Finding Aid to the William Neal Coleman Iron Workers International Union Collection larc.ms.0390

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1 No online items International Union Collection larc.ms.0390 Finding aid prepared by Labor Archives and Rsearch Center staff. Labor Archives and Research Center San Francisco State University 1630 Holloway Ave San Francisco, CA, (415) larc.ms /036 1

2 Title: William Neal International Union collection Date (bulk): Date (inclusive): Creator: Coleman, William Neal Collection number: larc.ms.0390 Accession number: 2010/036 Extent: 19.5 cubic feet (17 cartons) Repository: Labor Archives and Research Center J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460 San Francisco State University 1630 Holloway Ave San Francisco, CA (415) Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English and Spanish. Abstract: Consists of materials related to Coleman's work as General Organizer and International Representative for the Iron Workers International Union. Includes weekly reports, correspondence, convention proceedings, and minutes for the District Council meetings, and contracts for locals 509 (Los Angeles), 624 (Fresno), 627 (San Diego), 790 (San Francisco, Oakland), 562 (Salt Lake City), 801 (Reno), and 803 (Honolulu), along with other District Council materials. Includes COPE, Shop Division, and Ironworkers conference materials, as well as ephemera, photographs, and publications produced by various locals of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers. Artifacts consist of union memorabilia, including Coleman's collection of convention pins and badges. Location: Collection is available onsite. Availability Collection is open for research. Restrictions Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives & Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Labor Archives & Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], William Neal International Union Collection, larc.ms.0390, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University. Separated Materials Original photographs from folders are filed in LARC photograph collection. Acquisition Donated by George M. Cross in 2010, accession number 2010/036. Processing Information Collection rehoused in 2011 by Jaclyn Gonzalez. Finding aid revised in 2014 by Frances Wratten Kaplan. Arrangement Arranged as received, in the following series: Series 1, National; Series 2, Local 509; Series 3, Various Locals; Series 4, Conference Materials; Series 5, Personal Documents; Series 6, Photographs and Illustrations; Series 7, Publications; Series 8, Artifacts Biography of William Neal Coleman William Neal Coleman was General Organizer and International Representative for the Iron Workers International Union, and a member of Iron Workers Local 509. History of Iron Workers International Union In the late 1800s, the increased number of railroads around the United States, combined with the use of new materials such as cast iron and steel, led to stronger, safer forms of bridges being built to support them. At the same time, these new materials also allowed for innovative forms of building construction to be developed. The face of the construction industry larc.ms /036 2

3 was changing, and a specialized type of iron worker was born. Structural and ornamental ironworkers were responsible for the construction of some of the most famous structures in North America, including the Brooklyn Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sears Tower, and the World Trade Center. The extremely dangerous nature of the work, and the lack of workmen's rights, led to the formation of The International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers of America on February 4, Today the union represents 120,000 ironworkers across America who work on bridges, structural steel, ornamental, architectural, and miscellaneous metals, rebar, and in shops. Scope and Contents Comprises materials related to Coleman's work as General Organizer and International Representative for the Iron Workers International Union. Includes weekly reports, correspondence, convention proceedings, and minutes for the District Council meetings, and contracts for locals 509 (Los Angeles), 624 (Fresno), 627 (San Diego), 790 (San Francisco, Oakland), 562 (Salt Lake City), 801 (Reno), and 803 (Honolulu), along with other District Council materials. Includes COPE, Shop Division, and Ironworkers conference materials, as well as ephemera, photographs, and publications produced by various locals of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers. Artifacts consist of union memorabilia, including Coleman's collection of convention pins and badges. Subjects and Indexing Terms International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers. Local 509 (Los Angeles, Calif.) International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers. Iron and steel workers--california--los Angeles. Iron and steel workers--labor unions--california--los Angeles. Iron and steel workers--labor unions--organizing. Iron and steel workers--labor unions--united States. Series 1: National Extent: folders (Cartons 1-7; Folders 1-15) Circular letters Folders 1-3 Organizing-general Folders 4-5 Folder 6 Organizing campaigns 1956 Organizing materials , undated Folders 7-8 Folder 9 Havco Metal MFG. Co. stipulation agreement 1959 Construction Metal Work Corp. stipulation 1959 Organizing meeting minutes 1964 October-1971 June Minutes Firms Comprising the National Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers 1959 Miscellaneous Election material undated Regional conference 1971 July 29 Bargaining between Butler Manufacturing and Local Folders Folder 1 International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers 32nd Convention 1964 October Folder 2 33rd convention 1968 larc.ms /036 3

