WAUHullIreneB3783.xml Guide to the Irene B. Hull Papers 1933-2006 Hull (Irene B.) Papers Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2008 (Last modified: 4/16/2018)
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Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 3783 Hull, Irene B Irene B. Hull papers 1933-2006 6 cubic feet Collection materials are in English. Papers of a Seattle labor and peace activist regarding his activity/membership in Citizen's Child Care Committee, and Grassroots Assembly of Women, Child Care Committee and personal papers

Irene Hull is a child care, labor, and peace activist based in Seattle, Washington. She was born in Republic, Kansas in 1913. Hull installed insulation on deck heads and bulk heads in shipyards during World War II and also taught in child care centers in Vancouver, Washington and Seattle. At the end of the war, nurseries funded by the Lanham Act were slated to lose their federal funding and close. In response, Hull joined the Citizens' Child Care Committee to keep the nurseries open for working mothers. The Seattle-based committee, with Hull as secretary and Marijo Lawrence as chair, worked to maintain and expand the state's child care program on a permanent basis. They were successful in persuading the Seattle School Board to keep the Seattle nurseries open for three years after the war.

A peace activist since 1960, Hull was a member of Seattle Women Act for Peace and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. In 1969 Hull joined the Grassroots Assembly of Women, an organization established in 1968 by Jeanette Rankin. Its concerns were poverty, racism, and war, particularly their effect on women. Hull also became involved with the Assembly's Child Care Committee, which advocated for a child care system modeled on the Lanham Act nurseries of World War II. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hull made several trips to Cuba and Russia and, from 1942, was a member of the Communist Party in the United States.

Irene Hull was also active in the labor movement. In 1955, Hull went to work at Farwest Printing and Lithograph as a bindery apprentice and joined the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders Local 87. She worked for two and a half years before losing her job for failing a security clearance. In 1971-1975 Hull served as co-secretary of the Seattle Rank and File Labor Committee, which was formed in 1969 and was affiliated with the National Coordinating Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy (NCCTUAD). NCCTUAD was an organization of union activists who advocated for union solidarity through rank and file action and democracy within their unions, as well as legislative action in their communities. Irene Hull attended the founding convention for the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in 1974. CLUW was founded to organize affirmative action for women and people of color, and encourage women's involvement in union activities. Hull served for several years as chair of the Puget Sound Chapter of CLUW's publicity committee and as its corresponding secretary in the 1990s . Hull also served as a delegate to the King County Labor Council beginning in 1980, and as a member of the Advisory Council of the Evergreen State College Labor Center in the early 1990s. Seattle Mayor Norm Rice proclaimed September 7, 1996 Irene Hull day in honor of her accomplishments.

Arranged in three accessions:

Accession No. 3783-001, Irene B. Hull papers, 1945-1986 Accession No. 3783-007, Irene B. Hull papers, 1933-1998 Accession No. 3783-008, Irene B. Hull papers, 1934-2006

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Hull, Irene B.--Archives Lawrence, Marijo Linderman, E. L Wanamaker, Pearl Anderson, 1899- Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.). Seattle Chapter Evergreen State College. Labor Education & Research Center. Advisory Committee Grassroots Assemby of Women. Child Care Committee National Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy Seattle Women Act For Peace University of Washington. University Archives Seattle (Wash.)--Politics and government--20th century Washington (State)--Politics and government--20th century Women political activists--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives Child care services--Washington (State)--Citizen participation Day care centers--Washington (State)--Citizen participation Labor unions and communism--Washington (State)--Seattle Pacifism--Washington (State)--Citizen participation Peace--Societies, etc Women in the labor movement Women in the labor movement--Washington (State)--Seattle Agendas (administrative records) Brochures Correspondence Minutes Resolutions Transcripts Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Labor Unions Women Children and Youth Labor History

 

Accession No. 3783-001: Irene B. Hull papers, 1942-1986 2.10 cubic feet (5 boxes)

Arrangement: Arranged in 3 series: Citizens' Child Care Committee, 1945-1947 Grassroots Assembly of Women, Child Care Committee, 1969-1977 Personal Papers, 1942-1986

