Morton served as the international representative (1946-1960), vice-president (1960-1966), and vice-president and southwestern regional director (1966-) of the Office and Professional Employees International Union.
Correspondence, minutes, financial records, office diaries, legal documents, constitutions, lists, reports, ballots, photographs, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, articles, speeches, agreements, proposals, grievance files, bulletins, directories, convention materials, memorabilia, and map. Morton’s personal and office files during his service with the Office and Professional Employees International Union. Includes the organizing efforts at Arlington Memorial Hospital, Arlington, Texas.
The collection provides a good overview of the varied activities of the Office and Professional Employees International Union of which Frank Morton was Vice President and Regional Director. Here are found records of the day-to-day operation of a white-collar union (correspondence files) and chronicles of organizing campaigns at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (13-2), at West Calcasieu-Cameron Hospital in Louisiana (13-4) and other places. Here also are found accounts of the formation of a new local--No. 430 (9-8) and the suspension of an old local--No. 29 (11-7) and cooperative agreements between rival unions (2-4).
The collection also contains material concerning Mr. Morton's trip to Japan in 1964 under the auspices of the Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, his office diaries for 1971-1973 and 1975-1976, and union memorabilia.
Open for research.
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Gift,
Frank E. Morton Papers, AR262, Box Number, Folder Number, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library.
The files in this collection were received in very rough order, so the processing archivist created an artificial arrangement.
AR74: Records (1952-1969)
OH62: Oral History Interview with Frank E. Morton (1977)
The following constitutions were removed from the collection and added to AR417: Constitutions, By-laws, and Rules (1911-1978):
and the books listed below were added to the circulating collection:
The files are arranged in alphabetical order by subject and document type and thereunder chronologically
These materials are indexed under the following headings in the catalog of The University of Texas at Arlington Library. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Notes, correspondence, forms.
Agreement, financial statement, minutes, correspondence, grievance, notes, arbitration request, transcript of hearing.
Sample forms.
Sample forms.
Correspondence, list, printed material, memoranda, copy of clipping, legal document.
Correspondence, newspaper articles, petition, notes, printed material.
Retirement plan and revision, actuarial valuation, salary printout, correspondence, notices, notes, negotiation proposals.
Agreements, letter.
Letter, organizing material.
Correspondence, agreement.
Salary record, agreement, grievance report, correspondence, extract of minutes, notes.
Correspondence, sample clause, proposal, memorandum of understanding.
Agreements, legal documents.
Agreements, correspondence.
Correspondence, notice, printed material, resolutions, reports.
Correspondence, NLRB forms, job descriptions and evaluations, notice of hearing, lists, employer's brief, rescheduling of hearing notice.
Employer's brief, list of positions, job descriptions, NLRB decision, list of names and addresses, subpoenas, teletype message, employer's request for review, fact sheet, correspondence, tally of ballots, sample ballot, NLRB decision, election certification.
Agreement, lists, notes, printout, correspondence, material concerning employee benefits.
Instructional pamphlet, memoranda, handbills.
Correspondence, budget.
Grievance report, correspondence, NLRB order.
Correspondence, NLRB request for review, by-laws, copy of article, memorandum to NLRB.
Correspondence, NLRB charge, copies of articles.
Correspondence, brief, lists, printed material.
Agreement, correspondence, memoranda, brief.
Correspondence, agreement, NLRB order, sample ballot, election check sheet.
Correspondence, copy of article, printed material.
Correspondence, lists.
Correspondence, brief, list.
Correspondence, photograph, notes, contract.
Correspondence, summary of settlement.
Correspondence, minutes, list.
Correspondence, copies of articles, transcript of arbitration hearing, applications for employment, notes.
Notice, correspondence, judgment, minutes.
Correspondence, biographical data, contract, notice.
Correspondence, newsletter, minutes.
Correspondence, grievance report, proposed contract changes, notes, NLRB charge.
