Reel 17

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...

Scope and Contents 258 pp.: 1935 AFL convention; controversy over crafts unionism versus industrial unionism; founding of CIO; an analysis of the mandates of the 1934 AFL convention showing what the convention voted should be done and what the AFL actually did; legislative programs; minutes of meetings of AFL executive council; financial matters; membership of and payment of per capita by AFL affiliates; suspension of CIO affiliates by AFL executive council; AFL-UMWA tension; UMWA organizers; American League...

Scope and Contents 101 pp.: UMWA controversy with AFL over establishment of CIO; criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; criticism of AFL presidency of William Green; suspension of CIO affiliates by AFL executive council; AFL district and general organizers; AFL Metal Trades Department presentation of charges against CIO affiliates before AFL executive council; SWOC; UMWA payment of per capita to AFL; UMWA organizers; labor planks submitted by the AFL to the 1936 Republican National convention; labor...

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17 pp.: AFL-CIO controversy; support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations; AFL news releases; AFL-UMWA controversy; AFL executive council matters; UMWA expulsion of AFL president William Green; AFL legislative programs; William Green; Frank Morrison.

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98 pp.: AFL-CIO controversy; proceedings of the 1938 AFL convention; AFL legislative programs; NLRB; criticism of CIO chairmanship of John L. Lewis; criticism of AFL presidency of William Green; jurisdictional dispute between the Allied Printing Trades Unions and the International Lithographers Protective and Beneficial Association; William Green; Nathan Straus; FDR; Adolph Germer; A.D. Lewis; David W. Davis; Joseph C. Orr.

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50 pp.: AFL-CIO peace conferences and unity negotiations; newsclippings; US Department of Labor; summaries of meetings; AFL and CIO peace proposals; CIO executive board matters; The CIO News; 1939 AFL convention; proposals for mass CIO union organization campaigns; AFL-PMWA cooperation; Frances Perkins; Philip Murray; Ralph Hetzel; Len De Caux; Pat McCarren; Kathryn Lewis; James Mark; Gardner Jackson.

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58 pp.: Digest of proceedings of 1940 AFL convention; 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; criticism of CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; Smith Committee of the US Congress; NLRB; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; William Green.

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51 pp.: AFL-CIO unity negotiations; AFL Metal Trades Department; national defense mobilization efforts; digest of proceedings of 1941 AFL convention; William L. Hutcheson; John P. Frey.

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91 pp.: Digest of proceedings of 1942 AFL convention; UMWA position regarding AFL-CIO unity negotiations; CIO factionalism and internal politics; CIO executive board matters; AFL policy regarding AFL-CIO unity negotiations; history of AFL-CIO unity negotiations; Welly K. Hopkins; Joseph A. Padway; Matthew Woll; Philip Murray; William Green; FDR.

Scope and Contents 170 pp.: AFL-UMWA negotiations on reaffiliation of UMWA; reaction of AFL unions to application for reaffiliation of UMWA; criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; war mobilization efforts; allegations of Communist Influence of CIO; digest of proceedings of 1943 AFL convention; news releases; National War Labor Board; IBT strikes; no-strike pledge; AFL state and local organizations; newsclippings; Daniel J. Tobin; John O'Leary; Thomas Kennedy;...