WAUInternationalBrotherhoodofBoilerMakersIronShipBuildersandHelpersofAmericaLocalSeattleWash1409.xml Guide to the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America, Local 104 (Seattle, Washington) records 1937-1960 International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America, Local 104, Seattle, Washington, records 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 © 2006 (Last modified: 1/24/2024)
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-04-14. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America, Local 104 (Seattle, Washington) records International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America. Local 104 (Seattle, Wash.) 1409 7.47 cubic feet 7 boxes 1937-1960 Records of a labor organization representing workers in the states of Washington and Alaska Collection materials are in English.

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.

Arranged in 2 series.

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

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.

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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.

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

Processed in 2023 by Ernie Dornfeld

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/ Wikidata is available for this collection

 International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers of America. Local 104 (Seattle, Wash.)--Archives International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America. Local 104 (Seattle, Wash.)--Archives International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, and Helpers of America. Local 104 (Seattle, Wash.) Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) Seattle Washington (State) Shipbuilding industry--Employees--Labor unions--Washington (State)--Seattle Shipbuilding industry--Washington (State) Collective labor agreements--Washington (State) Collective labor agreements--Metal industry Metal-workers--Washington (State) Metal-workers--Labor unions--Washington (State) Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Labor Unions Labor History Ships and Shipping Correspondence Series 1, Jurisdictional Records Series 1 1937-1960 Pipefitters - Boilermakers issues 1937-1949 1409-001 Box 1 1 Pipefitters - Boilermakers issues 1950-1951 1409-001 Box 1 2 Pipefitters - Boilermakers issues 1952-1954 1409-001 Box 1 3 Pipefitters - Boilermakers issues 1955-1961 1409-001 Box 1 4 Sheet Metal Workers - Boilermakers issues 1946-1960 1409-001 Box 1 5 Sheet Metal Workers - Boilermakers agreements 1954-1960 1409-001 Box 1 6 Millwrights - Boilermakers issues 1952-1959 1409-001 Box 1 7 Millwrights - Boilermakers agreements 1952-1961 1409-001 Box 1 8 Iron Workers - Boilermakers agreements 1950-1952 1409-001 Box 1 9 Iron Workers - Boilermakers agreements 1953-1958 1409-001 Box 1 10 Iron Workers - Boilermakers issues 1954 1409-001 Box 1 11 Iron Workers - Boilermakers issues 1955-1961 1409-001 Box 1 12 United Association - Boilermakers issues, pipe fabrication 1953-1963 1409-001 Box 1 13 Disputes handled by Building and Construction Trades Unit 1963-1966 1409-001 Box 1 14 Jurisdiction agreement - Machinists 1946-1950 1409-001 Box 1 15 Series 2, Correspondence and Subject Files Series 2 1940-1960 General field correspondence 