Natural Resources (Development of), 1922-1952

Letter from AFL President Gompers to San Francisco Labor Council, quoting resolution adopted at AFL Convention urging strict government regulation of private development of natural resources, halting of further transfer of public to private ownership, March 14, 1922; "Declaration Made by the AFL Convention," opposing government subsidy to private power systems, 1923; "The Employee Relationship Policy of the Tennessee Valley Authority As of August 28, 1935," 11 pages, with cover letter to AFL President Green; Press release, President Green urges Senate to appoint TVA Director Lilienthal as Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, March 19, 1947; resolution by consolidated building trades, Metal Trades, Central Labor Council of Solano County, endorsing the Monticello Reservoir Dam Site, Solano County, California, July 11, 1947; "Statement from Solano County Trades and Labor Council, AFL, In Favor of Construction of Monticello Dam," c. 1947, 4 pages, with related correspondence; statement of AFL legislative representative opposing Senate Bill 912, c. 1947, 4 pages; statement of AFL legislative representative supporting creation of Columbia Valley Administration, c. 1949, 8 pages; "Background Information on the St. Lawrence Seaway Project" with hand notation: "Hushing [AFL legislative representative], January 21, 1948," 6 pages; statement by Secretary of California State Federation of Labor to the Senate Subcommittee on appropriations to the Department of the Interior, opposing riders, with cover letter to AFL legislative representative, 4 pages; statement of AFL legislative representative before the Senate Public Works Committee, opposing legislation to amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, March 23, 1948, 3 pages; Statement of AFL legislative representative before the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs supporting bill enabling the Supreme Court settlement of Colorado River system dispute, March 21, 1949, 2 pages; statement of AFL legislative representative before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Deficiencies and Army Civil Functions, supporting Ice Harbor Lock and Dam Project, April 14, 1949, 3 pages; letter from President Green to George Harrison, President, Brotherhood of Railway Clerks re position of Executive Council on St. Lawrence Seaway project, January 3, 1951; memo for President Green from AFL legislative representative re Executive Council position on establishment of Missouri Valley Authority, January 14, 1952