Reel 2

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...

Scope and Contents 73 pp.: Founding of United Furniture Workers of America; results of AFL-CIO unity negotiations; AFL jurisdictional disputes with CIO affiliates; AFL executive council internal politics; UMWA support for UAW contract negotiations with General Motors Corporation; 1937 CIO conference; legislative programs; NLRB decisions; Philip Murray; Frank Morrison; Harvey C. Fremming; Charles P. Howard; Sidney Hillman; David Dubinsky; Homer Martin; James B. Carey; Richard Frankensteen; Sherman H. Dalrymple;...

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109 pp; WPA workers and CIO unemployment programs; legislative programs; Social Security Act provisions; union organization; founding of United Furniture Workers of America@CIO regional directors; NLRB elections; American Radio Telegraphists contract negotiations; founding of TWOC; anti-union violence against UAW officers in Anderson, IN; publications; John Brophy; Walter Smethurst; Richard Francis; Lee Pressman; George L. Berry; Francis Gorman; Frances Perkins; Edward Hall.

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March 9, 1937. 12 pp; Report of director; national and international union requests for CIO affiliation; regional and state organization; financial matters.

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March 1937. 3 pp.: Founding of TWOC; Francis Gorman; Charles P. Howard; Sidney Hillman.

Scope and Contents October 1937. 316 pp.: Informal minutes of CIO conference, October 11-15, 1937; SWOC report; report of director; NMU report; American Newspaper Guild report; special Southern report@United Packing House Workers Council report; TWOC report; IWA report@CIO Maritime Committee report; UERMWA report; Transport Workers Union of America report; ACA report; Shoe Workers Organizing Committee report; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; UMWA District 50 report; safety and health; National Leather Workers...

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October 1937. 161 pp.: Committee reports to CIO conference; Special Committee on Finance report; report of director; growth in membership of CIO; NLRB election statistics; resolutions of CIO conference; speeches to CIO conference; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; South Chicago Memorial Day massacre; Walter Smethurst; John Brophy; Philip Murray; Van A. Bittner.

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3 pp.: Local CIO support group.

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23 pp.: UOPWA CIO office unit protest against work of Mary Evelyn Bendelari in Charter department; Speakers Bureau Labor Day activities; publicity; Kathryn Lewis; Mary Evelyn Bendelari; Len De Caux.

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4 pp.: Appointment as CIO comptroller; appointment of Richard Francis to SWOC payroll; John Brophy; J. Raymond Bell; David J. McDonald; Kathryn Lewis.