Reel 7

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 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 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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49 pp.: Use of cost of living and wage indexes in wage agreements; change in name of unemployment division to economic division; economic analysis of industrial statistics; economic effects of national defense mobilization; James B. Carey; Ralph Hetzel; Philip Murray.

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2 pp.: Legislative programs; Federal Works Agency; Thomas Kennedy.

Scope and Contents 84 pp.: Difficulties with Colorado coal production; legislative programs; national defense property requisition authorization; anti-labor legislation; pardon efforts in California King-Ramsey-Connor case; NLRB elections; petition for writ of certiorari before the US Supreme Court on southern poll tax case; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; Labor's Non-Partisan League; FBI budget appropriations; use of injunctions and picketing in labor disputes; Lee Pressman; Thomas Kennedy; Josephine...

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5 pp.: Support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; Bjorne Halling.

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126 pp.: Proposed amendments to state unemployment compensation laws; Federal Security Agency Social Security Board; Interstate Conference on Employment Security Agencies; John Brophy.

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39 pp.: National Coordinating Committee for Women's Auxiliaries; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; plans for conference; Oil Workers International Union ladies auxiliary; 1941 CIO convention resolutions regarding women's auxiliaries and youth; National Defense Council; public relations efforts of the meat packing industry; Julia Katz; Kathryn Lewis; John Owens.

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47 pp.: Call 1942 CIO convention; digest of 1942 CIO convention proceedings; war mobilization; War Production Board; National War Labor Board; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; UMWA relations with CIO; 1942 UMWA convention; legislative program;s CIO regional directors and organizers; Philip Murray; James B. Carey; John O'Leary; Thomas Kennedy; Richard Francis; William Dalrymple; W.A. "Tony" Boyle; Frank Hefferly; Henry Allai; David Fowler.