Reel 14

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4 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; financial matters; John Brophy; Allan S. Haywood.

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14 pp.: 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; 1940 Oil Workers International Union convention; CIO organizers and regional directors; political activities. Maurice J. Dineen; Kathryn Lewis.

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13 pp.: 1937 state CIO convention; AFL expulsion of CIO affiliates; CIO regional directors; UMWA contract negotiations; union organization in Utah and Wyoming; James Morgan; Ora E. Gasaway; Walter Smethurst.

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18 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; 1939 Washington state CIO convention; CIO-UMWA cooperation; plans for 1939 CIO convention; union organization in Utah and Wyoming; IUMMSW-AFL cooperation in Colorado, Montana, and Utah; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; UMWA organizers and district presidents; James Morgan; A.M. Peterson; Walter Smethurst.

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23 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; SWOC organization of ethnic workers in Colorado; union organization in Utah and Wyoming; IUMMSW contract negotiations; political activities; UMWA District 50; 1940 state CIO convention; legislative programs; James Morgan; Walter N. Polakov; John T. Jones.

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14 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; UMWA organizers; union organization in Utah and Wyoming; NLRB elections; CIO-UMWA cooperation; 1941 state CIO convention; SWOC organization of ethnic workers in Colorado; Inland Empire CIO Organizing Committee; James Morgan.

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15 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; organization of tobacco workers; contract negotiations; NLRB hearings; Virginia Better Business Bureau's anti-CIO activities; union organization; growth in membership of CIO; Ray Thomason; Ora E. Gasaway; John Suttle; Mont Crum.

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3 pp.: Plans for mass meeting in WV.

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36 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; plans for 1939 CIO convention; organizing campaigns; financial matters; UMWA organizers and district presidents; growth in membership of CIO; UMWA contract negotiations; Ben Williams; Ora E. Gasaway; Ray Thomason; Kathryn Lewis; J. Raymond Bell; Thomas Kennedy; Walter Smethurst; A.D. Lewis; James Mark, Jr.

Scope and Contents 37 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; Illinois Department of Mines and Minerals; support for CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; southern organizing campaign; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; legislative programs; Geyer anti-poll tax bill; Ben Williams's reminiscences of 1891 Mahaska County, Iowa, UMWA strike; 1940 state CIO convention; Thomas Hunter; Ray Thomason; Kathryn Lewis; A.D. Lewis; Frank P. Graham; Ora E....