Reel 18

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97 pp.: State AFL organizations; AFL general and district presidents; AFL southern organizing campaign; Labor's Non-partisan League; congratulations on UMWA reaffiliation with AFL; George L. Googe; Joe Morris; David Fowler; John T. Jones.

Scope and Contents 265 pp.: Local AFL organizations; UMWA District 50; press relations; political activities; use of injunctions in labor disputes; UMWA contract negotiations; AFL-UMWA cooperation; AFL executive council matters; AFL-CIO cooperative proposals; international labor relations; southern organizing campaigns; AFL-CIO competition; CIO factionalism and internal politics; Communist influence in the CIO; AFL general and district organizers; political activities; labor racketeering activities; health and...

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84 pp.: Minutes of meetings of AFL executive council during 1946 AFL convention; jurisdictional disputes; AFL state and local organizations; international labor relations; organizing drives; plans for 1946 AFL convention; WFTU; UMWA district presidents; UMWA reaffiliation with AFL; William Green; Jesse Clark; Ed J. Brown; J.J. Duffy; George Meany; H.W. Davis; W.D. Mahon; George M. Harrison; Matthew Woll; William C. Doherty; K.C. Adams.

Scope and Contents January 21-31, 1946. 200 pp.: Acceptance of UMWA application for reaffiliation with AFL; election of John L. Lewis to the AFL executive council; UMWA-PMWA competition; AFL factionalism and internal politics; International Association of Machinists' refusal to pay per capita to the AFL; AFL state and local organizations; legislative programs; jurisdictional disputes; international labor relations; International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU); AFL Metal Trades Department; AFL Building and...

Scope and Contents May 15-22, 1946. 133 pp.: International Association of Machinists' refusal to pay per capita to the AFL; jurisdictional disputes; AFL state and local organizations; US Congress anti-labor legislation proposals; political activities; legislative programs; public relations activities; Hollywood, California, motion picture studios controversy; international labor relations; southern organizing campaign; withdrawal of PMWA from AFL; NLRB decisions; AFL-CIO competition in the canning industry;...

Scope and Contents August 12-20, 1946. 195 pp.: International labor relations; AFL state and local organizations; Nebraska right-to-work state anti-labor relations; AFL state and local organizations; Nebraska right-to-work state anti-labor legislation; International Association of Machinists' disassociation from AFL; ILO; AFL Building and Construction Trades Department; jurisdictional disputes; IBT; National Farm Labor Union granted AFL affiliation; legislative programs; AFL-CIO competition; southern...

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53 pp.: UMWA district presidents; 1947 West Virginia state AFL convention; AFL state and local organizations; Taft-Hartley Act; support for UMWA contract negotiations; Illinois state AFL publications; D.M. Stamper; Cecil J. Urbaniak; William Blizzard; George J. Titler; Ray Thomason; Joseph Angelo; Harry Bennett; R.O. Lewis; William Green; George Meany; Matthew Woll.

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55 pp.: AFL-CIO unity negotiations; AFL executive council matters; CIO executive board matters; local union support for AFL-CIO unity; press relations; William Green; Philip Murray; George Meany; William L. Hutcheson; Daniel J. Tobin; Harry C. Bates.

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45 pp.: AFL state and local organizations; Taft-Hartley Act; political activities; Hollywood, California, motion picture studios controversy; legislative programs; William Green.

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16 pp.: AFL state and local organizations; southern organizing campaign; support for UMWA contract negotiations.