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Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...

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Includes 31 letters from J.W.Cooper High School students (Shenandoah, PA) to Dorothy Bellanca, Jacob Potofsky and Hillman requesting their assistance in reviving the anthracite coal industry.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...

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Applications for employment including one from Ruth (Schlossberg) Landes.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period...

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Correspondence and other documents relating to UAW factional difficulties. Mentioned are R.J. Thomas, ...Martin, George F. Addes, Philip Murray, John L. Lewis. Also farm implements situation in Wisconsin, technological unemployment, nationwide anti-CIO campaign, organizing victory at General Motors.

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Correspondence concerning "warfare" on the UAW at the Ford plant (Kansas City, MO); procedure for issuing unemployment receipts (14pp).

Abstract Correspondence concerning the State Bar Association's and the Milwaukee Bar Association's conference on labor problems (includes letter from Lloyd K. Garrison); Dr. A.S. Lipschitz's (Representative, Austrian Social-Democracy) request for support for an international protest to release political prisoners; Irving Alexander's case; the organization of technical workers; Isidore Abramowitz's discussion of the Histadrut (n.d.); Bernard Altman's (gas station attendant) discussion of Big Business,...