International Seamen's Union of America records, 1899-1940.
01308

Summary Information

Repository
Burton Historical Collection
Creator
International Seamen's Union of America.
Creator
International Seamen's Union of America. Milwaukee Branch..
Title
International Seamen's Union of America records
ID
01308
Date [inclusive]
1899-1940
Extent
137.7 Linear feet (27 boxes, 6 wallets, 216 volumes, 32 microfilm reels)
Language
English
Language of Materials
In English.

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Scope and Contents note

Records of the International Seamen's Union of America; including branches throughout the United States.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Burton Historical Collection Sept. 23, 2009

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open for research use.

Immediate Source of Acquisiton

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International Seamen's Union of America records, 1899-1940 (OCLC record)

[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/438853847]

Controlled Access Headings

Genre(s)

  • Correspondence
  • Financial records
  • Membership lists
  • Microfilms
  • Minutes

Subject(s)

  • Merchant mariners--Labor unions--United States

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General Note

See finding aids for complete listing.

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Collection Inventory

International Seamen's Union of America 

Box 1 

Minutes of Meting 1905 

Minutes of Meeting 1905 - 1906 

Membership List 1906 

List of Members 1907 

Correspondence 1906 - 1908 

Correspondence 1907 

Superior, Wisc. Minutes of Regular Meeting 1908 - 1909 

Correspondence 1908 

Secretary and Treasurers Report 1908 - 1910 

Sailors' Union 1908 - 1932 

Chicago, Ill. 1908 - 1919 

Box 2 

Minutes of Meetings Receipt & Disbursements 1908 - 1909 

Financial Reports 1908 - 1909 

Marine - Firemen Orlirs 1909 

Correspondence 1909 

Minutes of Meeting 1909 - 1911 

Correspondence 1909 

Letters about the strike 1909 - 1911 

Minutes of Meetings 1909 - 1922 

Correspondence 1910 - 1911 

Minutes 1911 

Box 3 

Port of Buffalo 1912 - 1913 

Port of Milwaukee 1911 

Sailors' Union 1911 - 1922 

Port of Toledo 1912 

Ashtabula 1913 

Ogdenberg 1912 

Port of Milwaukee, Wisc. 1912 - 1922 

Finance Summary Reports Jan. - Oct. 1917 

Correspondence 1912 

Correspondence 1913 - 1919 William Johnson; Alva Hunter 

Buffalo 1913 - 1922 

Box 4 

Receipts - Death Certificates - Ship Wreck Benefits Bonds 1913 - 1915 

Correspondence - Nolan Conway; Hanson Hughes 1913 - 1925 

Correspondence 1913 - 1922 

Port of Buffalo 1913 - 1922 

Marine, Firemen, , etc. Dues paying members & expenses 

Chicago Branch 1913 

Letters to Thos Conway Re: payment of dues 1913 

Financial Report Buffalo 1913 - 1914 

Box 5 

Correspondence 1913 - 1914 

Names of dues paying members & expenses Jan. - May 1914 

Martin Hasen & Charles Brathering 1914 - 1923 

Financial Reports Buffalo 1915 - 1916 

Financial Reports Union dues Firemen 1915 - 1916 

Financial Reports Chicago 1915 - 1916 

Itemized Reports 1915 

Correspondence from Washington, D. C. 1916 

Name of Great Lake Ships - Certificate of Inspection for steam or Motor Vessel 1916 - 1921 

Certificate of Inspection 1915 - 1921 

Box 6 

Union Members dues - Ashtubula 1916 

Itemized Financial Reports 1916 

Itemized weekly Report 1916 - 1918 

Correspondence- Travers, Pat Dye Sr. 

Cahell, W. G., Dooley, Frank; Edgworth, William 1916 - 1928 

Correspondence 1916 

Certificates of Inspection 1916 - 1935 

Correspondence - Andrew Furseth 1917 - 1918 

Box 7 

Minutes of Union Meetings 1917 - 1929 

Receipts for monthly Dues 1917 - 1918 

Itemized Reports 1917 

Ashtabula Itemized Report 1917 

So. Chicago Branch 1917 - 1920 

Tonawander Branch 1917 - 1918 

Letters to Thos. Conway 1917 - 1922 

Box 8 

Correspondence Gashoin; Claude; Edgworth, W. ; Foe, B. ; Little, Sr; Lothrop, A. W. Donegan, A.; Gorden, A. R. Weekly Reports 1918 - 1919 

