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Scope and Contents 162 pp.: AFL volunteer organizers; founding of New England Council of Utility Workers; plans for 1934 AFL convention; Geneva Conference of the ILO; AFL state and local organizations; strikes; AFL-UMWA cooperation; NRA codes; UMWA district presidents; legislative programs; AFL general and district organizers; organizing campaigns; FLUs; 1934 UMWA convention; Regional Labor Board decisions; National Labor Board hearings; political activities; Philip Murray; Ray Edmundson; William Green; Frank...

Scope and Contents 237 pp.: AFL Building Trades Department; 1934 AFL convention; political activities; AFL volunteer organizers; UMWA district presidents; AFL state and local organizations; AFL-UMWA cooperation; AFL factionalism and internal politics; unemployment programs; thirty-hour week proposals; UMWA organizers; Order of Sleeping Car Conductors; UMWA contract negotiations; legislative programs; support for industrial unionism; controversy over crafts unionism versus industrial unionism; UMWA support for...

Scope and Contents 374 pp.: AFL volunteer organizers; UMWA district presidents; UMWA organizers; AFL-UMWA cooperations; AFL state and local organizations; legislative programs; National Labor Relations bill (Wagner bill); thirty-hour week proposals; political activities; controversy over crafts unionism versus industrial unionism; AFL executive council matters; AFL factionalism and internal politics; organization of black workers; AFL Building Trades Department; NRA codes; AFL general organizers; economic...

Scope and Contents 281 pp.: Proposed organization of unemployed and domestic workers; AFL-UMWA cooperation; AFL volunteer organizers; UMWA district presidents; AFL executive council matters; legislative programs; support for New Deal legislation; AFL state and local organizations; minutes of meetings of AFL executive council; unemployment insurance and relief proposals; organization of aluminum, steel, and auto workers; jurisdictional dispute between International Brewery Workers and IBT; National Union for...

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...