Reel 4

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 149 pp.: U.S. monetary policy; Temporary National Economic Committee hearings on technology changes and employment; transfer of John Brophy and Walter Smethurst from UMWA to CIO payrolls; Consumers Power Corporation strikes in Michigan; CIO organizers; WPA projects in Montana; Southern Coal Operators Association; Interstate Commerce Commission; crafts unionism; AFL competition with CIO; plans for 1939 CIO convention; Harry Bridges Defense Committee; reactions of US congressmen to attack of...

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21 pp.: AFL-CIO unity negotiations; founding of United Construction Workers Organizing Committee; UMWA cooperation; proposed mine foremen and assistants union; proposed replacement of The CIO News; A.D. Lewis; John Owens; James Mark; Van A. Bittner; Ellis Searles; Frank Miley.

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7 pp.: CIO financial assistance for West Coast organizing drive@United Studio Technicians Guild; Harry Bridges; J. Raymond Bell; John Brophy.

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June 1939. 4 pp.: News release.

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October 5, 1939. 14 pp.: List of motions passed at meeting; minutes of meeting; J. Raymond Bell; Kathryn Lewis; Mervyn Rathborne; Allan S. Haywood; John L. Coulter; James B. Carey; Lee Pressman.

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70 pp.: Constitution; UMWA report; UMWA delegates; credentials; resolutions on the war in Europe; committee memberships; report of committee on legislation; report of the president; greetings to convention; Martin Wagner; John O'Leary; John Brophy; Robert F. Wagner.

Scope and Contents 221 pp.: AFL proposal for amendment of the Wagner Act; wage and hour legislation; Fair Labor Standards Act; legislative programs; Social Security committee; national health bill; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; violations of free speech and rights of labor by strikebreaking services; Homer Martin UAW controversy; Labor's Non-Partisan League; federal relief spending cuts; John Brophy; Lee Pressman; Walter Smethurst; Harvey C. Fremming; Joseph Kovner; Robert M. La Follette; Sidney Hillman; Philip...

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205 pp.: Founding of United Construction Workers Organizing Committee; legislative programs; local industrial union organization; AFL-CIO competition; press allegations of Communist influence in CIO; health and welfare programs; Labor Day speeches; AFL factionalism and internal politics; proposed amendment of Wagner Act; WPA legislation; Lee Pressman; John Brophy; Joseph Kovner; Ralph Hetzel.

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38 pp.: Financial matters; UMWA loans to CIO; J. Raymond Bell.