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Box 76

 Container

Contains 25 Results:

Koppelmann, Herman (Congressman from Connecticut) 1938 Request Item

 File — Box: 76, Folder: 11
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...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Kovno, Jewish Industrial Union Council, 1930 Request Item

 File — Box: 76, Folder: 12
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...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Krzycki, Leo (CIO organizer, Akron, Chicago and Detroit) 1936 Request Item

 File — Box: 76, Folder: 14
Abstract

Description of the Goodyear plant strike (Akron, Ohio), strikers' rejection of "the Goodyear Peace Proposals", as well as the mayor's "Law and Order League" (1936); Leo Krzycki's support for the Socialist Party's Presidential candidate.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Kwapiszewski, Michael (Counselor, Polish Embassy) 1941 Request Item

 File — Box: 76, Folder: 17
Abstract

Memorandum requesting placement of Polish engineers and technicians in the American defense industry.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

K (general) [1929], 1930-44 Request Item

 File — Box: 76, Folder: 18
Abstract

Includes discussion of and examples of anti-CIO propaganda in New Jersey; campaign to see Anna Moscowitz Kross (ALP nominee) elected to the New York State Supreme Court; an issue of The Kiplinger Washington Letter; address of Mayor Edward J. Kelly (Chicago), before the SWOC convention (5/15/40); letter from Joseph Kalvaitis in Lithuanian.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Labor Congress (United) of Mahoning County, Ohio (1937) Request Item

 File — Box: 76, Folder: 20
Abstract

"a synopsis of a recent labor trouble of the United Garment Workers at the Moyer Manufacturing Co. Youngstown, Ohio"

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)