Machinists Strike Scrapbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records / Series 12: World War Two Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945-1946
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0395, Subseries 12.6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of three scrapbooks of press clippings covering the machinists' strike that occurred in San Francisco over more pay and fewer hours. Hills Bros. Coffee plant, which was identified as one of the big "fringe shops", was impacted by the strike.  As a result, the company warned grocers and their customers not to expect large supplies of coffee.  The scrapbooks are arranged in chronological order.