International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America, Local 104 (Seattle, Washington) records, 1937-1960

Overview of the Collection

Creator
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America. Local 104 (Seattle, Wash.)
Title
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America, Local 104 (Seattle, Washington) records
Dates
1937-1960 (inclusive)
Quantity
7.47 cubic feet (7 boxes)
Collection Number
1409 (Accession No. 1409-001)
Summary
Records of a labor organization representing workers in the states of Washington and Alaska
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
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Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America, Local 104 is a labor organization representing workers in the states of Washington and Alaska. It was formed from a merger of Blacksmiths’ Lodge No. 106 and Boilermakers’ Lodge No 104 in 1953. In 1958, Local Lodges No. 541 (Welders) and Local Lodge No 104 (Boilermakers) merged to form a new Local 104. Boilermakers Local No 104 had its origins as a local union organized in 1892 in Seattle. During the period of the records in this collection, workers worked in shipyards, boiler and tank manufacturing, and as welders and metal fabricators.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Collective bargaining, correspondence and subject files related to organizing and representation of workers in metalworking trades, particularly in shipyards and metal fabrication shops. Records include contracts, shop stewards’ reports, employee lists, correspondence related to disputes, and organizing. Includes records concerning the amalgamation of the Boilermakers’ and Blacksmiths’ international unions, as well as materials about the merger of three local unions in the 1950s into the present Local 104. Jurisdictional records include materials on negotiations with other trade unions regarding jurisdiction over closely related work. Only correspondence and subject files M-Z were transferred by the union.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The creator's literary rights have been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Preferred Citation

International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America, Local 104 (Seattle, Washington) records, Accession No. 1409-001. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged in 2 series.

  • Series 1, Jurisdictional Records, 1937-1960
  • Series 2, Correspondence and Subject Files, 1940-1960

Acquisition Information

Gift of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America, Local 104, via James O'Brien, August 1970.

Processing Note

Processed in 2023 by Ernie Dornfeld

Related Materials

The University of Washington Libraries also holds microfilm of issues of the newspapers, the 104 Reporter (published 1942-1947) and the Seattle Boilermakers' 104 Reporter (after 1947), which both were published by the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America, Local 104.

The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers website has been regularly captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine since 2014. The snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/3988/*/http://www.boilermakers.org/

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Series 1:  Jurisdictional Records, 1937-1960Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Pipefitters - Boilermakers issues
1937-1949
1/2
Pipefitters - Boilermakers issues
1950-1951
1/3
Pipefitters - Boilermakers issues
1952-1954
1/4
Pipefitters - Boilermakers issues
1955-1961
1/5
Sheet Metal Workers - Boilermakers issues
1946-1960
1/6
Sheet Metal Workers - Boilermakers agreements
1954-1960
1/7
Millwrights - Boilermakers issues
1952-1959
1/8
Millwrights - Boilermakers agreements
1952-1961
1/9
Iron Workers - Boilermakers agreements
1950-1952
1/10
Iron Workers - Boilermakers agreements
1953-1958
1/11
Iron Workers - Boilermakers issues
1954
1/12
Iron Workers - Boilermakers issues
1955-1961
1/13
United Association - Boilermakers issues, pipe fabrication
1953-1963
1/14
Disputes handled by Building and Construction Trades Unit
1963-1966
1/15
Jurisdiction agreement - Machinists
1946-1950

