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Guide to the CF&I Archives – Pre-Unionization Labor Relations Series

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Guide to the CF&I Archives – Pre-Unionization Labor Relations Series

TitleCF&I Archives – Pre-Unionization Labor Relations
 Dates1894-1948-1964
 IdentificationSCW-CFI-RG2-SG2.8-Series2.1.1
 Extent:14 boxes, INR-1292 through INR-1304 and INR-1317
 RepositoryCF&I Archives, Steelworks Center of the West, 215 Canal Street, Pueblo, CO 81004, Phone: 719-564-9086

www.steelworkscenter.org

Pre-Unionization Labor Relations Series Scope and Content Note

This series consists of records of the pre-unionization period, including minutes of the Employee Representation Plan, 1916-1927, which give valuable insights into the workings of the ERP. Grievance files created during the ERP are contained within this series as well. The records are the first grievances formally recognized by the company. One case of note from 1919 involves an African-American employee who protested CF&I’s segregation of the company’s YMCA. Other cases include problems with mine safety, poor working conditions, poor housing conditions, and low wages. The ERP files also include a detailed self-study conducted in 1924 examining the success and failures of the company union.

Other materials include documentation on the continuing labor strife, including information on the 1927-1928 I.W.W. strike, and a small amount of documents on the 1913-1914 coal wars strike. Most documentation of the 1913-1914 period has disappeared, but there is one document of note, a photocopy of a notebook containing “strike notes” maintained by CF&I management. It provides a fascinating insight into the company’s stance on the events of the coal wars. The photocopy was recently donated to the archives by Frank Yaklich, last CEO of CF&I, who made the copy from the original document, which has since disappeared.

The archives also contain amazing documentation of the 1927-1928 Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) strike. Detailed reports from spies called X, XX, and X3 planted within the I.W.W. by CF&I management provide information on the union’s activities. The spies were also tasked to spread misinformation about the union to the public. The files include lists of blacklisted employees — employees who were unfortunate enough to be observed attending union meetings. The communications between the mine managers detail their responses to the unionization efforts. The company also seized union materials from workers, including posters, newspapers, flyers and a songbook.

 

Pre-Unionization Labor Relations Series Arrangement

Currently organized into two subseries

Subseries 2.1.1.1, Pre-Unionization Documentation, 1900-1938

Subseries 2.1.1.2, Transitional Documentation, 1938-1948

 

Go to the Industrial Relations Records Group

 

Restrictions

Restrictions on access:

Certain materials are restricted due to privacy concerns. Please contact SCW staff for further information.

Restrictions on use:

Restrictions on use:

Not all of the material in the collection is in the public domain. Researchers are responsible for addressing copyright issues. Please see the SCW copyright statement at

http://www.steelworks.us/newsite/index.php/archives/services-and-policies/copyright-information

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Index Terms

 

 

Subject Terms:

Coal mines and mining.

Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.

Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation.

Iron mines and mining.

Steel industry and trade.

 

 

Subseries 2.1.1.1 
Pre-Unionization Documentation  1900-1938

12 boxes

Pre-Unionization Documentation Scope and Content Note

This sub-series primarily of documents related to the Employee Representation Plan and its operation. Other materials include documentation on the continuing labor strife, including information on the 1927-1928 I.W.W. strike, and a small amount of documents on the 1913-1914 coal wars strike.

 

Pre-Unionization Documentation Arrangement

Information is arranged chronologically.

