humphrey, Hubert, 1968
120. Illinois Labor Tribune, 1967
121. Insurance, 1967
122. International Labor Press Association (ILPN), 1968
BOX 10 (125132)
123. Junior College District (JCD), St. Louis and County, 1965
124. Labor Day, 1965
125. Labor Legislation (National & Local), 1967
126. LAMP (Labor and Management Plan), 1968
127. Letters to the Editor, 1966
128. Long, Senator Edward, 1967
129. Medicare, 1968
130. Meramec Basin Association, 1967
131. Midwest Labor Press Association, 1967
132. Missouri Legislature, 1967
133. National Association of Manufacturers, 1967
134. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 1967
135. National Labor Relations Board Decisions, 1968
136. National Politics, date?
137. On-The-Job Accidents, 1966
138. One Man, One Vote, 1965
139. Organizing, 1967
140. Printing, 1967-1968
141. Red Cross, 1967
142. Regional Industrial Development Corporation, 1967
143. Regional Industrial Development Corporation and Related Topics, 1967
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144. Regional Industrial Development Corporation and Related Topics, 1967
145. Regional Industrial Development Corporation and Related Topics, 1967
146. Regional Industrial Development Corporation and Related Topics, 1967
147. Registration, 1968
148. Safety, 1967
149. St. Louis Labor Tribune, 1967
150. St. Louis, Missouri, General, 1967
151. Situs Picketing, 1967-1968
152. Social Economic Gains, 1966
153. Social Security, 1967
154. Spanish Pavilion, 1967
155. Strikes, 1967
156. Taft-Hartley Section 14(b), 1967
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157. Taxes, 1966-1967
158. Truth In Lending-Packaging, 1966
159. Unemployment, 1967
160. Union Busting, 1967
161. Union Label, 1968
162. United Autoworkers, 1967
163. United Fund, 1967
164. Venereal Diseases, 1962
165. Vietnam, 1967
166. Young Democrats (St. Louis), 1967
167. Youth Opportunities, 1965-1966
168. Wages, 1967
169. War On Poverty, 1967
SERIES 4 - Newsclippings, 1961-1968
170. Newsclippings,"A", 1965-1967
171. Newsclippings,"B", 1966-1967
172. Newsclippings,"C", 1966-1968
173. Newsclippings,"D", 1961-1967
174. Newsclippings,"E", nd
175. Newsclippings,"F", 1966-1968
176. Newsclippings,"G", 1966-1967
177. Newsclippings,"H", 1968
178. Newsclippings,"I", 1966-1967
179. Newsclippings,"J", 1967
180. Newsclippings,"K", 1965-1968
181. Newsclippings,"L", 1966-1968
182. Newsclippings,"M", 1966-1968
183. Newsclippings,"O", 1966-1967
184. Newsclippings,"P", 1966-1967
185. Newsclippings,"R", 1966-1967
186. Newsclippings,"S", 1966-1968
187. Newsclippings,"T", 1966-1967
188. Newsclippings,"U", 1966-1967
189. Newsclippings,"V", 1967-1968
190. Newsclippings,"W", 1966
191. Newsclippings,"Z", 1968
SERIES 5 - Indiana Labor Tribune, 1955-1973, 17 volumes
1. Indiana Labor Tribune, June to December, 1955
2. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1958
3. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1959
4. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1960
5. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1961
6. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1962
7. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1963
8. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1964
9. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1965
10. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1966
11. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1967
12. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1968
13. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1969
14. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1970
15. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1971
16. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1972
17. Indiana Labor Tribune, 1973
SERIES 6 - St. Louis Labor Tribune, 1987, 1 volume
1. St. Louis Labor Tribune, 1987
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SERIES 7A - Photographs
192. Aerial Photographs
193. AFL Bowling Team
194. AFL-CIO Leaders
195. AFSCMC
196. Alberici, Gabriel
197. Alton Business Agents
198. Alton/Wood River Labor Council
199. "America Love It Or Leave It" Parade
200. Baine, John C.
201. Barbers
202. Bardofit, John
