Series III: Teachers Union of the City of New York Files, 1925-1962, inclusive

This series follows the history of the Union through its various affiliations. Each one of the first five subseries highlights activities, correspondence, financial and administrative material, communication with members, educational conferences, meeting minutes, publications and specific issues of importance associated with a particular period.

The first subseries, focusing on its AFT affiliation as Local 5, contains a good deal of material concerning conflicts within the local, competing internal factions, the 1935 walkout and formation of the rival Teachers Guild, and final expulsion from the AFT. Attempts to rejoin the AFT are documented in the second subseries, while the third reflects the Union's affiliation with the CIO. The next two subseries document the Union's continued affiliation with the United Public Workers of America after the UPWA was expelled from the CIO and its final years as an independent union, touching on such topics as school integration and responses to anti-communist investigations. The last subseries highlights a number of special groups within the Union that were of particular interest to Charles Hendley - the Educational Policies Committee, the Teachers Union Institute and various political action committees. Also included is material reflecting the time Hendley spent, after his retirement from teaching, as an organizing field representative for the National Teachers Division of the UPWA/CIO.