Labor History Collection

1958-1996
126.75 linear feet
Administrative records, correspondence.
Collection Number: MSS 1992-0030

Records from the Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont state and regional labor councils, including subject files, published proceedings, and photographs.

undated, 1918-2003
195 linear feet
Administrative Records, Bylaws, Correspondence, Minutes, Newsletters, Newspapers, Notebooks, Notes, Photocopies, Photographs, Press releases, Publications, Scrap-Books.
Collection Number: MSS 2003-0137

Dominic J. Badolato, born in 1919, served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, representing New Britain, from 1954 to 1976, and was the founding head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union, Council 4, in New Britain, Connecticut, from 1968 to 1996. Access to the collection is restricted without prior permission.

1892-1982
3 linear feet
Administrative records.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0011

Local union chartered in July 1892 as Local 155 of the Journeymen Bakers and Confectioners International Union. Name changed in 1904 to the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union. In 1978 the union merged with the Tobacco Workers Union to form the Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers International Union. Local 155 is located in Waterbury, Connecticut. Collection consists of charters, meeting minutes, contractual agreements, and a history of the Local 155

1971-1972
.5 linear feet
Photocopies.
Collection Number: MSS 1997-0015

The collection contains annotated photocopies of the hearings and statements presented to the National Commission on State Workmen's Compensation Laws for discussion in 1971-1972.

undated, 1917-1989
16 linear feet
Correspondence, reports.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0004

The collection documents Becker’s career with various unions and service organizations, including the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and the Greater Hartford Labor Council. The collection includes correspondence, reports, publications, news releases, proposals, minutes, and ephemera.

undated, 1924-1975
7.5 linear feet
Correspondence.
Collection Number: MSS 1997-0024

Labor activist involved with the United Automobile Workers of America, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and the Connecticut Governor's Fact-Finding Commission on Education and other education-related commissions and committees. Collection consists of publications, correspondence, reports and notes relevant to labor and labor education.

undated, 1933-1986
6 linear feet
Correspondence, administrative records, publications.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0023

Collection consists of literature related to the Hartford Typographical Union, no. 127, and the Connecticut Electric Railway.

1937-1985
8 linear feet
Administrative files, correspondence.
Collection Number: MSS 1988-0025

Labor union formed in 1967 when it split from the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Local 398, through the efforts of Salvatore Perruccio, a cook at the Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown from 1947 to 1976. Perruccio became president of the union and served until 1985, when the union, composed mostly of maintenance workers, merged with the Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO. The records consist of administrative files and outgoing correspondence of Perruccio, and include grievance files and publications.

n.d., 1909-1991
196 linear feet
Correspondence, reports.
Collection Number: MSS 1989-0080

In 1957, the Connecticut Federation of Labor and the Connecticut State Industrial Union Council (CSIUC) merged to form the Connecticut State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, generally referred to today as the Connecticut State AFL-CIO. The stated purpose of the new organization was to provide a more effective means of promoting and coordinating the principles and objectives of the AFL-CIO in Connecticut.

n.d., 1944-1973
4 linear feet
Correspondence, minutes, reports.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0030

Founded in 1942 by Waterbury, Connecticut, priest Joseph F. Donnelly, who later became Auxiliary Bishop of the Hartford Archdiocese, to instruct workers on Catholic social philosophy and trade unionism. The institute directors also attempted to persuade businessmen to cooperate with organized labor. Collection consists of correspondence to and from the institute and Father Donnelly, who was director from 1944 to 1964. Also includes minutes of meeting of the directors of the Diocesan Labor Institute of Hartford, institute and monthly chapter reports, subject files, publications, and photographs of institute lecturers.

1951-1953
.1 linear feet
Photocopies.
Collection Number: MSS 2000-0077

Photocopies of scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and photographs concerning Driscoll’s activities with Royal Industrial Union (Local 937, UAW-CIO), public concerns of evictions of families from housing projects because of their “over-income”, unionization efforts in Connecticut businesses and state politics.

