United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America. Local 19 (Eau Claire, Wis.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Harold E. House Papers, 1938-1950
Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 284
Summary
Fragmentary personal and business papers of Harold E. House, a former Eau Claire city councilman and union and cooperative leader during the 1940s. He worked at the U.S. Rubber Company plant for 15 years and served as president of Local 19 of the United Rubber Workers for seven years. He spent two years organizing consumer cooperatives for the International Union of Rubber Workers, and later worked as a fieldman for the Eau Claire Consumers Cooperative. He also served on the city council...
Dates:
1938-1950, bulk 1945-1950
Uniroyal, Inc. Records, 1917-1990
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CB
Summary
Records of Uniroyal Inc., a rubber tire manufacturing plant in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, documenting the plant's general operations and expansion from its founding in 1917 as the Gillette Safety Tire Company to its reincarnation as an ammunition factory during World War II to the plant closing in 1991. The bulk of the records consist of labor contract negotiation and grievance case files, minutes, memoranda, correspondence, reports, photographs, blueprints, and films. The collection documents...
Dates:
1917-1990
United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America. Local 19: Records, 1933-1994
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AA
Summary
Records of the labor union representing rubber workers and office employees of the Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company's Eau Claire plant. The union was formed in 1933 as Federal Labor Union #18684 when the plant was operated by the Gillette Tire Company (later United States Rubber Company). In 1935 it became Local 19 of the United Rubber Workers of America (CIO), later the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America (URCLPWA). The plant was closed in 1991, following the...
Dates:
1933-1994
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- Collective bargaining -- Rubber industry -- Wisconsin. 2
- Photographs 2
- Blueprints 1
- Brochures 1
- By-laws (administrative records) 1
- Consumer cooperatives – Wisconsin – Eau Claire 1
- Cooperative societies – Wisconsin – Eau Claire 1
- Correspondence 1
- Eau Claire (Wis.) – Politics and government 1
- Labor unions – Wisconsin – Eau Claire 1
- Manuscript collection 1
- Meeting Minutes 1
- Motion pictures 1
- Personal Papers 1
- Plant shutdowns -- Wisconsin -- Eau Claire. 1
- Reports 1
- Rubber industry and trade -- United States 1
- Rubber industry workers -- Labor unions -- Wisconsin. 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Tire industry -- United States 1
- Tire industry -- Wisconsin -- Eau Claire 1
- Tire industry -- Wisconsin. 1
- Women rubber industry workers -- Wisconsin 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment and supplies 1 + ∧ less
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