NAME: AMES, SYLVESTER “Babe”

BORN: Waterloo, Iowa (1911)

DIED:

GENDER: m

NAME: AMES, MARTHA

BORN:

DIED:

GENDER: f

INTERVIEWER: Kelso

DATE: 03/00/78

TOWN: WATERLOO

UNION: PWOC, UPWA Local 46

OFFICES HELD: Divisional Steward, UPWA Local 46

COMPANIES: Rath Packing Company

TIME PERIOD: 1920s–1940s

INDEX

African American workers––employment, packinghouse industry, 26

Ames, Martha, 1–37

Ames, Sylvester “Babe”, 1–37

CIO––organizing in Waterloo, 12–13, 15–18, 22

Company unions––Rath packing Co, 12–17

Depression (1930s)––impact on packinghouse industry, 6–8

Farrell, Chuck, 30–31

Herrick Refrigeration––during World War II, 21–22

Labor unions––UPWA Local 46, 1–37

Mahon, Don, 13–14

Meatpacking industry––dual seniority system, 19–22

Packinghouse industry (1920s–50s)––working conditions, 3, 6–8

Packinghouse industry––organizing, Rath Packing Co, 12–18, 22–23

Packinghouse strike of 1948, 27–36

Packinghouse strike of 1948––Waterloo riot, 30–33

PWOC––organizing in Waterloo, 12, 15–18

Rath Packing Company, 1–37

Rath Packing Company––1935 strike, 12–13

Strike kitchens, 35–36

Sullivan Brothers, 25–26

UPWA––member opinions on union, 36–37

Waterloo Associated Manufacturers, 23–25

Waterloo, Iowa, 1–37

Waterloo, Iowa––b. 1911, 1–2

Waterloo, Iowa––in the 1930s, 10–12

Women workers––employment, packinghouse industry, 15, 18–26

Women workers––World War II, 21, 23–25

World War II––packinghouse industry, 21, 23–25