Historical Note

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Guide to the King County Labor Council of Washington Records
1889-2003


Manuscript Collection No.: 1940
Accession No.: 1940-001, 1940-002
Creator: AFL-CIO. King County Labor Council of Washington, creator
Title: King County Labor Council of Washington Records
Date Span: 1889-2003
Quantity: 38.26 cubic ft. (58 boxes)
Languages: Collection materials are in English.
Central Labor Council of Seattle and Vicinity, 1902-1952 Golden Anniversary program. Special Collections, UW Libraries

Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical Note

The King County Labor Council of Washington has long been the communal decision-making body of the various union locals in King County. From the mid-1920s until the reunification of the AFL and CIO in 1955, only AFL-affiliated unions were represented on the Council. At other times, however, the vast majority of King County's locals had a voice on the Council.

The Council has passed through at least four distinct periods in its history. The Council originally began in 1888 as the Western Central Labor Union. This body changed its name to the Central Labor Council of Seattle and Vicinity in 1905. These groups occasionally joined coalitions with Populists and other reform groups in local and state politics. Nonetheless, much of the early Council's energy was spent simply trying to survive. The second phase of the Council's history began roughly in 1914 with the labor shortage that allowed unions to organize much of Seattle. The Council grew increasingly radical in this period and became the dominant force in Seattle's powerful progressive coalition. The loss of the Council's power began with the mass layoffs of shipyard workers after World War I. These layoffs led the Council to call the Seattle General Strike of 1919, the only truly city-wide general strike in American history. Employers responded to the failed strike with an open shop drive that de-unionized most of King County. A series of internal power struggles plagued the Council after the strike. The Council voted to expel members of the Industrial Workers of the World in late 1919 and Communist Party members in 1925.

The growing conservative influence in the Council was solidified when Dave Beck and his Teamsters came to dominate the group in the late 1920s. The third phase of the Council's history was thus business unionism, Beck-style. Dave Beck began his career as a driver for the Council's cooperative laundry but rapidly rose to become the chief Teamster organizer west of the Rockies. Beck used the strategic position of truck drivers in the economy to start rebuilding the strength of organized labor in Seattle. If the Council declared a firm to be "unfair to labor," he could often prevent the firm from trucking its goods to market. Despite Beck's occasionally ruthless tactics, he believed that businesses had a right to make a profit. When the Great Depression spurred widespread organizing drives, many firms concluded that they would much rather deal with the avowedly anti-radical Beck than with a CIO union. The Council routinely backed Beck in his jurisdictional disputes with CIO and independent unions. Thus, by the end of World War II, Seattle was largely a closed-shop AFL town. Under Beck's reign, the Council stayed fairly aloof from politics, endorsing moderate pro-labor Democrats and spurning the leftist coalitions that fought for local and state offices.

The fourth stage of the Council's history, its reentry into local politics, began with the merger of the AFL and CIO in 1955. The expanded Council was quickly put on the defensive by statewide right-to-work proposals in Initiative 198 in 1956 and Initiative 202 in 1958. The Council played a leading role in the campaigns that defeated these measures. After these victories, the Council went on the offensive. It started a pro-labor public relations campaign in 1959 that included donating money to charities and promoting radio and television appearances by labor leaders. Beginning in 1964, the Council's Committee on Political Education launched major voter registration drives before elections. The growth of public sector unions in the 1950s and 1960s, coupled with the addition of progressive CIO unions, led the Council to endorse expanded social services and public housing in this period. The Council also supported the efforts of Seattle civil rights groups during the 1960s. Nonetheless, the Council retained some traces of business unionism. It gave a no-strike pledge during the 1962 World's Fair and often helped the Chamber of Commerce lobby for subsidies for local businesses.

During the latter years of the 20th century, the period documented in Accession 1940-2, the council's executive secretaries were, in succession: James K. Bender, Dan Bickford, Ron Judd, and Steve Williamson.

Arrangement

The records are arranged in two accessions: 1940-001 and 1940-002.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, primarily with affiliated unions (1950-2003), minutes (1913-1970, 1987-1997), financial records (1912-1919, 1982-1999), membership records (1889-1969), subject files (1925-2002), and reports (1957-1959, 1966-1968). Also includes records of the Council's committees and affiliated labor organizations, including the Domestic Workers Union (1917), Seattle American Publishing Co. (1907), United Labor Advisory Committee Against Initiative 202 (1958), and United Labor Advisory Committee to Defeat Initiative 198 (1956).

Restrictions on Access

The records are open to all users.

Restrictions on Use

Material authored by representative of the King County Labor Council may be copied or quoted.

Processing Info

Processing levels vary by accession.

