National Tobacco Workers Union of America, Local 2, Wheeling (W.Va.)
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Language
English
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Abstract
In 1890, employees of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company in Wheeling, West Virginia, organized the Tobacco Workers' Union
No. 4087. The organization joined several larger labor federations, and in 1899 became the Tobacco Workers' International
Union No. 2. Handwritten meeting minutes from 1890 to 1905 chiefly document the business history of the union. Minutes include
the names and status of members, membership business, including resolutions of sympathy and committee appointments, and brief
reports of business conducted.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Tobacco Workers Union (Wheeling, W.Va.) Minutes, A&M 1248, West Virginia
and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
On March 6, 1890, employees of the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company in Wheeling, West Virginia, organized the Tobacco Workers'
Union No. 4087. The union, which also included members from the West Virginia Tobacco Company, joined both the Ohio Valley
Trades and Labor Assembly and the American Federation of Labor. In 1895 they voted for a charter in the National Tobacco Workers'
Union of America and became the Local No. 2. In September 1899, the National Union became the Tobacco Workers' International
Union.
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