Ohio Valley District Council #2 Shoe Workers’ Champion, 1948 March-1949 February

The United Shoe Workers of America, Local 117 records dates from 1914 to 1949, and document two strikes: March 20-June 9, 1914 and May 16-July 28, 1949. The collection includes newspaper clippings, printed statements and radio speeches, election advertisements, and publications.

Newspapers represented include New Daily Blade , Portsmouth Daily Times, The Labor Review, The Cincinnati Enquirer , and The Cincinnati Times-Star . The 1914 clippings include statements by the major, announcements of benefits for the strikers, editorials, and reports of injunction suits and other trials. The clippings for 1949 include reports of the injunction suit and the results of the election between American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.