Local 796, 1957

The records of this collection are divided into nine series: Constitution, Minutes, Proceedings, Financial Reports, Administrative Functions, General Motors, Chrysler Airtemp, Labor History, and Photographs.

Series I consists of the Constitution and By Laws, 1951 and 1954.

Series II, Minutes, contains the subseries of Executive Board Minutes, 1949-1966, District Council Minutes, 1949-1966, Miscellaneous Conference Board Minutes, 1950-1966, and Civil Rights Committee Minutes, 1954-1957.

Series III is Proceedings the records of the District Council Meetings, 1956-1962.

Series IV contains the Financial Reports from 1947-1974.

Series V is comprised of the Administrative Functions Records. The series is broken down into the subseries of Resolutions and Elections.

Series VI is records concerning General Motors. The series consists of the subseries Negotiations and Benefits, which includes Guaranteed Annual Wage and Supplemental Unemployment Benefits, and negotiations, 1967, 1970, and 1972. The second subseries is General Information from 1934 to 1974.

Series VII is Chrysler Airtemp and it consists of general information from 1964.

Series VIII, Labor History, is union history information including newspaper clippings and pamphlets.

Series IX, Photographs, consists of pictures of the various locals, union officials, union building, summer institute, Ohio Right to Vote Campaign, Scholarship Grant Program, and the 1948 Univis Lens Strike. Box Seven, File One has pictures of James B. Carey with John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Adlai Stevenson. File four has a photograph of David Fitmaurice with Lyndon B.Johnson. File fourteen, Miscellaneous Photographs, has a picture of Harry S Truman and an autographed picture of the ex governor of Ohio, John Gilligan. File nineteen contains a picture of Walter Reuther with John F. Kennedy.