United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America

The United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America (URW) was a labor union representing workers involved in manufacturing using specific materials in the United States and Canada.

United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America

Abbreviation	URW
Merged into	United Steel Workers of America
Formation	1935 (1935)
Dissolved	1995 (1995)
Type	Trade union
Headquarters	Akron, Ohio, US[1]
Location	Canada United States
Affiliations	AFL-CIO
Formerly called	United Rubber Workers of America

Testifying before the Lafollette Civil Liberties Committee today, John H. Dalrymple, President of the United Rubber Workers of America, related details of a "beating up" administered to him in Gadsen, Ala, last June which resulted in his hopitalization for several weeks with concussion of the brain

The union was founded in 1935^[1] as the United Rubber Workers of America and was chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on September 12. It aligned itself with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and as a result, was suspended by the AFL in 1936 and expelled in 1938. In 1937, it was chartered by the CIO, and by 1953, it had grown to become the federation's sixth-largest affiliate, with 190,000 members.^[2][3][4]

In 1955, the URW affiliated to the new AFL-CIO, and by 1980, its membership had increased slightly, to 199,990.^[5] On July 2, 1995, it merged into the United Steelworkers of America.^[2]

Presidents

1935: Sherman Dalrymple^[6]

1945: L. S. Buckmaster^[6]

1960: George Burdon^[6]

1966: Peter Bommarito^[6]

1981: Mike Stone

1990: Kenneth L. Coss

See also

• 1936 Akron rubber strike
• 1943 Akron rubber strike