Scope and Content: Accession includes material pertaining to Hull's activity/membership in Citizen's Child Care Committee, and Grassroots Assembly of Women, Child Care Comittee, plus personal papers. The Citizens' Child Care Committee series spans 1945-1947 and includes correspondence, meeting minutes, writings, reports, clippings and a transcript from a dialogue between Pearl A. Wanamaker and E. L. Linderman, Washington State Superintendant of Public Instruction. The Grassroots Assembly of Women, Child Care Committee series, 1969-1976, includes historical features, correspondence, legislative files, and clippings. This series also includes a subject file regarding the King County Child Care Coordinating Committee. Personal papers reflect Hull's interest in a variety of social issues, including left wing politics (especially communism), labor, women's issues, and the peace movement. The bulk of the accession consists of mailings, ephemera, newsletters and other material relating to these topics, and spans the years 1953-1986.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Irene Hull in 1986 and 1987.

Processing Info: Processing levels vary. Contact repository for details.

 Citizens' Child Care Committee 1945-1947 1/1-4 3783-001 Incoming Letters 1945-1947

Scope and Content: Includes Hugh De Lacy and Pearl A. Wanamaker

 1/5 3783-001 Outgoing Letters 1945-1947 1/6 3783-001 Minutes 1945-1947 1/7 3783-001 Minutes of Other Organizations 1945-1947 1/8 3783-001 News Releases 1945-1947 1/9 3783-001 Legislation 1945 1/10 3783-001 Resolutions 1945-1946 1/11 3783-001 Reports 1947 1/12 3783-001 Writings 1945-1947 1/13 3783-001 Lists 1946 1/14 3783-001 Notes undated 1/15 3783-001 Transcript of Dialogue Between Pearl A. Wanamaker and E. L. Linderman Regarding State Funding for Children. undated 1/16 3783-001 Clippings 1945-1947 Grassroots Assembly of Women, Child Care Committee 1969-1977 1/17 3783-001 Historical Features 1969 1/18 3783-001 General Correspondence 1969-1976 1/19 3783-001 Mailings 1969-1971 1/20 3783-001 Legislative Files 1969-1977 1/21 3783-001 Statistics 1972 1/22 3783-001 Child Care Glossary undated 1/23 3783-001 Clippings 1971 1/24 3783-001 Subject File: King County Child Care Coordination Committee 1969-1972 Personal Papers 1942-1986 1/25 3783-001 Incoming Letters 1971-1985 1/26 3783-001 Outgoing Letters 1974-1984 Subject Files 1/27 3783-001 Classroom Materials undated 1/28-29, 2/1-2 3783-001 Communism 1965-1986 2/3-4 3783-001 Conflict in Spanish Speaking Countries 1973-1986 2/5 3783-001 Consumer Publications 1968-1979 2/6 3783-001 Family Violence/Child Abuse 1975-1983 2/7 3783-001 Gardening 1966-1976 2/8 3783-001 Health and Aging 1961-1983 3/1 3783-001 Homeless/Low Income Populations 1982-1983 3/2 3783-001 Humor 1972-1985 3/3 3783-001 Integration and Bussing 1972-1985 3/4 3783-001 Issues of Concern to Women 1970(?)-1985 3/5 3783-001 Henry M. Jackson 1971-1983 3/6-7, 4/1-2 3783-001 Labor 1910-1983 4/3 3783-001 Papers and Articles Pertinent to Children 1972-1983 4/4 3783-001 Peace Movement 1974-1983 4/5-6 3783-001 Race Relations 1964-1986 4/7 3783-001 Seattle Women Act for Peace 1976-1986 5/1 3783-001 Taxes 1960-1985 5/2-4 3783-001 U.S. Government 1963-1983 5/5 3783-001 Washington Department of Social and Health Services 1976-1977 5/6 3783-001 Washington Women's Heritage Project 1980-1985 5/7 3783-001 Women for Racial and Economic Equality 1978-1983 5/8 3783-001 Women in the Labor Force 1953, 1980-1982 5/9 3783-001 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1975-1986 5/10-11 3783-001 Clippings 1958-1982 5/10-11 3783-001 Ephemera 1942-1985 Accession No. 3783-007: Irene B. Hull papers, 1933-1998 2.48 cubic feet (3 boxes and one oversize folder)

