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Box 78

 Container

Contains 46 Results:

Lewis, John L. (UMW and CIO) 1935-40 Request Item

 File — Box: 78, Folder: 1-5
Abstract Correspondence documenting the organization of the CIO and its jurisdictional disputes with the AFL. Significant correspondence from John L. Lewis and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, concerning violations of the NLRA, as well as NLRB orders, by corporations under government contracts; Hillman's selection of members of the Labor Policy Advisory Committee, and James J. Matles' (Director of Organization, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America) contention that his industry...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Lewis, Sinclair (author) 1930 Request Item

 File — Box: 78, Folder: 6
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)

Licastro, Philip (Organizer, Syracuse) 1940 Request Item

 File — Box: 78, Folder: 7
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)

Lieberman, Elias (attorney, regarding NRA labor standards and the Child Labor Amendment) 1935-37 Request Item

 File — Box: 78, Folder: 8
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)

Liebowitz, Max J. (ACWA attorney, New York, N.Y.) 1937 Request Item

 File — Box: 78, Folder: 9
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)

Liberty League, 1935-36 Request Item

 File — Box: 78, Folder: 10
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)

Liepold, Karl (Clothing Worker, fired because he ran for sheriff. Atchinson, Kansas 1934) Request Item

 File — Box: 78, 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)

Lincoln Brigade (Friends of the) 1938 Request Item

 File — Box: 78, Folder: 12
Abstract

Correspondence relating to the rehabilitation of American volunteers.

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

Lippman, Walter, 1940 Request Item

 File — Box: 78, Folder: 13
Abstract

Hillman's criticism of Lippman's "`Total Defense' -Minus".

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

Lischinsky, S.A. (ACWA Wage and Hour Bureau) 1939-40 Request Item

 File — Box: 78, Folder: 14
Abstract

Correspondence relating to a complaint against the Sun Manufacturing Company of St. Joseph, Missouri.

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