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Special Collections, SC#5, Meyer Goldman Collection. The minutes and papers of various union labor groups and labor initiatives from 1957-1978, specifically dealing with the right to work law in Missouri.

Collection Information

Collection Number: SC#5

Title: 
Meyer Goldman Collection

Dates: 
1957-1978


Collection Size: 
3 Boxes

Biographical History

Meyer Goldman was the founder of the Labor Beacon Newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri.

Scope and Content

The minutes and papers of various union labor groups and labor initiatives from 1957-1978, specifically dealing with the right to work law in Missouri. The collection was donated by Meyer Goldman in 1980. Mr. Goldman was a publisher for the Labor Beacon Newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri.

Creator(s)

Meyer Goldman - donor

Acquisition Information

Donated by Meyer Goldman on February 1, 1980.

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Jefferson City Rally, March 1, 1978

Crowd, Jefferson City Rally, March 1, 1978

Governor Warren Hearnes, Jefferson City Rally, March 1, 1978

Judge George Lehr, Jefferson City Rally, March 1, 1978

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Right to Work Cartoon

Minutes of the Labor's Educational and Political Club, December 22, 1977

Minutes of the Labor's Educational and Political Club, December 22, 1977

Collection Inventory

Box 1

  • Consumer Delegate Body – 1978
  • Labor Education and Political Club Independent – 1978 – Election Information
  • Labor Education and Political Club Independent – Financial Statements – 1975-1979
  • Labor Life Insurance Co. – Letter 1976-77
  • Minutes L.E. & P.C.I. - Members – 1977
  • Minutes L.E. & P.C.I. – Executive Board Meeting – 1975-78
  • L.E. & P.C.I. Secretary Correspondence 1976 – 1978
  • Minutes 40 Club Meeting – 1975 –1978
  • Audio Recordings: Right to Work Campaign, 1978, Kansas City Labor Beacon and Labor Council; Kansas City Labor Beacon, December 6, 1978; Various unlabeled or broken recordings
  • Audio Recordings: Right to Work, February 22, 1978; United Labor Council (unknown date); Frank Emmick
  • Photographs: Anti-Right to Work, Jefferson City, Missouri, March 1, 1978
  • How Right is the ‘Right-to-Work’ Law? Folder with various handouts

Box 2

  • Don Enlow – Right to Work
  • Arkansas Right to Work
  • Union papers
  • Pro Right to Work
  • United Labor Committee
  • Notes: Right to Work
  • Labor Captain ‘Follow-Up” Statistics
  • Labor Captain Tallies for October 1978
  • “Right to Work” Copies
  • Tally Miscellaneous
  • Post March Tally Sheets for October 1978
  • I.D. Tallies for November 1978
  • E.C. Tallies for October 1978
  • Blitz Call on EC and LC Tallies and Stats
  • Right to Work Pamphlets and Broadsides
  • Labor Flyers
  • Right to Work Background
  • Miscellaneous Right to Work Newspaper Clippings
  • Newspaper Clippings 1978
  • Right to Work Manuals and Notebooks

Box 3

  • Newspaper clippings, 1977-1978

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