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes  1916-1935

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes  1916

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes  1917

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes  1918

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes  1919

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes  1920

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes  1921

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes  1922

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes  1923

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes  1923-1935

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes of meetings in Sopris  1925 Feb-Sep

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes of meetings of Steel Works and Coal Mine Representatives  1927 Nov

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Minutes of meetings of Steel Works and Coal Mine Representatives  1927 Nov

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Revisions and evaluations  1915-1942

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Revised Industrial Plan  1936 Sep 14

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Joint Representation Plan, suggested changes (copies)  no date

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Revised Industrial Plan  1936 Sep 14

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Letters from Employee Representatives evaluating plan  1924 Jan-Mar

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Letters from Employee Representatives evaluating plan  1923 Nov-1924 Sep

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Letters from Employee Representatives evaluating plan  1915 Oct-1916 Oct

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Letters from Employee Representatives evaluating plan  1923 Dec-1924 Sep

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Foreman letters of approval  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Foreman letters of approval  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Foreman letters of approval  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Conference with Employee Representatives and with the Y.M.C.A. Council, and with Negro [sic] employees at Rouse (William Dow, Employee Representative  1919

  
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Pre-Unionization industrial plan booklets  1916-1942

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Blacklist, 1894; Grievances, 1917-1928  1894, 1917-1928

  
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Blacklist  1894-1926

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances. List of complainants and theircomplaintsk notes on unionizing efforts, manpower statistics and reports, mine payrolls  1921-1922, 1927, no date

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances. Adjustments  1921-1922

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances. Adjustments  1923

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances. Adjustments  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances. Adjustments  1925

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances. Adjustments  1926

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances. Adjustments  1927

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances. Adjustments  1928

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances. Cameron Mine discharged employees, including personal letters  1930

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances. Medical claims at various mines  1930

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1917-1928

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1921-1922

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1921-1922

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1921-1923

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1925

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1926

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1927

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1928 Jan-Jun

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1928 Jan-Jun

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1928 Jul-Dec

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1928 Jul-Dec

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Grievances, 1929; Reports and investigations, 1916-1930  1916-1930

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1929 Jan-Jun

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1929 Jan-Jun

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Company men suspended and discharged  1929 Jul-Dec

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – President’s Industrial Representatives Reports (David Griffith)  1916 Oct-1917 Oct

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Industrial Representatives Report  1921 May-Jun

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Advisory Board and Social and Industrial Betterment (Superintendent’s Reports)  1924 Apr-Jun

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Advisory Board and Social and Industrial Betterment (Superintendent’s Reports)  1924 Jul-Oct

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Advisory Board and Social and Industrial Betterment (Superintendent’s Reports)  1924 Oct-Dec

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Advisory Board and Social and Industrial Betterment (Superintendent’s Reports)  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Superintendent’s Monthly Adjustment Reports  1930 Jan-Jun

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Superintendent’s Monthly Adjustment Reports  1930 Jul-Dec

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations  1919-1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Investigation of E.A. Rinker, fireman at Minnequa Hospital  1919 Apr 25-May 13

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Publications, including “The Colorado Industrial Plan” “The Letter to the President” re Ludlow Massacre from CF&I officials” (two copies in English, one in Italian, one in Greek), “The Military Occupation of the Coal Strike Zone of Colorado”  1914-1916

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. I. Introduction  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. II. Organization and Administration  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. III. Joint Relations  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. IV. Employment  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. V. Wages and Hours  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. VI. Accident Prevention  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.VII. Sanitation  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.VIII. Medical Service  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.IX. Training and Education  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.X. Housing  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.XI. Industrial Bulletin  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.XII. Service Retirement Plant  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. XIII. Mutual Benefit Association  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. XIV. The Quarries  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. XV. The Iron Mines  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. XVI. The Colorado and Wyoming Railway Co.  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. XVII. The Colorado Supply Co.  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. XVIII. Office Employees  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. XIX. Community Relations  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Report on Industrial Relations in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Summary and Conclusions  1924

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations; publications  1914-1927

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Testimony of J.F. Welborn given before the U.S. Commision on Industrial Relations  1914 Dec 4-7

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Testimony of John D Rockefeller, Jr. in connection with Rockefeller Foundation given before the U.S. Commision on Industrial Relations  1915 Jan 26-27

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Testimony of John D Rockefeller, Jr. given before the U.S. Commision on Industrial Relations (2 copies)  1915 May 20-22

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Testimony of L.M. Bowers given before the U.S. Commision on Industrial Relations  1915 May 24

