Pittsburgh Central Labor
Union
ASC Holds: Minute Books 1929-59, Attendance Book 1943-1951, Dues
Book 1937-38, Receipt and Expense Books 1938-57.
Executive Board, Officers and Staff, Pittsburgh
Central Labor Union - 1951
The Pittsburgh Central
Labor Union, A.F. of L., was founded on Sunday October 20, 1901, in a
meeting at the Grand Army of the Republic Hall, 238 Fourth Avenue in
Pittsburgh, PA. Like other "central labor bodies," the
Pittsburgh Central Labor Union represented an attempt, in the interest
of labor unity, to coordinate the activities of disparate member
unions or affiliates with regard to such matters a political
endorsements, promotion of the union label, and organization of labor
day parades and demonstrations. Building trades workers, garment
workers, steel workers, and the whole gamut of labor union members
could and did participate in the Central Labor Union's activities.
The
Central Labor Union went through several name changes over the years.
"Iron City Central Trades Council (ICCTC)" was the
name it was mostly known by into the 1920's. "Pittsburgh
Central Labor Union" was used after 1925(?). The PCLU name
persisted into the 1960's when a merger of four central labor bodies
including the PCLU -- following on the heels of the national and
statewide mergers of the A.F. of L. and the C.I.O. -- created the
current Allegheny County Labor Council (ACLC).
Aspects
of the Central Labor Union activities are included in the links below
along with specific information regarding each of the predecessor
organizations of the current Central Labor Union (ACLC).
Note: Names and positions in photograph were
copied from the Golden Anniversary of the Pittsburgh Central Labor
Union American Federation of Labor program, pgs. 30-31. Thus the
author of this page takes no responsibility outside the range of a
typographical error for the misspelling or misrepresentation of
figures presented here. Click here
for a page with photo and names displayed simultaneously.
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