AFL--General., 1947

248 pp.: UMWA re-withdrawal from AFL; Havana Conference on Trade and Employment; international labor relations; National Farm Labor Union strike in Bakersfield, California; 1947 AFL convention; Taft-Hartley Act; UMWA district presidents; UMWA executive board; UMWA refusal to pay per capita to AFL; AFL executive council matters; negotiations with International Association of Machinists for reaffiliation with AFL; AFL housing committee; AFL state and local organizations; AFL general and district organizers; support for UMWA contract negotiations; legislative programs; Hollywood, California, motion picture studios controversy; jurisdictional disputes; UMWA District 50; AFL Building and Construction Trades Department; AFL-CIO competition; political activities; public relations efforts; ILO; UMWA loan to National Federation of Telephone Workers; US government legal case against UMWA; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; financial matters; membership of and payment of per capita by AFL affiliates; Labor's Non-Partisan League; William L. Hutcheson; William Green; Lee W. Minton; Lewis C. Thorne; George Meany; Matthew Woll; Harvey W. Brown; Eric Peterson; John O'Leary; A.D. Lewis; Frank P. Fenton; Daniel J. Tobin; David Dubinsky; Richard F. Walsh; Daniel W. Tracy; George J. Titler; Richard J. Gray; Harry S Truman; Robert J. Watt; John Kmetz; Thomas Kennedy; Joseph Beirne; Joseph A. Padway; William C. Doherty; Philip Murray; John T. Jones; I.M. Ornburn; Irving Brown.