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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Glass Workers' Protective League, Records, A&M 2427, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Minutes, correspondence, speeches, clippings, printed material, press releases, and other items concerning the Glass Workers' Protective League, which began in 1946 as the Four State Glass Workers' Protective League. It included glass workers from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana and was concerned with fighting the importation of cheap foreign glass. The papers deal mainly with the Burke-Hartke Bill, Bottle Bills, and national and international trade matters and include statements of union policy or position in these matters. There are minutes and correspondence, league constitutions, and a history of the Protective League.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• AFL-CIO
• American Flint Glass Workers' Union
• Beverage containers -- Recycling -- Law and legislation
• Biaggi, Mario
• Biemiller, Andrew, 1939-
• Bocchicchio, Pat.
• Burke-Hartke Bill.
• Chester, Howard P.
• Farrow, Robert C.
• Florida Glass Workers Protective League
• Free, Robert G.
• Glass Bottle Blowers Association of the United States and Canada
• Glass Container Manufacturers Institute, Inc.
• Glass Workers' Protective League
• Glass industry.
• Glass manufacture
• Illinois-Wisconsin Glass Workers' Protective League
• Lober, Kathleen.
• Mills, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Daigh), 1909-1992
• Moore, Harry L., 1926-
• New York Glass Workers Protective League
• Newell, Robert.
• Ohio Glass Workers Protective League
• Parker, George M.
• Patterson, Huberta M.
• Pennsylvania Glass Workers Protective League
• Smith, S. Grover.
• Stone, Glass, and Clay Coordinating Committee
• Strackbein, O. R. (Oscar Robert), 1900-1993
• Tariffs.
• Tulley, Harry.
• Union names.
• Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization.
• Weaton, Frank H. Jr.
• West Virginia Glass Workers Protective League
• Wold, Kent L.