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Summary
- Abstract:
- Chartered in 1934, as the Tri-City Newspaper Guild of Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, the Guild signed its first contract with the Albany Times Union in 1937. The collection includes correspondence, minutes, contracts, and organizing files. The majority of material in the collection is photocpied.
- Extent:
- 5.0 cubic ft.
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Newspaper Guild of Albany, Local 34 Records, 1936-1989. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Newspaper Guild of Albany Records).
Background
- Scope and Content:
This collection contains predominantly photocopies of correspondence, executive board and membership minutes, unit minutes, bulletins, contracts, a small number of grievance files, and organizing and litigation files. There are a small number of original documents, especially in the contracts series.
- Biographical / Historical:
The Newspaper Guild of Albany, N.Y., Local 34 was chartered on March 20, 1934, as the Tri-City Newspaper Guild of Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, N.Y. as well as nearby cities. In 1937, the Guild won its first agreement and the first Newspaper Guild agreement in upstate New York when it signed a contract with the Albany Times-Union. The Albany Guild's last strike in 1964 formed the basis for The Ink Truck, the first published novel of William Kennedy, who was one of the strikers. The local began as a union of reporters and editors, but over the years other newspaper occupations have been organized as the Guild has subsumed independent unions. Currently, janitors and drivers, as well as employees from the business office and sales and circulation departments are represented by the guild. Although the Guild has confined most of its activities to the tri-cities, it has opened offices in Hudson and Glens Falls, N.Y.
- Acquisition information:
- The vast majority of items in this manuscript group were loaned to the University Libraries, M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, by the Newspaper Guild of Albany, Local 34 and subsequently preservation photocopied as a part of the Harry Van Arsdale, Jr., Labor History Project. The originals were returned to Local 34.
- Processing information:
Initially processed in 1990 by Geoffrey Huth. In 2019, Cristina Casado began describing the Organizing and Litigation Files, the President's Files and the Empire State District Council Records. In 2021, Jodi Boyle added description for these three series previously not listed on the finding aid and rehoused files previously stored in letter-sized folders.
- Arrangement:
The collection is organized into six topical file series.
- Physical location:
- The materials are located onsite in the department.
Subjects
- Subjects:
- Newspaper employees -- Labor unions -- New York (State).
Journalists -- Labor unions -- New York (State).
Newspaper publishing -- New York (State) -- Albany.
Labor unions -- New York (State) -- Albany.
Labor unions -- New York (State) -- Glens Falls.
Labor unions -- New York (State) -- Hudson.
Labor
Albany, New York
Schenectady, New York
Rensselaer County, New York
Minutes
Correspondence
Newsletters
Contracts - Names:
- American Newspaper Guild.
Independent Committee of the Albany Times Union.
American Newspaper Guild.
Newspaper Guild of Albany, N.Y.
Kennedy, William, 1928- Ink truck.
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Identification of specific item, series, box, folder, Newspaper Guild of Albany, Local 34 Records, 1936-1989. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York (hereafter referred to as the Newspaper Guild of Albany Records).