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Houston Labor and Trades Council

Houston Labor and Trades Council

On February 5, 1918, during a general meeting, Houston branches of organized labor consolidated. The Houston Labor Council became the Houston Labor and Trades Council. In the same meeting, the Council, by resolution, endorsed suffrage in Texas, as follows: "That the Council ask the Governor of Texas to submit to the special session of the legislature an amendment to the Terrill election law extending to women the right of suffrage in the democratic primaries."

Hortense Ward (née Hortense Sparks; 1872–1944), Lavinia Engle (1892–1979), and Martha Alice Wood, MD (maiden; 1877–1947), appeared before the Council on behalf of the amendment.

Name changes

1942: Houston Central Labor and Trade Council

1952: Houston Industrial Labor Council

19??: Houston Area Industrial Labor Council

Secretaries

1912: George Wilson

1910–1914: William Edward Carroll (1881–1931); Carroll was also secretary of the Labor Messenger

1954–1965: Norman Earnest Coward (1909–1965)

Executive secretaries

1914–1931: William Edward Carroll (1881–1931)

1931–1954: George Alexander LaTour Wilson (1875–1954)

Presidents

1919: H.S. Spencer

1925–1931: George Alexander LeTour Wilson (1875–1954)

1935: Eddie L. Woods

1942–1946: B.F. McClellan

1950: Troy D. Slaughter

1952: Charley Sparks

Vice Presidents

1919: D.W. Tracy

1924: Roy Williams

Attorneys

1919: Sewell Myer

Membership

1949: 30,000

1953: 60,000

Publications

• Labor Messenger. OCLC 1089991789 (all editions).

Bibliography

References

• Houston Post, The (February 6, 1918). "Local Labor Unions Centralizing Power". Vol. 33, no. 308. p. 5. Retrieved May 10, 2021 – via Portal to Texas History.

• Green, George N[orris], PhD (curator) (2017). "Walking the Line – The Diverse History of Organized Labor in Texas" (PDF) (A retrospective exhibit recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Texas Labor Archives, 2017). University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections: 1–24. Retrieved May 10, 2021. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

• "Houston Area Industrial Union Council Records". University of Texas at Arlington, Special Collections Library. OCLC 19706895.
• Harris County AFL-CIO Council records, 1911–1970". University of Texas at Arlington, Special Collections Library. OCLC 840014007, 19706755.
• "Harris County AFL-CIO Council (Houston, Tex.) records, 1971–1983". University of Texas at Arlington, Special Collections Library. OCLC 839812558.