4 Series 1: National Folder 3 34th convention th convention 1976 Folders 4-5 Folder 6 37th convention 1986 Staff meetings Folders 7-9 Coleman - General Organizer undated James V. Cole personal files Glazener, E.G. personal files Health insurance St. Louis staff conference 1970 Local union charges and trials: Instructions and forms Form letters undated Carton 3, Reports Folders 1-17, Carton 4, Folders 1-16 Carton 5, Special reports Folders 1-3 Carton 5, Folder 4 Miscellaneous special reports Carton 5, George Cross weekly reports Folders 5-6 Carton 5, Folder 7 Carlos Garcia weekly reports 1964 Carton 5, Frank Kroenig weekly reports Folders 8-11 Carton 5, Weekly reports from various representatives Folders Carton 5, General Treasurer and Secretary correspondence undated Correspondence Folders 1-4 General Organizer W.R. Trotter negotiations: Shopmen's Local Union No. 627 and the Folder 5-6 National Steel and Shipbuilding Company 1964 W.N. Coleman personal files Folders 7-10 W.N. Coleman personal files - correspondence 1961 Metal Industries Association negotiations Labor newsletters and reports: AFL-CIO Collective Bargaining Report; Labor's Economic Review; California Department of Employment News Letter; Economic Trends and Outlook; USO News Service Standards of Apprenticeship for Ornamental Metal Fabricators 1956 Western States and Western Canada Apprenticeship and Training Conference, Portland, Oregon 1980, June American Health Profiles, Inc Carton 7, Folder 1 Sheet Metal Work Pattern manual undated Carton 7, Folder 2 Pattern-making manual undated Carton 7, Folder 3 Safety Manual for Ironworker Journeymen and Apprentices, Manual IV 1973 larc.ms /036 4

5 Series 1: National Boxes 7, Folder 4 Safety Workbook for Ironworker Journeymen and Apprentices undated Carton 7, Steel fabrication course outline and course work undated Folders 5-7 Carton 7, Folder 8 Sheet Metal Pattern Drafting and Shop Problems 1961 Carton 7, Folder 9 Ironworkers Fabrication Manual 1957 Carton 7, District Council minutes Folders Carton 7, District Council general correspondence Shopmen's Business Agents' Meeting Folders 1-4 Memo from COPE Folders 5-7 Steel Fabricators Association of Southern CXalifornia, Inc Folder 8-9 Assignments Dues receipts Ironworkers stickers 1981 U.S. International Trade Commission Hearings 1978 January Steel imports notes and clippings Miscellaneous Series 2: Local 509 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Extent: folders ( Folders 16-20; Cartons 9-12; Folders 1-2) Organizing meetings Correspondence Folder Contract termination Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services notices Folder 20 Folder 1 National Labor Relations Board Folder 2 Organizing Folder 3 Contract Opening Folder 4 Special reports by General Organizer William N. Coleman Folder 5 Nominations 1968 General Folders 6-7 Election of Officers Folders 8-10 National Prepaid Health Plan Investigations of grievances Donald V. Ball Ronald G. Prohaska Darrel E. Shelton 1975 larc.ms /036 5

6 Series 2: Local 509 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Folder 17 Folder 20 Folder 21 Folder 22 Folder 23 Folder 25 Folder 26 Folder 27 Folder 28 Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 7 Folder 8 Folder 9 McNamara trial 1950 Di Pinto Manufacturing Company 1984 A. J. Bayer Company 1976 Absolute Steel 1981 Accurate Steel Fabricators, Inc Adams Iron Works Air Logistics Airport Iron Works 1983 Alcorn Fence Company Amber Steel Co., Inc Ana Rebar, Inc Anchor Post Products Anderson Fence Company Bellis Steel Co., Inc Besteel Company Blue Diamond negotiations 1969 Brisbane Iron Works Inc Brownyard Structural Steel Co Bryce W. Parker, Inc Buckner-Wilson Fabricators Burgeof Reinforcing Steel Contractor, Inc Burkett Fence Company CECO Corporation CECO Corporation negotiations 1969 Construction Metal Work Corp. agreements 1959 Crane Hoist Engineering Corp Crown Fence & Supply Co., Inc Delta Steel Co Douthitt Steel negotiations 1969 larc.ms /036 6