1957-1959 1409-001 Box 1 16 Membership correspondence 1953-1958 1409-001 Box 1 17 Health and Welfare Fund monthly report of payments 1957-1960 1409-001 Box 1 18 Frank Mann NLRB case 1948-1949 1409-001 Box 1 19 Manson Construction and Engineering 1959 1409-001 Box 1 20 Manson-Osberg Company 1953-1958 1409-001 Box 1 21 Maritime shipyards 1957 1409-001 Box 1 22 Markey Machine 1950-1959 1409-001 Box 1 23 McNary Dam 1947-1950 1409-001 Box 1 24 Membership reports to Grand Lodge 1954-1958 1409-001 Box 1 25 Merger of Boilermakers International Union and Blacksmiths International Union 1951-1953 1409-001 Box 1 26 Merger of Local Lodges 104, 541, and 716 1954-1960 1409-001 Box 1 27 Miscellaneous correspondence and agreements, independent shops 1948-1959 1409-001 Box 2 1 Miscellaneous shops 1955-1957 1409-001 Box 2 2 MISCo, Inc. 1952-1958 1409-001 Box 2 3 Morgan Electric 1959 1409-001 Box 2 4 Morrison-Knudsen 1946-1957 1409-001 Box 2 5 National Labor Relations Board 1954 1409-001 Box 2 6 National Labor Relations Board 1955-1956 1409-001 Box 2 7 National Labor Relations Board compliance 1951-1957 1409-001 Box 2 8 National Steel Construction Company 1953-1959 1409-001 Box 2 9 Nicholson Manufacturing Company 1956 1409-001 Box 2 10 Boilermakers' Nonpartisan Political League 1950-1954 1409-001 Box 2 11 Nordine Manufacturing 1953-1959 1409-001 Box 2 12 Northwest Metal Products Corporation 1947-1951 1409-001 Box 2 13 Northwest Ship Repair 1951-1954 1409-001 Box 2 14 Northwest Tractor and Equipment 1946-1954 1409-001 Box 2 15 Pacific Car and Foundry Everett plant (part 1 of 2) 1951-1955 1409-001 Box 2 16 Pacific Car and Foundry Everett plant (part 2 of 2) 1951-1955 1409-001 Box 2 17 Pacific Car and Foundry Renton plant 1954-1958 1409-001 Box 2 18 Pacific Car and Foundry Renton plant 1955-1958 1409-001 Box 2 19 Pacific Coast District Metal Trades Council 1952-1960 1409-001 Box 2 20 Pacific Coast Marine District Council 1959-1960 1409-001 Box 2 21 Pacific Coast shipyard master agreement 1956-1958 1409-001 Box 2 22 Pacific Coast Shipyard Negotiating Conference proceedings 1958 1409-001 Box 2 23 Pacific Coast shipyard negotiations 1959 1409-001 Box 2 24 Pacific Northwest Industries 1957-1959 1409-001 Box 2 25 Patternmakers 1952-1955 1409-001 Box 2 26 Patton, Homer E. 1956-1958 1409-001 Box 3 1 Pension plan 1951 1409-001 Box 3 2 Penstocks at Ketchikan, Alaska 1959 1409-001 Box 3 3 W. E. Pearson Co. 1952-1956 1409-001 Box 3 4 J. W. Perron Co. 1946-1959 1409-001 Box 3 5 J. W. Perron Co. 1953-1958 1409-001 Box 3 6 Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. 1950-1955 1409-001 Box 3 7 Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. 1956-1959 1409-001 Box 3 8 Plant Maintenance, Inc. 1957 1409-001 Box 3 9 Pointer-Willamette 1944-1952 1409-001 Box 3 10 Pointer-Willamette, National Labor Relations Board 1949-1953 1409-001 Box 3 11 Pointer-Willamette, Farr and Angle case 1953 1409-001 Box 3 12 Pointer-Willamette 1953 1409-001 Box 3 13 Pointer-Willamette 1952-1956 1409-001 Box 3 14 Portland Erection, Inc. 1959 1409-001 Box 3 15 Port of Seattle 1956-1959 1409-001 Box 3 16 Prosser Welding and Machine 1948-1952 1409-001 Box 3 17 Protective equipment - State of Washington 1944-1956 1409-001 Box 3 18 Puget Sound Drake Company 1956 1409-001 Box 3 19 Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. 