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The Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers (AWPPW), Everett Kraft Mill Local #10 records include by-laws, employer agreements, labor contracts, meeting minutes, strike materials, correspondence, and newsletters documenting the activities and interests of this local Everett union. The records span from 1946 to 1989, but the vast majority corresponds to the 1960s and early 1970s. Although the majority of the material pertains to the period of AWPPW union leadership, there is a small amount of material that pertains to the Everett Kraft mill employees’ previous union leadership, the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers. The Everett Kraft Mill Local #10 records also include materials relating to the numerous strikes by Washington State Weyerhaeuser employees throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

The first series, containing primarily meeting minutes and the constitutions, reveals not only the transition of union leadership, but also the inner workings of this mill's union. The Kraft Mill Standing Committee meeting minutes document the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers leadership, while the constitutions and labor agreements span twenty five years and both unions providing a broader picture of this mill and its workers.

However, it is the second series, newsletters, that truly illustrates the dynamic of industrial union life, representing union interests on the local level with their own newsletter, The Digester. These records also document activities on the regional level with the AWPPW's newsletter, The Rebel as well as the employer's perspective with Weyerhaeuser's newsletter, The Echo.

The third series contains the least amount of material and pertains to strike material including employee memorandums from Weyerhaeuser, and special editions of The Digester. The lack of material pertaining to the strikes in the 1960s and 1970s can be supplemented by information within the newsletters.