CIO--California., 1939-1942

283 pp.: Organizing campaign; anti-union efforts of employers; ILWU contract negotiations; US Maritime Labor Board; political activities; radio broadcasts; unemployment; strikes; AFL-CIO competition; NLRB elections; union organization of the film industry@United Studio Technicians' Guild; CIO and IWA organization in Washington and Oregon; CIO financial assistance for Los Angeles Industrial Union Council; support for CIO presidencies of John L. Lewis and Philip Murray; support for UMWA contract negotiations; proceedings of 1940 state CIO convention; application of child labor and negotiations; proceedings of 1940 state CIO convention; application of child labor and labor contractor laws to agriculture; report of the California State Department of Industrial Relations; UAW contract negotiations; jurisdictional dispute between ILWU and United Retail and Wholesale Employees of America; Labor's Non-Partisan League; Office of Production Management; SWOC shipyard workers strike; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; support for war mobilization efforts; Philip Murray; Allan S. Haywood; Harry Bridges; Kathryn Lewis; Louis Goldblatt; Mike Quinn; Powers Hapgood; Ralph Hetzel; J. Raymond Bell; John Brophy; Philip M. Connelly; Reid Robinson; R.J. Thomas; L.H. Michener; Wyndham Mortimer; Walter Smethurst; Mervyn Rathborne.