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Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company (Eau Claire, Wis.)

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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Jack Zais Uniroyal Collection, 1898-2013

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 358
Summary Collection contains John (Jack) Zais’ research material regarding Uniroyal. John (Jack) Zais was employed at the Eau Claire Tire Plant for over 25 years. He was heavily involved in the union during his time as an employee, which allowed him a large breadth of inside information. These experiences, mixed with his love for history, helped him begin research on the Eau Claire Tire Plant Publications. Also contains artifacts of Union buttons and miscellaneous badges, stickers, pins, keychains,...
Dates: 1898-2013

Uniroyal Collection, 1919-2017

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 255
Summary The plant that ultimately became the Uniroyal plant was founded in 1916 by R.B. Gillette as the Gillette Safety Tire Company. In 1940, The United States Rubber Company, later Uniroyal, Inc. purchased Gillette. The plant closed in 1991, following the purchase of Uniroyal Goodrich by Michelin et Cie. Collection contains newspaper articles, photographs, employee agreements and by-laws, some employee records, and a small collection of correspondence, photographs, and other writings by Sanford...
Dates: 1919-2017

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

United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America. Local 19: Records, 1933-1994

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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
Gillette Rubber Company (Eau Claire, Wis.)--History 2
Photographs 2
Rubber industry and trade -- United States 2
Tire industry -- Wisconsin -- Eau Claire 2