Badge, Identification
Badge, Identification
Badge, Identification

Badge, Identification

Object number2016.114.3
Manufacturer
Date1940-1949
MediumSteel; Paint; Metal
Credit LineGift of Sherry Murray
DescriptionSquare steel employee identification badge number 1706.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 1.813 × 1.813 × 0.125 in. (4.6 × 4.6 × 0.3 cm)
InscriptionsFront has engraved text "J&L / STEEL / 1706 / PITTSBURGH WORKS".
MarksRaised text on reverse at bottom center "WHITEHEAD HOAG".
Historical NotesJ&L Steel ID badge from the 1940s. According to Roy Murray, Jr., a box of these were saved in the company offices, and Murray saved them. Employee is unknown. Sherry Murray was employed as the Director of Industrial Relations for the Pittsburgh Works of J&L/LTV from 1984-1989, where she met her husband, Roy Murray, Jr., a plant employee from 1964-1988 (retired in 2004 as Director of Collective Bargaining Serves, USWA). After it closed, she worked for a time with Alcoa in a similar leadership position. Roy’s dad, J. Roy Murray, Sr., was with the Steelworkers Organizing Committee and Local 1843 of the Steelworkers (who negotiated the first contract between the USWA and J&L Steel).
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