Arrangement: Arranged into 5 series: Personal Papers, 1933-1997 Coalition of Labor Union Women, Puget Sound Chapter, 1955-1997 Seattle Rank and File Labor Committee, 1970-1982 Seattle Women Act for Peace, 1971-1997 Evergreen State College Labor Education and Research Center, Advisory Committee, 1987-1996

Scope and Content: This accession spans 1948-1997 and documents Hull's involvement in labor organizations and peace activism. Personal Papers include correspondence with Senators Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson, congressmen, other politicians, and newspapers editors. Included with her personal papers are writings such as school reports and personal reflections. Hull also collected writings of others, newsletters, clippings, and ephemera. Subject files document her involvement and interest in union coalitions, peace and justice organizations, and several trips she made to Cuba and Russia.

A major series is devoted to the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), with which Hull was involved and served as chair of the Publicity Committee from 1974-1996. The records concern organizing efforts by CLUW and their support for affirmative action for women, and include historical and organizational information such as brochures, correspondence with labor unions, meeting minutes, resolutions and agenda packets from national CLUW conventions, and a small quantity of newsletters, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.

The Seattle Rank and File Labor Committee series includes correspondence with labor unions, elected officials and the National Coordinating Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy (NCCTUAD), written statements, resolutions, and newsletters and ephemera concerning the committee's lobbying on behalf of legislation favorable to workers and their anti-war positions. Much of the Committee's work was coordinated with NCCTUAD.

The series on Seattle Women Act for Peace includes correspondence and general mailings, a budget report, a petition to the Joint Senate-House Budget Committee to create a human needs budget, newsletters, and ephemera, from 1971-1997.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Irene Hull between 1989 and 1998.

Processing Info: Processed by Shauna Dean in 2006.

Processing Info: Coalition of Labor Union Women, Puget Sound Chapter newsletters, 1986-1997, are catalogued separately in the Pacific Northwest Collection in 2006.

 Personal Papers 1933-1997 1/1 3783-007 Biographical Information undated 1/2-5 3783-007 Incoming Letters 1947-1997, undated 1/6-12 3783-007 Outgoing Letters 1952-1996, undated 1/13-14 3783-007 Reports 1949, 1971-1974, 1987, undated 1/15 3783-007 Writings 1933, 1965, undated Writings of Others 1/16 3783-007 Donahue, Peter 1991 1/17-23 3783-007 Miscellaneous 1966-1997, undated

Scope and Content: Includes typescripts (some titled "northwest copy"), flyers and photocopied articles on regional and national topics regarding labor, race relations and activism. Also includes a few poems. Some articles may have been written by Hull, but are unsigned.

1/24 3783-007 Legislation 1948, 1971-1977, 1995-1996 Subject Files 1/25 3783-007 Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers 1969-1972 1/26 3783-007 Coalition of Black Trade Unionists 1992-1997 1/27 3783-007 Cuba Trips 1986-1987 1/28 3783-007 Equity in Trades Network 1995-1996 1/29 3783-007 Grassroots Assembly of Women 1969-1972 1/30 3783-007 Jobs with Justice undated 1/31 3783-007 King County Labor Council of Washington 1991-1998 1/32 3783-007 Labor for Peace 1972 1/33 3783-007 National Committee Against Repressive Legislation 1970-1977, 1991-1992 1/34 3783-007 Peace and Freedom Party 1968 1/35 3783-007 People's Coalition for Peace and Justice 1971-1974 1/36 3783-007 Puget Sound Council of Senior Citizens 1991-1997 1/37 3783-007 Russia Trips 1979-1990 1/38 3783-007 Seattle Bookbinders Union 1971 1/39 3783-007 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1971, 1997 1/40 3783-007 Conferences and Conventions 1977, 1996-1997, undated 1/41 3783-007 News Releases 1984-1985, undated 1/42 3783-007 Grievance File Regarding Irene Hull and Craftsman Press 1974 1/43 3783-007 Petitions 1971-1972, 1995-1996, undated 1/44 3783-007 Resolutions undated 2/1 3783-007 Handbook (Untitled) undated 2/2-3 3783-007 Publications 1968, 1992-1994, undated Newsletters Miscellaneous oversize box 10 3783-007 Free Angela 1971 Miscellaneous oversize box 10 3783-007 Lewis McCord Free Press 1971 2/4 3783-007 Mac Paps News Bulletin 1973-1977 2/5-8 3783-007 Miscellaneous 1944-1997

Scope and Content: Predominently related to labor.

