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Reel 3

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

CIO--Research Department., 1938

 File — Reel: 3
Identifier: 11
Scope and Contents 138 pp.: Domestic and world economic conditions; labor, economic conditions, and political relations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana; U.S. urban economic conditions; industrial survey of Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana; survey of distilled liquors industry; copper industry; average hourly earnings for major industries; memorandum on...
Dates: 1938

CIO--Social Security Committee., 1938

 File — Reel: 3
Identifier: 12
Scope and Contents

8 pp.: Reports of Social Security Committee; Charles P. Howard; Joseph Kovner.

Dates: 1938

CIO--Unemployment Committee., 1938

 File — Reel: 3
Identifier: 13
Scope and Contents

91 pp.: WPA; legislative programs; wage and hour legislation; Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; organizations of unemployed and WPA workers; federal relief programs; joint meeting with regional directors; Workers Alliance of America. Ralph Hetzel; Anthony Wayne Smith; Kathryn Lewis.

Dates: 1938

The Story of the CIO., 1938

 File — Reel: 3
Identifier: 14
Scope and Contents

28 pp.: AFL-CIO unity negotiations; founding of CIO; analysis of affiliates; James Gillan.

Dates: 1938

Minutes, Correspondence, and General Files, 1938

 File — 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...
Dates: 1922-1962