Separated Material

Issues of the Council's newspaper, The Scanner, that were received with the records were sent to the Microforms and Newspaper Collection.

Bibliography

The Libraries' Microforms and Newspapers Collection owns a complete microfilm collection of the Union Record: The Official Journal of the Central Labor Council of Seattle and Vicinity and a partial microfilm run of The Scanner and King County Labor News. The Union Record was published from 1900 to 1928. The Scanner began in 1968 and is still printed.

Jonathan Dembo's An Historical Bibliography of Washington State Labor and Laboring Classes (unpublished, 1978) lists many published sources which deal with the history of the King County Central Labor Council. The most important recently published works which relate to the Council's history are Jonathan Dembo, Unions and Politics in Washington State (New York: Garland Publishing, 1983) and Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994). There are essentially no books that deal with the post-1940 history of the Council.

Inventory

 
Accession No. 1940-001
King County Labor Council of Washington Records, 1889-1970
18.26 cubic ft.
Arrangement
Accession 1940-001 is arranged in five series: Administrative Records, Committees and Board Records, West Central Labor Union Records, Other Labor Organizations, and Other Organizations.
Scope and Content
Administrative Records primarily document the end of the third and the start of the fourth period of the Council's history. The bulk consists of the files of Chet W. Ramage, executive secretary of the Council from Oct. 1959 through 1968. Most correspondence dates from that period. There are virtually no letters from before 1950. Incoming letters are sorted and indexed by name of author, while outgoing and inter-office letters are organized chronologically. The correspondence primarily involved member unions and government officials. The subject files—which contain reports, memoranda, and some correspondence grouped together by subject—mostly cover topics between 1946 and 1970. There are, however, small subject files on the 1919 strike, the Council's internal power struggles in the early 1920s, and the AFL vs. CIO jurisdictional disputes of the 1930s. The accession also contains the complete minutes of the Council from 1915 to 1954 and from 1963 to 1970, documenting all of the organization's formal resolutions and actions. There is also a copy of the minutes of the Council's Executive Board for 1906 to 1907, 1913 to 1957, 1960 to 1965, and 1969 to 1970. The Executive Board's primary duty was to hear union complaints against local businesses and to decide which firms would be placed on the "unfair" list. In addition, the Council's membership and tax records from 1889 to 1962 are found in this accession.
Records of the Council's committees make up another series. Included are committees to defeat the right-to-work initiatives in 1956 and 1958, the Public Relations Committee from 1959 to 1963, and the Committee on Political Education from 1963 to 1968 form another subgroup.
The West Central Labor Union Records series consists of the minutes and the financial records of the Council's predecessor, the West Central Labor Union, from 1891 to 1905.
The Other Labor Organizations series includes records from the United Labor Advisory Committee Against Initiative 202, the Seattle American Publishing Company, and others.
Restrictions on Use
For "Seattle General Strike Materials" in box 6, researchers must use photocopies rather than originals.
Oversize boxes 37 and 38 are stored offsite; advance notice is required for their use.
Acquisition Info
Donated by King County Labor Council of Washington in 1969 and 1972.
Processing Info
An earlier donation, Accession no. 1201, was merged with records from the 1969/1972 donation to form Accession no. 1940-001 in ca. 2000.
Box/Folder Date
Administrative Records
1/1 Historical Features undated
1/2 Organizational Features 1961
1/3-4 Outgoing Letters 1946-1968
General Correspondence
1/5 Adams, Brock 1965-1968
1/6 Air Division - Rainier Lodge No. 3009, Brotherhood of Railway Clerks 1961-1969
1/7 Air Line Pilots Association 1960-1965
1/8 Alaska Fish Cannery Workers' Union of the Pacific 1965
1/9 Allied Printing Trades Council 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965
