Negroes, 1944-1970

Memos to President Green re AFL position on anti-poll tax and anti-lynching legislation, September 11, 1940, 3 pages, and re status of anti-poll tax legislation, January 29, 1941, 2 pages; letter from AFL National Legislative Committee Chairman Hushing to Senator Chavez, Senate Subcommittee on Education and Labor Chairman, re AFL stand on President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), September 7, 1944, 4 pages; memo re three bills patterned after FEPC, February 28, 1944; form letters to affiliated union from President Green supporting FEPC legislation, November 14, 1945, and outlining resolutions passed at AFL convention condemning racial discrimination in trade unions and calling for outlawing of KKK, November 19, 1946; statement by President Green before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, in support of S 984, the Ives-Chavez Anti-Discrimination Bill, June 20, 1947, 3 pages; letter from Hushing to AFL Secretary-Treasurer Meany re President Green's erroneous statement in support of S 984, with analysis of the bill attached, January 23, 1948, 5 pages; statement by AFL national legislative representative before House subcommittees on Labor and Public Welfare, supporting anti-employment discrimination bill, May 19, 1949, 4 pages; memo "Draft of State FEPC Model Bill," November 14, 1950; three letters from Alabama: (from Selma, Brotherhood of Railway Carmen local financial secretary, to Deputy Treasurer of Railway Labor's Political League, deploring CIO contribution to NAACP, "dedicated to the destruction of our civilization," February 25, 1956; from Mobile, Brotherhood of Railway Clerks President, to AFL President Meany, supporting segregation and denouncing AFL-CIO News as a "propaganda sheet for the Communist conceived, inspired and dominated NAACP," October 10, 1957; from Birmingham, "the wife of a good union member," supporting AFL-CIO organizing in the South, and describing activities of the White Citizens' Council, February 24, 1956); "United States Government Memorandum," from the General Counsel to the Director of some unnamed government commission, summarizing testimony at hearing re "Federal Contract Compliance in the Building and Construction Industry in the San Franciso Bay Area," September 1, 1967, 31 pages; "Meeting of Sub-Committee on Compliance - EEOC Cases Recommended for Closing as of April 30, 1969," 6 page list of complaints filed against AFL-CIO affiliates; photocopy of article by Booker T. Washington, "The Negro and the Labor Unions," n.d., 12 pages; AFL-CIO brochure re civil rights, 1970; clippings; notes.