Steel - Steel Workers' Organizing Committee (SWOC), 1936-1943

List of SWOC personnel, July 19, 1939, 12 pages; "Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. Agreement," March 17, 1937, 7 pages; letter to AFL President Green from United Mine Workers President Van Bittner, excoriating Green's "treachery to labor" in opposing CIO organization of steel industry, July 22, 1937; "Officers' Report to the First Constitutional Convention," 12 page report of history and activities of SWOC's Southern District, May 9, 1942, with 3 page list of Meetings of Steel Lodges; list of new lodges and SWOC membership, 10 pages, January 1, 1937; correspondence by SWOC Executive Director Noel Beddow, thanking for financial support of strikers, inviting employee representatives of company unions to SWOC meeting, 1936-38; "Minutes of Meeting Held in the Office of Acting Manager of Industrial Relations," re terms of 1941 agreement between SWOC and Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., May 13, 1941, 3 pages; "Memorandum of Meeting Held in Office of Acting Manager of Industrial Relations, April 7, 1942" with agreement between SWOC and Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., 3 pages; "Minutes of Meeting with Grievance Committee of the SWOC" re request for pay increase at Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Co., April 10, 1942; "Plan of Employee Representation in Plants of Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.," n.d., 8 pages; letter from SWOC Executive Director re stripper incident at Gadsden, Alabama steel mill, with clipping of newspaper account, March 2, 1940; letter from SWOC Executive Director to Lee Pressman, General Counsel, CIO, re situation at Republic Steel plant, May 13, 1941; "Secretaries of Steel Lodges in Birmingham," 1936; "Statement by Philip Murray, November 8, 1936: The Problem Before the SWOC on June 17, 1936," 7 pages; "Minutes of a Meeting of the SWOC Held in Pittsburgh, PA, September 29, 1936," 4 pages, with "Philip Murray, Chairman, report to the SWOC," 6 pages, and summary, 3 pages; letter to SWOC Chairman Philip Murray from Regional Director William Mitch re situation at Gadsden, Alabama plant with legal opinion attached, May 18, 1937; "Report of Southern Region of the SWOC Organizing Committee for the CIO Conference, October 11, 1937, 7 pages; "First Wage and Policy Convention of the SWOC," December 14-16, 1937, 5 pages; "Proceedings of the Second International Wage and Policy Convention of the SWOC, May 14-17, 1940, 8 pages; letter to CIO President Philip Murray from Regional Director Noel Beddow re racial trouble at Southern steel plant, July 12, 1943; telegram to Beddow from Secretary-Treasurer urging caution by lodge officers in dealing with U.S. Steel plant managers, August 8, 1939; SWOC pamphlet, "The U.S. Supreme Court's Decision in the Republic Steel Case," directed at employees, 1937; form letters. See also: Steel - Communists, etc., Box 10, File Folder 35.