203. Bartenders Local 51
204. Belleville Trades Assembly
205. Blassie, Jr., John J.
206. Blassie, Michael J.
207. Boilermakers-Blacksmiths Local 27
208. Bookbinders
209. Boone, Pat
210. Boyd, Bill
211. Bradford, Charles E.
212. Branom, Robert H. (Bob)
213. Brewery
214. Bricklayers Local 2
215. Building Laborers
216. Building Service Employees
217. Buildings
218. Busch, August A.
219. Butchers
220. Buttons, Red
223. Calloway, Ernest
224. Cameron, Ross
225. Carpenters
226. Carpenters Local 16
227. Carpet, Linoleum, Hardwood and Resilient Tile Layers Local
1310; Cement Workers
228. Ceramic Tile Layers and Marble Setters Local 18
229. Cervantes, A. J.
230. Charities
231. Chemical Workers
232. City of Hope
233. Cleaners Local 161
234. Collinsville, IL, Protesting the Use of Non-Union Labor
235. Collinsville, IL Union Officials
236. Committee On Political Education (COPE)
237. Cooks Local 26
238. COPE
239. COPE Committee, AFL-CIO
240. COPE Conference Delegates, 1/26/68
241. Custer, Taylor F.
242. Democratic Convention, 1960
243. Denny, Anthony
244. Driscoll, Glen R.
245. Dukeman, Phil
246. Eagleton, Thomas
247. East St. Louis Buildings Trades Council
248. East St. Louis Central Trades
249. East St. Louis Central Trades and Labor Union, Ladies Auxiliary
250. Eastern Missouri Laborers District Council
251. Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Local 1108
252. Elevator Construction
253. Enright, Richard T.
254. Falstaff Brewing Corporation
255. Falstaff Theater
256. Ferris, Franklin
257. Finley, Ken
258. Firefighters
259. Firemen and Oilers
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260. Freeman, Harry
261. General Contractors
262. Glass Bottle Blowers
263. Godfrey, James E.
264. Gorman, Leonard
265. Gralike, Donald J.
266. Greyhound Bus Strike
267. Groups
268. Groups
269. Groups
270. Groups
271. Groups
272. Groups
273. Groups
274. Groups
BOX 15
275. Groups
276. Groups
277. Haines, Dr. Wesley N.
278. Hanson, Patsy
279. Harris, Fred R.
280. Heilich, Michael
281. Hearnes, Warren E.
282. Herald Examiner Newspaper of Los Angeles
283. Heritage House
284. Hoisting Engineers
285. Hotel and Restaurant Employees
286. Human Resource Development Institute
287. Humphrey, Hubert H.
288. Illinois AFL
289. Illinois Machinists Council
290. Illinois Sheet Metal Workers Conference, 4/57
291. Illinois State Federation of Labor
292. Illinois State Federation of Labor
293. Illinois Wage Earners League,Officers, 1955
294. Indiana Teamsters
295. Indiana Teamsters
296. Indiana Teamsters
297. Indiana Teamsters
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298. Individuals
299. Individuals
300. Individuals
301. Individuals
302. Individuals
303. Individuals
304. Individuals
305. Insurance Agents 145
306. International Association of Machinists, undated
307. International Association of Machinists
308. International Association of Machinists, undated
309. International Association of Machinists, undated
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310-316. International Association of Machinists, undated
317. International Association of Machinists, District 9
318. International Association of Machinists, 1969
319. International Association of Machinists, 1970
320. International Association of Machinists, 1971
321. International Association of Machinists, 1973
322. International Association of Machinists, 1974
323. International Association of Machinists, 1975
324. International Association of Machinists, 1976
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325. International Association of Machinists, 1979
326. International Association of Machinists, 1980
327. International Association of Machinists, 1981
328. International Association of Machinists, 1982
329. International Association of Machinists, 1983
330. International Association of Machinists, 1984
331. International Association of Machinists, 1985
332. International Association of Machinists, 1986
333. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
334. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1
335. International Labor Press Association
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336. International Ladies Garment Workers
