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...

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...