Reel 13

Scope and Contents 120 pp.: Minutes of meetings; CIO organizers and regional directors; UMWA district presidents; UMWA-CIO cooperation; union organization; Textile Workers Union of America organizers; AFL-CIO competition; legislative programs; state Workmen's Compensation Act; brief amicus curiae filed by CIO and Textile Workers Union of America in William Leader and American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, Philadelphia, Branch No. 1, Local 706 v. Apex Hosiery Corporation (US Circuit Court of...

Scope and Contents 119 pp.: Legislative programs; American Labor Party; 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; support and criticism of CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; CIO organizers and regional directors; UMWA district presidents; UMWA local union organization; national defense mobilization and neutrality efforts; UMWA-CIO cooperation@United Construction Workers Organizing Committee; plans for John L. Lewis's appearance before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

Scope and Contents 139 pp.: Support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; UMWA factionalism and internal politics; CIO organizers and regional directors; CIO-UMWA cooperation; proposed unionization of mine foremen; unemployment compensation legislation; national defense mobilization and anti-war sentiments; proceedings of the 1941 state CIO convention; legislative programs; UMWA district presidents; John A. Philips; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Arthur H. James; J. Raymond Bell; Ora E. Gasaway; O.F. Nigro; George Craig;...

Scope and Contents 108 pp.: CIO factionalism and internal politics; war mobilization efforts; criticism of UMWA expulsion of Philip Murray; violence and intimidation; criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; state unemployment compensation legislation; proceedings of the 1942 state CIO convention; legislative programs; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; UMWA district presidents; UMWA-CIO relations; John A. Philips; Anthony J. Federoff; Philip Murray; Allan S. Haywood;...