NAME: ADAMS, HURON (COOKIE)

BORN: 1910

DIED:

GENDER: m

INTERVIEWER: Zieren

DATE: 10/30/79

TOWN: CEDAR RAPIDS

UNION: SEIU Local 50

COMPANIES: Cedar Rapids Community School District

TIME PERIOD: 1920s–1950s

INDEX

Adams, Huron “Cookie”, 1–29

AFL––organizing in the 1930s (Building Service Employees), 15–24

AFT––early organizing, 27–28

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 3–29

Company unions––Cedar Rapids Education Association, 27–28

Depression (1930s)––impact on public employees, 13–15

Labor unions––SEIU Local 50, 3–29

Lumber industry, 2–3

Schools––early bus drivers, 25–27

Schools––early maintenance workers, 3–15

Schools––organizing service employees, 15–24

Schools––teachers, 27–29

SEIU––organizing school service employees, 15–29

Teamsters––and school bus drivers, 25–27

Wabeno, Wisconsin, 1