Collection consists of records for Oregon and Washington only, including: letter and invoice file, 1883-1884; minutes; membership rolls, 1884-1887, 1911-1913; receipt book, 1880-1882; cash book; receipts and bills, 1881-1911; national and local printed forms, 1880-1911; newspaper, October 1, 1892; and miscellaneous insurance and death claims.

Oral history interview with Margaret Butler conducted by Madeline Bisgyer from June 4 to August 17, 2018, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Butler discusses her involvement in union organization and her career as executive director of the Portland coalition of Jobs with Justice from 1996 to 2013.

Ola Delight Cook (1880-1958) was a railroad telegrapher, charter member of Commercial Telegraphers Union, worker for the American Federation of Labor, and an honorary trustee of Portland Central Labor Council. Collection includes correspondence, constitutions, financial reports and minutes relating to railroad unions, the AFL, the Portland Labor Temple and the YWCA, 1953-1958, Oregon political campaigns, 1948-1958, and Central Labor Council; diaries, 1914-1955; and ledger.

Oral history interview with Jean A. Eilers conducted by Carolyn Matthews from August 10 to December 4, 2011, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Eilers discusses her involvement with union organizing in California and in Portland, Oregon.

Beryl Albert Green (1887-1965) was an attorney specializing in labor and civil liberties cases. Collection includes scrapbooks with clippings, speeches, and ephemera regarding strikes and labor law.

Herman Kenin grew up in Portland, Oregon, and was a lawyer, violinist, and union executive. Papers consist of correspondence, speeches, biographical information, newspaper clippings and obituaries, 1935-1970, including a June 1970 issue of the magazine American Labor in which the cover story is about Kenin.

Collection includes correspondence and financial records, 1918-1957; ephemera and newspaper clippings, 1923-1965, regarding social welfare and organizations related to labor.

Correspondence, property records, reports, and ephemera relating to Ellis G. Hughes and Charles H. Martin of Portland, Oregon. Hughes was a real estate lawyer. His son-in-law Martin was an officer in the U.S. Army, a U.S. congressman, and governor of Oregon from 1935-1939.

The Metropolitan Plant Closure Organizing Committee was founded in 1981 to protect working people and their communities against plant closures. Records include newsletters, by-laws, minutes, agendas, surveys, and reports.

Francis J. Murnane (1914-1968) was a labor leader in the ILWU Local 8, a historical preservationist, Progressive candidate for the Oregon State Legislature in 1948, and secretary of the Harry Bridges Defense Committee. Collection includes correspondence and documents relating to Murnane's work with various labor unions.