337. International Union of Operating Engineers
338. Israel Bonds
339. Job Corps
340. Kennedy, John F.
341. Laborers Local 42
342. Lawler, Jr., John
343. Long, Senator Edward V.
344. Longshoremen
345. Loyalty Day Parade, 5/23/75
346. Machinists, District 9
347. Machinists, District 9
348. Machinists Illinois State Conferences, 4/24/58
349. Machinists, Lodge 313, East St. Louis
350. Macon, MO
351. Mahn, Vicent J.
352. Mailers
353. May, Louis D.
354. Mayfair Riverfront Inn
355. McCarthyists and Pickets at Kiel Opera House
356. Meany, George
357. Meatcutters, Local 88
358. Meetings
359. Meramec Basin Association
360. Meyer, Walter L.
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361. Meyer, James
362. Midden, Charles H.
363. Miller, H. Bill
364. Milius
365. Missouri Council of National Security
366. Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations
367. Missouri Division of Unemployment
368. Missouri Labor Leaders with Political Figures
369. Missouri State Council of Machinists
370. Missouri State Federation of Labor
371. Morris, W.S. "Bill"
372. Muskie, Edmund
373. National Safety Council
374. OASIS Senior Aides
375. O'Brien, Daniel V.
376. O'Conner, Patrick J.
377. O'Toole, Phelim
378. Old Newsboy Day
379. Operating Engineers, 148
380. Painters, Local 471
381. Painters District Council, #2
382. Paper Carriers
383. Paper Products Exibit
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385. Parades
386. Pickets
387. Pipefitters
388. Pine, Roger
389. Plumbers Local 35
390. Plumbing Industry Council
391. Poelker, John H.
392. Police Department
393. Police Medal of Valor Awards, 9/18/70
394. Powers, John M.
395. Price, Melvin
396. Price, Mel, 2/8/70
397. Public Employees
398. Quinn, S. J. "Jim"
399. Randolph, Senator Jenkins
400. Red Cross Blood Drive
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401. Regional Industrial Development Corporation
