Reel 5
Container
Contains 5 Results:
Minutes, Correspondence, and General Files, 1939-1941
File — Reel: 5
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
CIO--Committee on Latin American Affairs., 1939-1941
File — Reel: 5
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
246 pp. [continued from Reel 4]: Pan-American Union; entertainment of Latin American visitors; Cuban Labor Congress; Havana Conference of the ILO; US legislation for international cooperation; minutes of meetings; Mexico City meeting of the Latin American Congress of Trade Unions; fascism; Kathryn Lewis; Anthony Wayne Smith; Reid Robinson; Joseph Kovner; John Brophy; Ray Torr; James B. Carey; Isador Lubin; David Fowler; Ernest Galarza; Sherman H. Dalrymple; Lee Pressman; Michael Quill;...
Dates:
1939-1941
CIO--General., 1940
File — Reel: 5
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
191 pp.: Support for CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; legislative programs; 1940 US presidential campaigns of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie; support for CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; economic impact of national defense mobilization; union shop; SWOC; Consumers Power Corporation; protests against federal budget cuts; economic analysis of industrial trends; payment on United Packinghouse Workers of America loan from CIO; CIO personnel matters; CIO organizers and regional...
Dates:
1940
CIO--Executive Board Meetings. February-November, 1940
File — Reel: 5
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents
47 pp.: Legislative programs; union organization; housing committee report; Social Security committee report; unemployment division report; national defense mobilization; WPA; Michael Quill; Anthony Wayne Smith; Sherman H. Dalrymple; Emil Rieve; Ralph Hetzel; Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Dates:
1940
CIO--Convention., 1940
File — Reel: 5
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents
73 pp.: UMWA delegation; committee memberships; speeches; national defense mobilization; constitution; Ralph Hetzel; Kathryn Lewis; Philip Murray; Sidney Hillman; James B. Carey.
Dates:
1940