1952-1958 1409-001 Box 3 20 Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. shop steward reports 1953-1958 1409-001 Box 3 21 Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. 1954-1960 1409-001 Box 3 22 Puget Sound Fabricators, Inc. 1951-1959 1409-001 Box 3 23 Raber and Kief 1955 1409-001 Box 3 24 Refinery organizing 1953-1956 1409-001 Box 3 25 Reliable Welding Works 1957-1958 1409-001 Box 3 26 Renton Boiler Works 1948-1957 1409-001 Box 3 27 Renton Central Labor Council 1956-1957 1409-001 Box 3 28 Renton Machine and Welding Works 1946-1953 1409-001 Box 3 29 Renton School District No. 403 1955 1409-001 Box 4 1 Republic Steel Corporation 1955 1409-001 Box 4 2 Right to Work Law 1956 1409-001 Box 4 3 Riley Stoker Corporation 1953-1959 1409-001 Box 4 4 Robinson Machine Works 1948-1959 1409-001 Box 4 5 Rothschild International Stevedoring 1959 1409-001 Box 4 6 Rowe Machine Works 1956-1957 1409-001 Box 4 7 Ryan and Haworth 1954-1959 1409-001 Box 4 8 Safeway Scaffold, Inc. 1958-1959 1409-001 Box 4 9 Sagers, Inc. 1959 1409-001 Box 4 10 Seattle Boiler Works, Inc. 1951-1959 1409-001 Box 4 11 Seattle Building and Construction Trades Council 1952-1959 1409-001 Box 4 12 Seattle Metal Trades Council 1950-1959 1409-001 Box 4 13 Shop seniority list 1955 1409-001 Box 4 14 Shop seniority list 1956 1409-001 Box 4 15 Shop seniority list, July 1957 1957 1409-001 Box 4 16 Shop seniority list, December 1957 1957 1409-001 Box 4 17 Shop seniority list, September 1958 1958 1409-001 Box 4 18 Shipyard correspondence 1950-1958 1409-001 Box 4 19 Shipyards 1952-1956 1409-001 Box 4 20 Shipbuilding file 1956-1958 1409-001 Box 4 21 Shipyards - premium pay for certified welding 1957-1958 1409-001 Box 4 22 Sheet Metal Workers addendum 1948-1952 1409-001 Box 4 23 Shop stewards 1953-1958 1409-001 Box 4 24 Shop stewards' meetings 1952-1957 1409-001 Box 4 25 Sitka Pulp Mill Builders 1956-1957 1409-001 Box 4 26 A. O. Smith Corporation 1953-1955 1409-001 Box 4 27 Sound Industries Service Corporation 1958 1409-001 Box 4 28 Solar Chicago Division of U.S. Industries, Inc. 1959 1409-001 Box 4 29 Sparling Sales Ltd. 1956 1409-001 Box 4 30 Spokane Local #242 1945-1957 1409-001 Box 4 31 Steel Construction Company 1953-1958 1409-001 Box 4 32 Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation 1956-1959 1409-001 Box 4 33 Shop strike 1951-1952 1409-001 Box 4 34 Shop strike 1953 1409-001 Box 4 35 Strike assessment fund 1951 1409-001 Box 5 1 Strike benefits 1951-1957 1409-001 Box 5 2 Strike assessment excuses 1953 1409-001 Box 5 3 Strike rolls 1953 1409-001 Box 5 4 Sumner Iron Works 1951-1958 1409-001 Box 5 5 Swanson Welding Company 1945-1958 1409-001 Box 5 6 Taft-Hartley Act bulletins, letters 1947-1948 1409-001 Box 5 7 Tax deductions for subsistence payments 1945-1958 1409-001 Box 5 8 Tax filings 1953-1957 1409-001 Box 5 9 TEMCO Company 1958 1409-001 Box 5 10 P. C. Thomson Company 1948-1958 1409-001 Box 5 11 J. T. Thorpe Northwest, Inc. 1958 1409-001 Box 5 12 Todd Shipyards Corporation 1944-1954 1409-001 Box 5 13 Todd Shipyards Corporation 1955-1959 1409-001 Box 5 14 Torrid King 1955 1409-001 Box 5 15 U&I Sugar Company 1953 1409-001 Box 5 16 Unemployment cases 1946-1950 1409-001 Box 5 17 Shipyard strike unemployment cases 1951 1409-001 Box 5 18 Union shop card receipts 1946-1949 