402. Republican Dinner, 2/20/70
403. Retail Clerks
404. Right to Work Cartoons, 1978
405. Right to Work Laws Inc.
406. Rothman, Kenneth J.
407. Rubin, Maury
408. Rush Island Project, 12/6/74
409. St Clair County, Illinois Crime Control
410. St. Louis Central Trades; Mary Ryder Ball, Ladies Auxiliary
411. St. Louis County Police Officers Association
412. Santa Claus
413. Sawyer College of Business
414. SEABEES, Navy
415. Service Employees, Local 50
416. Sheet Metal Workers, Local 36
417. Shenker, Morris
418. Skills
419. Skills, 1970
420. Skills
421. Skills
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422. Skills
423. Social Security
424. Solidarity Day, 1983
425. Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
426. Southern Illinois Wage Earners Educational and Political
League
427. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
428. Southwestern Illinois Building and Construction Trades
Council, Christmas Party
429. Spanish Pavilion
430. Springfield, IL, 8/30/74
431. State, County and Municipal Employees, 4/10/58
432. Steamfitters
433. Stereotypers
434. Stewart, Maurice L.
435. Stovemounters Local 100
436. Street Car and Motor Coach Employees Local 788
437. Strikes
438. Strikes
439. Strikes
440. Sullivan, Leonor K.
441. Switchmen
442. Symington, James W.
443. Symington, Stuart
444. Systematic Tax, Inc.
445. Teamsters
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446. Teamsters Local 135
447. Teamsters, 1958
448. Teamsters, 1958
449. Textile Workers Union of America (TWA)
450. Trades Council Union News, 1918
451-455. Unidentified
456. Union Label
457. Union Labor Life Insurance Company
458. Union Signs
459. United Automobile Workers
460. United Automobile Workers Assist Regional Director Ted Hanks
461. United Federation of Postal Clerks
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462. United Fund
463. United Fund
464. United Labor Committee of Missouri
465. United Steelworkers of America
466. United Steelworkers of America Local 3643
467. Univac Computers
468. Upholsterers Local 25
469. Vasil, F. J. "Pete"
470. Vatterott, Joseph H.
471. Vest, Willie, 4/11/58
472. Vista
473. Von Romer, Harry E.
474. Voter Registration
475. Webbe, Sorkis J.
476. Weber, Winnie
477. Welders
478. Wiesman, Melvyn Wade
479. Wolf, J. Albert
480. Wood River AFL, CLU Officers, 1/55
481. Young, Gig
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SERIES 7B - Photographs - Oversize
482. AFL-CIO Business Representatives Luncheon, 1963
483. AFL-CIO Conference
484. AFL-CIO COPE Voter Registration
485. AFL-CIO, Mayor Tucker Addresses Business Agents Luncheon
486. AFL-CIO, Seventh Convention, October 5-9, 1964
487. Apprentices
488. Automotive Lodge 777
489. Awards
490. Beer Bottlers
491. Belleville Labor Day
492. Bellringers for the Salvation Army
493. Bevis, Meyer
494. Carpenters
495. Carpenters Delegates Turnout
496. Carpenters District Council
497. Carpenters 32nd General in Session
498. Cason, Lyons, Raftery, Morley and Pendergrass
499. Cement Masons Local 527
500. City of Hope, December 8, 1972
501. Communication Workers of America, Tax Equity Demonstration
502. Composition Roofers Local 527
503. Concrete Pouring and Finishing Work, Frances Howell School,
Weldon Springs, MO
504. Construction Man of the Year, 1974
505. Contour Cutting Corporation
506. COPE Conference, 1971
507. COPE Meeting, July 31, 1970
508. East St. Louis Central Labor Council Auxiliary
509. Edwardsville Labor Leaders
510. Firefighters Local 73
511. Gibson Testimonial Dinner
512. Granite City, IL, Building Tradesmen, October 27, 1967
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513. Groups
514. Hoffa for President
515. Hoisting Engineers Local 513
516. Housemen and Helpers of America
517. Hussman Refrigeration
518. ITU Auxiliary and Convention Gavel
519. Illinois Carpenters District Council, October 22, 1971
520. Illinois Politicians
