Reel 12

Scope and Contents

90 pp.: Legislative programs; union organization; contract negotiations; Utility Workers Organizing Committee; CIO organizers and regional directors; UMWA organizers; reorganization of local industrial unions; Transport Workers Union; AFL-CIO competition; workmen's compensation matters; political activities; Allan S. Haywood; Sidney Hillman; Ora E. Gasaway; A.D. Lewis; Pete Mosele; Ralph Hetzel; Kathryn Lewis; Hugh Thompson; Rinaldo Cappellini; Thomas Kennedy; John Brophy; W.P. Hapgood.

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42 pp.: Legislative programs; press relations; Utility Workers Organizing Committee; AFL-CIO competition; CIO regional directors; NLRB hearings; AFL-CIO competition in Cleveland, Ohio; CIO organizers; support for UMWA contract negotiations; strikes; 1939 state CIO convention; Adolph Germer; Allan S. Haywood; Kathryn Lewis; Ora E. Gasaway; Pete Mosele; John P. Frey; Rinaldo Cappellini; James B. Carey; John Brophy; Fiorello H. La Guardia.

Scope and Contents 133 pp.: Political activities; factionalism and internal politics; national defense mobilization efforts; legislative programs; disputed 1940 state CIO convention; NLRB decisions of William E. Leiserson favoring crafts unions; AFL-CIO competition; CIO organizers and regional directors; press relations; 1940 US presidential campaigns of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie; allegations of Communist influence; support for CIO and UMWA presidencies of John L. Lewis; Saul Mills; Kathryn...

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55 pp.: Council meeting minutes; political activities; strikes; union organization; UMWA District 50; jurisdictional disputes involving the United Construction Workers Organizing Committee; AFL-CIO competition; CIO organizers; national defense mobilization efforts; legislative programs; NMU; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; Joseph Curran; Saul Mills; A.D. Lewis; James B. Carey; Len De Caux.

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8 pp.: Legislative programs; war mobilization efforts; contract negotiations; criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis, UMWA District 50 organization of Dairy Farmers Union, and UMWA expulsion of Philip Murray; council meeting minutes; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; Gustave A. Strebel; Austin Hogan; Saul Mills.

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4 pp.: CIO organization of tobacco workers; AFL-CIO competition; Ralph Hetzel; Kathryn Lewis; E.L. Sandefur.

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53 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; CIO-UMWA cooperation; support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations; factionalism and internal politics; organization of packing house workers in Iowa; NLRB case involving cooperation by Massillon, Ohio, public officials; mass meetings; Ora E. Gasaway; Thomas Davis; Walter Smethurst; Kathryn Lewis; Lee Hall; Mary Evelyn Bendelari; Don Harris; John Owens; A.D> Lewis; Malcolm Ross; August Scholle; Clinton S. Golden.

Scope and Contents 157 pp.: Political activities; Labor's Non-Partisan League; support for New Deal legislative programs; use of National Guard as strikebreakers in Middleton, Ohio; NLRB decisions; AFL-CIO competition; SWOC; CIO organizers and regional directors; legislative programs; support for WPA budget appropriations; proceedings of 1938 state CIO convention; Len De Caux; Ted F. Silvey; John Owens; Martin L. Davey; Philip Murray; B.J. Damich; Van A. Bittner; Lee Hall; A.F. Whitney; Adolph Pacifico;...

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41 pp.: Radio programs; CIO organizers and regional directors; CIO-UMWA cooperation; SWOC; press relations; contract negotiations; legislatives programs; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; political activities; Ted F. Silvey; Paul W. Fuller; Ora E. Gasaway; Lee Pressman; A.D. Lewis; John Brophy; Michael Gallagher; John Owens; Ralph Hetzel.

Scope and Contents

72 pp.: Legislative programs; political activities; Labor's Non-Partisan League; UMWA district presidents; CIO organizers and regional directors; UMWA District 50; 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; support for CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; Adolph Pacifico; Ted F. Silvey; Kathryn Lewis; Paul W. Fuller; Ora E. Gasaway; Allan S. Haywood; John Brophy; John T. Jones.