AFL-CIO Archives now available at UMD

The George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive is the largest single donation to the University Libraries and complements other labor-related collections in our libraries. To find out more about related labor collections in Special Collections, please view Collections By Subject: Labor In America.

The AFL-CIO Archive consists of approximately 40 million documents and other material that will help researchers better understand pivotal social movements in this country, including those to gain rights for women, children and minorities.

The Current list of re-opened record groups from the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive:

RG1:      Office of the President

• RG1-010              Office of the President.  Rosa Lee Guard Papers, 1904-1927
• RG1-011              Office of the President.  Samuel Gompers’ Copy Books, 1907 1924
• RG1-012              Office of the President.  Correspondence with Politicians, 1908‑1944
• RG1-013              Office of the President.  Samuel Gompers and Woodrow Wilson
• RG1-015              Office of the President.  William Green Papers, 1888, 1909 1952
• RG1-019              Office of the President.  President’s Files, William Green, 1869-1955
• RG1-023              Office of the President.  President’s Files, William Green, 1940‑1952
• RG1-026              Office of the President.  George Meany Papers, 1935-1960
• RG1-027              Office of the President.  President’s Files, George Meany, 1947-1960
• RG1-028              Office of the President.  Merger Files, State and Local Central Bodies, 1955‑1962
• RG1-038              Office of the President.  George Meany Files, 1940-1980
• RG1-039              Office of the President.  AFL-CIO Joint Minimum Wage Committee, 1954-1960
• RG1-040              Office of the President.  AFL Cornerstone Papers, 1881-1916
• RG1-041              Office of the President.  Jurisdiction Books, 1890-1978

RG2:      Secretary-Treasurer’s Office

• RG2-001              Secretary Treasurer’s Office.  Gabriel Edmonston Papers, 1881 1912
• RG2-002              Secretary Treasurer’s Office.  Frank Morrison’s Letterbooks, 1904 1925
• RG2-003              Secretary‑Treasurer’s Office.  Frank Morrison, 1911‑1914
• RG2-006              Office of the Secretary‑Treasurer.  Secretary‑ Treasurer’s Files, George Meany, 1940‑1953
• RG2-007              Office of the Secretary‑Treasurer.  Secretary‑ Treasurer’s Files:  William F. Schnitzler, 1952‑1980
• RG2-009              Secretary‑Treasurer’s Office.  AFL Account Books, 1887‑1925
• RG2-010              Secretary‑Treasurer’s Office.  AFL, AFL‑CIO Charter Books, 1891‑1966

RG4:      Executive Council

• RG4-004              Executive Council.  Correspondence, Minutes, Vote Books, 1891 1954
• RG4-005              Executive Council.  Samuel Gompers Memorial Committee, 1924‑1936
• RG4-006              Executive Council.  AFL CIO Executive Council Minutes, 1955 1969
• RG4-008              American Federation of Labor.  Executive Council Minutes, 1893-1955
• RG4-009              Congress of Industrial Organization.  Executive Board.  Proceedings, 1942-1955

RG5:     Office of the General Council

• RG5-001              Office of the General Council.  Lawyers Coordinating Committee Oral History Project

RG9:      Civil Rights Department

• RG9-001              Civil Rights Department.  AFL Records, 1943 1955; CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, 1948 1950; AFL CIO Director’s Files, 1956 1967
• RG9-002              Civil Rights Department.  Discrimination Case Files, 1947 1984

RG13:   Research Department

George Meany

• RG13-001           Research Department.  Boris Shishkin Papers, 1918, 1927-1971
• RG13‑002          Research Department.  Staff Files, Frank Fernbach, 1942 1968
• RG13‑003          Research Department.  Staff Files, Nat Goldfinger, 1947‑1966
• RG13‑004          CIO Research Department.  Staff Files, Everett Kassalow, 1947-1951
• RG13 005            Research Department.  Director’s Files, Stanley H. Ruttenberg, 1946-1964
• RG13‑006          Economic Research Department.  Office of Wage and Industrial Relations Records. Anne Draper Files, 1963‑1994
• RG13-007           Research Department.  Convention Files, 1953

RG18:   International Affairs Department

• RG18‑001          International Affairs Department.  Country Files, 1945‑1971
• RG18‑002          CIO International Affairs Department.  Director’s Files, Michael Ross, 1945‑1955
• RG18‑003          International Affairs Department.  Jay Lovestone Files, 1939 1974
• RG18‑004          Affairs Department.  Irving Brown Files, 1943‑1989
• RG18‑005          Affairs Department.  Staff Files:  George Delaney’s Files, 1921-1957
• RG18‑007          International Affairs Department.  International Labor Organizations Activities, 1946-1985
• RG18‑008          International Affairs Department.  AFL Advisors to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, 1944-1952
• RG18‑009          International Affairs Department.  Staff Files:  Serafino Romualdi’s Files, 1945-1961
• RG18‑010          International Affairs Department.  Country Files, 1969-1981.

RG20:  Information Department

• RG20-001           Information Department.  Major News Publications of the CIO, AFL, and AFL-CIO, 1894-1996
• RG20-002           Information Department.  CIO Union News Service, 1936-1950

RG95:   Private Donations

• RG95-001           Morris S. Novik Papers, 1940 1989
• RG95-002           Vanni Buscemi Montana Collection, 1925 1991
• RG95-003           Virginia Tehas Oral Interview
• RG95-004           Trades Union Congress Papers, 1942-1943
• RG95-005           United Labor Policy Committee, 1950-1951
• RG95-006           William Baillie Baird Papers, 1886-1927
• RG95-007           Private Donations.  Lane Kirkland Papers, 1863-1998
• RG95-008           Larry Rogin Papers, 1926-1988

RG96:   Still Images

• RG96-001           Photographic Prints
• RG96-003           Photographic Slides
• RG96-004           Morris B. Schnapper Collection