1/10 American Federation of Labor - President 1950-1955
1/11 AFL-CIO. Organizers 1959-1965
1/12-13 AFL-CIO. President (George Meany) 1957-1968
1/14 AFL-CIO. Maritime Trades Department 1963, 1966-1967
1/15 AFL-CIO. Union Label and Service Trades Department 1960, 1965-1969
1/16-17 AFL-CIO. Miscellaneous 1957-1968
1/18 American Federation of Television and Radio Artists 1960-1969
1/19 American Federation of Women's Auxiliary of Labor. Seattle Clerks Council 1959
1/20 American Newspaper Guild 1966
1/21 American Newspaper Guild #82 1962, 1964, 1968
1/22 Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation. Western Washington Chapter 1960
1/23 Auto Painters, Local #518 1960, 1968
1/24 Auto Sheet Metal Workers, Local #387 1961, 1968
2/1 Automotive Machinists, International Association, Lodge # 289 1958-1969
2/2 Automotive Trade Council of Seattle, King County and Vicinity 1960-1965, 1967
2/3 Bakery and Confectionery Workers, Seattle Local 1952
2/4 Barbers, Journeymen, International Union, Local #195 1961-1969
2/5 Bartenders, International Union #487 1962-1969
2/6 Beauticians, International Union, Local #195 1960-1968
2/7 Bender, James 1968
2/8 Bering Sea Fishermen's Union 1968
2/9 Better Business Standards Association 1960-1968
2/10 Bill Posters and Billers International Alliance, #49 1961-1966
2/11 Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, Helpers International Brotherhood, #104 1960-1969
2/12 Bookbinders, International Brotherhood, Local #22 1961-1962
2/13 Bookbinders, International Brotherhood, #87 1960-1969
2/14 Boot and Shoe Workers Union, Local #37 1960-1967
2/15 Re: Bostonian, Armene E. (National Labor Relations Board) 1964-1969
2/16 Boy Scouts of America 1960, 1962, 1966
2/17 Brick and Clay Workers, United, Local #458 1960, 1962
2/18 Brick and Clay Workers, United, Local #582 1961-1969
2/19 Bricklayers, Masons, Plasterers, International Union, Local #2 1967
2/20 Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers International Association, Local #506 1962-1969
2/21 Bridge, Structural, Reinforcing Steel and Ornamental Iron Workers, Riggers and Machinery Movers, Local #86 1962-1969
2/22-23 Broom and Whisk Broom Makers, #84 (Lighthouse for the Blind) 1958-1961
3/1 Broom and Whisk Broom Makers, #84 (Lighthouse for the Blind) 1961-1963, 1966
3/2-3 Building and Construction Trades Council, Seattle 1946, 1963-1969
3/4-7 Building Service Employees International Union, Local #6 1958-1969
3/8 Building Trades Council, Seattle 1946-1950
3/9 Card and Label League, Renton and Vicinity 1966
3/10 Card and Label League, Seattle 1953, 1968
3/11 Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood, #131 1962-1969
3/12 Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood, Local #1368 1964, 1965, 1969
3/13 Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood, #1289 1960-1969
3/14 Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood, Local #1708 1961
3/15 Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood, Local #1797 1958-1961, 1965
3/16 Carpenters and Joiners, United Brotherhood. Millmen's Union, Local #338 1961-1969
3/17 Carpet, Linoleum, and Soft Tile Layers Union, Local #1238 1964-1969
3/18 Cement, Lime, and Gypsum Workers', International Union #37 1968
3/19 Cement, Lime, and Gypsum Workers', International Union #47 1960-1969
3/20 Central Labor Councils 1959-1966
Bremerton Labor Council
Grays Harbor Labor Council
Kitsap County Central Labor Council
Pierce County Central Labor Council
Skagit Valley Central Labor Council
Snohomish County Labor Council
Spokane County Labor Council
Wenatchee Central Labor Council
Whatcom County Central Labor Council
3/21 Central Labor Councils, East of the Mississippi 1960, 1962, 1965
3/22 Central Labor Councils, West of the Mississippi 1960-1968
3/23 Century Savings and Loan Association 1961-1963
4/1 Re: Century 21 Meetings 1958-1962
4/2 Chamber of Commerce, Seattle 1964-1968
4/3 Chamber of Commerce, Seattle. Construction and Civic Development Division 1961
4/4 Chemical Workers, International Union #121 1960-1963, 1968
4/5 Children's Home Society, Washington 1969
4/6 Citizens Committee for Postal Reform 1969
4/7 Citizens Committee to Modernize 1909 Sunday Blue Law 1961-1962
4/8 Committee of 100 - Continental, Inc. (Greater Seattle YMCA Development Program) 1961
4/9 Communications Workers of America, District 9 1968-1969
4/10 Cooks and Assistants #33 1960-1968