Series 2:  Correspondence and Subject Files, 1940-1960Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/16
General field correspondence
1957-1959
1/17
Membership correspondence
1953-1958
1/18
Health and Welfare Fund monthly report of payments
1957-1960
1/19
Frank Mann NLRB case
1948-1949
1/20
Manson Construction and Engineering
1959
1/21
Manson-Osberg Company
1953-1958
1/22
Maritime shipyards
1957
1/23
Markey Machine
1950-1959
1/24
McNary Dam
1947-1950
1/25
Membership reports to Grand Lodge
1954-1958
1/26
Merger of Boilermakers International Union and Blacksmiths International Union
1951-1953
1/27
Merger of Local Lodges 104, 541, and 716
1954-1960
2/1
Miscellaneous correspondence and agreements, independent shops
1948-1959
2/2
Miscellaneous shops
1955-1957
2/3
MISCo, Inc.
1952-1958
2/4
Morgan Electric
1959
2/5
Morrison-Knudsen
1946-1957
2/6
National Labor Relations Board
1954
2/7
National Labor Relations Board
1955-1956
2/8
National Labor Relations Board compliance
1951-1957
2/9
National Steel Construction Company
1953-1959
2/10
Nicholson Manufacturing Company
1956
2/11
Boilermakers' Nonpartisan Political League
1950-1954
2/12
Nordine Manufacturing
1953-1959
2/13
Northwest Metal Products Corporation
1947-1951
2/14
Northwest Ship Repair
1951-1954
2/15
Northwest Tractor and Equipment
1946-1954
2/16
Pacific Car and Foundry Everett plant (part 1 of 2)
1951-1955
2/17
Pacific Car and Foundry Everett plant (part 2 of 2)
1951-1955
2/18
Pacific Car and Foundry Renton plant
1954-1958
2/19
Pacific Car and Foundry Renton plant
1955-1958
2/20
Pacific Coast District Metal Trades Council
1952-1960
2/21
Pacific Coast Marine District Council
1959-1960
2/22
Pacific Coast shipyard master agreement
1956-1958
2/23
Pacific Coast Shipyard Negotiating Conference proceedings
1958
2/24
Pacific Coast shipyard negotiations
1959
2/25
Pacific Northwest Industries
1957-1959
2/26
Patternmakers
1952-1955
3/1
Patton, Homer E.
1956-1958
3/2
Pension plan
1951
3/3
Penstocks at Ketchikan, Alaska
1959
3/4
W. E. Pearson Co.
1952-1956
3/5
J. W. Perron Co.
1946-1959
3/6
J. W. Perron Co.
1953-1958
3/7
Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co.
1950-1955
3/8
Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co.
1956-1959
3/9
Plant Maintenance, Inc.
1957
3/10
Pointer-Willamette
1944-1952
3/11
Pointer-Willamette, National Labor Relations Board
1949-1953
3/12
Pointer-Willamette, Farr and Angle case
1953
3/13
Pointer-Willamette
1953
3/14
Pointer-Willamette
1952-1956
3/15
Portland Erection, Inc.
1959
3/16
Port of Seattle
1956-1959
3/17
Prosser Welding and Machine
1948-1952
3/18
Protective equipment - State of Washington
1944-1956
3/19
Puget Sound Drake Company
1956
3/20
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co.
1952-1958
3/21
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. shop steward reports
1953-1958
3/22
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co.
1954-1960
3/23
Puget Sound Fabricators, Inc.
1951-1959
3/24
Raber and Kief
1955
3/25
Refinery organizing
1953-1956
3/26
Reliable Welding Works
1957-1958
3/27
Renton Boiler Works
1948-1957
3/28
Renton Central Labor Council
1956-1957
3/29
Renton Machine and Welding Works
1946-1953
4/1
Renton School District No. 403
1955
4/2
Republic Steel Corporation
1955
4/3
Right to Work Law
1956
4/4
Riley Stoker Corporation
1953-1959
4/5
Robinson Machine Works
1948-1959
4/6
Rothschild International Stevedoring
1959
4/7
Rowe Machine Works
1956-1957
4/8
Ryan and Haworth
1954-1959
4/9
Safeway Scaffold, Inc.
1958-1959
4/10
Sagers, Inc.
1959
4/11
Seattle Boiler Works, Inc.
1951-1959
4/12
Seattle Building and Construction Trades Council
1952-1959
4/13
Seattle Metal Trades Council
1950-1959
4/14
Shop seniority list
1955
4/15
Shop seniority list
1956
4/16
Shop seniority list, July 1957
1957
4/17
Shop seniority list, December 1957
1957
4/18
Shop seniority list, September 1958
1958
4/19
Shipyard correspondence
1950-1958
4/20
Shipyards
1952-1956
4/21
Shipbuilding file
1956-1958
4/22
Shipyards - premium pay for certified welding
1957-1958
4/23
Sheet Metal Workers addendum
1948-1952
4/24
Shop stewards
1953-1958
4/25
Shop stewards' meetings
1952-1957
4/26
Sitka Pulp Mill Builders
1956-1957
4/27
A. O. Smith Corporation
1953-1955
4/28
Sound Industries Service Corporation
1958
4/29
Solar Chicago Division of U.S. Industries, Inc.
1959
4/30
Sparling Sales Ltd.
1956