16 linear feet
Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs.
Collection Number: MSS 1987-0025

This collection has not yet been organized for unassisted research use. Researchers wishing to access this collection must make prior arrangements with the Curator before visiting Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Papers of John J. Driscoll, labor leader in the Connecticut state AFL-CIO. Materials include photographs, framed certificates of appreciation, day books, published material (newspaper and magazine articles, labor literature), and scrapbooks. Also includes some legal papers created by Bridgeport, Connecticut, judge Margaret Driscoll, John's wife.

1945-1949
1 volume
Scrapbook.
Collection Number: MSS 1980-0002

Regional Director of the Textile Workers Union of America in Norwich, Connecticut, in the mid to late 1940s and Executive Secretary of the Connecticut State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. Collection consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings compiled by Gallegher about his tenure as a labor leader in Connecticut and about labor activities in Putnam, Norwich, and Willimantic, Connecticut.

n.d., 1940-1981
1.3 linear feet
Files.
Collection Number: MSS 1991-0037

Political and labor activist, associated with the Connecticut Communist Party as Chairman of the Stanford Branch (1938-40), Fairfield County Chairman (1947, 1952) and Legislative Director (1954). Active in labor union activities with General Electric in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1942 and 1946 to 1947. Papers include information about Goldring’s labor activities with the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, Local 203, representing workers at the General Electric plant in Bridgeport.

n.d., 1947-1982
17 linear feet
Correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, photographs.
Collection Number: MSS 1983-0004

Formed in 1957 from its predecessor, the Hartford Central Labor Union (AFL) and the Greater Hartford Industrial Union Council (CIO), with Peter J. Rossano as its first president. Collection consists of records of the predecessor groups as well as the GHLC and includes correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, photographs, memorabilia, and other records.

n.d.
29 linear feet
Publications, union contracts.
Collection Number: MSS 1992-0045

This collection has not yet been organized for unassisted research use. Researchers wishing to access this collection must make prior arrangements with the Curator before visiting Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Resident of East Granby, Connecticut. Collection consists of papers collected by Ingalls in his forty years as a representative of the IUE. Includes IUE publications, union contracts, labor publications, and information about a strike at GE and arbitrations.

n.d., 1958-1981
20 linear feet
Administrative files, labor relation board case files.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0024

Lodge founded in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1959, organized by the machinists at the Canel Atomic Testing Lab, which was later taken over by Pratt & Whitney. Records consist of administrative files, arbitration cases, and National Labor Relations Board case files.

n.d., 1937-1983
95 linear feet
Administrative files, legal files, correspondence, publications.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0017

The collection contains the working administrative and legal files of the union. Some financial documents are also included. The most significant event documented in this collection is the nine week strike from July to August 1960, involving Lodges 1746 and 743. The unfair labor practice and damage suits and counter suits filed after this strike continued throughout the 1960s.

n.d., 1964-1983
54.85 linear feet
By-laws, contracts, publications, personnel records, financial records.
Collection Number: MSS 1990-0040

Lodge representing production workers at United Technologies Corporation’s Pratt and Whitney plants in Southington, Connecticut. Collection consists of by-laws and contracts, minutes, office files, publications, personnel evaluations, grievances, and financial records.

n.d., 1943-1983
49 linear feet
Administrative records, contracts and negotiations, financial records, membership material, employee information, job descriptions, publications, memorabilia.
Collection Number: MSS 1983-0005

Chartered in 1945 representing production workers at United Technologies Corporation’s Pratt and Whitney plant in East Hartford, Connecticut. Workers in this union make jet engines and other components for commercial and military aircraft. Collection consists of administrative records, contracts and negotiations, financial records, membership material, employee information, job descriptions, printed material and memorabilia, National Labor Relations board cases, civil court cases, arbitrations, and grievance material.

n.d., 1958-1961
.5 linear feet
Correspondence, administrative records, financial records.
Collection Number: MSS 2000-0121