4/11 CIO Council, Seattle 1957
4/12 Council of Planning Affiliates 1968
4/13 Council on Aging 1963-1968
4/14 Culinary Workers and Bartenders Union, Local #596 1956, 1961, 1963, 1969
4/15 Democrats (Miscellaneous) 1963-1964, 1967
4/16 Dental Workers Union #29 1961
4/17 Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers International #1002 1960-1969
4/18 Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers International Union #1207 1966-1969
4/19 Electrical Workers, International Brotherhood #46 1959-1968
4/20 Electrical Workers, International Brotherhood #77 1950, 1954, 1961-1969
4/21 Elevator Constructors, International Union #19 1960-1968
4/22 Embalmers, Master Licensed #18189 1960-1962
4/23 Farm Workers National Association (United Farm Workers) 1965-1969
4/24 Fire Fighters, International Association #27 1961-1969
4/25 Fire Fighters, International Association, Local #864 1969
4/26 Fire Fighters, International Association, (Renton) #1604 1966
4/27 Fire Fighters, International Association #1257 1961
4/28 Fire Fighters, International Association #1352 1968-1969
4/29 Fire Fighters, International Association, (King County Fire District #11), Local #1810 1969
4/30 Firemen and Oilers, International Brotherhood #193 1961-1962, 1967-1968
4/31 Firemen's Marine Union. Seattle Branch 1967
4/32 Flight Engineers International Association, Seattle 1959-1962, 1966
4/33 Flint Glass Workers Union, American, Local #68 1964-1965
4/34 Furniture Workers Union, Local #3197 1960-1966
4/35 Garmatz, Edward 1966
5/1 Garment Workers of America, United, Local #17 1960-1969
5/2 Glass Bottle Blowers Association, Local #50 undated
5/3 Glass Bottle Blowers Association, Local #87 1962-1969
5/4 Glove Workers Union of America undated
5/5 Government Employees, American Federation, #40 1960-1967
5/6 Government Employees, American Federation #2196 1963
5/7 Grain Millers, American Federation, International #86 1961-1969
5/8 Greater Seattle Incorporated 1959-1969
5/9 Heat and Frost Inspectors and Asbestos Workers, International Association Local #7 1965, 1969
5/10 Hod Carriers and General Laborers Union, Local #242 1960-1969
5/11 Horseshoers Union, Local #13 1961
5/12 Hospital Workers, Seattle and King County, Local #301 1954-1960, 1964
5/13-20 Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders, International Union. Local Joint Executive Board 1955-1968
6/1 Hotel, Motel, and Club Service Employees Union, Local #551 1961-1969
6/2 Independence Day Celebration Committee, Seattle 1960-1968
6/3 Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific 1962-1969
6/4 Insurance Workers Union, International, Local #1 1959, 1962-1965
6/5 International Little League Baseball Association, Seattle League 1963
6/6 Jackson, Henry M. 1960-1968
6/7 Jewelry Workers Union, International, Local #30 1961, 1968-1969
6/8 Journeymen Tailors Union, Local #71 1961-1964, 1969
6/9 King County. Commissioners and Other County Offices 1960-1967
6/10 King County Citizens For All-Purpose Stadium Now 1966
6/11 King County Coroners Employees, Local #1652 1960-1967
6/12 King County Law Enforcement Employees, Local #967 1958-1963
6/13 King County Welfare Employees, Local #843 1965-1969
6/14 KIRO Radio and Television 1965-1966, 1969
6/15-16 Ladies Garment Workers Union, International, Local #184 1960-1969
6/17 Laundry and Dry Cleaning Drivers, Local #566 1964-1965
6/18 League of Women Voters of Seattle 1960-1967
Box
37/1 Leif Erikson League    OVERSIZE 1964, 1968
Box/Folder
6/19 Letter Carriers, National Association, Seattle Branch, Local #79 1960-1969
6/20 Litchman, Mark 1963, 1965
6/21 Lithographers and Photoengravers, International Union #23 1962-1966
6/22 Lithographers and Photoengravers, International Union, Local #45 1964-1969
6/23 Luggage Workers Union, Local #51 1959-1969
6/24 Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union, Local #2519 1959-1969
6/25 Machinists, International Association, Seattle Flight Engineer Lodge #1258 1960-1964
6/26 Machinists, International Association, Hope Lodge #79 1960-1969
6/27 Machinists, International Association, Aeronautical Industrial District, Lodge #751 1959-1967
6/28 Machinists, International Association, Air Transport Lodge #1040 1960-1961
6/29 Machinists, International Association, Air Transport Lodge #1351 1964
6/30 Magnuson, Warren G. 1960-1968
7/1 Mailers Union, Seattle, Local #32 1960-1969
