Summary Information
Title: United Transportation Union. Lodge 1293: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1917-1974
Creator: United Transportation Union. Lodge 1293 (Altoona, Wis.)
Call Number: Eau Claire Mss AF
Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (1 record center carton, 2 archives boxes, and 2 flat boxes)
Repository: Housed at the Area Research Center, William D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division
Archival Locations: UW-Eau Claire McIntyre Library / Eau Claire Area Research Ctr.
Abstract: Records of a labor union representing employees of the eastern division of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railroad. Included are minutes, 1917-1923, 19321959; correspondence; membership and attendance records; monthly treasurer's reports and information on claims; and miscellaneous communications received from the Grand Lodge of the union. The union was organized in Altoona in 1917 as Local 888 of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; when merger formed the United Transportation Union in 1968, it became Local 1293. Only a small portion of the documentation in the collection relates to the local's history as a member of the United Transportation Union.
Language: English
Search Terms/Subject Terms
- Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad
- Labor unions—Wisconsin—Altoona
- Railroads—Employees—Labor unions—Wisconsin
- Railroads—Wisconsin—Employees
- Altoona (Wis.)
- Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Lodge 888 (Altoona, Wis.)
Biography/History
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, formerly the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen, was organized by eight train service employees at Oneonta, New York, September 23, 1883. From its inception the union has endeavored
To unite the Railroad Trainmen; to promote their general welfare and advance their interests, social, moral, and intellectual; to protect their families by the exercise of a systematic benevolence very needful in a calling so hazardous as ours.... (Walter McCaleb, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, New York, 1936, p. 51)
In February, 1917, an organizational meeting was called at Altoona, Wisconsin by A.F. Whitney, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. The purpose of the meeting was to establish a lodge of the brotherhood with jurisdiction over members employed on the eastern division of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railroad (except for yardmen at the Twin Cities). The lodge became Local #888, popularly known as the Chippewa Valley Lodge.
In 1968, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, along with the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and Switchmen's Union of North America, merged to form the United Transportation Union (UTU). At this time, Local #888 became Local #1293, UTU.
Scope and Content Note
The records of the United Transportation Union, Local 1293, formerly Local 888 of Altoona, Wisconsin, span the years 1917 to 1974 and are arranged alphabetically by subject. They provide an informative, although somewhat sketchy, account of the activities of the local, with the emphasis on the period before the formation of the UTU. For this period, the records include fairly complete minutes, membership records, and financial records. There is little general correspondence, however, although there are minutes, circulars, and other communications from the Grand Lodge of the union. Virtually the only records documenting the post-merger period consist of monthly treasurer's reports and fragmentary correspondence concerning member benefits.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Acquisition Information: Presented by the Union, via Gerald A. Hagen, Altoona, Wisconsin, 1974-1978.
Accession Number: M74-284, M78-264
Processing Information: Processed by John Pfeil and John Fleckner, 1977; additions processed by Carolyn J. Mattern, 2001.
Contents List
Box 3 Folder 2 | Attendance records, 1917-1935 |
Claims | |
Box 1 Folder 1 | Through 1952 |
Box 1 Folder 2- 19 | 1953-1970 |
Box 1 Folder 20- 21 | Correspondence, General, 1917-1918, 1922-1924 |
Elections | |
Box 1 Folder 22 | General chairman, 1954-1974 |
Box 1 Folder 23 | Local, 1954-1974 |
Box 1 Folder 24 | Financial report, 1917 |
Box 1 Folder 25, 48 | Five Day Week, 1949-1952, 1958 |
Box 1 Folder 26 | General Committee (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha), Minutes, 1917-1933 |
Box 1 Folder 27 | Grand Lodge (Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen), Circulars, 1915-1923 |
Box 1 Folder 28 | Jurisdiction, 1948, 1952-1953 |
Membership | |
Box 1 Folder 29 | General application records, 1917-1929 |
Box 1 Folder 30 | Anderson, Arthur N., 1952-1957 |
Box 1 Folder 31 | Cole, George E., 1952-1970 |
Box 1 Folder 32 | Coyle, Frank W., 1951 |
Box 1 Folder 33 | Eckert, Anton F., 1953-1959 |
Box 1 Folder 34 | Fehrenbach, George J., 1948-1966 |
Box 1 Folder 35 | Fogle, E.D., 1963-1972 |
Box 1 Folder 36 | Gilchrist, Theodore J., 1953, 1964, 1966, 1975 |
Box 1 Folder 37 | Larson, Henry, 1947-1970 |
Box 1 Folder 38 | Ludvigson, William, 1943 |
Box 1 Folder 39 | Marvin, Jerry C., 1944, 1955-1961, 1972 |
Box 1 Folder 40 | McKeeth, Robert E., 1971, 1975 |
Box 1 Folder 41 | Mulvaney, William H., 1958-1975 |
Box 1 Folder 42 | Olsen, Carl F., 1946-1971 |
Box 1 Folder 43 | Price, G.K., 1950, 1961 |
Box 1 Folder 44 | Robertson, Matt, 1960-1972 |
Box 1 Folder 45 | Rock, George M., 1953-1969 |
Box 1 Folder 46 | Rouskey, George N., 1954-1957, 1970 |
Box 1 Folder 47 | Thomas, M.P., 1964 |
Box 2 Folder 1 | Membership record book, 1951-1965, and Cash book, 1949-1957 |
Minutes | |
Box 3 Folder 1 | 1917-1923 |
Box 3 Folder 2 | 1932-1944 |
Box 3 Folder 3 | 1944-1959 |
Box 1 Folder 49 | Miscellaneous records, undated |
Box 1 Folder 50 | Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, 1950-1953, 1960-1965 |
Box 1 Folder 51 | Organizing on Omaha, 1954-1955, 1962-1964 |
Box 1 Folder 52 | Public Service Commission, 1953 |
Box 1 Folder 53 | Reports of the General Chairman (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha), 1929-1933 |
Box 1 Folder 54 | Retirement refund, 1954 |
Box 1 Folder 55 | Rotary board, 1949-1956 |
Box 1 Folder 56 | State Income Taxes, Minnesota and Wisconsin, 1962 |
Box 1 Folder 57 | Strike dependents, 1962 |
Box 1 Folder 58 | Strikes, 1946-1964 |
Box 1 Folder 59 | Treasurers information, 1965-1967 |
Treasurer's monthly statements | |
Box 1 Folder 60- 62 | 1952-1954 |
Box 4 Folder 1- 11 | 1955-1965 |
Box 5 Folder 1-5 | 1966-1970 |
Box 5 Folder 6 | Working conditions, 1958-1961 |