Reel 3

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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165 pp.: CIO organizers; personnel matters; lists of CIO personnel and comparison of regional office expenses; Jersey City, NJ, civil rights case; publicity; financial matters of The CIO News; Dies Committee hearings; Labor Day activities; plans for CIO constitutional convention; NLRB decisions; CIO Legal Department bulletins; proposed amendments of Wagner Act; Walter Smethurst; J. Raymond Bell; Kathryn Lewis; Len De Caux; John Brophy; Philip Murray; A.D. Lewis; Ralph Hetzel.

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54 pp.: Agreement between CIO and UOPWA CIO office unit; contract negotiations; NLRB decision in the matter of Inland Steel Company and SWOC; growth of The CIO News and proposed mailing to UMWA membership; Joseph Kovner; Hollace Ransdell; Walter Smethurst; J. Raymond Bell; J. Warrne Madden; Edwin S. Smith; Donald Wakefield Smith; Kathryn Lewis; Len De Caux. John Brophy.

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9 pp.: CIO staff meetings; Labor's Non-Partisan League; legislative programs; Eli L. Oliver.

Scope and Contents Washington, DC. April 12-13, 1938. 121 pp.: Digest of proceedings; report of director; report of comptroller; report on The CIO News and publicity; report of legal department; report on unemployment activities; Workers Alliance of America; reports of affiliated organizations; legislative programs; growth in membership of CIO; John Brophy; J. Raymond Bell; Len De Caux; Lee Pressman; Ralph Hetzel; Richard Frankensteen; Joseph Curran; Charles P. Howard; Sidney Hillman; Homer Martin; Julius...

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Pittsburgh, PA. November 14-18, 1938 [October 28-November 19, 1938]. 183 pp.: Greetings to convention; constitution; report of chairman; UMWA report; lists of delegates and committee memberships; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; convention resolutions; plans for convention; Franklin D. Roosevelt; John Brophy; John Owens; Frank Miley; Lee Pressman; David J. McDonald.

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70 pp.: Financial matters; per capita payment by affiliates; CIO payroll expenses; Leo F. Tearney; Len De Caux; Kathryn Lewis; J. Raymond Bell; Walter Smethurst; Ralph Hetzel.

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14 pp.: Proposed CIO adult education program; Ralph Hetzel; Ralph E. Turner.

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10 pp.: Cooperation with US Housing Authority; low-rent housing projects; Anthony Wayne Smith; Michael Quill; Bertram M. Gross; Ellis Searles; Kathryn Lewis.

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7 pp.: Legislative programs; Labor's Non-Partisan League; Sidney Hillman; Eli L. Oliver.