Correspondence Dye; Morris, John; Matlison, S. ; Goshorn, C. 1918 

Itemized Report 1918 - 1919 

Ashtabula Itemized Report 1918 

Box 9 

Correspondence 1918 - 1921 

Financial Summary 1917 - 1918 

Union Branch meetings minutes 1918 - 1925 

Convention Credentials 1918 - 1920 

Minutes of Branch Meetings 1918 - 1922 

Correspondence 1918 - 1925 

Minutes of Meetings 1918 - 1919 

U. S. Shipping Board Recruiting Service 1918 - 1920 

Box 10 

Death Letters 1918 

Itemized Reports 1918 

Correspondence & Weekly Reports 1918 - 1919 

Dept. of. Commerce - House Bills 1919 

Buffalo, N. Y. 1919 

Itemized Reports 1919 

Correspondence 1919 

Olander Correspondence 1919 

Sailors' Union 1919 - 1922 

Box 11 

Regular Meetings Detroit 1919 - 1920 

Sailors' Union 1919 - 1922 

Ashtabula Itemized report 1919 

Financial Report 1921 

Ashtabula to Milwaukee 1920 

Finanical Reports 1920 

Minutes of Meetings 1920 - l922 

Correspondence 1920 - 1923 

Itemized Reports 1920 

So. Chicago 1920 

Box 12 

Ashtabual Itemized Report 1920 

Itemized Weekly Reports 1920 - 1922 

Minutes of Meetings 1920 - 1921 

Chicago Itemized Report 1920 

Minutes -Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit 1920 

Box 13 

Correspondence - Gutafson, C. ; Adams, P.; Kidd, Jo 1920 - 1925 

Andrew Furseth Wash. D. D. 1921 - 1924 

Minutes of Regular Meetings - Branches 1918 - 1923 

Itemized Reports 1922 

Correspondence 1921 - 1929 ( Branches ) 

Box 14: 1921 - 1925 

Executive Board Minutes 

Financial Reports 

Legal Reports 

Meetings Reports 

Committee Reports 

Financial Summary Reports 

Itemized Report 

Itemized Financial Weekly Reports 

Box 15: 1921 - 1926 

Certificate of Inspection 

Port of Chicago 

Financial Summary Report 

Itemized Report 

Chicago Weekly Reports 

Box 16: 1925 - 1927 

Letters to Thos Conway re-problems 

o Funioas 

Itemized Financial Reports 

Mediation Corr. 

Financial Rep 

Correspondence 

Box 17: 1927-1929 

Correspondence & Minutes of Meetings 

Itemized weekly Financial Reports 

Box 18: 1926 - 1929 

Letters to Thomas Conway 

Sec. of Union 

Union Membership 

Correspondence 

Financial Statement 

History of Lake Carriers Ass. Marine Firemen Oilers Beneuolent Ass. Expenses and dues. 

Agreements Between Shipping transit Co's and Marine Cooks and Stewards union. 

Victor A Olander Letters 

Box 19: 1927 - 1930 

Letters From V. A. 

Olander Minutes of Mettings 

Correspondence 

Minutes of Meetings and Ballots 

Box 20: 1930 - 1932 

Andrew Firsureth 1854 - 1938 

Union Leader Death Cards Clippings 

Death Certificates 

King Bill 

History of Labor MoVement ( Clippings ) 

Itemized Reports 

Correspondence and Minutes 

Agreements 

Union Reports 

Wash. D. C. Letters 

Sailors Union 

Box 21: 1932 - 1933 

Minutes of Meeting Correspondence 

Ivan Hunter 

Financial Reports 

Death Certificates 

Box 22: 1933 - 1934 

Financial Reports 

Receipts and Correspondence 

Minutes of Meetings 

Investigation of Ship Disasters 

Mirro - Castle 

Box 23: 1935 - 1938 

Weekly Financial Reports 

Correspondence 

Agreements Cook & Stewards 

Paper on Dole 

Huey P. Long.(1933) 

Victor L. Berger 1928 

Marine Cooks and Stewaris union 

Car Ferry 

Death Certificates 

Minutes of Meeting 

Box 24: 1939 - 1942 

New Orleans Regular meeting 

Correspondence 

Box 25: 1939-1940 

Itemized expense, account for trip to Europe 

Reports 

Minutes of Meetings 

Dredging agreements 

Correspondence 

Box 26 

Correspondence Superior, Wisc. 1818 

Correspondence South Chicago 1916-20 

Correspondence Cleveland, Oh. 1920-1923 

Correspondence Detroit 1920-1925 

Financial Reports 1917-1918 

Financial Reports 1919-1920 

Box 27 

Financial Report 1933-1939 

Pamphets 

Seamons Membership book 

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Lake Seamen's Union: Milwalkee Branch 

C2 Cash book 

1903 

1905 

1908 

1912 

1913 ( includes 1926 ) 

1914 

1915 

1918 and 1922 - 23 

1919 - 1920 

1927 

1928 - 1930 

1929 - 1931 

1932 - 1936 

J8 

1906 - 1907 

1908 

1909 - 1910 

1911 - 1912 

1912 - 1913 

1913 - 1914 

1914 - 1916 

1916 - 1917 

1917 - 1918 

1919 - 1920 

1920 - 1923 

1923 - 1924 

1925 - 1926 

1926-1927 

1928 

1929 

1930 

1930 - 1932 

1932 - 1934 

1934 - 1936 

1936 - 1938 

M6: Perry Labor Club Minutes 

1887-1891 Minutes and Accounts 

1903 

1906 

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International Seamen's Union of America 

1905 Lake Seamen's Union Weekly Report 

Fort William, Ont. 

Kingston, Ont. 

Bay City 

Milwankee, Wisc. 

Minutes 

C2 Cash book 1924-1925 

J8 Journal 

1912-1919 

1916 

1919 

1921 

1921-1925 

1926 

1932-1935 

1937-1938 

R2 Record of Membership with Index. 1905. 

R3. Illinois Crew List. 1937-1938. 

SB Lake Seamen's Union; Buffalo Branch 

C2 1908-1909 

D3 1911-1914 

Chicago Branch 

M6 Minutes 1879-1881 

J8 Minutes. Detroit Branch. 1935-1938. 

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