Series I: Minutes, 1942-1944

The records of I.U.E. Local 689 are divided into three series: Minutes; Contracts; and Hewitt Soap Company Manuals.

Series I contains the minutes of meetings between the Hewitt Soap Company Employees' Independent Union and the Hewitt Soap Company. The span dates for these minutes are February 1942 until February 1944. The minutes deal with contract negotiations and with employee management disputes over such issues as pay raises, job classifications, and vacations.

Series II contains contracts between the Independent Union and the Hewitt Soap Company for 1964 and 1973, and a contract between I.U.E. Local 689 and the Hewitt Soap Company for 1976.

Series III contains two manuals of the Hewitt Soap Company; a General Safety Practice booklet and an Employee Information booklet, both dated 1973.