Reel 14

Scope and Contents 41 pp.: Proceedings of the 1941 state CIO convention; support for UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; UMWA-CIO cooperation; Harry Bridges Defense Committee; national defense mobilization efforts; financial matters; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; Henry Pirtle v. H.B. Brown, Christian Kopp, and W.F. Warren (petition for writ of certiorari filed before the US Supreme Court as a challenge to enforcement of southern poll taxes by the Judges of Election for the Fifth Civil District of...

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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.