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Labor movement -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

F. J. Patrick McCartney Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: MCC
Scope and Content

Correspondence, 1933-1971; union files, 1933-1972; subject files, 1937-1969; and personal files, 1940-1974; documenting McCartney's involvement in the AFL-CIO, including his work with George Meany.

Dates: 1933-1974

Frank Duffy Speeches and articles

 Fonds
Identifier: DUF
Scope and Content

Speeches and articles from The Carpenter (a trade union magazine); concerning labor-management issues from a strongly pro-labor position, with emphasis on the importance of persistence in the labor wars and of union membership.

Dates: 1901-1952.

Labor Sports Union Athletic Meet Postcards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10181
Content Description This collection contains 10 postcards featuring images from the Labor Sports Union Athletic Meet held in Brooklyn, New York, on August 25-26, 1928. Most postcards have group images of athletes or teams with one image of an individual athlete. The postcards carry descriptive information on the front about the images, and many postcards include further hand-written information on the back. The name Sirkka Holm is also written in pencil on the back of each postcard, suggesting they were once...
Dates: 1928

Peter Ernest Dietz Correspondence

 Fonds
Identifier: DTZ
Scope and Content Letters from John W. Cavanaugh, CSC, Nicholas Dietz, James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop John Glennon, and Frederick P. Kenkel to Peter E. Dietz; concerning Dietz's work in support of organized labor and his interest in social service and social reform; with material on the Militia of Christ and the American Federation of Labor. Also correspondence between Dietz and officers of the Catholic Central Verein concerning cooperation between the Verein and the American Federation of...
Dates: 1910-1921.

Socialist Playing Cards Deck Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10168
Content Description The Socialist Playing Cards Deck Collection consists of one set of 54 socialist-themed playing cards including the standard 52 cards plus one joker and one information card. Published by the Chicago-based Charles H. Kerr Company, the cards contain images and verses critiquing capitalism and advocating socialism. Mary Marcy wrote the verses, and Ralph Chaplin drew the images that adorn the cards. Mary Marcy’s husband, Leslie H. Marcy, was also involved in designing the cards. A...
Dates: 1908-1912, 1981-1986; Majority of material found in 1908