Reel 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The CIO general files (1935-1955) include correspondence, CIO personnel files, committee files, financial records, and convention files. Subjects covered include organizing drives in rubber, auto, steel, electronics, timbering and shipbuilding industries; the rift between the AFL and CIO; the development of the CIO national staff; national politics; communism in the CIO; competition between the CIO and the UMWA in organizing industrial unions; impact of Taft-Hartley Act; and AFL-CIO merger...

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34 pp.: Minutes of meetings; reports of director; response to AFL allegations regarding formation of CIO; organization of steelworkers, radio workers, and auto workers; Charles P. Howard; John Brophy; William Green.

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69 pp.: Industrial unionism; 1935 AFL convention; publications; William Green; John Brophy; Philip Murray; Thomas Kennedy; Charles P. Howard; Harvey C. Fremming; Thomas F. McMahon; Max Zaritsky.

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50 pp.: UMWA support for CIO; organization plans; Brotherhood of Utility Employees of America conflict with IBEW; IUMMSW and UMWA unity negotiations; minutes of meetings of UAW Conference of FLUs; UAW wage scales; John Brophy; Joseph Mayo; Nicholas Fontecchio; Ellis Searles; A.D. Lewis; John Soltis.

Scope and Contents 155 pp.: 1936 AFL convention; AFL reorganization and executive council dominance of crafts unions; UMWA trial of AFL president William Green@CIO organization of steelworkers and radio workers; jurisdictional disputes of CIO affiliates with AFL crafts unions; growth in membership of CIO; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; AFL suspension of CIO affiliates; Alabama State Federation of Labor support for CIO; Wisconsin State Federation of Labor proposal for labor unity; AFL Metal Trades Department...

Scope and Contents 158 pp.: Growth in membership of CIO@CIO organization of auto workers, rubber workers, steelworkers, electrical and radio workers, shipbuilding workers, shoe workers, and woodworkers; publications; conflict with AFL@CIO and SWOC financial matters; social security and legislative programs; Senator Robert M. La Follette committee identification security and legislative programs; Senator Robert M. La Follette committee identification of spies employed by the National Corporation Service;...

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45 pp.: AFL-CIO controversy; SWOC; unity negotiations; reports of the director; minutes of meetings. Charles P. Howard; Sidney Hillman; David Dubinsky; Thomas F. McMahon; Harvey C. Fremming; Max Zaritsky; William Green; John Brophy.

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17 pp.: UMWA organizers; allegations of Socialist influence; Powers Hapgood; James Nelson.

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3 pp.: Kathryn Lewis; Hazelle M. Camp.

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33 pp; UMWA trial of AFL president William Green; AFL- CIO controversy; William Green; Philip Murray; Thomas Kennedy; Walter Smethurst; John Ghizzoni; John O'Leary; Ora E. Gasaway; John J. Mates; Henry Allai.