Muncie, Indiana - Unions

ABOUT MUNCIE UNIONISM

This City Said to be Best Organized

Of Any in United States.

Over half of the City's Population in Some

Manner is Identified With

Industrial Unions.

Many questions have been asked concerning the unions in Muncie and the strength of unionism here. It would be difficult to portray exactly the true state of affairs. Without exception, Muncie is the most strongly unionized city in the United States, so labor leaders say. There are more trades and occupations organized here than anywhere else in cities of the same or even larger population. The following is a list of unions affiliated with the Muncie Trades Council or Central labor Union, with possibly one or two omissions: A.F.G.W.U., No. 23; A.F.G.W.U., No. 91; A.F.G.W.U., No. 2; A.F.G.W.U. No. 11; American Agents' Association; Amalgamated Association of Wood Workers; A.A.I.T. and S.W.; Building laborers' Protective Association; Barbers; Bakers and Confectioners; Broom Makers' Union; Butchers' Union; Carpenters' and Joiners; Cigar Makers' Union; Green Bottle Blowers' Association; Industry Lodge A. A. of I. T. and S. W.; Iron Molders' Union; Enamellers' Union; Journeymen Tailors' Union; Lathers' Union; Mixed Window Glass Workers'; Musicians' Protective Association; Operative Plasters' Union; Painters and Decorators; Retail Clerks' Union No. 66; Retail Grocery Clerks; Restaurant Employees' Union; Street Railway Employees' Union; Typographical Union No. 332; L. A. 800 Window Glass Workers; Woman's Union Label League; Window Glass Workers' Union No. 7329; Woman's Federal Union.

The Building Trades Council is composed of representatives of the building trades alone. This council is represented by delegates in the Central Union.

Besides the affiliated unions, there are twelve or thirteen others which from their peculiar nature, do not care to be identified with the Central Union. They are not affiliated usually because their occupations are of such a kind that they could derive little if any benefits from such an association. They are usually factory unions.

How many union men there are in Muncie is not known and could not be told without elaborate computation. It is safe to say, however, that considerably more than half of Muncie's 30,000 people are either members of unions or belong to families whose heads are members of unions.