7 Series 2: Local 509 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Folder 17 Folder 20 Folder 21 Folder 22 Folder 23 Folder 25 Folder 26 Folder 27 Folder 28 Folder 29 Folder 30 Folder 31 Folder Folder 34 Folder 35 Folder 36 Folder 37 Folder 38 Folder 39 Folder 40 Folder 41 Folder 42 Folder 43 Folder 44 Folder 45 Folder 46 Duncan Fabricators Inc Economy Steel negotiations 1969 F. C. Russell Company 1956 F. H. Larrabee Iron Works Federated Employers of Nevada, Inc Fence Companies correspondence Film City Ornamental Iron Works Financial Welding Services, Inc Flintkote Company Franklin Reinforcing Steel Co General Conveyor, Inc General Metal Fabricators George D. Widman, Inc Global Erectors, Inc Grano Steel Corporation Great West Steel Industries, Inc Halsey Machine and Manufacturing Company Harold G. Belmer Reinforcing Steel Henderson's American Fence Company Judson Steel Corporation Kudko Diversified Inc Keith-Duke, Inc Klinger Steel Co Lambert Steel Company, Inc Les Wing Steel Fabrication, Inc Link-Belt Company Los Angeles Fencing Co Ludlow-Saylor Division of General Steel Industries, Inc Marathon Steel Company larc.ms /036 7

8 Series 2: Local 509 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Folder 47 Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folders 7-8 Folder 9 Folders Folders Folder Folder 25 Folder 26 Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folders 4-7 Folder 8 Folder 9 Meridian Iron Works, Inc Metalcrafts Products Company Millbar, Inc Modern Alloys, Inc Pascoe Steel Corp Pacific Placing Corp Penn-Griff Steel Co Republic Steel Corp Rebar Engineering, Inc Reinforced Rod companies negotiations Richwell Steel Co., Inc Riverside Steel Construction Company & Riverton Industrial Steel Construction Co Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc Steel Fabricators Association of Southern California, Inc. negotiations 1969 Standun Inc. Metal Fabrication Division, formerly SSP Standum Inc Santa Ana Steel Soule Steel Company negotiations Southern California Fence Company Star D Iron Works, Inc Steel Construction Service, Inc Steel Fabricators Association of Southern California, Inc. Negotiations 1974 Proposal 1972 Old Bargaining Agreements and negotiations Steg Mfg. Co Strong Steel Taylor Steel Company- Reinforcing Rod Division Taylor's Steel & Welding, Inc larc.ms /036 8

9 Series 2: Local 509 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Folder 17 Folder 20 Folder 21 Folder Folder 25 Folder Folder 28 Folder 29 Folders 1-2 Tubular Structures Corp. of America negotiations 1961 U.S. Steel Supply Division, U.S. Steel Corporation United Iron Works Varco-Prudence, Inc Vista Steel Company Wagner Steel, Inc Warnel Corp Waterbury Products Company 1975 The Way Co West Coast Metalcrafts Western Steel Council representing reinforcing rod companies Winter & Bain, Inc Yale Reinfocing Steel Co Independent Shops correspondence and agreements Agreements and By-Laws Misc. Companies Shops Out of Business Series 3: Various Locals Extent: folders ( Folders 3-26; Cartons 14-15; Folders 1-6) Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 7 Folder 8 Folder 9 Local 75 (Phoenix, Ariz.) General Idaho Maryland Industries, Inc. and International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 428 (Phoenix, Ariz.) Local 506 (Seattle, Wash.) Sash Companies, Seattle, Washington and vicinity Washington Metal Trades Inc Negotiations-Various Companies General correspondence Local 507 (Denver, Colo.) resolutions Local 511(Spokane, Wash.) general Local 516 (Portland, Or.) general Local 562 (Salt Lake City, Utah) larc.ms /036 9

10 Series 3: Various Locals Folder 17 Folder 20 Folder 21 Folder 22 Folder 23 Folder 25 Folder 26 Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folder 6 Folder 7 Folder 8 Folder 9 Folders General correspondence Organizing surveys 1965 Reports - Ronald L. Parsons 1982 Reports - Dennis R. Toney 1977 Allen Steel Company Allison Steel Manufacturing Company C F & I Fabricators of Utah Crager Wire & Iron Marathon Steel Company McNally Mountain States Steel Company Metals Manufacturing Company Provo Steel & Supply Company Soule Steel Co Tech-Steel Incorporated Western Steel Company, Salt Lake City, Utah Negotiations-Various Companies Local 581 (Tacoma, Wash.) General Coatings, Inc Correspondence Local 624 (Fresno, Calif.) Correspondence Arbitration cases Negotiations Proposed agreements 1977 Local 627 (Norwalk, Calif.) Correspondence 1977 Negotiations National Steel and Shipbuilding Co Agreements and By-Laws Local 712 (Vancouver, B.C.) negotiations 1968 Local 740 (Phoenix, Ariz.) larc.ms /036 10

