CIO--Alabama., 1939-1942

259 pp.: Publications: CIO songbook; southern organizing campaign; plans for 1939 CIO convention; anti-labor legislation; anti-labor activities of the Alabama Woman's Democratic Club; racial discrimination against black workers; unionization of WPA workers; factionalism and internal politics; Senator Robert M. La Follette congressional committee; SWOC union organization and contract negotiations; Republic Steel Corporation; anti-union activities in Birmingham; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; local union support for CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; protests against national defense contracts in anti-labor locales; IUMMSW contract negotiations; press relations; 1940 Alabama state CIO convention; Gadsden, AL, Jim-Crow ordinance barring union meetings; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; complaints against IUMMSW organizer, alleging Communist influence and provocation of jurisdictional disputes; 1941 Alabama state CIO convention; support and criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; proceedings of the 1942 Alabama state CIO convention; labor support for war mobilization efforts; UMWA withdrawal from CIO; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; Communist influence in CIO; CIO presidency of Philip Murray; UMWA organization in the South; William Mitch; A.D. Lewis; Lee Pressman; Yelverton Cowherd; Virginia Durr; Allan S. Haywood; Noel R. Beddow; Sidney Hillman; Reid Robinson; Philip Murray; Franklin D. Roosevelt; James B. Carey; John Brophy.