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CIO--Pennsylvania., 1939

 File — Reel: 13
Identifier: 10

Scope and Contents

120 pp.: Minutes of meetings; CIO organizers and regional directors; UMWA district presidents; UMWA-CIO cooperation; union organization; Textile Workers Union of America organizers; AFL-CIO competition; legislative programs; state Workmen's Compensation Act; brief amicus curiae filed by CIO and Textile Workers Union of America in William Leader and American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, Philadelphia, Branch No. 1, Local 706 v. Apex Hosiery Corporation (US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit); Sherman Antitrust Act; CIO policy regarding expense accounts for organizers; mass meetings; 1939 state CIO convention; SWOC organizers; support for UMWA in contract negotiations; resolutions regarding 1940 US presidential elections and anti-war sentiments; Allan S. Haywood; Michael J. Kosik; John Kmetz; John Brophy; Walter Smethurst; Garfield Lewis; John A. Phillips; Lee Pressman; Joseph Kovner; Anthony Wayne Smith; Philip Murray; J. Raymond Bell; Joseph D. Cannon; A.D. Lewis; David J. McDonald.

Dates

  • 1939

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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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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