Correspondence, printed material, recommendations, resume, agreement.
Correspondence, NLRB certification, NLRB petition, list of goals, notes.
Correspondence, report.
Correspondence, legal documents, newsletter, program and agenda, wage schedule.
Wage schedule, newsletters, correspondence.
Correspondence, program announcement, handbill.
Correspondence, program announcement, newspaper article, resumés, subpoena.
Correspondence, news release, copy of article, convention credential, membership list.
Correspondence, program announcement, application, lists, notes.
Correspondence, notes, wage schedule.
Correspondence, application for strike authorization, agreements.
Minutes, correspondence, job applications and evaluations, speech.
Correspondence, notice of hearing, program announcement, agreement, grievance report, election notice.
Correspondence, legal document, grievance material, notice.
Correspondence, strike benefit fund rules and regulations, trustee's report.
Correspondence, petitions, minutes, program guide, financial statement, copy of article, book announcement.
Correspondence, trustee's report, financial statement, last issue
Correspondence, financial statement.
Correspondence, lists, election guidelines, printed material.
Correspondence, newsletters, NLRB charge.
Organizer's reports, correspondence, program announcement, registration form, annual report, copy of article, report on African seminar, flier.
Correspondence, reprints, invitation to Carter's inauguration, program.
Correspondence, printed material.
Correspondence, notices of election, printed material, financial statement, telegrams, list.
Correspondence, financial statement, copy of article, printed material, agenda.
Correspondence, copy of act, NLRB charge.
Correspondence, notice, speech.
Briefs, agreements.
Articles of agreement.
Financial statement, correspondence, roster, constitution, pension plan, insurance data, notes.
Memoranda, proposal, wage schedule, judgment, summary of negotiations, agreement, printed material.
Agreement, correspondence.
Correspondence, speech, news release, statistical report.
Official program.
Legal documents, correspondence, agreement.
Insurance data.
Proposal.
Correspondence, lists.
Correspondence,legal documents, notice.
Correspondence, agreement, report to employees, insurance report.
Correspondence, grievances, agreement, notes, telegram.
Correspondence, grievances, notes.
Correspondence, notes, grievances, legal documents.
Correspondence, grievances, legal documents, agreement, notes.
Correspondence, grievances.
Correspondence, receipts, grant authorization, lists, itinerary, summary of trip, questionnaire, newsletter.
Photographs, notes, printed material.
Agreement.
Agreement.
Buttons, tie tack, pins.
Job descriptions, correspondence, contracts, notices, newsletter, wage schedule, appeal, printed material, list, check list, data on arbitration, bulletin.
Earnings statement, labor organizer identification card.
Correspondence, proposal, agreement.
Pension handbook, notes, proposal.
Insurance data, map, staff meeting agenda, pension plan information, flier, health and dental plan information, notice.
Financial data.
Minutes, summary.
Minutes, agenda, financial data.
Agenda, minutes, financial data.
Financial data.
Financial data, minutes.
Financial records.
Financial records.
Correspondence, notes, list, minutes, reports, summary of election protest, constitution and by-laws.
Pension trust agreement, correspondence, retirement plan, proposals, agreement between OPEIU and OCAW, premium due statement, minutes, summary of contributions.
Agreement between OPEIU and CWA, letter, newsletter, wage schedule, sample retirement fund agreement.
Correspondence, printed material.
Letter, forms.
Agreements, bulletin.
Proposals, contract.
Legal documents, correspondence.
Pension plan, agreements, insurance plan, wage schedule, correspondence, election material, notes, lists.
Job descriptions, lists, petitions, correspondence, telegrams, notice of hearing, subpoena, brief, election material, membership applications.
Correspondence, briefs.
Legal documents.
Lists of personnel, news bulletin, agenda and program, correspondence, notes, newspaper clipping.
Correspondence, lists of personnel, faculty directory, city map, questionnaire.
Printed material.
Correspondence, copies of newspaper articles, legal documents.