Scope and Contents 100 pp.: Support for UMWA contract negotiations in the captive mines dispute; National Defense Mediation Board; Office of Production Management; wartime mobilization plans; expansion of UMWA District 50; CIO factionalism and internal politics; legislative programs; national defense mobilization; lists of CIO regional and sub-regional directors, officers of national and international affiliates, and district, county, and city industrial union councils; Allan S. Haywood; Walter Smethurst;...

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4 pp.: Resolution in support of United Construction Workers Organizing Committee; plans for meeting; James B. Carey.

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...