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American Federation of Labor Records, Part 2 on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5760 mf

Scope and Contents

The collection comprises the following subseries: historical file (1934-1942); convention file (1935-1952); relations with the CIO (1935-1950); political collaboration with the CIO (1937-1947); papers favoring AFL-CIO unity (1935-1951); national and international union correspondence (1935-1951); State Federations of Labor correspondence (1935-1945); central labor union correspondence (1935-1950); local union correspondence (1937-1947); and miscellaneous correspondence (1936-1950).

Dates

  • 1936-1953

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was the first federation of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in May of 1886 in Columbus, Ohio. Samuel Gompers of the Cigar Makers' International Union was elected president every year except one up until he passed away in 1924. The AFL was the largest union grouping in the United States in the first half of the 20th Century, even after the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was formed.

In 1955 the AFL merged with the CIO (longtime rival), to form the AFL-CIO, a federation of unions which remains today.

Extent

4.22 cubic feet

Abstract

Documents in extensive detail the emergence of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and subsequent competition and cooperation between the CIO and American Federation of Labor (AFL) through the close of that decade, until the early 1950s.

Quantity:

38 microfilm reels

Forms of Material:

Microfilm, records (documents).

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
Compiled by:
Kheel Staff, February 21, 2013
EAD encoding:
Randall Miles, June 13, 2019
Title
American Federation of Labor Records, Part 2 on Microfilm
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
June 13, 2019
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853