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Reel 9

 Container

Contains 23 Results:

CIO--Arkansas., 1938 Request Item

 File — Reel: 9
Identifier: 21
Scope and Contents

30 pp.: ACA contract negotiations; executive officers report to the 1938 Arkansas-Oklahoma CIO convention; CIO regional directors; UMWA district presidents; legislative programs; David Fowler; A.D. Lewis.

Dates: 1938

CIO--Arkansas., 1939-1942 Request Item

 File — Reel: 9
Identifier: 22
Scope and Contents

41 pp.: Plans for 1939 CIO convention; factionalism and internal politics; AFL-CIO competition; UMWA-PMWA competition; WPA; local union support for CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; support for UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; CIO policies against racial discrimination; Ora E. Gasaway; Joe Ozanic; A.E. Sowards; James Kindrick.

Dates: 1939-1942

Minutes, Correspondence, and General Files, 1922-1942; Alabama through Arkansas, 1937-1942 Request Item

 File — 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...
Dates: 1922-1962