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Series I: History & Jurisdictional Disputes

Scope and Content Note

Series includes histories of the CTU, and the Association Western Union Employees, brief histories of technology and the technological changes that affected the telegraph industry; and materials relating to the various organizations which were competing for membership in the telegraph industry. Includes election materials, War Labor Board and National Labor Relations Board cases; arbitrations, articles of agreement, mergers and amalgamation agreements.

Constitution, 1945, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

History, 1928-1996, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

History, 1928-1996, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

History, 1928-1996, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

History, 1928-1996, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

History, 1928-1996, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

History, 1928-1996, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

History Telegraph, 1928-1996, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

AFL v. CIO (CTU/Radio Officers Union (ROU)/American; Communications Association (ACA), 1937, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Association Western Union Employees (AWUE) Assembly; (Boston, Mass), 1937, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Western Union (Western Union) election (Atlanta, Georgia); Telegraph Employees Union, 1940, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Western Union Division established (Articles of Agreement), 1942, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

CTU AFL and Telegraph Employees (Federal) Union; (Agreement), 1943-1948, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

AFL v. ACA (CTU/ROU), 1941-1942, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Anti ACA campaign literature, 1943, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Western Union ACA hearing; National War Labor Board (transcript), Dec 30, 1943Apr 24, 1944

Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

AFL v. ACA; Election NLRB, 1943-1947, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Election, NLRB; AFL v. ACA (CTU), Sept. '46 May '47, 1943-1947, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ACA Western Union Arbitration, 1947, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ACA Western Union 1950, 1966 (Articles of Agreement; correspondence), 1950 , 1966, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Western Union/Postal Telegraph merger; 1943 (FCC), 1943, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Western Union/Postal Telegraph merger (printed; documents/information), 1943, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

National War Labor Board; Arbitration (Western Union (Western Union)/Postal merger; Western Union ACA TEU merger), 1944, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

AFL Western Union agreement, 1946, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

CTU charters to Western Union Employees Union; Western Union Telegraph; Union (Amalgamation Agreement), 1948-1949, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Merger Agreement Western Union Federal Unions (National Bargaining; Committee), 1949, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Contract Western Union AFL, 1949, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Amalgamation Agreement (Telegraph Workers), 1951, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 29(a) (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Western Union Commercial Telegraphers Union (CTU) Re organization effort, 1952, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012