Reel 13

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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5 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; AFL-CIO competition; AFL boycott of CIO-produced lumber; Kathryn Lewis; E.B. O'Grady.

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5 pp.: Support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations; Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America; Kathryn Lewis; James Fantz.

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Undated. 2 pp.: CIO regional directors; state CIO convention; Richard Francis; Ralph Hetzel.

Scope and Contents 113 pp.: CIO regional directors; factionalism and internal politics among ladies auxiliaries of the IWA; National Coordinating Committee for Women's Auxiliaries; 1940 CIO convention; CIO factionalism and internal politics; IWA factionalism and internal politics; Inland Boatman's Union; 1940 Washington state CIO convention@United Furniture Workers of America; AFL-CIO competition; NLRB elections; Communist influence and anti- Communist activities in CIO; criticism of ILWU presidency and West...

Scope and Contents 70 pp.: CIO regional directors; legislative programs; political activities; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; Office of Production Management; National Defense Mediation Board; national defense mobilization efforts; anti-labor bias; competition between United Construction Workers Organizing Committee and IBT; CIO organizers; support and criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; union organization in Alabama; anti-strike policies of the Civil Service System; ILWU and CIO...

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40 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; plans for 1942 Washington state CIO convention; radio broadcasts; IWA and Aluminum Workers of America organization matters; CIO factionalism and internal politics; Communist influence in CIO; UMWA district presidents; UMWA District 50 organizers; support and criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; 1942 state CIO convention; William Dalrymple; Allan S. Haywood; William Mitch; Ralph W. Peoples.

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69 pp.: Factionalism and internal politics; labor racketeering; CIO organizers and regional directors; financial matters; regional coordination between CIO affiliates; SWOC; TWOC; NLRB elections; cooperation between IBT and Bakery Workers International Union; AFL-CIO competition; mass meetings; John Brophy; Joseph D. Cannon; Ralph Tillotson; B.J. Damich; John Edelman; Bernard Levinson; William Leader; A.D. Lewis.

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2 pp.: Youngstown, Ohio, area strikes; requests for intercession with Home Owners Loan Corporation; Lee Pressman; A.D. Lewis.

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117 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations; political activities; proceedings of the 1938 state CIO convention; UMWA organizers; NLRB decisions; SWOC; ACWA; TWOC; David J. McDonald; John Edelman; Kathryn Lewis; Ralph Tillotson; John A. Phillips; Thomas Kennedy; A.D. Lewis; James B. Carey; John Brophy; Philip Murray; Leo Krzycki; Michael Quill; Emil Rieve.