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United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America. Local 19 (Eau Claire, Wis.)

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Found in 2 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

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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

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Blueprints 1
Brochures 1
By-laws (administrative records) 1
Collective bargaining -- Rubber industry -- Wisconsin. 1
Consumer cooperatives – Wisconsin – Eau Claire 1