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Box 1

 Container

Contains 18 Results:

Migration, 1941

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Description Includes: Booklet, "Postwar Employment: Survey of the Desires of Evansville War Workers", Evansville Postwar Planning Council, n.d.; W.S. statement to the House Committee Investigating National Defense Migration, St. Louis Mo (November 26, 1941); booklet "Prevent Evansville from Becoming a Ghost Town" issued by UE District 8; Resolutions of Midwest Immergency (sic) Conference on Unemployment due to Priorities (Chicago, Sept. 12, 1941); Statement of John Connolly Jr. of UERMWA for the House...

United Nations Conference, San Francisco, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Description

Includes: U.N. Supplement of the Labor Herald, June 22, 1945; Verbatim Record of the Plenary Sessions of the U.N. Conference of International Organization; Letter to W.S. from S. Shepard Jones, Dept. of State, re: District 8 support of the U.N. Charter (Aug. 29, 1945); Letter to all local union presidents (Dist. 8) from field organizer Sadelle Berger re: "United Nations" month (April 4, 1945); Info. from League of Women Voters re: United Nations.

Farm Problems

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Description

Includes: Correspondence between W.S. and H.E. Klinefelter re: subsidies (Nov-Dec 1943); booklet "Cooperations Between Labor Unions and Farmers" (United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America, n.d., 2 copies); Report "Build the Farmer-Labor Coalition" by Homer Ayeres (March 1949); "Is the Depression Here?" - position paper of Midwest Farmer-Labor Alliance (6 copies)

Postwar Conference, St. Louis, Missouri

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Description Includes: "Local Review" (1102) newsletter, August 1944; List of delegates at St. Louis Conference on Reconversion, July 30, 1944; Report: "Midwest Labor-Management Conferences Plan for Postwar Prosperity, Full Employment, Peaceful Cooperation" (August 1944, 10 pp.); Press release: "Mayor Kaufman, Company, and Union Officials to Attend Postwar Conference", n.d.; Minutes from Conference, copies of resolutions adopted at Conference sent to Senators, Congressmen, and others, including President...

District War Production Conference: St. Louis, Missouri, 1942 May 17

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Description

Includes: Correspondence re: invitations and acceptances to conference; rough draft of program; news clippings; memo from production committee, Emerson Electric (March 12, 1942); Minutes of Management Labor Committee meetings (March 27, April 1,8); conference program.

Postwar Housing - St. Louis

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Description

Includes: UE News by W.S. (Nov. 30, 1946); National Housing Agency Press Release (Nov. 26, 1946); letter from W.S. to J.W. McAfee, President, Union Electric, re: servicemen's housing and suggesting conversion of unused homes on private streets and use of private country club facilities (Nov. 20, 1945); news clippings.

Postwar Planning

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Description Includes: "Management Looks at Postwar Problems" speech by Arthur G. Drefs (October 19, 1944); News clippings (1943); letter from W.S. to Mayor Becker (St. Louis) re: postwar problems needing attention by citizen's committee planning city rehabilitation (January 26, 1943); letter from W.S. to Dr. William McClellan re: St. Louis Postwar Planning Committee (April 6, 1943); Letter to W.S. from William McClellan, Chair, Metropolitan St. Louis Committee for Economic Development, responding to...

War Labor Board

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Description

Includes: W.S. appointment form to National War Labor Board, effective Feb. 17, 1943; Pay vouchers, February 1943-February 1944; Letter of resignation from Seventh Regional War Labor Board (February 7, 1944); "Closed Shop Issue Threatens to Jeopardize War Production Program" handbill from Illinois Manufacturers' Association (March 6, 1942); "Americans Want Victory ... Not the Closed Shop" newspaper ad by National Association of Manufacturers (April 21, 1942); news clippings.

St. Louis Industrial Union Council, 1945 July - 1946 October

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Description

Includes: Letters and memos re: involvement in local strikes; Speech - "Your Stake in the Wage Fight: The REAL Issues in the current Strikes", n.d.; Resolutions adopted by St. Louis Industrial Union Council, et.al., September 16, 1945

St. Louis Industrial Union Council, 1943 February - 1945 June

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Description Includes: Letter from research dept. of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to Robert Logsdon, President of St.L. IUC re: volume of prime war supply contracts in St. Louis industrial area (June 14, 1945); Letter from Robert Logsdon to Oscar Ehrhardt, Secretary of St. Louis IUC designating W.S. representative of UE-CIO to aid warehouse workers at Famous Barr (May 4, 1945); Printed letter to employees of Union Electric Company from Utility Workers Organizing Committee, CIO, St. Louis, re:...