4/31
Spokane Local #242
1945-1957
4/32
Steel Construction Company
1953-1958
4/33
Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation
1956-1959
4/34
Shop strike
1951-1952
4/35
Shop strike
1953
5/1
Strike assessment fund
1951
5/2
Strike benefits
1951-1957
5/3
Strike assessment excuses
1953
5/4
Strike rolls
1953
5/5
Sumner Iron Works
1951-1958
5/6
Swanson Welding Company
1945-1958
5/7
Taft-Hartley Act bulletins, letters
1947-1948
5/8
Tax deductions for subsistence payments
1945-1958
5/9
Tax filings
1953-1957
5/10
TEMCO Company
1958
5/11
P. C. Thomson Company
1948-1958
5/12
J. T. Thorpe Northwest, Inc.
1958
5/13
Todd Shipyards Corporation
1944-1954
5/14
Todd Shipyards Corporation
1955-1959
5/15
Torrid King
1955
5/16
U&I Sugar Company
1953
5/17
Unemployment cases
1946-1950
5/18
Shipyard strike unemployment cases
1951
5/19
Union shop card receipts
1946-1949
5/20
Union Steel Manufacturing
1953-1958
5/21
Union Tank Works, Inc.
1956-1959
5/22
United Concrete Pipe Corporation
1950-1956
5/23
United Concrete Pipe Corporation
1953-1960
5/24
United Good Neighbor Fund
1956-1959
5/25
Valley Iron Works
1947-1958
5/26
Voting - ballots for union office
1956
5/27
Waitsburg Welding Works (part 1 of 6)
1947-1952
5/28
Waitsburg Welding Works (part 2 of 6)
1947-1952
5/29
Waitsburg Welding Works (part 3 of 6)
1947-1952
5/30
Waitsburg Welding Works (part 4 of 6)
1947-1952
6/1
Waitsburg Welding Works (part 5 of 6)
1947-1952
6/2
Waitsburg Welding Works (part 6 of 6)
1947-1952
6/3
Ward Cove Builders
1951-1958
6/4
Washington Iron Works
1951-1958
6/5
Washington Metal Trades, Inc.
1947-1958
6/6
Washington Metal Trades, Inc.
1953-1959
6/7
Washington Metal Trades, Inc. miscellaneous agreements
1940-1954
6/8
Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence
1945-1947
6/9
Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence
1948
6/10
Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence
1949
6/11
Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence
1950
6/12
Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence
1951
6/13
Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence
1952-1953
6/14
Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence (part 1 of 2)
1954-1959
6/15
Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence (part 2 of 2)
1954-1959
6/16
Washington State Building and Construction Trades Council
1954-1959
6/17
Washington State Federation of Labor
1953-1956
6/18
Washington State Labor Council
1957-1958
6/19
Welders
1937-1943
6/20
Welders
1944
6/21
Welders
1945-1949
6/22
Welders
1951-1952
6/23
Arbitration award regarding jurisdiction over oxy-acetylene torch work - "Wilson Award"
1918, 1951
6/24
The Welding Shop
1946-1958
6/25
Weldit Tank and Steel Company
1952-1956
6/26
Wells and Wade, Inc.
1952-1958
6/27
West Coast Construction Company
1956
6/28
Western Blower Company
1951-1958
7/1
West Street Carriage Company
1958-1959
7/2
H. W. Whitaker
1958-1959
7/3
Wickes Boiler Company
1959
7/4
A. Wilcox Company
1959
7/5
Howard S. Wright Construction Co.
1957-1959
7/6
Wyatt and Kipper Fabricators, Inc. agreements
1950-1958
7/7
Wyatt and Kipper (part 1 of 2)
1950-1959
7/8
Wyatt and Kipper (part 2 of 2)
1950-1959
7/9
Wyatt and Kipper Alaska
1954-1955
7/10
Wyatt and Kipper construction file
1957
7/11
Yakima Brazing and Welding
1947-1953
7/12
Yakima Building Trades Council
1952-1959
7/13
Yakima Tank and Steel
1947-1952
7/14
Zeeb Iron Works, Inc.
1947-1959

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Collective labor agreements--Metal industry
  • Collective labor agreements--Washington (State)
  • Metal-workers--Labor unions--Washington (State)
  • Metal-workers--Washington (State)
  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
  • Shipbuilding industry--Employees--Labor unions--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Shipbuilding industry--Washington (State)

Corporate Names

  • International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America. Local 104 (Seattle, Wash.)--Archives
  • International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America. Local 104 (Seattle, Wash.)--Archives

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names
    • International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America. Local 104 (Seattle, Wash.) (creator)
    • Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) (creator)