AFL. 1935 [Part 1]., 1935

374 pp.: AFL volunteer organizers; UMWA district presidents; UMWA organizers; AFL-UMWA cooperations; AFL state and local organizations; legislative programs; National Labor Relations bill (Wagner bill); thirty-hour week proposals; political activities; controversy over crafts unionism versus industrial unionism; AFL executive council matters; AFL factionalism and internal politics; organization of black workers; AFL Building Trades Department; NRA codes; AFL general organizers; economic analysis of industrial conditions; Workers Education Bureau of America; radio broadcasts; criticism of AFL presidency of William Green; Regional Labor Board hearings; collective bargaining plan for the steel industry; South-Wide Labor Conference of Delegates from Central Bodies and State Federations of Labor; IUMMSW contract negotiations; history of AFL-IUMMSW relations; minutes of meetings of AFL executive council; organizing campaigns@United Textile Workers of America; proposed establishment of UAW; financial matters; membership of and payment of per capita by AFL affiliates; report on Communists and Communist activities within the trade union movement; Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America; William Green; William Mitch; Philip Murray; Thomas Kennedy; Henry Warrum; Earl E. Houck; Ellis Searles; A.D> Lewis; John Brophy; Ora E. Gasaway; C.S. Garrison; Charles P. Howard; David Dubinsky; J.C. Lewis; Frank B. Powers; Andrew A. Myrup; Frank Morrison; Ray Edmundson; Samuel Caddy; George L. Berry; Matthew Woll; Edward A. Filene; Henry Ford; P.T. Fagan; Adolph Germer; I.M. Ornburn; W.P. Stacey; George L. Googe; W.C. Roberts; Francis J. Haas; John Green; Philip H. Van Gelder.