CIO--Office General., 1939

149 pp.: U.S. monetary policy; Temporary National Economic Committee hearings on technology changes and employment; transfer of John Brophy and Walter Smethurst from UMWA to CIO payrolls; Consumers Power Corporation strikes in Michigan; CIO organizers; WPA projects in Montana; Southern Coal Operators Association; Interstate Commerce Commission; crafts unionism; AFL competition with CIO; plans for 1939 CIO convention; Harry Bridges Defense Committee; reactions of US congressmen to attack of John L. Lewis on US vice president John Nance Garner; PWOC; CIO relations with UOPWA CIO office unit; resignation of Harvey C. Fremming as Social Security committee chairman; WPA and federal relief programs in connection with UMWA work stoppage in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Alabama; support for UMWA contract negotiations; CIO unemployment program; CIO office space lease arrangements; issuance of new CIO charters following reorganization; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; suspension of CIO affiliates from the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada; proposed amendment of Wagner Act; lists of CIO regional and subregional directors, officers of national and international affiliates, and executive board members; Ralph Hetzel; Lee Pressman; Walter Smethurst; Rinaldo Cappellini; James Gillan; J. Raymond Bell; Kathryn Lewis; John Brophy; Len De Caux; Ramsey Wilson; Ora E. Gasaway; A.D. Lewis; Joseph Kovner; Anthony Wayne Smith; Frank Hefferly; D.W. Morrison; R.J. Tallon; Walter N. Polakov; Philip Murray.