Carlsbad Potash Workers Local No. 415 of the International Union Of Mine, Mill, And Smelter Workers collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0044-SC
Scope and Contents
Items found in this collection were part of a student project at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts done in fall of 1948 and summer of 1949. Warren C. Kreykenbohm, a student at the college, undertook a report on labor unions in New Mexico. While gathering information (which was to be submitted to Dr. Latien L. Camien), Kreykenbohm contacted labor leaders in the state. Among the labor leaders he corresponded with was C. D. Smotherman of the Carlsbad Potash Workers. Smotherman sent Kreykenbohm a number of items relating to the Carlsbad local's activities during the 1940s, and suggested some other labor leaders the student might contact.
Among the items that deal with the activities of Local 415 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers are booklets containing agreements between the Carlsbad local and the Potash Company of America for the years 1940-1948. Other booklets define the union's purpose and list its accomplishments. A Word for New Potash Workers was put out by the local and lists the achievements of the Carlsbad Potash Workers, while Takes More Than Guns by Morris Wright briefly describes the history of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO). Other items found in the collection include Kreykenbohm's correspondence with Smotherman and other papers he acquired in his study of labor unions. Among these materials is an annotated list of delegates to Labor's Coordinating Committee, a news release from the Employment Security Commission of New Mexico, a graph showing potash industry profits, a shop steward bulletin on mine mill policy about the Marshall Plan, and several bargaining leaflets and flyers.
The collection also includes copies of the International Union's constitution and an undated mimeograph copy of the local's by-laws and constitution.
Among the items that deal with the activities of Local 415 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers are booklets containing agreements between the Carlsbad local and the Potash Company of America for the years 1940-1948. Other booklets define the union's purpose and list its accomplishments. A Word for New Potash Workers was put out by the local and lists the achievements of the Carlsbad Potash Workers, while Takes More Than Guns by Morris Wright briefly describes the history of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO). Other items found in the collection include Kreykenbohm's correspondence with Smotherman and other papers he acquired in his study of labor unions. Among these materials is an annotated list of delegates to Labor's Coordinating Committee, a news release from the Employment Security Commission of New Mexico, a graph showing potash industry profits, a shop steward bulletin on mine mill policy about the Marshall Plan, and several bargaining leaflets and flyers.
The collection also includes copies of the International Union's constitution and an undated mimeograph copy of the local's by-laws and constitution.
Dates
- 1940-1949
Biographical / Historical
Carlsbad Potash Workers Local Number 415, affiliated with the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO), was the largest local union in the State of New Mexico throughout the 1940s. The local union held bargaining rights for nearly all employees at International Minerals and Chemical Corporation (located in Carlsbad, NM). The union maintained offices in the Carlsbad National Bank Building.
Extent
21 Sheets (21 items)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Contains information on Local 415 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (also known as the Carlsbad Potash Workers), and general labor union information for the state of New Mexico. Includes contract agreements between the Potash Company of America and the Carlsbad Potash Workers, union history booklets, local and international union constitutions, correspondence with Warren C. Kreykenbohm (from whose research these items were obtained), and other union policy papers and labor information.
Processing Information
Merleen Dibert
Updated by William B. Boehm, November 2005
- Title
- Guide to the Carlsbad Potash Workers Local No. 415 of the International Union Of Mine, Mill, And Smelter Workers collection,
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Merleen Dibert and updated by William B. Boehm
- Date
- Updated November 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the New Mexico State University Library Archives and Special Collections Repository