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Proceedings of The...constitutional Convention of the United ...

Proceedings of The...constitutional Convention of the United ...

United Mine Workers of America

United Mine Workers of America ... Referred to Constitution Committee. RESOLUTION N.O. 156. To the Officers and Delegates of the Twenty-seventh Consecutive and Fourth Biennial Convention, U. M. W. of A.: Local Union No. 1053, Ellisville ...
Proceedings of the ... Convention of the United Mine Workers ...

Proceedings of the ... Convention of the United Mine Workers ...

United Mine Workers of America

... be it Resolved, That our first demand shall be for a reduction in hours of labor to six hours a day and that a minimum wage of four dollars a day shall be the basic clause in the next wage scale the United Mine Worker sof America negotiates.
Proceedings of The...consecutive Constitutional Convention ...

Proceedings of The...consecutive Constitutional Convention ...

United Mine Workers of America

United Mine Workers of America ... The card and stub to be filled out by the recording secretary and certified to by the president and financial secretary of the local union granting the same. ... and a great deal of labor upon the olficials of the locals issuing same, and therbenefits from same are of doubtful utility; therefore be it ...
Industrial Furniture: Prototypes of the Modern Era

Industrial Furniture: Prototypes of the Modern Era

Sebastian Hackenschmidt

To this day, some of the furniture used in factories and other industrial facilities was made by the workers and mechanics themselves for particular purposes and activities, and adapted to highly specialized production processes.In their ...
Proceedings of The...constitutional Convention of the United ...

Proceedings of The...constitutional Convention of the United ...

United Mine Workers of America

... be it Resolved, That our first demand shall be for a reduction in hours of labor to six hours a day and that a minimum wage of four dollars a day shall be the basic clause in the next wage scale the United Mine Worker sof America negotiates.
Proceedings

Proceedings

Utility Workers Union of America

I think they speak well for him as they speak well for the Utility Workers of America, and I think they speak well for the Utility Workers of America's future. In seconding this nomination I give you the best local labor leader anywhere, Valentine ...
Proceedings: Constitutional Convention

Proceedings: Constitutional Convention

United Furniture Workers of America

... Jasper, Ind. 40 Ronald Beuchlein 40 334 Jasper, Ind. 180 Harold Nicholson 180 336 Pine Bluff, Ark. 188 Beatrice Mayfield 94 OllieMaeTeer 94 340 Pine Bluff , Ark. 28 OllieMaeTeer 28 341 Walnut Ridge, Ark. 19 Johnny Norris 19 360 Rome .
Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO Light

Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO Light

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TO: All Local Unions and Councils of the Utility Workers Union of America, AFL- CIO ARTICLE XV, SECTION 1, of the Constitution of the Utility Workers Union of America, provides for the convening of our Constitutional Convention during the ...
Proceedings [of The] National Convention

Proceedings [of The] National Convention

Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America

In separate resolutions we express support for the union label campaigns of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and the Amalgamated Lithographers of America. A number of other CIO international unions also have union labels ...
Unions in America

Unions in America

Gary Chaison

Los Angeles Times, sec. 3, p. 1. 60. Pakulski, G. (2003, June 4). Toledo, Ohio- based Flint Glass Workers vote to merge with Steelworkers. The Blade (Toledo), p. 1. 61. American Flint Glass Workers Union merges with the United Steelworkers.
Utility Workers Union of America Light

Utility Workers Union of America Light

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Therefore, you are hereby notified that the 27th Constitutional Convention of the Utility Workers Union of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, will be convened at the Hyatt ...
Working in America

Working in America

Catherine Reef

Each chapter in Working in America, a volume in Facts On File's new American Experience series, begins with an essay that chronicles the experience of workers in the United States. A chronology of events follows this essay.
Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises

Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises

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Seeking to historicize today's "Great Recession," this volume of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous ...
Working Hard for the American Dream: Workers and Their ...

Working Hard for the American Dream: Workers and Their ...

Randi Storch

Presents an overview of labor history that also considers women workers, ethnic America, and post-World War II workers Incorporates the most recent scholarship in labor history Takes the story of labor up to the present day in a readable ...
Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire ...

Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire ...

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This important book, the result of discoveries made during an exhaustive survey of Portsmouth furniture at more than 210 sites throughout the country, places the furniture makers of Portsmouth alongside those of Newport, Boston, ...
Furniture

Furniture

Fine Woodworking

This book collects the furniture and accessory articles that contain exploded drawings from the last 15 years of Fine Woodworking. It is organized by type of furniture (tables, beds, case pieces, etc.).
Official Proceedings ... Constitutional Convention

Official Proceedings ... Constitutional Convention

New York State AFL-CIO. Constitutional Convention

... Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers Secretary- Treasurer LOUIS HOLLANDER Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Vice-Presiden ts JAMES P. BEAMISH Utility Workers Union ofAmerica PETER J. BRENNAN State Building and ...
The maker's hand: American studio furniture, 1940-1990

The maker's hand: American studio furniture, 1940-1990

Edward S. Cooke

After graduating from college, she apprenticed with sculptor and furniture maker Michael Jean Cooper. He had worked with Robert Strini and developed a style of sculptural furniture using complex bent laminations and influenced by ...
Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell ...

Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell ...

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... William n. hos- ley Jr., “vermont Furniture, 1790–1830,” in New England Furniture: Essays in Memory ofBenno M. Forman, ed. brock Jobe (boston: Society for the Preservation of new England antiquities, 1987), 245–86; Margaret J. Moody, ...
Proceedings Constitutional Convention

Proceedings Constitutional Convention

United Plant Guard Workers of America

TIMOTHY MOLONEY: Tim Moloney, Local 250, St. Louis. I don't appreciate the Ad Hoc Committee, I'll have to take that under consideration from Mr. McGahey. I figure this way. Since you're getting nasty about it, you know, if we're going to ...
Home Furnishings Executive

Home Furnishings Executive

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SC At large Rawson Haverty, Jr. Haverty Furniture Company Atlanta, GA At Urge Jerry Hux Beverly Hall Furniture Galleries ... GA San Antonio, TX Napa, CA Don Fedde Bill Kimbrell Sam Lush Alan Rosenberg Bob Young Fedde Furniture Star  ...
Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism

Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism

Immanuel Ness

His in-depth case studies of the rapid expansion of technology and industrial workers from India and hospitality workers from Jamaica reveal how these programs expose guest workers to employers' abuses and class tensions in their home ...
Pierre Chareau:

Pierre Chareau:

Marc Vellay

Examines the furniture designed by the French architect and discusses the role of furniture in his interior designs
American Furniture

American Furniture

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Brock Jobe, "The Boston Furniture Industry, 1720- 1740," in Boston Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, edited bv Walter Muir Whitehill, Brock Jobe, and Jonathan Fairbanks (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1974), p. 28. As quoted ...
Furniture Longevity: How Mass-produced Heirloom Furniture ...

Furniture Longevity: How Mass-produced Heirloom Furniture ...

Sarah Ingham

In recent years, the length of time people use and keep belongings has decreased.
Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the ...

Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the ...

Eileen Boris

It reveals why there is no adequate long-term care in America. Caring for America is much more than a history of social policy, however; it is also about a powerful contemporary social movement.
Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His ...

Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His ...

Thomas P. Kugelman

Presented for the first time, the richly illustrated findings of the Hartford Case Furniture Study

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