7/2 Marine Cooks and Stewards, Seattle 1958, 1960, 1964
7/3 Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, #38 and Pacific Coast District 1959-1968
7/4 Maritime Trades Department, Puget Sound District Council 1963-1969
7/5 Marking Device Union, Local #629 1968
7/6 Masters, Mates and Pilots, International, Local #6 1968
7/7 Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Amalgamated (Miscellaneous Locals) 1960, 1964, 1967
7/8-9 Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen Union, Amalgamated, Meat Cutters, Local #81 1961-1969
7/10 Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen Union, Amalgamated, Packinghouse, Local #186 1963-1964, 1968
7/11 Meeds, Lloyd 1965-1968
7/12 Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers, and Helpers International Union, Local #14 1961-1964, 1968
7/13-14 Metal Trades Council of Seattle and Vicinity 1960-1966
7/15-17 Musicians Association, Seattle, Local #76 1960-1969
7/18 Re: Musician's Convention 1962
7/19 National Conference of Christians and Jews. Washington Region 1964-1969
7/20 National Council of Senior Citizens 1964-1968
7/21 National Maritime Union of America 1962-1963, 1967, 1969
7/22 Nile Shrine Circus 1962-1965
7/23 Northwest Council for Economic Education 1963-1967
7/24 Office and Professional Employees, Local #8 1958
8/1-2 Office and Professional Employees, Local #8 1958-1969
8/3 Office and Professional Employees, Local #349 1960-1961
8/4 Offset Workers, Printing Pressmen, and Assistants' Union #39 1960-1967
8/5 Operating Engineers, International, Local #286 1964-1969
8/6 Operating Engineers, International Union, #302 1960-1969
8/7 Operating Engineers, International Union, Local #303 1967-1968
8/8 Operating Engineers, International Union, Local #609 1961, 1969
8/9 Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons, International Association, Plasterer's Union Local #77 1966
8/10 Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons, International Association, Cement Masons Local #528 1960-1961, 1964-1969
8/11 Paint and Brush Makers Union #1094 1967-1969
8/12 Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, Brotherhood, #5 1959, 1963
8/13 Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, Brotherhood, #32 1960-1962
8/14 Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, Local #188 1959-1970
8/15 Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, Brotherhood, Local #300 1961-1969
8/16 Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, Brotherhood, #1105 1967
8/17-18 Pelly, Thomas 1960-1969
8/19 Peoples National Bank of Washington 1964-1969
8/20-21 Pharmacists and Retail Drug Store Employees Union #330 1958-1969
8/22 Pile Drivers, Dock, Wharf, and Bridge Carpenters, and Divers, Local #2396 1960
8/23 Plumbing and Pipe Fitters Union #32 1964-1968
8/24 Police Officers, Renton, Local #953 1959
8/25 Re: Political Material 1968-1969
8/26 Portland Daily Reporter 1963
8/27 Portrait, Commercial, and Photofinishers #23122 1965-1966
8/28 Postal Clerks, United Federation of #28 1959-1969
9/1 Postal Clerks, United Federation, Renton #3734 1966
9/2 Printing Specialties and Paper Products Union #380 1960-1969
9/3 Professional and Technical Engineers Association, Local #17 1960-1969
9/4 Pulp, Sulfite, and Paper Mill Workers, Local #817 1960, 1964
9/5 Radio Broadcast Technicians, Local Union 1264 1967
9/6 Repeatermen and Toll Testboardmen #1011 1960-1968
9/7 Restaurant Association of Washington State 1960, 1963-1967
9/8 Retail Clerks, International Association 1960-1967
9/9 Retail Clerks, International Association, Local #299 1960-1967
9/10-12 Retail Clerks, International Association, Local #1207 1959-1969
9/13-14 Retail Clerks, International Association, Local #1404 1959-1967
9/15 Retail Clerks, International Association, Local #1421 1960-1967
9/16 Retail Clerks, International Association, Local #1640 1960-1968
9/17 Retail Food and Drug Clerks #1105 1960-1969
9/18 Retail Store Employees Union #1001 1968-1969
9/19 Roofers, United Slate, Tile and Composition, Damp, and Waterproof Workers' Association, Local #54 1959, 1963
9/20 Sailors Union of the Pacific 1961-1966
9/21 Re: Scanner 1968-1969
9/22 Seafarers' International Union. Seattle 1962-1968
9/23-24 Seattle. City Council 1962-1967
10/1 Seattle. City Council. Equal Opportunities Seminar Committee 1968-1969