521. Illinois State AFL-CIO
522. Illinois State Council of Carpenters, AFL-CIO, 46th Annual
Convention
523. Illinois State Federation of Labor and CIO, 17th Annual
Convention
524. International Association of Machinists
525. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
526. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1,
Christmas Party, 1969
527. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs,
Warehousemen and Helpers
528. International Chemical Workers Union, East St. Louis, December
10, 1949
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529. International Chemical Workers Union
530. Jersey and Calhoun County Central Trades Fair Labor List
531. Joint Automotive-Machinist and Tool and Diemaker,
Apprenticeship Program, July 19, 1970
532. Labor Counseling Dinner
533. Labor Day Parade
534. Labor Day Parades
535. Labor, Management and Insurance Initial Meeting, 9/3/71
536. Labor-Management Conference, Chase-Park Hotel, April 7, 1967
537. Labor Helps Salvation Army, East St. Louis
538. Leo LaFrance Testimonial Dinner
539. Machinists
540. Machinists District 9
541. Machinists District 9
542. Machinists District 9
543. Machinists District 9 Pickets
544. Machinists District 9, 1967
545. Machinists Lodge 41
546. Machinists Lodge 313
547. Macon, MO
548. Meatcutters Local 88
549. Metro-East Service Trades Council
550. Meyers, John
551. Missouri State Federation (MSFL/MSLC)
552. Missouri State Labor Council
553. National Labor Buddy Program
554. National Labor Relations Board
555. Operating Engineers Local 2
556. Operating Engineers Local 148
557. Paper Hangers and Fresno Painters
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558. Pipefitters
559. Progressive Lodge 41
560. Progressive Lodge 41, September 15, 1962
561. Public Employees Collective Bargaining Bill
562. Retail Clerks 655
563. St. Louis Building and Construction Trades Council
564. St. Louis Council AFL-CIO
565. St. Louis Council's Committee on Political Education
566. St. Louis County Police, Labor Support
567. St. Louis Labor Council's Sixth Biennial Legislative
Conference, 3/5/71
568. Scientific Advances in Concrete Mixtures, December 26, 1970
569. Senior Citizens
570. Service Employees Local 50
571. Sheet Metal Workers Local 36
572. Southern Conference of Teamsters, 17th Convention
573. Southern Illinois Delegations
574. Springfield, IL Trades and Labor Convention
575. Sterling Aluminum
576. Task Force, 1971
577. Teamster Construction Drivers Local 682
578. Teamsters
579. Union Counseling Course
580. United Farmworkers Lettuce Boycott
581. United Fund Campaign, 1961-1962
582. Women Power
BOX 31
SERIES 8 - Negatives
AETT Alumni Club-AFL-CIO Internal Organizing Conference
BOX 32
AFSCME Council 27-Beer Bottlers 187
BOX 33
Bell Prayer-Building Trades 521
BOX 34
Building Trades Council 521-Carpenters Local 169
BOX 35
Carpenters Local 169 (N)-Carpenters District Council
BOX 36 CDC-CDC
BOX 37
CDC-CDC
BOX 38
CDC-CDC
BOX 39
CDC-CDC
BOX 40
Cement Masons 527-Communications Workers of America Dist. 6
BOX 41
CWA District 6-CWA 6320
BOX 42
CWA 6320-Eastern Missouri Laborers District Council
BOX 43
Eastern Missouri Labor District Council-Fireman and Oilers (George Burke retirement party at Beaumont High)
BOX 44
Five Pact Labor Alliance-Haviland Corp
BOX 45
Health Department Local 629-Hotel Workers 74
BOX 46
Hotel Workers 74-International Association of Machinists
BOX 47
IAM-IAM District 9
BOX 48
IAM District 9-IAM District 9
BOX 49
IAM District 9-IAM District 9
BOX 50
IAM District 9-IAM District 9
BOX 51
IAM District 9-IAM District 9
BOX 52
IAM District 9-IAM Lodge 787
BOX 53
IAM 837-IBEW 1439
BOX 54
IBEW ?-Labor Parade
BOX 55
Labor Parade-Madison County Carpenters
BOX 56
Mailers #3-Mother Jones Memorial
BOX 57
MNPL Workshop-Pipefitters 562
BOX 58
PF 562-Retail Clerks 655
BOX 59
Retail Clerks 655-Retail Clerks 655
BOX 60
Retail Clerks 655-St. Louis Labor Council
BOX 61
