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AFL. 1935 [part 3]., 1935

 File — Reel: 17
Identifier: 1

Scope and Contents

258 pp.: 1935 AFL convention; controversy over crafts unionism versus industrial unionism; founding of CIO; an analysis of the mandates of the 1934 AFL convention showing what the convention voted should be done and what the AFL actually did; legislative programs; minutes of meetings of AFL executive council; financial matters; membership of and payment of per capita by AFL affiliates; suspension of CIO affiliates by AFL executive council; AFL-UMWA tension; UMWA organizers; American League against War and Fascism; AFL volunteer organizers; UMWA district presidents; AFL local and state organizations; resignation of John L. Lewis from AFL vice-presidency; AFL factionalism and internal politics; unemployment insurance and relief proposals; support for boycott of German-made products; AFL general and district organizers; Guffey-Snyder Coal Stabilization Act; organization of black workers; AFL Metal Trades Department; Labor 's Non-Partisan League; AFL Building Trades Department; lawsuits; Charles P. Howard; David Dubinsky; J.C. Lewis; Frank B. Powers; Andrew A. Myrup; Frank Morrison; William Green;Selma Boarchardt; P.T. Fagan; I.M. Ornburn; Harold L. Ickes; Samuel Caddy; Ray Edmundson; Angelo Herndon; Thomas F. Ryan; William Mitch; Thomas Kennedy; David Fowler; John Brophy; John P. Frey; George L. Berry; Harry S. Truman; Frank Feeney; M.J. McDonough; William J. McSorley; A.O. Wharton; John Coefield; William C. O'Neill; James W. Williams; John Possehl; Richard J. Gray; Daniel W. Tracy; William McCarthy; Herbert Rivers; Thomas L. Hughes; Joseph V. Moreschi.

Dates

  • 1935

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

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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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