Reel 13

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;...

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...