Reel 11

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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3 pp.

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9 pp.: 1941 state CIO convention; support for CIO presidencies of John L. Lewis and Philip Murray; Henry Allai; Ralph Hetzel.

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16 pp.: US Senate Civil Liberties Committee; Citizens National Committee; AFL-CIO competition; CIO regional directors; International Typographers Union; AFL factionalism and internal politics; AFL suspension of CIO affiliates; AFL executive council matters. A.D. Lewis; Peter Campbell.

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11 pp.: 1938 state CIO convention; union organization. Peter Campbell; Samuel Caddy.

Scope and Contents 62 pp.: 1939 state CIO convention; CIO-UMWA cooperation; use of National Guard as strikebreakers in Harlan County; union organization of black workers; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; 1940 state CIO convention; 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; Labor's Non-Partisan League; 1941 state CIO convention; support for UMWA contract negotiations; CIO regional directors; factionalism and internal politics; National Maritime Union organizers; war mobilization efforts; support and...

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11 pp.: Public Works Administration budget matters; strikes; anti-union violence and arrests; police brutality; AFL-CIO competition; ILWU organizers; National Maritime Union; use of injunctions in labor disputes; Lee Pressman; Kathryn Lewis; Felix Siren.

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5 pp.: CIO regional directors; NLRB elections; AFL-CIO competition; radio broadcasts; F.C. Pieper.

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13 pp.: CIO regional directors; union organization; NLRB elections; strikes; AFL-CIO competition; US Department of Labor; US Employment Service; 1937 joint state CIO convention; Frank J. Bender; A.D. Lewis; Kathryn Lewis; Sidney R. Katz; John T. Jones.

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14 pp.: CIO-UMWA cooperation; WPA budget appropriations; political activities; legislative programs; union organization; NLRB elections; CIO organizers; J. Raymond Bell; Sidney R. Katz; Frank J. Bender; Ben Rilenge.