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Special Collections, SC#68, District Local 340 Collection. Issues of the "District Local 340 Reporter," the official publication of the United Food and Commercial Union for Joplin, Missouri, from 1978-1981.

Collection Information

Collection Number: SC#68

Title: 
District Local 340 Collection

Dates: 

September 1978 to October 1981


Collection Size: 
1 Folder

Scope and Content

Issues of the "District Local 340 Reporter," the official publication of the United Food and Commercial Union for Joplin, Missouri, from 1978-1981.

Creator(s)

Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America-AFL-CIO District Local 340

Virgil Talbot

Acquisition Information

Donated on April 15, 1981 by Virgil Talbot.

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Collection Inventory

  • Note from Virgil Talbot to Robert Markman
  • District Records memos
    • Undated – from Virgil Talbot to Robert Markman
    • April 15, 1981 – from Virgil Talbot to Robert Markman
    • May 21, 1981 – from Virgil Talbot to Robert Markman
    • June 4, 1981 – from Virgil Talbot to Robert Markman
    • July 9, 1981 – from Virgil Talbot to Robert Markman
    • July 24, 1981 – from Virgil Talbot to Robert Markman
    • Aug. 7, 1981 – from Virgil Talbot to Robert Markman
    • Oct. 2, 1981 – from Robert Markman to Virgil Talbot
  • Dist. Local 340 Reporter – Joplin, Missouri
    • Sept.-Oct. 1978 Vol. 1 No. 1 “Notice of Nominations of Officers”
    • Nov.-Dec. 1978 Vol. 1 No. 2 “Some Won, Some Lost in Election”
    • Jan.-Feb. 1979 Vol. 1 No. 3 “Meat Cutters, Clerks Agree to Merge”
    • March – April 1979 Vol. 1 No. 4 “’Corporate Greed’ Is Word: Profits Soar”
    • May-June 1979 Vol. 1 No. 5 “The Knot Is Tied – A New Union Is Born”
    • July – Aug. 1979 Vol. 1 No. 6 “Labor Endorses Carter’s Energy Plan”
    • Sept. – Oct. 1979 Vol. 1 No. 7 “Historic Accord Reached on Economy
    • Nov. – Dec. 1979 Vol. 1 No. 8 “Eagleton Is Tops In Labor Voting Record; Dole Zero”
    • Jan. – Feb. 1980 Vol. 2 No. 1 “Public Funds Finance Union – Busting”
    • March – April 1980 Vol. 2 No. 2 “Labor Dept. Honors ‘Madam Secretary’”
    • May-June 1980 Vol. 2 No. 3 “MBPXL Committee Does Good Job”
    • July-Aug. 1980 Vol. 2 No. 4 “The Bishop and the Boycott”
    • Sept.-Oct. 1980 Vol. 2 No. 5 “From Brass Knuckles to Briefcases”
    • Nov.-Dec. 1980 Vol. 2 No. 6 “Has the Nightmare Become Reality?”
    • Jan.-Feb. 1981 Vol. 3 No. 1 “UFCW Mounts Drive Against Perdue”
    • March-April 1981 Vol. 3 No. 2 “Prevailing Wage Laws Under ‘All-Out’ Attack”
    • May-June 1981 Vol. 3 No. 3 “Reagan Is Turning the Clock Back”
    • July-Aug. 1981 Vol. 3 No. 4 “Reagan’s Supply-Side Voodoo Economics”
    • Sept.-Oct. 1981 Vol. 3 No. 5 “Self Defense…It Could Get You Twenty Years In Jail”

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