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American Federation of Musicians. Local No. 368, Reno, Nevada Records
Included are minutes, correspondence, subject files, bylaws, stewards' reports, grievance files, union/casino collective bargaining documentation, subject files, financial records, and administrative records of the Reno Musicians' Federal Credit Union.
Angus E. Cauble Papers
Includes certificates, correspondence, memorial from his union, the Butcher workman (May 1955) with Cauble's obituary, and photos. The collection contains material from 1929-1955 created by Angus E. Cauble.
The Comstock Lode; or a Crucible of Militant Unionism
Anne Farrar Hyde was a student at Mt. Holyoke College who wrote a paper on the Comstock Lode, which is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Virginia City, Nevada. The collection includes a paper from 1982 on the Comstock Lode in Virginia City and the development of labor unions for miners by Hyde.
Emminger Family Recordings
Interviews of Mr. William Glenn Emminger and Mrs. Tracy Hartsough Emminger by Willard F. Day include discussions on Rochester, Tonopah, and Unionville, Nevada; Jack (Andrew Jackson) Longstreet's anti-union activities and other stories; Rawhide Jack Davis; and on Mrs. Emminger's father, Louis C. Hartsough and his tales of General George A. Custer.
Oral interview of Graham Erskine
Erskine, in interviews with Richard D. Adkins, discusses architects and the regulation of the profession in Nevada, uniform building codes, the State Board of Architecture, his experience working with the United States government on housing projects at Stead Air Force Base, the effect of unionization of building trades on architecture, and creation of the Reno and Las Vegas chapters of the American Institute of Architects.
Industrial Workers of the World Records
Industrial Workers of the World was a local branch of a radical labor organization, located in Tonopah and Goldfield, Nevada. Included are membership rosters, expense books, and minutes, from 1906-1907. Of particular note are the indications of the number of women involved in the Wobbly movement in Nevada.
Labor's Pittman Club Correspondence
Letter from O.D. Gorman, club secretary, notifying union members that the "standard railroad organizations" and the American Federation of Labor were supporting Pittman for re-election to the Senate. The collection contains material from 1930 created by the Labor's Pittman Club.
Mechanics' Union Agreement
The Mechanics' Union was a mining labor union in Storey County, Nevada. The collection contains one agreement made in 1878 between the mining superintendents and the Mechanics' Union defining mechanical labor, its hours, and its wages.
Mine Operators of Storey County agreement and letter
Agreement between the mine operators, Virginia City Miners' Union no. 46, and the Gold Hill Miners' Union no. 54 setting wages of miners at $5 per day during World War I (1918); and a letter from the mine operators to the unions rescinding the previous wage agreement, mentioning I. W. W. influence among agitators, and threatening to halt all mining if lower wages were not accepted (1919).
Miners' attitudes in Goldfield during the labor troubles of 1906-1908
Collection contains a seminar paper which analyses the involvement of the United Mine Workers in the Goldfield (Nevada) miners' strike of 1906-1908, the union's part in organizing the International Workers of the World, and whether the principles supported by either organization reflected the aspirations of the workers they represented. Material created by Ann Harvey in 1983.
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- Cauble, Angus E. 1
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- Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 1
- Davis, John Baron, 1876-1956 1
- Day, Willard F. (Willard Farnsworth) 1
- Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
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- Emminger, William Glenn, 1888-1971 1
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- Erskine, Graham, 1911-1991 1
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