  
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Employee Representation Plan: Reports and investigations – Testimony of W.L. MacKenzie King given before the U.S. Commision on Industrial Relations  1915 May 24-25

  
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Colorado Industrial Plan by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.  1916

  
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“Industrial relations plan stands test of time”, Iron Age, by Gilbert L. Lacher.  1925 Jan 29

  
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Common Sense and Current Problems by Charles E. Haines, PhD. Comprising the first series of twelve lectures delivered before the employees of CF&I, Pueblo Colorado, 1937 Printed on request by the Corporation for employees who availed themselves of the educational opportunity sponsored by the Committee on Recreation and Education under the Plan of Representation of Employees and Management..  1937

  
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Representation in Industry, by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.  1918

  
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General Correspondence  1915-1929

  
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General Correspondence.  1915 Feb 22-Dec 23

  
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General Correspondence.  1916 Jan 16-Aug 16

  
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General Correspondence.  1917 Feb 23-Apr 16

  
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General Correspondence.  1917 May 20-1918 Dec 10

  
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General Correspondence.  1919 Mar 4-Aug 12

  
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General Correspondence.  1919 Aug 14-Sep 19

  
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General Correspondence.  1919 Sep 20-30

  
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General Correspondence.  1919 Oct 12-Dec 24

  
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General Correspondence.  1920 Jan 7-31

  
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General Correspondence.  1920 Feb 6-27

  
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General Correspondence.  1920 Mar 2-Apr 19

  
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General Correspondence.  1920 Apr 21-Dec 31

  
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General Correspondence.  1921 Jan 8-Feb 24

  
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General Correspondence.  1921 Mar 2-Jun 19

  
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General Correspondence.  1921 Jul 29-1922 Feb 27

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Mar 3-11

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Mar 13-14

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Mar 15-20

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Mar 21-29

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Mar 30-31

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Apr 1-3

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Apr 4-7

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Apr 9-19

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Apr 20-24

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Apr 25-29

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 May 1-13

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 May 15-Jun 9

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Jun 13-20

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Jul 10-Aug 31

  
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General Correspondence.  1922 Sep 1-Dec 6

  
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General Correspondence, includes list of men who have quit during the past year  1923 Jan 4-Aug 23

  
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General Correspondence, includes list of men hired during 1923, nationalities  1923 Jan 9-Oct

  
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General Correspondence.  1923 Jan 11-Dec 10

  
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General Correspondence.  1924 Feb 18-May 13

  
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General Correspondence.  1924 Jun 29-1925 Mar 31

  
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General Correspondence.  1925 Apr 1-Oct 22

  
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General Correspondence.  1926 Nov 12-Dec 23

  
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General Correspondence, includes list of active I.W.W. members.  1927 Jan 2-Aug 13

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Aug 15-Sep 3

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Sep 6-14

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Sep 27-Oct 10

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Oct 22-28

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Oct 29-Nov 3

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Nov 3-7

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Nov 8-11

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Nov 12-17

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Nov 18-23

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Nov 24-30

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Dec 1-13

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Dec 14-20

  
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General Correspondence.  1927 Dec 21-31

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Jan 2-6

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Jan 7-12

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Jan 13-19

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Jan 20-24

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Jan 25-28

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Jan 30-31

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Feb 1-3

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Feb 4-13

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Feb 15-25

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Feb 27-Mar 19

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Mar 20-26

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Mar 27-Apr 4

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Apr 5-16

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Apr 17-30

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 May 1-14

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 May 15-31

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Jun 1-28

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Jul 2-8

  
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General Correspondence.  1928 Aug 20-1929 Feb 11

  
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General Correspondence: Inquest over the bodies of James G. Hocking and Ed Culbertson.  1929 Jul 31

  
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General Correspondence: SW-8 Employment.  1924-1925

  
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General Correspondence: SW-30 Colorado Supply Co..  1925

  
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General Correspondence: SW-34 Automobiles  1924