St. Louis Labor Council-SEIU 50
BOX 62
SEIU 50-Sheet Metal Workers Local 36
BOX 63
Sheet Metal Workers Local 36-Teamsters 618
BOX 64
Teamsters 618-Typographical Union Auxiliary #8
BOX 65
Typographical Union Auxiliary #8-UFCW 655
BOX 66
UFCW Local 655-Union Label Council
BOX 67
Union Label League-Walla and New Building
35M Series
BOX 68
AFL-IAM 9
BOX 69
Jerseyville, IL-Typographical Local 8
BOX 70
IAM District 9-Betty Rubin at Home
People
BOX 71
Abbaud, Matt-Dorsey, Ed
BOX 72
Dowley, Mikey-Long, Senator Edward
BOX 73
Long, Senator-Rubin, Maury
BOX 74
Rubin-Adams-Valenti, Williams
BOX 75
Valenti Wedding-Zimmerman, Eugene
Events
BOX 75
(cont'd). ACF Pickets-Hawaiian Trip
BOX 76
Hawaiian Trip-Missouri Marbelite Display
BOX 77
Missouri State Labor Council Activities-MSLPA-ILP Chaves Test
BOX 78
Multi-Phasic Health Systems-Sheet Metal Workers 36 Activities (DADs
Promotion)
BOX 79
Sheet Metal Workers 268 Activities (Apprentice Conference)-SWBCTC
Christmas Party
BOX 80
Teamsters 600 Gregan Strike Vote-Young, Bob, Fundraising Party
BOX 81
Nitrate Negatives
Asbestos Workers-Missouri State Federation of Labor
INDEX
Able, Reverend Ralph Christian, f. 170
Advertising, Publicity and Newspaper Representatives, f. 62-91
Air Force Recruits, f. 170
Allied Printing Trades Council, f. 9
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, f. 17, 172
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, f. 37
Amberg, Richard, f. 40, 59
American Federation of Labor, f. 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 17, 64, 65, 68,
71, 74, 170, 474-478
American Federation of Musicians Local 2, f. 36
Anheuser-Busch, f. 2, 43
Anti-Communism, f. 43
Apprentices, f. 479
Arch History, f. 170
Atomic Energy Commission Atomic Accelerator, f. 92
Audit Bureau of Circulations, f. 4, 17, 18, 60
Automation, f. 94
Automotive Lodge 777, f. 480
Bass, Dr. Allen, f. 171
Bass, Morris, f. 73, 79
Beer Bottlers Local 187, f. 3, 482
Belleville, f. 483
Bellringers for the Salvation Army, f. 480
Bevis, Meyer, f. 481
Bicentennial (St. Louis), f. 95
Bi-State, f. 171
Bond Issues, f. 184
Blassie, Nicholas M., f. 12, 17, 19, 22, 49
Boilermakers Local 483, f. 171
Brewers and Malsters Local 6, f. 3
Bricklayers, Stone and Marble Masons, f. 9
Busch, Jr., August A., 3
Butchers Union Local 545, f. 9
Carpenters, f. 486
Carpenters 1596, f. 20
Carpenters District Council, f. 488
Carpenters Local 1739, f. 47
Canvassers', f. 172
Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, f. 172
Cement Masons Local 527, f. 491
Census, f. 5
Cervantes, Alfonso, J., 36
Chemical Workers Union 20032, f. 6
Church, John, f. 18. 53
City of Hope, f. 98, 492
Civil Rights, f. 99
Coalition for Progress, f. 172
Coca Cola, f. 17, 20
Communication Workers of America, f. 493
Communism, f. 172
Composition Roofers Local 527, f. 494
Concrete Pouring and Finishing Work, f. 495
Conglomerate Mergers, f. 172
Congress of Independent Unions, f. 101
Conscription, f. 43
Construction Man of the Year, f. 496
Consumer Federation, f. 172
Contour Cutting Corporation, f. 497
Coors Beer, f. 39
COPE, f. 498, 499
Copper Industry, f. 105
Crockett, Davy, f. 43
Curtis, Tom, f. 32
Darst, Stephen, f. 36
Debbs, Eugene, f. 43
Democratic Committee, f.173
Department of Defense, f. 173
Dickmann, Bernard F., f. 18, 20, 47
Dismas Clark, f. 36
Douglas, Judge James M., f. 6
Douglas, Senator Paul, f. 107, 173
Downtown Retailers of East St. Louis, f. 18
Duncan Foundry, f. 173
Dysart, Thomas N., f. 47
Eagleton, Mark, f. 24
East St. Louis Central Labor Council Auxiliary, f. 493
East-West Gateway Co-ordinating Council, f. 111
Eastern Missouri Laborers' District Council, f. 14
Editorial Cartoons, f. 41, 42
Edwardsville Labor Leaders, f. 501
Eisenhower, Dwight, f. 43
Electrical Workers Local No. 1, f. 6
Epilepsy, f. 174
Fairmount Park Raceway, f. 18
Federal Labor Unions of St. Louis, f. 9
Federation for Economic and Political Education of Greater St.
