The fonds consists of minute books.
United Steelworkers of America, Local 3696 (Hamilton, ON)There have been two accruals. The first accrual consists of minutes, pension agreements, correspondence, and USWA publications. The second accrual (11-1999) has been arranged into the following series: minutes, correspondence and financial records; labour negotiations; committees, lists, elections, pension.
United Steelworkers of America. Local 3692 (Hamilton, Ont.)The fonds consists of four slip-cased, bound minute books: 7 March 1943-22 February 1955; 8 January 1955-24 March 1975; 38 April 1975-22 June 1987 (includes financial statements; Executive and Stewards minutes, 6 September 1944-15 March 1955).
United Steelworkers of America, Local 2950 (Hamilton, ON)Fonds consists of a Minute Book, 16 September 1983-18 June, 1991.
United Steelworkers of America, Local 2940 (Hamilton, ON)The fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, grievance committee materials, benefits, negotiation committee materials, agreements, and job descriptions.
United Steelworkers of America. Local 2868 (Hamilton Ont.)The sous-fonds contains correspondence, contract negotiations and agreements, text of speeches and notes by McClure, U.S.W.A. publications, materials relating to the 1946 strike, and photographs.
McClure, ThomasThe fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, circulars, photographs, news clippings, and labour negotiations, agreements, and contracts.
United Steelworkers of America, Local 1005 (Hamilton, Ont.)The fonds arrived in complete disarray. His domestic correspondence, bills, bank accounts with many overdraft notices, and numerous requests for payment from local merchants were mixed together with his union papers which, in themselves, had no order either. With the exception of correspondence he received from his friends serving with the Canadian forces during World War II, none of this domestic material has been retained. What remains has been arranged as follows: correspondence; appointment calendars and diaries; labour negotiations; committees; Steelworkers Social Club; finances; conferences; photographs, job descriptions, personal documents, articles and notes, printed materials and realia.
Burniston, BillThe collection consists of the History of United States Army Base Hospital No. 20 (Philadelphia, 1920): 257 pages with many illustrations; as well as 16 photographs, 1918. The material appears to come from May Grenville of Thorold, Ontario, who served as a nurse with the hospital. There are initial photographs of her at Ellis Island, where the nurses were stationed before setting out for France. It then includes photos of the staff, as well as some of the various personnel Grenville served with in Mobile Surgery units, plus a postcard of the chapel at Chatel-Guyon, where the hospital was. In addition to photos related to the hospital, there are two photos of Canadian soldiers, as well as two photographs of grave markers at Vimy Ridge taken on 22 December 1918. The names on the grave markers are F. Thornton and Charles Grenville, her brother. Finally, there is a small, unidentified photograph of a number of women seated on one side of a sunny room. A number of the photos appear in the book.
United States Army Base Hospital No. 20The fonds consists of two charters: one, dated 1 January 1943, issued by the United Rubber Workers of America to Local 113; the second, dated 27 June 1960, issued by the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America to Local 113.
United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of AmericaThe scrapbook contains news clippings concerning the activities of the union.
United Packinghouse Workers of AmericaThe fonds consists of certification documents, memoranda of agreement, submissions to a Board of Conciliation by both union and company, an arbitration file, and contract negotiations and correspondence. There is one issue of a newsletter, Acid Drips, from 1945.
United Mine Workers of America, Local 13083 (Hamilton, ON)The fonds contains correspondence between District Six Headquarters in Hamilton, which moved to Toronto in 1966, and the various Canadian location unions, general correspondence, photographs, and material from conventions, conferences, referenda, elections, and seminars.
United Glass and Ceramic Workers of North AmericaSeries consists of correspondence, membership information and printed material relating to the United Europe Movement. Also includes a brief note in Russell’s hand which reads in part: “The United Europe Movement, inaugurated by Churchill in 1946, was to embrace all Europe except Russia. … I thought it would safeguard peace, and joined it. … In the end, nothing came of it except NATO, and I had no further connection with it.” Acquired as part of Archives 1.
There have been two accruals. The first accrual consists of correspondence, briefs and agreements, contract negotiation notes, grievance records and correspondence, minutes of the executive board and other committees, job classification files, photographs, financial records and publications, 1937-1972. The second accrual consists of correspondence, grievances, minutes, press releases, newsletters and other printed materials. It has been arranged into the following series: correspondence, Executive Board and committiees, greivances and printed materials.
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. Local 504 (Hamilton, Ont.)Contains a charter granted by the Grand Lodge on 17 April 1919, signed by two officers of that Lodge - the Grand Secretary-Treasurer and the Grand President.
United Brotherhood of Maintenance and Way Employees and Railway Shop LabourersSeries consists primarily of letters received by Russell from various branches of the UDC requesting that he speak at their meetings. Russell was an early leader of the UDC, which was founded in part to combat what was perceived as ‘secret’ foreign policy in the lead up to the First World War. Also includes a UDC circular letter of 1914 signed by Ramsay MacDonald, Charles Trevelyan, Norman Angell, and E.D. Morel, pamphlets, draft writings, and other material. The items from 1963 relate to an early UDC pamphlet written by Russell, ‘War: the Offspring of Fear’. Acquired as part of Archives 1.
Union générale des étudiants du Québec fonds consists of correspondence and printed materials, including bulletins, working papers and reports, constitution and bylaws, press releases, as well as some materials of an affiliated organization: l'association générale des étudiants de l'université de Montréal (AGEUM). The correspondence includes letters from Jean Lesage, Daniel Johnson, René Lévesque, Bernard Landry, then president of AGUEM, and others.
Typescript of John Conrad Russell’s Undergraduate B.A. Thesis
Russell, John Conrad