  
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General correspondence: SW-36 Medical Department  1924-1925

  
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General correspondence: SW-37 Churches  1924-1926

  
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General correspondence: SW-39 Safety work  1924

  
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General correspondence: SW-40 Suggestions  1922-1924

  
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General correspondence: SW-45 Pensions  1924

  
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General correspondence: SW-117 Elections  1924

  
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General correspondence: SW-117 Elections – Sunrise  1924

  
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General correspondence: SW-122 Joint Conferences – Minnequa  1924

  
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General correspondence: SW-126 Joint committees – Minnequa  1924

  
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General correspondence: SW-126 Joint committee – Lime  1924

  
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General correspondence: SW-127 Orient  1924

  
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General Correspondence  1917-1928

  
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General Correspondence: UMWA and IWW Fliers  1918-1928

  
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General Correspondence: UMWA and IWW Fliers  1918-1928

  
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General Correspondence: IWW Meetings, Publications  1926-1927

  
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General Correspondence: IWW Meetings, Publications  1926-1927

  
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General Corresopndence: Industrial Commission of Colorado  1926-1927

  
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General Corresopndence: Industrial Commission of Colorado  1917-1927

  
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General Corresopndence: Fellowship of Reconciliation, Denver  1927 Dec 16

  
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General Corresopndence  1928

  
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General Correspondence: C&W General Committee  1919 May

  
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General Correspondence: Industrial Relations Questions, Correspondence and Charts; includes two charts – one for Steel Works and Lime quarries, one for coal and steel mines – percentages of concerns of workers about living conditions, working conditions, etc.  1919 May

  
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General Correspondence: Management and Industrial Representatives, Primarily Re: Rockefeller’s Personal Relation in Industry, Grievances, Questions and Answers on Plant Operations  1924

  
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Memoranda, Correspondence re: Labor Relations for Wellborn, Matteson, et al.  1924-1927

  
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Work Stoppages  1913-1928

  
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Work Stoppages, 1913-914: Strike Notes; Photocopy made by Frank Yaklich when he was CEO of CF&I, from original document that since went missing  no date

  
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Work Stoppages – 1913-1914: The Military Occupation of the Coal Strike Area of Colorado by the National Guard 1913-14; Report of the Commanding General to the Governor for the Use of the Congressional Committee.  1913-1914

  
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Work Stoppages – 1913-1914: Facts Concerning the Struggle in Colorado for Industrial Freedom, Series 1, Issued by the Coal Mine Managers  1914

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Correspondence re I.W.W.  1922, 1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Newspapers: The Daily Worker Newspaper  1928 Feb 8-May 4

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Newspapers: Newspapers: The Industrial Worker  1928 Feb 11-May 5

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Newspapers: From Walsenburg, Trinidad, Pittsburg, PA; Also includes IWW fliers  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Labor Publications: Magazines, Booklets  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Correspondence re I.W.W., strike  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Correspondence re I.W.W., strike  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: International Workers of the World: Member Lists and Correspondence  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: International Workers of the World: Member Lists and Correspondence  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: IWW: Strike Demands, Petitions, Letters, and Relief Efforts by the IWW  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: IWW: Financial Statements  1928 Jan-Feb

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: CF&I Mine Employee Lists  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Reports of Employee Representatives and Board of Directors, Strike Issues and Mine Closings  1927 Sep-Oct

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Security: State and Local Forces, Weapons Disbursements, L.N. Scherf-Colorado Law Enforcement (Correspondence)  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Employee Housing: Notices to Vacate  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Rule 2A: IWW Members Discharged by Company  1927 Jul-Sep

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: IWW Members Arrested, Charges Filed, IWW Cars and Makes  1927 Oct-1928 Feb

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Coroner Inquest and Jury Verdict, Walsenburg, Death of Clemente Chavez  1928 Jan 16

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Correspondence from R. L. Hair to Board Members, Managers  1927 Sep-1928 Jul

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Correspondence from R. L. Hair to Board Members, Managers  1926 Dec-1927 Sep

