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1939 [and 1941]. 67 pp.: Legislative programs; industrial mobilization plans of the AFL and the National Association of Manufacturers; CIO negotiations with UOPWA CIO office unit; US Supreme Court decision regarding Jersey City, NJ, civil rights case; NLRB decision; AFL proposed amendment of the Wagner Act@United Kingdom financial matters (1941); Lee Pressman; Anthony Wayne Smith; Joseph Kovner; Kathryn Lewis.

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10 pp.: 1939 CIO convention; call for a southern conference on organization; CIO organizers; Aluminum Workers of America; CIO regional directors; Allan S. Haywood; August Scholle; Michael J. Kosik; Walter Harris.

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25 pp.: Social Security legislation; Joseph Kovner.

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20 pp.: WPA legislation; relief programs in Kentucky, Alabama, and West Virginia in connection with UMWA contract negotiations; Ralph Hetzel; James E. Murray; A.D. Lewis.

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178 pp. [continued on Reel 5]: Appeal from Dominican Republic labor leaders; Mexico City meetings of the Confederation of Latin American Workers (CTAL); report of the Pan-American Maritime Council; ILO; Philip Murray; Nelson A. Rockefeller; Kathryn Lewis; J. Raymond Bell; Edward Gordon; Ad Staal; Joseph Curran; Thomas Kennedy; Reid Robinson; Ralph Hetzel; Harold Ruttenberg; Anthony Wayne Smith; Ernest Galarza; James B. Carey; Jacob Baker; James Robinson.

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...