10/2 Seattle. City Departments 1961-1967
10/3 Seattle. Lighting Department. Electric Rates Committee 1964, 1967
10/4-5 Seattle. Mayor (Gordon S. Clinton, J.D. Braman, Floyd C. Miller) 1960-1969
10/6-8 Seattle. Public Schools 1954, 1957, 1960-1968
10/9 Seattle Area Industrial Council 1959-1968
10/10 Seattle Center Stadium Site, Ad Hoc Committee 1968
10/11 Seattle Committee on Alcoholism 1964, 1966
10/12 Seattle Convention and Tourist Bureau 1959-1968
10/13 Seattle Junior Programs, Incorporated 1965, 1967
10/14 Seattle - King County Safety Council 1960-1966
10/15 Seattle Newsboys' Union, Local #621 1959-1969
10/16 Seattle Post-Intelligencer 1961, 1964-1967
10/17 Seattle Symphony Orchestra 1962-1969
10/18 Re: Seattle University Building Program 1959-1961
10/19 Seattle Urban Renewal Enterprise 1962-1966
10/20 Seattle Visitors Bureau 1966-1969
10/21 Sheet Metal Workers, International Association #99 1961-1964, 1967-1969
10/22 Sheet Metal Workers International Association #383 1964-1969
11/1 Sign and Pictorial Painters Union #435 1960-1969
11/2 State, County, and Municipal Employees #57 1960-1961
11/3 State, County, and Municipal Employees American Federation Local #378 1964
11/4 State, County, and Municipal Employees American Federation Miscellaneous Locals 1961-1969
11/5 Steelworkers of America, United, Local #6 1960, 1965
11/6 Steelworkers of America, United, Local #1208 1960-1961, 1969
11/7 Steelworkers of America, United, Local #3112 1958, 1966
11/8 Steelworkers of America, Miscellaneous Locals 1958, 1961-1964
11/9 Stereotypers and Electrotypers Union, Seattle, Local #65 1960-1969
11/10 Stinson, Bill 1963-1964
11/11 Street, Electric Railway, and Motor Coach Employees of America, Amalgamated Association, Local #587 1961-1969
General Notes : Name changed to Amalgamated Transit Union, 1965.
11/12 Street Pavers, Sewers, Watermain, and Tunnel Workers, #440 1960-1963, 1969
11/13 Street Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America. Amalgamated Association, Local #1384 1958-1960, 1966
11/14 Teachers, Federal Way Federation, #1738 1967-1969
11/15 Teachers, Seattle Community College Federation 1969
11/16-17 Teachers, Seattle Federation 1961-1970
11/18 Teachers, Shoreline College Federation, #1950 1969
11/19 Teamsters, International Brotherhood. Joint Council #28 1965-1969
11/20 Teamsters Miscellaneous Locals 1961-1962, 1969
11/21 Telegraph Workers, United Local #40 1960-1970
11/22 Theatrical Federation of Seattle and Vicinity 1960, 1962, 1968
11/23 Theatrical Press Agents and Managers, Association, Local #18032 1962
11/24 Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators, International Alliance #F-21 1960-1965
11/25 Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators, International Alliance, Local #15 1960-1965
11/26 Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators, International Alliance, Local #154 1961-1967
11/27 Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators, International Alliance, Local #175 1967, 1969
11/28 Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators, International Alliance, Local #659 1965-1968
11/29 Theatrical Wardrobe Attendants. Local #887 1963-1969
11/30 Tollefson, Thor C. 1961-1964
11/31 Transport Service Employees, United, Local #903 1963
11/32 Transport Workers Union of America, Local #506 1963
11/33 Transport (Air) Workers' Union, Local #523 1965
11/34 Turn Towards Peace 1964-1965
11/35-36 Typographical Union, Seattle #202 1960-1969
11/37 United Automobile-Aerospace-Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) Local #232 undated
12/1 U.S. Department of the Army 1965-1968
12/2 U.S. President's Committee on Consumer Interests 1968
12/3 U.S. Labor Department 1961-1964, 1968
12/4 U.S. State Department. Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau 1963-1969
12/5 U.S. State Department 1962-1969
12/6 U.S. Miscellaneous Departments 1960-1968
12/7-8 University of Washington 1960-1969
12/9 Upholsterers, International Union, Local #6 1961-1969
12/10 Urban League [National] (leap program) 1967
12/11 Urban League. Seattle 1968-1969
12/12 Valley Publishing Company 1962
12/13 Waiters' Union, Local #239 1960-1969
12/14 Waitresses' Union, Local #240 1959-1969
12/15 Washington. Commerce and Economic Development Department 1968-1969
12/16 Washington. Governor (Albert D. Rosellini, Daniel J. Evans) 1963-1968