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Correspondence from R. L. Hair to Board Members, Managers  1927 Oct-Dec

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Reports to R. L. Hair on IWW Activities, Status of Mines  1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Spy Reports: “X” Reports, Trinidad, Walsenburg  1927 Jun-Sep

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Spy Reports: “X” Reports, Trinidad, Walsenburg  1927 Oct

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Spy Reports: “X” Reports, Walsenburg, Trinidad, and Crested Butte  1927 Nov

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Spy Reports: “X” Reports, Trinidad, Walsenburg  1927 Dec 1-12

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Spy Reports: “X” Reports, Trinidad, Walsenburg  1927 Dec 13-31

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Spy Reports: “X” Reports, Trinidad, Walsenburg  1928 Jan

  
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Work Stoppages  1906-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Spy Reports: “X” Reports, Trinidad, Walsenburg  1928 Feb

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Spy Reports: “X” Reports, Trinidad, Walsenburg  1928 Mar-May

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Spy Reports: Numbered Operatives Reports  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: “21 Reports” Fuel Department daily reports on production,workers, status, weather, etc.  1927 Oct-Dec

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: “21 Reports” Fuel Department daily reports on production,workers, status, weather, etc.  1928 Jan-Feb

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: CF&I Reports on profits, tonnage, wages, days worked; also reports from state and U.S. mining associations.  1918-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Correspondence of and about the I.W.W.  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Letters from I.W.W. strikers, newspaper clippings.  1927

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Statements, memoranda re picketing, meetings; also testimony, affadavitts  1927

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Transcript, Industrial Commission Hearing on I.W.W. strike, Walsenburg, CO  1928 Jan

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Journals of Fred Farrar, CF&I General Counsel, Industrial Commission hearings (2)  1927-1928

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Witness list, Industrial Commission Hearing, Walsenburg, CO  1928 Jan

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Wage and production statistics, Industrial Commission Hearings  1928 Jan

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Brief submitted to Industrial Commission Hearing by U.M.W.A. and Colorado State Federation of Labor condemning I.W.W.  1928 Jan

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Transcript, Industrial Commission Hearing on I.W.W. strike, testimony of Joe Vosnica, Walsenburg, CO  1928 Jan 12

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Transcript, Industrial Commission Hearing on I.W.W. strike, Walsenburg, C7  1928 Jan 12

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Transcripts, Industrial Commission Hearing, Denver, CO  1928 Feb

  
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Work Stoppage – 1927-1928: Transcript, Industrial Commission Hearing, Denver, CO  1928 Feb 8

  
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Work Stoppages – 1906-1925: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1906-1909, 1919-1925

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Mar 15-Aug 9

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Aug 10-Sep 17

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Sep 19-Oct 18

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Oct 19-21

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Oct 22-25

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Oct 26-27

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Oct 28-30

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Oct 31-Nov 3

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Nov 4-6

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Nov 7-9

  
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Work Stoppages; Employee Representation Organization  1927-1951

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Oct 19-21

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Nov 16-18

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Nov 19-21

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Nov 23-25

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Nov 26-29

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Nov 30-Dec 3

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Dec 4-10

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Dec 11-17

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Dec 19-24

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1927 Dec 27-31

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1928 Jan 1-4

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1928 Kan 5-7

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1928 Jan 8-15

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1928 Jan 16-23

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1928 Jan 24-Feb 7

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper clippings – Strikes  1928 Feb 9-11

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspaper Clippings – Strikes, I.W.W.  1924-1926

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspapers – Industrial Solidarity  1927 Sep-1928 May

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Newspapers – I.W.W. Bulletins  1927 Jul-1928 Apr

  
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Work Stoppages – 1927-1928: Correspondence, pamphlets, clippings re I.W.W., U.S. Communist Party, American Negro Congress, strikes  1927-1928

  
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Employee Representation Organization: Correspondence, CF&I and NLRB relating to 1944 election of clerical employees to join USWA Local #3267; includes ballot, list of eligible voters  1944, 1951