Louis, f. 14
Finkelstein, Albert, f. 175
Finkelstein, Ed, f. 36
Fire Fighters Local 53, f. 175
Fire Fighters Local 73, f. 502
Flag Day, f. 43, 175
Foreign Aid, f. 175
Fluoridation, f. 43
Food Council of Greater St. Louis, f. 24, 26
Gas House Workers, f. 6
General Electric, f. 176
Gibbons, Harold, f. 25, 35, 36, 49
Globe Democrat, f. 176
Granite City Building Tradesmen, f. 504
Granite City Steel, f. 176
Grape Strikers, f. 176
Harris, Raymond, f. 177
Hearst Magazines, f. 177
Hennings, Thomas C., f. 18
Hoffa, Jimmy, f. 43, 506
Hoisting Engineers Local 513, f. 507
Houseman and Helpers of America, f. 508
Hussman Refrigeration, f. 509
Hulahan, Paul, f. 25
Humphrey, Hubert, f. 119
Illinois Carpenters District Council, f. 511
Illinois Labor Tribune, f. 120
Illinois Politicians, f. 512
Illinois State Council of Carpenters, f. 503
Illinois State Federation of Labor and CIO, f. 515
Immigration Act, f. 178
Income Tax Withholding, f. 178
Individualism, f. 43
International Association of Machinists, f. 516
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, f. 518
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1, f. 518
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen
and Helpers, f. 519
International Chemical Workers Union, f. 520, 521
Israel Bonds, f. 178
Jersey and Calhoun County Central Trades Fair Labor List, f. 522
John Birch Society, f. 96
Johnston, Bill, f. 179
Joint Automotive-Machinist and Toll Diemaker, f. 523
Journalism, f. 56, 57
Joynt, John W., f. 25
Junior College District, f. 123
Kansas Color Press, f. 180
Kaufmann, Aloys P., f. 18
Kefauver, Estes, f. 59
Kennedy, John F., f. 34
King, Martin Luther, f. 180
Kingsport Press, f. 180
King-Thomson Bill, f. 32, 43
Labor, f. 1-169
Labor Day, f. 181
Labor Education, f. 43
Labor Day Parades, f. 525, 526
Labor's League for Political Education of St. louis and Vicinity
Laclede Gas Company, f. 6
LaFrance, Leo, f. 530
League of Women Voters, f. 181
Liquor Licenses, f. 46
Long, Sen., Edward, f. 128, 181
Machinists District 9, f. 532-536
Machinists Lodge 41, f. 537
Machinists Lodge 313, f. 538
Macon, Missouri, f. 539
Mary Ryder Homes, f. 45
McCarthy, Joseph, f. 23
McNary, Gene, f. 39
Meany, George, f. 34, 50
Meatcutters 88, f. 12, 18, 540
Meckling, Wilbur, f. 182
Medart's Restaurant, f. 46
Medicare, f. 129
Meramec Basin Association, f. 130, 182
Metro-East Service Trades Council, f. 541
Meyers, John, f. 542
Midwest Labor Press Association, f. 131
Milk Wagon Drivers Union Local 603, f. 6, 9, 23-25, 30, 49
Missouri Association of Consumers, f. 103
Missouri Cafeteria, f. 17
Missouri State Federation of Labor, f. 11, 13, 543
Missouri State Labor Council, f. 69, 544
Model Cities, f. 182
MOHOLE Project, f. 182
Mooney, Tom, f. 6
Moran, Glennon T., f. 182
Motion Picture Operators 143, f. 47
National Labor Buddy Program, f. 545
National Labor Relations Board, f. 545
National Negro Labor Council, St. Louis Chapter, f. 23
Nixon, Richard, f. 43
Nuclear Disarmament, f. 43
Office Employees Local 13, f. 183
Old Age Pension, f. 183
