The files of the AMU lodge #1305 are divided into 9 series: Minutes, Membership, Correspondence, Agreements, City Shop Cases, Health and Welfare, Elections, Law and Legislative Committee and Artifacts. Types of material within the collection include bylaws, agreements, minutes of the executive board, membership applications, clearance cards, legal cases, correspondence with the Grand Lodge and records of a sister machinists union, lodge #1414. A detailed series list is attached.

Automotive Machinist Lodge (AMU ) #1305, a local lodge of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), obtained its charter on June 24th 1919. Local #1305 was originally based in San Francisco, first at 107 Valencia and then at 1750 Market Street, until it moved in 1988 to the current location at 150 South Blvd., San Mateo. Unfortunately no printed history of the AMU local #1305 exists, but for a more general account of the IAM see Mark Perlman's The Machinists; a New Study in American Trade Unionism (1961). Richard Prime Boyden's unpublished thesis The San Francisco Machinists from Depression to Cold War 1930-1950, provides an account of machinists in the Bay Area.

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