Reel 11

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8 pp.: Strikes; social events; legislative programs; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; CIO organizers; Mary Evelyn Bendelari; Kathryn Lewis; Earl E. Houck.

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9 pp.: CIO regional directors; proposed pen and pencil workers organizing committee; Walter Smethurst; W.J. Carney.

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25 pp.: CIO regional directors; labor management cooperation; CIO retention of outside legal counsel in US Supreme Court case involving Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, NJ; ACLU cooperation with CIO; strikes; public relations activities; UMWA District 50; CIO organizers; anti-labor decisions of NLRB; AFL-CIO competition; AFL-CIO cooperation; W.J. Carney; Lee Pressman; John Brophy; Morris Ernst; James Nelson; Leonard H. Goldsmith.

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123 pp.: CIO organizers; factionalism and internal politics; 1940 state CIO convention; criticism and support for CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; CIO regional directors; AFL-CIO competition; ACWA failure to pay per capita and suspension from state CIO; minutes of state CIO executive council meetings; Labor's Non-Partisan League; Allan S. Haywood; Leonard H. Goldsmith; W.J. Carney; Kathryn Lewis; Carl Holderman; John T. Jones.

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20 pp.: 1941 state CIO convention; factionalism and internal politics; Labor's Non-Partisan League; criticism of Labor's Non-Partisan League chairmanship of John L. Lewis; support of UMWA in captive mines dispute; Leonard H. Goldsmith; Irving Abramson.

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4 pp.: Criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; war mobilization efforts.

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2 pp.: 1937 joint state CIO convention.

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41 pp.: CIO regional directors; union organization; strikes; NLRB elections; labor racketeering; Alabama anti-union violence and intimidation; Allan S. Haywood; Pete Mosele; Sherman H. Dalrymple.

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.