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Lodge 2126, represented the employees of Flight Enterprises, Inc., and International Aircraft Services, Inc., located at Bradley Field in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. The collection covers the period 1958 through 1961, although the majority of the materials are dated 1959-1960. The Lodge Records include correspondence, by-laws, agreements, minutes and financial records.

n.d., 1952-2002
18 linear feet
Administrative files, scrapbooks.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0014

Chartered in 1974, representing machinists at United Aircraft’s Pratt and Whitney plant in North Haven, Connecticut. Originally organized as the United Automobile Workers Local 1234 in 1952. Collection consists of administrative files, scrapbooks, arbitrations, grievance materials, and workmen’s compensation cases from UAW Local 1234, as well as administrative files and grievance material from IAMAW Lodge 707.

n.d., 1950-1980
33 linear feet
Administrative files, membership records.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0013

Chartered in 1941 to represent members of the International Association of Machinists at Hamilton Standard in East Hartford, Connecticut. In 1952 it moved to Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Collections includes administrative files, membership records, grievances, arbitrations, contracts and negotiations, agreements, court cases, and flyers.

n.d., 1901-1905
.1 linear feet
Correspondence, reports.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0008

Labor union of steam-driven construction equipment operators of Danbury, Connecticut. Collection consists of correspondence, grievance reports, by-laws and constitution, and membership lists. Includes information about work conditions of the union members and a strike in 1904

undated, 1949-1970
13.25 linear feet
Administrative files, reports.
Collection Number: MSS 1981-0005

Established as a program within the Labor Management Institute in 1946 and evolved into a separate center in 1961. Its purpose is to fulfill the educational, consultation and research needs of the state’s union, employee organizations and their members in the field of labor education. Seeks to provide a greater understanding of the labor movement on the part of government officials, business leaders, the University of Connecticut community, and the general public. Collection consists of records associated with unions and labor organizations; Windham, Connecticut, area community action programs, extension programs, center-sponsored seminars, workshops, the Connecticut Valley Hospital, and reports.

1925-1987
6 linear feet
Correspondence, publications.
Collection Number: MSS 1994-0061

The collection contains materials dating from 1925 through 1987, although the bulk of the collection dates from 1971-1981. The files are the result of a letter sent to several Grand Masters of the Lodge requesting their personal papers concerning freemasonry in Connecticut. Included in the collection is correspondence, reports, publications, photographs, addresses, lectures, ephemera and newspaper clippings all concerning the Lodge and its activities and members.

undated, 1882-1984
7.25 linear feet
Publications, by-laws, administrative records.
Collection Number: MSS 1994-0077

Born in Italy; moved to the United States as a child and became a resident of Meriden, Connecticut. Worked as a printer for the Meriden Morning Record and the New Britain Herald in the 1930s and 1940s. Representative of the International Typographical Union (now the Communications Workers of America) from 1958 to his retirement in 1979. Vice-president of the Connecticut State Labor Council, secretary and president of the New Britain Central Labor Council, and president and treasurer of the New Britain Typographical Union #679 (now the Connecticut Typographical Union #679). Collection consists of papers collected by Pancallo in his capacities as a labor organizer, including contract agreements, union-related publications, International Typographical Union constitutions and by-laws and publications, union meeting minutes, and newspaper clippings.

undated, 1934-1972
.75 linear feet
Administrative files, memorabilia, photographs, speeches.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0032

Labor union activist. Employed at American Velvet Company beginning in 1927; helped to established that company’s first labor union in the 1930s. President of Local 110, Textile Workers Union of America in Stonington, Connecticut, from 1940 to 1948 and 1952 to 1968. Appointed Director of Public Welfare of Westerly, Rhode Island, in 1947. Collection consists of administrative files of Sposato’s union committee work and as Director of Public Welfare, speeches and seminars given by Sposato, photographs and memorabilia, and union publications.

