Reel 8

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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89 pp.: Support for UMWA wage negotiations; CIO Committee on Political Action; digest of 1943 CIO convention; public relations efforts; CIO-UMWA relations; support and criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; War Production Board; National War Labor Board; support and criticism of UMWA strike; J. Raymond Walsh; Philip Murray; Ray Torr.

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7 pp.: Report on Communist activities at 1944 CIO convention; CIO factionalism and internal politics.

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30 pp.: Newsclippings; CIO factionalism and internal politics; Communist influence in CIO; 1947 CIO convention; Marshall Plan; Taft-Hartley Act.

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145 pp.: Legislative conference proposal; 1948 CIO convention report by the president; digest of proceedings; factionalism and internal politics; anti-Communist activities; Marshall Plan; Taft-Hartley Act; civil rights programs; resolutions; political activities; 1948 US presidential campaigns; CIO negotiations with UOPWA CIO office unit regarding pension plans; Cecil Owen; Philip Murray; William O. Douglas; Walter White; Harry S Truman; Herbert Hoover; James B. Carey.

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63 pp.: Local support for UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis and coal and steel strikes; 1949 CIO convention; anti-Communist activities in CIO; report by the president to the 1949 CIO convention; Taft-Hartley Act; Allied Syndicates, Inc. (UMWA public relations firm); criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; political activities; Philip Murray; John T. Jones.

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29 pp.: Economic demands of the IUE in response to the offer of the General Electric Company; economic analysis of General Electric Company; UMWA cooperation with American Newspaper Guild; labor unity proposals@United Steelworkers of America support for UMWA strike; UMWA offer of loan to UAW; local union support for UMWA strike; Thomas Kennedy; Philip Murray; Walter P. Reuther.

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92 pp.: Allied Syndicates, Inc. (UMWA public relations firm); 1950 CIO convention; labor unity proposals; call for convention; report by the president to the convention; resolutions committee report; Justin McCarthy; Thomas Kennedy; John T. Jones; John Owens; A.D. Lewis; Philip Murray.

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123 pp.: Labor unity proposals; newsclippings; press releases; Allied Syndicates, Inc. (UMWA public relations firm); local union and public support for labor unity; Philip Murray; Justin McCarthy; A.J. Hayes; John J. Mates.

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5 pp.: CIO contribution to UMWA disaster relief funds; UMWA support for United Steelworkers of America contract negotiations; American Newspaper Guild cooperation with UMWA; Thomas Kennedy; Sam B. Eubanks.