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Descriptive Summary

Title:
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Records, 1936-1981

Collection number:
MSS 071

Creator:
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America

Extent:
14 legal document boxes, one legal half document box;
5 linear feet

Repository:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Los Angeles, CA 90044

Abstract:
The collection consists of partial records of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). There is material from selected years of the national Executive Board and from early chapters of UE history (1940s-1960s). There is a large amount of material on the 1969 strike against General Electric and the events leading up to it. The bulk of the collection related to specific locals is material on California locals in District 10--specifically Local 1010 (Ontario), Local 1012 (Ontario) and Local 1421 (Los Angeles)--but additionally there is a small amount of material from locals in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Language:
English.

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