Reel 14

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.: CIO organizers; Joseph Mayo.

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10 pp.: CIO organizers; CIO lawsuit against local textile unions' unauthorized use of CIO initials; TWOC; Joseph Mayo; A.D. Lewis; Lee Pressman.

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9 pp.: CIO regional directors and organizers; SWOC; TWOC; UMWA District 50; Joseph Mayo; Kathryn Lewis; A.D. Lewis; Anne Marsoli.

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5 pp.: CIO regional directors and organizers; 1940 state CIO convention; Joseph Mayo; Ora E. Gasaway; Anne Marsoli.

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3 pp.: Support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; CIO organizers and regional directors; Joseph Mayo; Anne Marsoli.

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4 pp.: Local union criticism of CIO regional directors; PWOC cooperation with IBT; J. Raymond Bell.

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4 pp.: AFL-CIO unity negotiations; press relations; Kathryn Lewis; T.J. Smith.

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6 pp.:Alliance of America; southern regional conference; T.J. Smith; Kathryn Lewis.

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22 pp.: UMWA district presidents; UMWA-CIO cooperation; political activities; proceedings of the 1940 state CIO convention; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; support for CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; William Turnblazer; Kathryn Lewis.