On-The-Job Accidents, f. 137
Operating Engineers Local 2, f. 547
Operating Engineers Local 148, f. 548
Operating Engineers Local 965, f. 183
O'Toole, Phelim, f. 183
Paper Hangings and Fresno Painters, f. 549
Park Plaza Motor Hotel, f. 33, 34, 40
Parks, County, f. 184
Peace Action Committee of Missouri, f. 6
Picket Line, f. 184
Pierre Laclede Fur Company, f. 37
Pipefitters, f. 550
Pit Winter Garden, f. 44
Police, f. 184
Police Circus, f. 184
Post Office, f. 184
Preisler, Paul, f. 43
Printing Pressmen Local 6, f. 184
Privacy, f. 184
Progressive Lodge 41, f. 551, 552
Progressive Miners of America, f. 6
Pulitzer, Sr., Joseph, f. 27
Public Employees Collective Bargaining Bill, f. 553
Racism, f. 43
Raftery, Lawrence, f. 6
Regional Industrial Development Corporation, f. 142-145
Rent (Federal Assistance), f. 185
Retail Clerks 655, f. 554
Retail Store Employees Union, f. 26
Retirement, f. 183
Right To Work, f. 23, 29
Rogers, Ginger, f. 35
Rubin, Maury, f. 1-169, 185
Runaway Firm, f. 185
Sabol, Ben, f. 186
Saffo, Pete, f. 25
Salvation Army, f. 186, 480, 529
Schading, Arthur, f. 49
Schenker, Maury E., f. 35, 36
Selective Service, f. 186
Senior Citizens, f. 561
Service Employees Local 50, f. 562
Sheetmetal Workers Local 36, f. 563
Sheetmetal Workers Local 84, f. 186
Sinatra, Frank, f. 35
Situs Picketing, f. 151
Smith, Forrest, f. 20
Social Planning Council of St. Louis and St. Louis County, f. 23
Social Security, f. 153
Soft Drink Drivers and Salesman, f. 18
Southern Illinois Labor Tribune, f. 60
Southern Illinois University, f. 186
Spanish Pavilion, f. 154
St. Louis Browns, f. 19
St. Louis Building and Construction Trades Council, f. 555
St. Louis County Police, Labor Support, f. 556
St. Louis Daily Livestock Reporter, f. 55
St. Louis General Strike of 1877, f. 43
St. Louis Labor Tribune, f. 60
St. Louis Mailers Union Local 3, f. 4, 15, 16
St. Louis Women's Trade Union League, f. 6
Stalin, Joseph, f. 43
Steelworkers, f. 186
Sterling Aluminum, f. 567
Street Cars, f. 43
Strikes, f. 155
Sullivan, Leonore K., f. 186
Symington, Stuart, f. 22, 23
Taft-Hartley Act, f. 35, 43, 156
Tax Equity Demonstration, f. 493
Teamsters, f. 187, 570
Textbooks, f. 187
Tobin, Jerry, f. 19
Truth-In-Lending, f. 158
Tuberculosis and Health Society, f. 187
Tucker, Sophie, f. 36
Unemployment, f. 43, 159
Unfair List, f. 188
United Auto Work, f. 188
Union Busting, f. 160
Union Industry Show, f. 188
Union Label Week, f. 188
United Farmworkers Lettuce Boycott, f. 572
United Fund, f. 163, 573
Urban League of St. Louis, f. 22
Venereal Diseases, f. 164
Veteran Aid, f. 189
Veteran Rights, f. 189
Vietnam, f. 165
Vista, f. 189,
Waitresses, Female Cafeteria and Soda Fountain Employees Local 249,
f.23
Wandling, Grover E., f. 190
War On Poverty, f. 1690
Warehouse and Distribution Workers Union, f. 23
Weber, Lloyd, f. 27
Welch, Phil, f. 59, 61
Wheatley, Parker, f. 36
Winfield, Missouri, District Council, f. 14
Writers Project (WPA), f. 74
Young Democrats (St. Louis), f. 166
Zenith Plant, f. 191
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