Reel 10

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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20 pp.: Educational programs; competition with IBT; AFL-CIO competition; organizing campaign; Kathryn Lewis; Harry Bridges; William Dalrymple.

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35 pp.: Competition with IBT and talks between Harry Bridges and Daniel J. Tobin; AFL executive council matters; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; Communist activities; factionalism and internal politics; Labor's Non-Partisan League; SWOC organization; Harry Bridges; Eli L. Oliver

Scope and Contents 283 pp.: Organizing campaign; anti-union efforts of employers; ILWU contract negotiations; US Maritime Labor Board; political activities; radio broadcasts; unemployment; strikes; AFL-CIO competition; NLRB elections; union organization of the film industry@United Studio Technicians' Guild; CIO and IWA organization in Washington and Oregon; CIO financial assistance for Los Angeles Industrial Union Council; support for CIO presidencies of John L. Lewis and Philip Murray; support for UMWA...

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2 pp.: Financial matters; union organization

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14 pp.: Payment of per capita to Canadian Congress of Labor by CIO affiliates; AFL-CIO competition; Silby Barrett; D.W. Morrison; John Brophy; A.D. Lewis; Walter Smethurst.

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3 pp.: CIO organizers; UMWA district presidents; Frank Hfferly.

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27 pp.: CIO regional directors; political activities; 1940 US presidential campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt; 1940 state CIO convention; support for war mobilization efforts; UMWA-CIO relations; Frank Hefferly; Ben Riskin; Reid Robinson; Ralph Hetzel.

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2 pp.: Local union support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations.

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3 pp.: Local union support for CIO presidency of John L. Lewis.