Abstract: Records of the Boot and Shoe Workers International Union, a national union for workers in the boot and shoe trades which merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters in the late l970s, which in turn merged with the Retail Clerks in 1981 to form the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW). The collection includes minutes and files of the Executive Board; correspondence and reports of national officers; publications, posters, and files from public relations activities; records of local unions affiliated with the national union; and photographs and news clippings scrapbooks.