Reel 14

Scope and Contents

36 pp.: Support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; National Defense Mediation Board; CIO organizers and regional directors; criticism of UAW in North American Aviation Co. strike in California; national defense mobilization efforts; Federation of Hosiery Workers strike and contract negotiations in Kingsport, TN; 1941 state CIO convention; Ray Thomason; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Ora E. Gasaway; Kathryn Lewis.

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5 pp.: Support for UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis.

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23 pp.: Legislative programs; support for five-day work week; support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations; CIO organizers and regional directors; Labor's non-partisan league; political activities; SWOC; AFL-CIO competition; American Newspaper Guild strikes; CIO strike relief; financial matters; Richard Francis; Kathryn Lewis; Eli L. Oliver.

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8 pp.: American Newspaper Guild strikes; CIO strike relief; competition with IBT; anti-CIO policies of city administration; support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations; CIO regional directors; Richard Francis.

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42 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; company unions; press relations; 1938 state CIO convention; plans for Labor Day celebrations; UMWA district presidents; IWA; legislative programs; AFL-CIO competition; IBT labor racketeering; violence and intimidation; political activities; CIO-UMWA cooperation; radio broadcasts; Richard Francis; Walter Smethurst; Frank Hefferly; William J. Sneed; Eli L. Oliver.

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35 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors@United Construction Workers Organizing Committee; press relations; plans for 1940 UMWA convention; factionalism and internal politics; Communist activities; 1939 state CIO convention; ILWU; IWA; IUMMSW; UMWA district presidents; Speakers Bureau arrangements for Labor Day celebrations; support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations; A.D. Lewis; Richard Francis; David Fowler; Ora E. Gasaway; John Brophy.

Scope and Contents 115 pp.: 1940 state CIO convention; minutes of meetings of Seattle Industrial Labor Union Council; UMWA district presidents; CIO organizers and regional directors; Communist activities; legislative programs; Labor's Non-Partisan league; Washington Commonwealth Federation; IWA factionalism and internal politics; 1940 Washington State Democratic Convention; US Department of Labor; 1940 presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; factionalism and internal politics; 1940 UMWA convention;...

Scope and Contents 84 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; formation of National War Labor Board; Office of Production Management. AFL-CIO competition; national defense mobilization efforts; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; Communist activities; 1941 state CIO convention; factionalism and internal politics; IWA factionalism and internal politics; UMWA district presidents; shipbuilding situation in Oregon and Washington; political activities; Richard Francis; A.D. Lewis; Adolph Gremer; Harvey...

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34 pp.: 1942 state CIO convention; war mobilization efforts; political activities; summary of all state industrial union councils; Philip Murray; John Brophy; Richard Francis; Adolph Germer.

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4 pp.: CIO organizers and regional directors; UMWA organizers; Adolph Pacifico.