Reel 9

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 109 pp.: Digest of 1954 CIO convention proceedings; report by the president; union organization; resolutions of the convention; legislative programs; call to the convention; US Department of Labor; right-to-work legislation proposals; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; ICFTU; Taft-Hartley Act amendments@United Steelworkers of America relations with CIO; US foreign policy; Jewish-American labor representatives and US relations with Arab states; Walter P. Reuther; Dwight D. Eisenhower; James P....

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41 pp.: UMWA request for repayment of loans to CIO; National Union of Mineworkers; ICFTU; international labor relations; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; jurisdictional dispute between United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink, and Distillery Workers and IBT; James B. Carey; John Owens; John Brophy; Thomas Kennedy; Victor G. Reuther; Karl F. Feller; Walter P. Reuther.

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21pp: CIO convention to ratify AFL-CIO merger; unemployment insurance plans; UAW contract negotiations with Ford Motor Company; Americans for Democratic Action convention; international labor relations; Arthur J. Goldberg; Victor G. Reuther; Justin McCarthy.

Scope and Contents 180 pp.: Requests for repayment of loans from UMA; AFL-CIO merger; UMWA public relations efforts; lists of monies advanced to CIO and CIO affiliates; CIO financial statements; 1942 UMWA convention; UMWA withdrawal from CIO; UMWA payment of per capita to CIO; UMWA District 50 jurisdictional disputes with CIO affiliates@United Packinghouse Workers of America repayment of loan from CIO; CIO partial repayment of loans from UMWA; UMWA loans to CIO; CIO requests for money to meet current operating...

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154 pp.: UMWA payment of per capita to Canadian Congress of Labor; UMWA payment of per capita to CIO; UMWA loans to CIO; criticism of UMWA president John L. Lewis; UMWA payments for distribution of The CIO News to its members; UMWA membership statistics; ACWA arrears on per capita prior to CIO convention; 1937 CIO institution of per capita payments by affiliates; CIO repayment of loans for miscellaneous items; J. Raymond Bell; Thomas Kennedy; Philip Murray; James B. Carey.

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6 pp.: Receipts for loans to UAW by UMWA. George F. Addes.

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1922-1934 [1934-1938] 7 pp.: ILGWU donation to UMWA; UMWA loans to ILGWU; ILGWU repayment of loans by UMWA; Communist activities in ILGU. David Dubinsky; Thomas Kennedy.

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3 pp.: Thomas Kennedy; A.D. Lewis.

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10 pp.: Strikes, union organization. UMWA loans and contributions; Philip H. Van Gelder; Roy Williams; John Green; Thomas Kennedy.