12/17 Washington. Governor. Labor Advisory Council 1965-1966
12/18 Washington. Labor and Industries 1963-1967
12/19 Washington. Legislature. Interim Committee on Education 1960, 1964
12/20-22 Washington. Public Assistance Department 1960-1968
12/23 Washington. State Miscellaneous Departments 1961-1966
13/1 Washington Federation of State Employees #976 1959-1969
13/2 Web Pressmen's Union. Local #26 1960-1969
13/3 Western Washington Fair 1960-1967
13/4 Westland, Jack 1961-1964
13/5 Window Cleaners Union, Local #23 1961-1969
13/6 Women's City Club of Seattle 1962-1963
13/7 Wood, Wire, and Metal Lathers International Union, Local #104 1968
13/8 Woodworkers of America, International #3-26 1963-1969
13/9 Young Women's Christian Association. Seattle 1960-1968
13/10-25 A-R Miscellaneous 1955, 1958-1969
14/1-7 S-Z Miscellaneous 1959-1970
Subject Series
14/8 American Arbitration Association 1966-1968
14/9 Apprenticeship Programs 1962, 1965-1967
14/10 Banquet 1962
14/11 Business - Education Day Program Schedule 1959, 1963-1967
14/12 Charges Against Delegates 1937, 1939
14/13 Civil Rights 1963-1964, 1967-1969
14/14 Committee for Voluntary Unionism 1967
14/15 Credentials 1958, 1964
14/16 Education 1959
14/17 Election Data 1952-191957
15/1 Floating Ship Information 1962
15/2 Forward Thrust 1967-1968
15/3 Initiative #245 1968
15/4 Labor Center undated
15/5 Labor Day 1966
15/6-7 Labor Education Day (including photographs) 1954
15/8 Labor News (Miscellaneous) 1968-1969
15/9 "Labor Week" 1961-1966
15/10 Opera (Seattle) 1964
15/11 Political Information 1952
15/12 Radio and Television Editorials 1967
15/13 Registration Drive Clerks 1968
15/14-15 Rossellini, Albert D. 1962
15/16 Rule 23 undated
15/17 Seadrunar (Seattle Drug and Narcotics Center, Inc.) undated
15/18 Seattle. Model City Program 1968
15/19 Seattle General Strike 1919
"Strike Bulletin" Central Labor Council, King County Feb. 7, 1919
"The Seattle General Strike" Issued by the History Committee of the General Strike Committee
"Minutes of Meetings" of the General Strike Committee and its Executive Committee Feb. 2-6, 1919
15/20 Seattle Leadership Council 1961
15/21 Seattle Union Record Controversy 1921-1925
15/22 "Seavillage" 1961
15/23 Self-Improvement Group 1963
15/24 Seminars 1968-1969
15/25 Senior Citizens 1967-1968
15/26 Soos Creek - Zoning 1969
15/27 Strikebreakers Ordinance - Typographical 1964-1965
16/1 Trials 1942, 1951-1952
16/2-3 Trials, Communist 1925-1929
16/4 V.O.T.E.R. Committee, King County (Volunteer Organization To Encourage Registration) 1968
16/5-6 Washington. Department of Labor and Industry 1959-1962
16/7-11 Washington. Legislature 1961-1964, 1968
16/12-15 Washington State Federation of Labor Convention 1962
16/16-17 Western Shipbuilding Association 1962
Box
17 Minutes 1915-1927
18 Minutes 1928-1947
Box/Folder
19/1-7 Minutes 1946-1962
20/1-8 Minutes 1963-1970
Reports
21/1-2 Delegates 1949-1967
21/3 Per Capita 1957-1959
21/4-5 Conferences and Conventions - Washington State Federation of Labor 1957-1961
21/6 Membership Records 1962
21/7 Newsletters - The American Federalist 1969
21/8 Bulletin - Associated Industries of Seattle 1931
21/9 Press Releases 1961, 1964
Resolutions
21/10 Condolence 1948-1968
21/11 Miscellaneous 1949-1968
21/12 Agreements - Miscellaneous 1937-1942
21/13 Case Files - News Boys Union 1942
21/14 Petitions 1967
21/15 Certificates and Memorabilia 1952-1956
22/1-9 Photographs 1941, 1958
22/10 Clippings 1937-1941, 1945-1946
Ephemera
22/11 AFL-CIO undated
22/12 Miscellaneous undated
22/13-14 Financial Records 1950-1960
Box
23 Roll Call Books 1920-1964
23 Membership and Per Capita Tax Record 1889-1892, 1907-1925
24 Membership and Per Capita Tax Record 1926-1962
24 Cash Books 1910-1919
37 Cash Books    OVERSIZE 1926-1938
38 Cash Books    OVERSIZE 1938-1950
Committees and Board Records
Box/Folder
25/1-3 King County Labor Council, AFL-CIO Merger Committee 1957
King County Labor Council, Committee to Defeat Initiative #198
25/4 Outgoing Letters - Form Letters to Clubs, Unions, Etc. 1956
General Correspondence
25/5 Seminar Correspondence 1956
25/6 Miscellaneous 1955-1956
Minutes
25/7 Seattle Central Labor Council's Committee to Oppose Initiative #198 1956
25/8 United Labor Advisory Committee Against Initiative #198 1956
25/9 Financial Records 1956
25/10 Clippings 1956
25/11-12 Ephemera 1954
25/13 Resolutions 1954
25/14 Press Release undated
