Reel 15

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Undated. 2 pp.: Support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations.

Scope and Contents 97 pp.: AFL volunteer organizers; AFL-UMWA cooperation; UMWA district presidents; UMWA organizers; southern organizing campaign@United Textile Workers; 1929 AFL convention; conference between labor officials and Herbert Hoover regarding US economic conditions and contract negotiations; radio broadcasts; state and local AFL organizations; America' Wage Earners Protective Conference; warning regarding Communist influence int eh international Labor Defense, Workers International Relief, and...

Scope and Contents 189 pp.: AFL volunteer organizers; AFL-UMWA cooperation; AFL state and local organizations; political activities; UMWA factionalism and internal politics; Reorganized United Mine Workers of America; criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; insurgent UMWA District 12; US Senate rejection of appointment of John J. Parker as US Supreme Court nominee; 1930 AFL convention; legislative programs; southern organizing campaign; support for UMWA contract negotiations; UMWA v. Red Jacket...

Scope and Contents 121 pp.: Legislative programs; unemployment relief efforts; 1931 AFL convention; AFL volunteer organizers; economic analysis of US coal industry; AFL state and local organizations; Communist influence in the National miners' Union; US Department of Commerce; US Senate investigation of unemployment; Reorganized United Mine Workers of America; insurgent UMWA District 12; use of injunctions in labor disputes; AFL executive council matters; Frank Morrison; Edward F. McGrady; William Green;...

Scope and Contents 224 pp.: 1932 AFL convention; PMWA; AFL state and local organizations; International Brotherhood of Paper Makers; Labor's National Committee for the Modification of the Volstead Act; Hotel and Restaurant Employees' and Beverage Dispensers' International Alliance; radio broadcasts; withdrawal of National Federation of Federal Employees from the AFL; founding of American Federation of Government Employees; insurgent UMWA District 12; use of injunctions in labor disputes; unemployment insurance...

Scope and Contents 375 pp.: National Labor Board elections; Regional Labor Board decisions; AFL executive council matters; 1933 AFL convention; AFL volunteer organizers; UMWA organizers; company unions; unemployment relief programs ; AFL state and local organizations; NRA code development and implementation; UMWA district presidents; legislative programs; International Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union of America jurisdictional dispute with UMWA; Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers'...

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...