New Hampshire AFL-CIO Papers, 1918-1997

Collection number: MC 186
Size: 12 boxes (4.00 cu.ft.)

About the New Hampshire AFL-CIO

The New Hampshire AFL-CIO was created in 1955 after the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations were combined into one organization. This national organization issued a charter to the NH branch on October 27, 1957.

About the New Hampshire AFL-CIO Papers

The New Hampshire AFL-CIO collection includes executive board meeting notes, applications for affiliation from various unions, correspondence, notes from constitutional conventions, transcripts of those constitutional conventions, and publications.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

This collection is open.

Copyright Notice

Contents of this collection are governed by U.S. copyright law. For questions about publication or reproduction rights, contact Special Collections staff.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], [Folder number], [Box number], New Hampshire AFL-CIO Papers, 1918-1997, MC 186, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Donation: Dexter Arnold, Labor Historian and Staff Memeber of the NH AFL-CIO, May 23, 2001 (Accession number: 2001.19)

The following publications can be searched in the library catalog.

  • Constitution of the New Hampshire State Federation of Labor, 1954-56, 1958-1964, 1966, 1968-1971, 1973-75, 1977-78, 1980-81, and 1984-86, and 1989.
  • Annual convention of the New Hampshire State Federation of Labor: Journal of Proceedings, 1918, 1919, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1937, 1938, and 1951-56.
  • Proceedings of the annual constitutional convention of the New Hampshire State Labor Council AFL-CIO, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960-1969 and 1971-1981 (1980 missing).
  • Reports of Secretary-Treasurer for the New Hampshire AFL-CIO, 1958, 1960-1969, and 1985 and 1989.
  • Report of Legislative Agent For General Court Session Booklets of NH State Labor Council AFL-CIO; for the years 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1973 and 1981.
  • Resolutions from the Constitutional Convention of the New Hampshire State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, 1968-69, 1972-1980 and 1985 and 1989.
  • A copy of Compiled Labor Laws of the State of New Hampshire, 1923.

Collection Contents

Series 1: Executive Board Meeting Notes, 1953-1997

(2 boxes)

This series contains notes from Executive Board Meetings, 1953-1980, and includes requests for donations, comments of union activities, past and upcoming legislation, financial statements, future activities of various unions, scholarship information, comments made by featured speakers, attendance check lists, etc.

Box 1
Box 1, Folder 1Executive Board Ledger containing notes for the years 1953-1957
Box 1, Folder 2Executive Board loose notes from ledger
Box 1, Folder 3Executive Board Ledger containing notes for the years 1958-1972
Box 1, Folder 4Executive Board Notes typed from hand written ledger; January 1960-May 1962
Box 1, Folder 5Executive Board Meeting notes 1968-1970
Box 1, Folder 6Executive Board Meeting notes 1971
Box 1, Folder 7Executive Board Meeting notes 1972
Box 1, Folder 8Executive Board Meeting notes 1973
Box 1, Folder 9Executive Board Meeting notes 1974
Box 1, Folder 10Executive Board Meeting notes 1975
Box 1, Folder 11Executive Board Meeting notes 1976
Box 1, Folder 12Executive Board Meeting notes 1977
Box 1, Folder 13Executive Board Meeting notes 1978
Box 1, Folder 14Executive Board Meeting notes 1979
Box 1, Folder 15Executive Board Meeting notes 1980
Box 2
Box 2, Folder 1Executive Board Meeting notes 1981
Box 2, Folder 2Executive Board Meeting notes 1982
Box 2, Folder 3Executive Board Meeting notes 1983
Box 2, Folder 4Executive Board Meeting notes 1984
Box 2, Folder 5Executive Board Meeting notes 1985
Box 2, Folder 6Executive Board Meeting notes 1986
Box 2, Folder 7Executive Board Meeting notes 1987
Box 2, Folder 8Executive Board Meeting notes 1988
Box 2, Folder 9Executive Board Meeting notes 1989
Box 2, Folder 10Executive Board Meeting notes 1990
Box 2, Folder 11Executive Board Meeting notes 1991
Box 2, Folder 12Executive Board Meeting notes 1992 and partial 1993
Box 2, Folder 13Executive Board Meeting notes 1997 (includes presentation by Richard L. Bouley and Rick A. Trombly on how the AFL-CIO needs to change its lobbying tactics)

Series 2: Applications for Affiliation, 1958-1980

(.5 box)
Box 3
Box 3, Folder 1Applications for Affiliation, 1958-1961
Box 3, Folder 2Applications for Affiliation, 1963-1967
Box 3, Folder 3Applications for Affiliation, 1968-1971
Box 3, Folder 4Applications for Affiliation, 1972-1974
Box 3, Folder 5Applications for Affiliation, 1975-1976
Box 3, Folder 6Applications for Affiliation, 1977
Box 3, Folder 7Applications for Affiliation, 1978
Box 3, Folder 8Applications for Affiliation, 1979
Box 3, Folder 9Applications for Affiliation, 1980