Subject Series
25/15 Initiative 198 (PRO) 1956
25/16 Radio and T.V. Advertising 1956
25/17-18 King County Labor Council, Community Services Committee 1960-1967
25/19 King County Labor Council, Constitution and By-Laws Committee 1957, 1959, 1964
King County Labor Council, Executive Board
25/20 Minutes and Agenda 1906-1907
Box
26 Minutes and Agenda 1913-1947
Box/Folder
27/1-12 Minutes and Agenda 1947-1954
28/1-12 Minutes and Agenda 1958-1963
29/1-11 Minutes and Agenda 1964-1969
30/1-3 Minutes and Agenda 1969-1970
30/4 Statement 1923
30/5-6 King County Labor Council, Finance Committee 1917, 1950-1957
King County Labor Council, King County Area C.O.P.E. (Committee On Political Education)
General Correspondence
30/7 Miscellaneous 1958-1968
30/8 C.O.P.E. National 1965, 1967
30/9 Minutes 1958
30/10 Reports 1958
30/10 Roll Call Book undated
30/11 News Releases 1968
30/12 Clippings 1968-1969
30/13 Financial Records 1959-1960, 1964
Subject Series
30/14 Matching Funds 1968
31/1 King County Labor Council, Labor Management - Automation and Unemployment Committee 1966
31/2 King County Labor Council, Organizing Committee 1964
31/3-5 King County Labor Council, Public Relations Committee 1959-1966
31/6-7 King County Labor Council, Renton Division 1959-1969
31/8-9 King County Labor Council, Seattle Union Card and Label Council (Including King County Union Card and Label Council) Trustees Board 1958-1969
31/10 General Correspondence 1958-1961
31/11-12 Minutes 1958-1963
32/1 Memoranda 1958
Reports
32/2 Trustees Board 1957-1960
32/3 Monthly 1958-1963
32/4 Financial 1961
32/5 Secretary 1958
32/6 Financial Records 1957-1963
32/7 Finance Committee 1958
Subject Series
32/8-9 Labor News 1958-1965
32/10 Labor Press Publishing Company 1950, 1960
Western Central Labor Union
Box
35 Minutes 1891-1895, 1898-1905
35 Cash Books 1892-1902
36 Cash Books 1898-1912, 1917-1919
36 Roll Call Books 1901-1905, 1909-1914
Other Labor Organizations
36 Domestic Workers Union #15836
36 Minutes 1917
36 Seattle American Publishing Company
36 General Correspondence 1907
36 Record Book 1907
Box/Folder
32/11 Seattle Labor Temple Association 1942-1969
32/12-26 United Labor Advisory Committee Against Initiative 202 1958
32/12 Incoming Letters - From Employers 1958
32/13 Outgoing Letters 1958
General Correspondence
32/14 Committee Against So - Called "Right-To-Work" Initiative #202 1958
32/15-16 Luncheon Rally 1958
Minutes
32/17 Committee Against Initiative 202 1958
32/18 United Labor Advisory Committee Against Initiative 202 1958
32/19 Newsletters 1957-1958
32/20 Resolutions 1958
32/21 Financial Records 1958
Subject Series
32/22 Right-To-Work 1955-1958
32/23 Committee for Initiative 202 1957-1958
32/24 Ephemera 1958
32/25-26 Clippings 1958, 1960
33/1-2 Washington State Labor Council. Miscellaneous Trades Section 1959-1968
33/3-4 Washington State Labor News 1950-1968
Other Organizations
33/5 Capital Improvement Committee 1960
33/6-7 Four Freedoms House of Seattle 1961-1968
33/8-9 Greater Seattle, Inc. Board Of Directors 1960-1968
33/10 Job Corps Committee - Seattle United 1964-1966
33/11 John F. Kennedy Library Committee 1964
33/12 Pioneer Industries 1966-1968
33/13 Tallmadge Hamilton House for Senior Citizens 1960-1961
33/14 United Good Neighbors of Seattle and King County 1959-1961
34/1-2 United Good Neighbors of Seattle and King County 1962-1964
34/3-6 Washington. Governor's Advisory Committee on Salaries 1962-1968
34/7 Washington. Advisory Committee on School District Organization 1964
34/8 Washington Association for Mental Health. Steering Committee 1966-1967
34/9-10 Doyle, Charles W. 1933-1957
34/11 Merritt, Dick 1959-1960
 
Accession No. 1940-002
King County Labor Council of Washington Records, 1970-2003 (Bulk: 1990-2000)
20.00 cubic ft. (20 boxes)
Arrangement
Accession 1940-002 is divided into four series: Administrative Records, Correspondence with Affiliated Unions, Subject Series, and the Committee on Political Education.
Scope and Content
The Administrative Records series include minutes from 1987-1997 and financial statements from 1982-1999. There also is Correspondence with Affiliated Unions from 1983-2003, including Service Employees, Teamsters, and United Food and Commercial Workers. The Subject Series includes information about labor related topics as well as correspondence with non-affiliated organizations from 1970-200