1933-1974
13.5 linear feet
Administrative records, personal papers, publications.
Collection Number: MSS 1986-0007

Labor leader in Hartford, Connecticut. St. Pierre was employed by Arrow-Hart & Hageman Corporation in Hartford and was a founding member and eventually president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1013. He was an international representative of the IBEW from 1955 to 1974 and responsible for union organizing and collective bargaining activities in southeastern New England. He was also president of the Greater Hartford Labor Council in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Collection consists of records of the national office of the IBEW and its local 1013 in Hartford, information about the Connecticut Labor Department, the Connecticut State Labor Council, the Committee on Political Education, the Connecticut AFL-CIO and other labor organizations. Also includes general personal papers of St. Pierre’s including newspaper clippings, photographs, business cards, union ballots, and personal documents.

undated, 1916-1978
4.5 linear feet
Labor records, photographs.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0033

Resident of New Britain, Connecticut; international representative (1942-1978) of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union (UE), and a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1938-1944). Collection consists of local union, subject, and arbitration files, GE-Westinghouse Coordinated Bargaining Committee files, printed materials, and bargaining contracts between UE locals and Connecticut based companies. Also includes photographs from a strike in 1955 at Landers, Frary and Clark Company.

1909-1983
linear feet
Financial records, correspondence, strike assessments, dues records.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0012

Represents Hartford, Connecticut, area plumbers and steamfitters. Chartered in 1893 as Local 76 of the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas Fitters, Steamfitters and Steamfitters Helpers of the United States and Canada. Materials include meeting minutes, financial reports, correspondence, strike assessments, dues records, and a 1950 Agreement and Declaration of Trust between Local 76 and the Association of Master Plumbers of Hartford.

undated, 1934-1974
2.3 linear feet
Administrative records.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0034

Established in 1910 in Norwich, Connecticut; affiliated with the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of the United States and Canada. Collection consists of meeting minutes, applications for membership, and administrative records.

undated, 1957-1985
.75 linear feet
Publications, newsletters.
Collection Number: MSS 2002-0007

Documentation of the relationship between Lycoming Division (Stratford Plant) of the AVCO Manufacturing Corporation and Local 1010 of the International union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW).

undated, 1901-1986
4 linear feet
Administrative files, publications, photographs.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0016

Carpenters union formed in 1892 in the Stamford, Connecticut, area. Local 210 merged with other locals in 1968 (Local 1700, Stamford), 1969 (Local 409, New Canaan), 1977 (Local 246, Norfolk), and 1979 (Local 1717, the rest of the state of Connecticut). The papers consist of administrative files including constitutions, by-laws, agreements, photographs, and publications; and minutebooks. Many of the records were created by other carpenters’ locals in Connecticut, including those that merged with 210.

1937-1948
2 linear feet
Administrative and financial records.
Collection Number: MSS 2003-0074

Materials associated with the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, Unity Lodge, Local 251, which represented workers at the Pratt & Whitney Machine Tools Division of Niles-Bement-Pond in West Hartford, Connecticut, from 1938 to 1948. Collection consists of a membership dues book, a large scrapbook of newspaper clippings and bulletins involving a strike of the union members at the West Hartford plant from March to August 1946, the local's charter, and other administrative records.

1961-1985
2.6 linear feet
Correspondence, reports.
Collection Number: MSS 1988-0002

The papers in this collection document Wolk’s membership on the Faculty Advisory Committee to the Board of Higher Education from 1977-1983. The papers include data on such subjects as the unionization of faculty and the reorganization plans for higher education in Connecticut.

1947-1975
53.5 linear feet
Legal records, publications.
Collection Number: MSS 1991-0003

This collection has not yet been organized for unassisted research use. Researchers wishing to access this collection must make prior arrangements with the Curator before visiting Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Attorney of Hamden, Connecticut, who served as the chief counsel for the Connecticut State Labor Council (now the Connecticut AFL-CIO) beginning in 1949. Collection consists of lawyer’s case files concerning labor disputes, information about Zolot’s work with the New England Teamsters Pension Fund from 1975 to 1978, legal and court documents concerning a labor dispute between United Aircraft Corporation and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge 91, and printed literature.