Jim Hughes Collection
Scope and Contents
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Labor official. Scrapbooks (1948-1957) of newspaper clippings concerning investigations of labor problems, legislation and strikes; copies of the United Mine Workers Journal (1957); a typescript of a speech (1957) Hughes presented to the Oklahoma State Federation of Labor; a program (1957) of the convention; and a contract and financial agreement for publication of "A Labor History of Oklahoma.".
Dates
- Creation: 1948-1958
Creator
- Hughes, Jim, 1890-1963 (Person)
Restrictions on Access
On June 26, 2023, the Western History Collections began a preservation project that has made many of its collections unavailable for a period of time. This collection is among the materials temporarily unavailable. Please contact Western History Collections if you wish to be added to a contact list to be notified when this collection becomes available.
Available for public access.
Extent
.33 Cubic Feet (.33 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Jim Hughes.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Hughes, Jim. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1957.
Subject
- Oklahoma. Department of Labor (Organization)
- Oklahoma State Federation of Labor (Organization)
- United States. Department of Labor (Organization)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Oklahoma
- Collective bargaining -- Oklahoma
- Employee rights -- Oklahoma
- Employee rights -- Oklahoma
- Industrial relations -- Oklahoma
- Labor -- Oklahoma -- Accidents
- Labor laws and legislation -- Oklahoma
- Labor movement -- Oklahoma -- Political activity
- Skilled labor -- Oklahoma
- Strikes and lockouts -- Oklahoma
- Wages -- Oklahoma
- Working class -- Oklahoma -- Congresses
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