Series 3: Correspondence, 1968-1989

(.5 box)
Box 3, Folder 10Correspondence, 1968
Box 3, Folder 11Correspondence, 1970-1971
Box 3, Folder 12Correspondence, 1972
Box 3, Folder 13Correspondence, 1973
Box 3, Folder 14Correspondence, 1974-1979
Box 3, Folder 15Correspondence, 1981
Box 3, Folder 16Correspondence, Jan-Mar 1982
Box 3, Folder 17Correspondence, Apr-Aug 1982
Box 3, Folder 18Correspondence, Sept 1982
Box 3, Folder 19Correspondence, Oct-Dec 1982
Box 3, Folder 20Correspondence, Jan-July 1983
Box 3, Folder 21Correspondence, Aug-Dec 1983
Box 3, Folder 22Correspondence, 1987
Box 3, Folder 23Correspondence, 1989

Series 4: Constitutional Conventions Notes, 1965-1992

(3 boxes)

This series contains delegate lists, roll call lists, committee lists and reports, credential forms, convention call pamphlet, printed materials to be distributed at the convention, convention souvenir programs, and correspondence.

Resolution Folders include copies of resolution booklets with personal notes, copies of resolutions included in booklets, copies submitted by different unions, and correspondence.

Box 4
Box 4, Folder 1Constitutional Convention, 1965-1966
Box 4, Folder 2Resolutions, 1966
Box 4, Folder 3Constitutional Convention, 1967
Box 4, Folder 4Resolutions, 1967
Box 4, Folder 5Constitutional Convention, 1968
Box 4, Folder 6Resolutions, 1968
Box 4, Folder 7Constitutional Convention, 1969
Box 4, Folder 8Resolutions, 1969
Box 4, Folder 9Constitutional Convention, 1970
Box 4, Folder 10Resolutions, 1970
Box 4, Folder 11Constitutional Convention, 1971
Box 4, Folder 12Resolutions, 1971
Box 4, Folder 13Constitutional Convention, 1972
Box 4, Folder 14Resolutions, 1972
Box 5
Box 5, Folder 1Constitutional Convention, 1973
Box 5, Folder 2Resolutions, 1973
Box 5, Folder 3Constitutional Convention, 1974
Box 5, Folder 4Resolutions, 1974
Box 5, Folder 5Constitutional Convention, 1979
Box 5, Folder 6Resolutions, 1979
Box 5, Folder 7Constitutional Convention, 1980
Box 5, Folder 8Resolutions, 1980
Box 5, Folder 9Constitutional Convention, 1981
Box 5, Folder 10Resolutions, 1981
Box 5, Folder 11Constitutional Convention, 1982
Box 5, Folder 12Resolutions, 1982
Box 5, Folder 13Constitutional Convention, 1983
Box 5, Folder 14Resolutions, 1983
Box 6
Box 6, Folder 1Constitutional Convention, 1984
Box 6, Folder 2Resolutions, 1984
Box 6, Folder 3Special Constitutional Convention, June 1985
Box 6, Folder 4Constitutional Convention, 1985
Box 6, Folder 5Resolutions, 1985
Box 6, Folder 6Constitutional Convention, 1987
Box 6, Folder 7Constitutional Convention, 1989
Box 6, Folder 8Constitutional Convention, 1991
Box 6, Folder 9Resolutions, 1991
Box 6, Folder 10Legislative Conference, 1983
Box 6, Folder 11Legislative Conference, 1984
Box 6, Folder 12Legislative Conference, 1985
Box 6, Folder 13Legislative Conference, 1986
Box 6, Folder 14Legislative Conference, 1988
Box 6, Folder 15Legislative Conference, 1990
Box 6, Folder 16Legislative Conference, 1992
Box 6, Folder 17Miscellaneous (Constitutional Convention Souvenir Programs, 1975-1977, newspaper articles etc.)

Series 5: Transcripts of Constitutional Conventions, 1963-1991

(6 boxes)
Box 7
Box 7, Folder 17th Constitutional Convention, 1963
Box 7, Folder 28th Constitutional Convention, 1964
Box 7, Folder 39th Constitutional Convention, 1965
Box 7, Folder 410th Constitutional Convention, 1966
Box 8
Box 8, Folder 111th Constitutional Convention, 1967
Box 8, Folder 212th Constitutional Convention, 1968
Box 8, Folder 313th Constitutional Convention, 1969
Box 8, Folder 414th Constitutional Convention, 1970
Box 8, Folder 515th Constitutional Convention, 1971
Box 9
Box 9, Folder 116th Constitutional Convention, 1972
Box 9, Folder 217th Constitutional Convention, 1973
Box 9, Folder 318th Constitutional Convention, 1974
Box 9, Folder 419th Constitutional Convention, 1975
Box 9, Folder 520th Constitutional Convention, 1976
Box 10
Box 10, Folder 121st Constitutional Convention, 1977
Box 10, Folder 223rd Constitutional Convention, 1979
Box 10, Folder 325th Constitutional Convention, 1981
Box 10, Folder 426th Constitutional Convention, 1982
Box 11
Box 11, Folder 127th Constitutional Convention, 1983
Box 11, Folder 228th Constitutional Convention, 1984
Box 11, Folder 329th Constitutional Convention, 1985
Box 11, Folder 430th Constitutional Convention, 1986
Box 12
Box 12, Folder 132nd Constitutional Convention, 1989
Box 12, Folder 234th Constitutional Convention, 1991
Box 12, Folder 3Transcript of Special Convention, June 1985
Box 12, Folder 4Transcript of Annual Convention of the Legislative Conference, Sept 27, 1986
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