Reel 6

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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102 pp.: Proposed amendment of Wagner Act; union organization; youth employment; national defense mobilization; growth in CIO membership; American Youth Congress; social security programs; organization of black workers; National Negro Congress; legislative programs; anti-war activities; Len De Caux; Joseph H. Padway; Gilbert Montague; Sherman H. Dalrymple; Joseph Kovner; Van A Bittner.

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72 pp.: Financial matters; national and international union payments of per capita and assignments of CIO organizers; Leo F. T. Tearney.

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4 pp.: U.S. Housing Authority appropriations; legislative programs; Michael Quill; Anthony Wayne Smith.

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76 pp.: Legislative programs; proposed amendments to CIO constitution; national defense contracting policies; legislative committee report to executive board; foreign exchange assets and needs of countries fighting against Germany; Lee Pressman; Anthony Wayne Smith; Joseph Kovner.

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42 pp.: Earl King, Ernest G. Ramsey, and Frank J. Connor murder case in California; political activities; opposition to nominations of John J. Dempsey and Joseph K. Carson to US Maritime Commission; anti-union policies of US Maritime Commission; Pan-American Maritime Federation; Harry Bridges deportation case; Bjorne Halling; Joseph Curran; James B. Carey.

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38 pp.: Support for 1940 US presidential campaign of Wendell Willkie; Utility Workers Organizing Committee; Consumers Power Corporation NLRB elections; UAW; CIO organization plans; CIO organizers and regional directors; financial difficulties with UOPWA and CIO loans; AFL organization of industrial insurance agents; UERMWA contract negotiations; 1940 UMWA convention; AFL-CIO competition; Allan S. Haywood; Kathryn Lewis; William Collins; James B. Carey.

Scope and Contents 194 pp.: Proposed guarantees of collective bargaining in government contracts that would debar firms violating NLRA from receiving such contracts; local and national union support for proposals; Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense; proposed executive order; proposed amendments to Walsh-Healey Act; Van A. Bittner; Sidney Hillman; Samuel J. Hogan; Frank Hefferly; Morris Muster; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Harold J. Pritchett; Edward T. Cheyfitz; Michael J. Quill; Lewis Merrill;...

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60 pp.: US government unemployment statistics; US Civil Service employment opportunities; WPA budget appropriations; legislative programs; economic analysis of industrial production; unemployment committee report; Ralph Hetzel.

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24 pp.: National Coordinating Committee for Women's Auxiliaries; anti-war policies; educational programs; WPA programs. Julia Katz; Kathryn Lewis; Mary Santo.