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The Central Labor Council's support was especially critical to the success of the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives as was the use of the Wagner name, as it gave mainstream legitimacy to the effort and helped to motivate several fairly conservative unions to provide document accessions to the collection.<ref name=Cary24>Cary, "The 35-Year History of the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives," pg. 24.</ref> The "Tamiment" name had been closely associated with the Socialist Party and New York University was not perceived as friendly to the interests of organized labor – a pair of potential stumbling blocks which were neatly alleviated by the alternative name and official support of the CLC.<ref name=Cary24 />
The Wagner Labor Archive hired its first employee, Larry Cary, in 1978 and made use of grant money from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] and the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] to help launch the project.<ref name=Cary25>Cary, "The 35-Year History of the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives," pg. 25.</ref> Succeeding Cary at the helm of the Labor Archive was labor historian Debra Bernhardt, who later took over for Dorothy Swanson as head of the combined Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives.<ref name=Cary26>Cary, "The 35-Year History of the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives," pg. 26.</ref>
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