Abstract

The Anaconda Central Labor Council was a combined body of representatives of various local trade unions in the Anaconda, Montana, area. The Council represented a merger of the Deer Lodge County Trades and Labor Council and the Anaconda Building Trades Congress. The collection (1899-1943) consists of general correspondence; financial records; legal documents; and minutes.

Abstract

Cooks' and Waiters' Union, No. 22, was a Butte, Montana, labor union affiliated with the Hotel and Restaurant International Union. This collection consists of financial records (1930-1966) comprised of membership ledgers including lists of members' names and records of dues paid.

Content Description

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers records (1917) Collection includes three IBEW contracts with three different companies in the Butte area: Montana Power Company; Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway Company; and The Butte Electrica Railway Company (also includes agreement with Local Union 200). Contracts all created in the months following the Anaconda Mining Company Speculatro Mine Disaster, a time of much unrest between labor unions and companies in the Butte area.

Abstract Wellington Rankin was a Helena, Montana, attorney, rancher, state attorney general, associate justice of the Montana Supreme Court, U.S. district attorney, and Republican national committeeman. He also ran unsuccessfully for Governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House of Representatives. This collection includes personal papers of Wellington Rankin and of several family members including Jeannette Rankin; political files; records of several businesses he owned; records of his ranch operations; and...