 Miscellaneous oversize box 10 3783-007 Miscellaneous 1971-1973, 1992 Membership Cards 2/9 3783-007 Communist Party, USA 1988 2/9 3783-007 Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union 1956 Notes 2/10 3783-007 Class undated 2/11 3783-007 Meeting 1974 2/12 3783-007 Miscellaneous 1962, undated 2/13 3783-007 Certificates 1947, 1965-1996 2/14 3783-007 Programs 1964, 1984-1989 2/15 3783-007 Photographs undated

Scope and Content: Includes one undated color photograph of Hull picketing with Graphic Arts Local 530, one color photograph of the CLUW convention circa 1970s, four undated photographs (color and black and white) of CLUW protesting South African apartheid, and one photograph (black and white) of confiscated evidence against white supremacists.

 Clippings 2/16 3783-007 Detroit Riots 1967 2/17 3783-007 Regarding: Irene Hull 1963, 1980-1987, undated 2/18-21 3783-007 Miscellaneous 1944-1945, 1968-1997, undated Ephemera 2/22 3783-007 Communist Party, USA 1976, 1992-1997, undated 2/23-27 3783-007 Miscellaneous 1936, 1963-1997, undated

Scope and Content: Mostly local and national ephemera regarding labor, women's rights and politics.

 2/28 3783-007 Miscellany undated Coalition of Labor Union Women, Puget Sound Chapter 1955-1997 2/29 3783-007 Historical Information 1974-1995 2/30 3783-007 Organizational Information 1975, 1993 2/31 3783-007 Incoming Letters 1989-1997 2/32 3783-007 Outgoing Letters 1974-1994 2/33 3783-007 Intraorganizational Correspondence 1993-1997 2/34 3783-007 Minutes 1988-1997 2/35 3783-007 Speeches and Writings 1986-1997 2/36 3783-007 Resolutions 1990-1994 2/37 3783-007 Membership Records 1955-1997 2/38-39 3783-007 Newsletters 1988-1997, undated 2/40 3783-007 Conferences and Conventions 1993, 1996 2/41 3783-007 Anniversary Book 1974-1994 2/42 3783-007 Clippings 1993, undated 2/43 3783-007 Ephemera undated Seattle Rank and File Labor Committee 1970-1982 2/44 3783-007 General Correspondence 1970-1982 2/45 3783-007 Interorganizational Correspondence with National Coordinating Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy 1971-1973 2/46 3783-007 Statements and Writings 1970-1973 2/47 3783-007 Resolutions undated 2/48 3783-007 Newsletters of Other Labor Committees 1971-1972 2/49 3783-007 Newsletter/Meeting Notices 1971-1973 2/50 3783-007 Ephemera 1972, undated Seattle Women Act for Peace (SWAP) 1971-1997 2/51 3783-007 Mailings/Correspondence 1972-1974, 1997 2/52 3783-007 Financial Records 1971 2/53 3783-007 Petition 1990 2/54 3783-007 Newsletters 1971-1974, 1997 2/55 3783-007 Ephemera 1973, undated Evergreen State College Labor Education and Research Center, Advisory Committee 1987-1996 2/56 3783-007 General Correspondence 1987-1996, undated 2/57 3783-007 Minutes 1993-1996 3/1 3783-007 Speeches and Writings 1989-1996, undated 3/2 3783-007 Budget 1994-1995 3/3 3783-007 Lists 1992, undated 3/4 3783-007 Conferences and Conventions 1991-1996, undated 3/5-12 3783-007 Notebook 1991-1996, undated

General Notes: Literature distributed by the Labor Center. Contains writings and articles regarding various labor activities.

 3/13 3783-007 Newsletters: Labor Center News 1994-1996 Accession No. 3783-008: Irene B. Hull papers, 1934-2006 1.44 cubic feet (2 boxes)

Arrangement: Rough sort.

Scope and Content: Correspondence, political and other ephemera, clippings, and various notes and day planners. Notable correspondents include Reps. Edward B. Murray and Jim McDermott, Sens. Jeanne Kohl-Welles and Maria Cantwell, and other civic leaders.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Source: Irene Hull, September 2006