11 Series 3: Various Locals Folders Folder 17 Folders Folder 25 Folder 26 Folder 27 Folder 28 Folder 29, Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 Folder 4 Folder 5 Folders 6-7 Folder 8 Folder 9-15 Folder 17 Correspondence Arbitration cases Contract opening letters Elections Alfred Moreno lawsuit Acme Steel Company Builders Mfg. Co Detroit Steel Joist of Arizona Evans Steel & Manufacturing Company, Inc Pioneer Steel & Mfg. Co Agreement between Shopmen's Local Union No. 740 and Cyrus Specialty Steel Company 1980 Reppel Steel & Supply Company, Inc Shelter Sales Co Techni-Builders Inc Western Fabricators Inc Local 790 (San Francisco/Oakland, Calif.) Correspondence Western Steel negotiations Agreements and By-Laws Local 796 (Tucson, Ariz.) By-Laws 1962 Automation Supply and Engineering Corp. negotiations 1974 Commercial Steel Fabricators, Inc Pima Steel Building Co Southern Arizona Steel Fabricator's Association 1962 Local 801 (Reno, Nev.) Correspondence Contract opening letters Elections larc.ms /036 11

12 Series 3: Various Locals Folder 20 Folder 21 Folders Folders Folder 27 Folder 1 Folder 2 Folders 3-5 Folder 6 Anvil Ornamental Products Great Basin Steel Co., Inc H & N Steel Fabricators Inc Martin Iron Works negotiations Martin Iron Works proposed agreements Reno Iron Works proposed agreements Reno Iron Works negotiations Local 803 (Waipahu, Hawaii) Correspondence Pacific Fabrication Ltd Steel Fabricators & Erectors of Hawaii Ziegler Steel Service Corp Series 4: Conference Materials Extent: 5.0 folders ( Folders 7-11) Boxes 16, Folder 7 COPE Area conference materials 1968 Regional Conference Shop Division, Portland, Oregon 1980, June 9-10 Folder 8 Ironworkers 1989 Regional Conference materials 1989 Folders 9-11 Series 5: Personal documents Extent: 5.0 folders ( Folders 12-16) George M. Cross Years of Service award 1992 Mr. and Mrs. W.N. Coleman invitations 1975 Mondale-Ferraro election bumper stickers 1984 Business cards undated Humorous union ephemera undated Series 6: Photographs and Illustrations Extent: 6.0 folders ( Folders 17-20; ; Oversize folder 1) Location of Originals Original photographs are filed in LARC photograph collection. Folders contain photocopies made from the originals. contains color copies; no original prints of these portraits were included in the collection. Oversize-folder 1, Folder 17 International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers convention photographs larc.ms /036 12

13 Series 6: Photographs and Illustrations Folder 20, Oversize-folder 1 Oversize-folder 1 Oversize-folder 1 National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. photographs undated Portraits: Charles R. Anding; Juel D. Drake; John H. Lyons; Illustrations undated District Council of Iron Workers of the State of California and Vicinity 1996, October 7 International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers 36th Convention of Delegates 1982 International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornmamental Iron Workers conference panorama undated Series 7: Publications Extent: 20.0 folders ( Folders 21-32; Folders 1-8) The Labor Directory Folder 21 Union Security: The Case Against the Compulsory Open Shop circa Folder 22 Unemployment and Imports in the Steel Industry 1977 Folder 23 Employees' Welfare Plan booklets undated Insurance benefit and pension fund booklets , undated Folder 25 Report of proceedings for the forty-sixth and forty-eighth annual conventions of the Folder 26 building and construction trades and the metal trades departments 1955 Instruction manuals undated Folder 27 Labor law guides undated Folder 28 Union Agreement Provisions bulletin 1942 Folder 29 AFL-CIO Policy Resolutions 1967 Folder 30 Shopmen's Local Union agreement - blank undated Folder 31 National Labor Relations Board rules and regulations handbook 1965 Folder 32 General Information and Rules (International Association of Bridge, Structural and Folder 1 Ornamental Iron Workers) undated Miscellaneous Agreements 1968, 1980 Folder 2 Constitution and By-Laws, District Council of Iron Workers 1953 Folder 3 Boxes 17, Folder 4 AFL-CIO Constitution 1973 Constitution of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Folder 5 Iron Workers Shopmen Steward's Manual undated Folder 6 Thalco training manuals Folder 7 Miscellaneous handbooks and reports undated Folder 8 Series 8: Artifacts , undated Extent: 15.0 folders ( Folders 9-23) larc.ms /036 13

14 Series 8: Artifacts , undated Folder 9 Folders Dues books for W. N. Coleman Union Dues Authorization card undated George M. Cross health insurance cards undated Notebook with annotations undated Pencil undated Union playing cards undated Pocket organizers 1982, undated W. N. Coleman union pins undated W.N. Coleman convention badges larc.ms /036 14