  
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Washington Job Protection Agreement  1936 May

  
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Employee Representation Organization: Representation of Employees, Memorandum of Agreement, and Procedure in Industrial Relations  1938 Apr 1

  
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Employee Representation Organization: Representation Plan of Employees and Procedure in Industrial Relations and Memorandum of Agreement Resepcting Employement, Work and Living Conditions  1937 May 24

  
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Employee Representation Organization: Agreement Between the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation and Employees’ Representative Organization, A Corporation  1941 Dec 1

  
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Employee Representation Organization: Elections – Correspondence, election results, election reports (NLRB), clippings  1934-1935

  
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Employee Representation Organization: Elections – Correspondence, election results, election reports (NLRB), clippings  1936-1942

  
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Subseries 2.1.1.2 
Transitional Documentation  1938-1948

3 boxes, INR-1303, INR-1304, and INR-1317

Transitional Documentation Scope and Content Note

This sub-series primarily consists of litigation between CF&I and various unions, overseen by the National War Labor Relations Board and the National Labor Relations Board. As such, it documents the labor pains of a large corporation transitioning from a non-union environment to a union environment.

 

Transitional Documentation Arrangement

Information is arranged chronologically.

  
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Litigation: National Labor Relations Board and various unions v. CF&I  1938-1948

  
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National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) v. CF&I  1938-1943

  
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Contracts, Union Pacific R.R. right of way, Iron Mountain, Utah  1943-1946

  
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Union contracts, CF&I and Wickwire Spencer  1945

  
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CF&I v. NLRB, contempt case, No. 2097, also R-232 and C-465  1942

  
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Transcript of proceedings of the Emergency Board appointed by the President of the United States to investigate and report on certain differences between Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the C&W, vols. 1-4  1945

  
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CF&I Corporation. Labor matters, Weston Timber Operations – Prisoner of War contract.  1941-1947

  
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CF&I. Case No. 111-1005-D. Wage rates, nail machine operators; cranemen; blacksmith hammermen  1942-1944

  
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CF&I. Labor matters. Monarch quarry – Case No. 12720-D  1944-1948

  
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CF&I v. NLRB, Case #2097 (printed)  1941

  
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CF&I v. NLRF. Case #C-984 Steelworkers Organizing Committee (printed)  1939

  
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Litigation and labor relations correspondence  1942-1948

  
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Labor relations: Denver Chemical  1948-1949

  
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Labor relations: Corwin Hospital  1947-1948

  
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Labor relations: Corwin Hospital  1947-1948

  
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Labor relations: Howard J. Jones (Mgr. Industrial Relations) correspondence  1947-1948

  
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Labor relations: Colorado & Wyoming Railway  1942-1946

  
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Plant guards – Case No. 17-R 1099  1943-1947

  
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Sunrise miners union, local 442, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers  1939-1944

  
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Labor case: Rep. case NLRB – Plant facility men, blast furnace  1945

  
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National War Labor Board: Carnegie Illinois Steel Co. et al and United Steel Workers of America  1944-1945

  
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Labor Cases – Miscellaneous  1943-1948

  
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Labor relations: Plant facility contracts  1940-1948

  
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Labor relations: Clerical workers – Minnequa  1944-1949

  
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National War Labor Board: CF&I and U.S.W.A., local 2102  1942-1947

  
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Labor matters: California Wire Cloth  1943-1944

  
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Union agreement – Water Dept. employees and U.S.W.A.  1942-1948

  
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Early Union-Related Contract Negotiations  1942-1946

  
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Copies of Labor Relations Contract and Related Correspondence and Memoranda  1942-1944

  
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Labor Relations Contracts and Negotiations  1942-1944

  
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Contract Between Company and Local #3751  1946

  
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National War Labor Board (Copy)  1945

  
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Union Contract Negotiations  1945

  
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Copy of Labor File – Union Contracts  1945

  
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Industrial Commission of Colorado Correspondence  1945-1946

  
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