CIO--Illinois., 1939-1942
Scope and Contents
147 pp.: CIO regional directors; union organization; UMWA-CIO cooperation; Labor's Non-Partisan League; AFL-CIO competition; support for UMWA contract negotiations; constitution of Chicago Industrial Union Council; CIO factionalism and internal politics; PWOC; 1940 US presidential campaigns of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie; CIO organizers; educational programs; national defense mobilization efforts; strikes; legislative programs; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; support for war mobilization efforts; criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; executive board meetings; support for CIO presidency of Philip Murray; Ernest B. Pugh; Walter Smethurst; August Scholle; Thomas Kennedy; John O'Leary; Albert E. Glenn; Kathryn Lewis; A.D. Lewis; Fullerton Fulton; Robert Travis; Philip Murray; Samuel Levin; Walter Frisbie.
Dates
- 1939-1942
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
2.22 cubic feet
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
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Ithaca NY 14853