Take It Easy, But Take It

"Chicago: Members of the United Packinghouse Workers Local 28, CIO, carry signs picket-style advertising the union's new food store. Union members and their families can purchase food at cost price. The store was established to help combat the rising cost of living. 9/26/47"

"WHEN POLICE MOVE IN ON GUILD PICKETS This picture was taken just before police arrested 18 men and woman. Members of or sympathizers with the American Newspaper Guild, in a strike against the Seattle Star, at Seattle, Wash. The Guild has been on strike against the Star since July 3. Police Said the arrests were not for picketing but for "ganging up in a doorway" in attempts to prevent E.W. Scripps executive and employees from entering. The incident followed a mass visit of strikers to the Star when they demanded their jobs back as a group. 8-3-37"

This is a working list that is continually being expanded and cross referenced as I work through archival material. You will notice I pose questions next to some of the locals or include various notes. If you use this list as a reference please know it may not be 100% accurate. This is a continuation of my project to map the Congress of Industrial Organizations. You will notice several different charters with the same local number. The International reused local numbers as they amalgamated or ceased to exist. Making this research a tad bit more difficult. ILWU Local 1 - RAYMOND, WA (longshore) *** chartered ’37  ILWU Local 2 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA (shipscalers) *** chartered ’37 ILWU Local 3 - STOCKTON, CA, (Barge / Power Boat)  *** chartered ’37 in 1950 Local 3 becomes catch all for the International Fisherman & Allied Workers after they are expelled from the CIO. Below is a list of locals that became Local 3 in 1950. I believe these numbers correspond w...

UAW Local 230 - Los Angeles, CA - Chrysler Plant

"PONTIAC RENT STRIKE THREATENS TO SPREAD In this building at Pontiac, Mich. is housed the headquarters of one of the newest strike movements that may become nationwide before long. It is the headquarters of a United Automobile Workers Local, and also serves as central quarters for the Pontiac Tenants Union. The plan of the union calls for all members, whether satisfied or disatisfied renters, to withhold payment of their rent while an effort would be made to establish a scale of rents based on a dollar a month on each $1000 of assessed valuation of the property rented. Members were urged to bank each month the amount of their rent, so as to be ready to pay when adjustment was made. The union further plans to aid every tenant to contest his case in court after refusal of the rent compels the landlord to bring eviction action. 6/4/37" 

"Recognizing that organization is necessary for the betterment of the conditions of the workers in the Furniture industry and allied trades, and for the the establishment of the principle of collective bargaining with the employers, therefore we have organized Local No. 259, United Furniture Workers of America, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Local No. 259 is established on the principle of industrial unionism and the unity and solidarity of all furniture and allied trades workers, regardless of their crafts. We welcome into our organization all such workers regardless of race, creed, color or political belief."

"C.I.O. ORGANIZERS SIGN STEEL WORKERS! STRUTHERS, OHIO - The steel strike became a weekend siege today, with no hope of peace in sight until after Monday holiday. With production almost stopped at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and the Inland Steel Co. plants, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee concentrated their forced on Republic Steel Corporation plants still operating. Above photo shows C.I.O.-S.W.O.C. organizers signing up steel workers of the Struthers, Ohio plant of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. 5/28/37"