1409-001 Box 5 19 Union Steel Manufacturing 1953-1958 1409-001 Box 5 20 Union Tank Works, Inc. 1956-1959 1409-001 Box 5 21 United Concrete Pipe Corporation 1950-1956 1409-001 Box 5 22 United Concrete Pipe Corporation 1953-1960 1409-001 Box 5 23 United Good Neighbor Fund 1956-1959 1409-001 Box 5 24 Valley Iron Works 1947-1958 1409-001 Box 5 25 Voting - ballots for union office 1956 1409-001 Box 5 26 Waitsburg Welding Works (part 1 of 6) 1947-1952 1409-001 Box 5 27 Waitsburg Welding Works (part 2 of 6) 1947-1952 1409-001 Box 5 28 Waitsburg Welding Works (part 3 of 6) 1947-1952 1409-001 Box 5 29 Waitsburg Welding Works (part 4 of 6) 1947-1952 1409-001 Box 5 30 Waitsburg Welding Works (part 5 of 6) 1947-1952 1409-001 Box 6 1 Waitsburg Welding Works (part 6 of 6) 1947-1952 1409-001 Box 6 2 Ward Cove Builders 1951-1958 1409-001 Box 6 3 Washington Iron Works 1951-1958 1409-001 Box 6 4 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. 1947-1958 1409-001 Box 6 5 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. 1953-1959 1409-001 Box 6 6 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. miscellaneous agreements 1940-1954 1409-001 Box 6 7 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence 1945-1947 1409-001 Box 6 8 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence 1948 1409-001 Box 6 9 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence 1949 1409-001 Box 6 10 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence 1950 1409-001 Box 6 11 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence 1951 1409-001 Box 6 12 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence 1952-1953 1409-001 Box 6 13 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence (part 1 of 2) 1954-1959 1409-001 Box 6 14 Washington Metal Trades, Inc. correspondence (part 2 of 2) 1954-1959 1409-001 Box 6 15 Washington State Building and Construction Trades Council 1954-1959 1409-001 Box 6 16 Washington State Federation of Labor 1953-1956 1409-001 Box 6 17 Washington State Labor Council 1957-1958 1409-001 Box 6 18 Welders 1937-1943 1409-001 Box 6 19 Welders 1944 1409-001 Box 6 20 Welders 1945-1949 1409-001 Box 6 21 Welders 1951-1952 1409-001 Box 6 22 Arbitration award regarding jurisdiction over oxy-acetylene torch work - "Wilson Award" 1918, 1951 1409-001 Box 6 23 The Welding Shop 1946-1958 1409-001 Box 6 24 Weldit Tank and Steel Company 1952-1956 1409-001 Box 6 25 Wells and Wade, Inc. 1952-1958 1409-001 Box 6 26 West Coast Construction Company 1956 1409-001 Box 6 27 Western Blower Company 1951-1958 1409-001 Box 6 28 West Street Carriage Company 1958-1959 1409-001 Box 7 1 H. W. Whitaker 1958-1959 1409-001 Box 7 2 Wickes Boiler Company 1959 1409-001 Box 7 3 A. Wilcox Company 1959 1409-001 Box 7 4 Howard S. Wright Construction Co. 1957-1959 1409-001 Box 7 5 Wyatt and Kipper Fabricators, Inc. agreements 1950-1958 1409-001 Box 7 6 Wyatt and Kipper (part 1 of 2) 1950-1959 1409-001 Box 7 7 Wyatt and Kipper (part 2 of 2) 1950-1959 1409-001 Box 7 8 Wyatt and Kipper Alaska 1954-1955 1409-001 Box 7 9 Wyatt and Kipper construction file 1957 1409-001 Box 7 10 Yakima Brazing and Welding 1947-1953 1409-001 Box 7 11 Yakima Building Trades Council 1952-1959 1409-001 Box 7 12 Yakima Tank and Steel 1947-1952 1409-001 Box 7 13 Zeeb Iron Works, Inc. 1947-1959 1409-001 Box 7 14