Panama Canal
Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Latin America and the Caribbean, 1969-1976
Series
4
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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AFL-CIO International Affairs Department, Country Files
Scope and Contents
This series contains correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, periodicals, petitions, press releases, and conference materials. The records date from 1969-1979, but most fall within the period 1971-1976. Topics include financial and material assistance to AFL-CIO sponsored or supported projects and activities; American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) activities; the Kemmons Wilson Construction Company/Bermuda Industrial Union dispute; government repression of trade unions...
Dates:
1969-1976
Letters to William Green, 1925-1944
Series
2
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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AFL Office of the President, political correspondence
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Frank G. Allen, John Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Francis Green, Herbert Clark Hoover, Cordell Hull, Patrick Jay Hurley, Harold Leclair Ickes, Herbert Henry Lehman, Frances Perkins, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Alfred Emanuel Smith and Sumner Wells.Topics include: resolutions adopted by the 1929, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1941, and 1943 AFL Conventions; Rhode Island General Assembly action to establish a minimum wage for women and minors; a...
Dates:
1925-1944
Samuel Gompers, 1887-1982
Series
4
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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AFL-CIO Information Department, Photographic Prints collection
Scope and Contents
Includes images from Samuel Gompers' personal life, his career as a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, and various ceremonies and memorials after his death in 1924. Most of the images are from the 1900s-1920s. A sizeable portion of the collection consists of individual images, both formal and informal. The series also includes images of Gompers with various American and international labor leaders of the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries. Of special...
Dates:
1887-1982