Dates: 1947-1962
Assistant Labor Advisor, American Mission for Aid to Greece, 1947-1948; Director, Labor and Manpower Division in Greece, Economic Cooperation Administration and Mutual Security Agency, 1948-1953
This collection consists mostly of copies of correspondence between D. Alan Strachan and Clinton Golden.
Size: 5 linear inches (about 800 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: Documents created by U.S. government employees in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Carol Briley (1982).
Updated by: Kirk A. Schlueter (2013) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.
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1903 (August 6) |
Born Douglas Alan Strachan, London, England |
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1918-1923 |
Student, Paddington Technical Institute and Willesden Polytechnic, England |
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1926 |
Emigrated to the United States |
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1933 |
Naturalized as a U.S. citizen |
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1926-1937 |
Toolmaker, auto industry, Detroit, Michigan |
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1937-1944 |
Union official, lobbyist, official with the War Production Board |
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1944-1945 |
Deputy Vice Chairman and Director, Industrial Relations Division, War Production Board |
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1945-1947 |
Head of the United Auto Workers and Congress of Industrial Organizations office, Washington D.C. |
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1947-1948 |
Assistant Labor Advisor, American Mission for Aid in Greece |
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1948-1953 |
Director, Labor and Manpower Division in Greece, Economic Cooperation Administration and Mutual Security Agency |
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1957-1966 |
Official with the International Cooperation Administration and the Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C., Pakistan, Egypt, and South Vietnam |
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The collection mostly consists of copies of correspondence between D. Alan Strachan and Clinton Golden dating from 1947 to 1961. Clinton Golden was a founder of the United Steel Workers Union who later served as a labor advisor for the Economic Cooperation Administration. The content of the correspondence is chiefly concerned with the U.S. Economic Mission in Greece and its operations. The correspondence also discusses labor in Greece, as well as labor issues in general. The collection also includes copies of correspondence with others and printed materials relating to the death of Clinton Golden in 1961.
This collection consists of copies of original documents from the papers of D. Alan Strachan at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.
More information on the U.S. aid program in Greece can be found in the papers of Dwight P. Griswold, Paul A. Porter, and Paul R. Porter.
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SUBJECT FILE, 1947-1962 Correspondence between D. Alan Strachan and Clinton Golden, with other items. Arranged chronologically. |
Box 1
- Correspondence, 1947
- Correspondence, 1948
- Correspondence, 1949
- Correspondence, 1950
- Correspondence, 1951
- Correspondence, 1952
- Correspondence, 1953
- Correspondence, 1954
- Correspondence, 1955
- Correspondence, 1956
- Correspondence, 1957
- Correspondence, 1959
- Correspondence, 1960
- Correspondence, 1961
- Materials Relating to the Death of Clinton Golden, 1961-1962