Reel 19

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October 1947. 69 pp.: Report of proceedings of 1947 convention; international labor relations; Taft- Hartley Act; AFL factionalism and internal politics; plans for 1947 AFL convention; William Green; Joseph P. Keenan; Thomas Kennedy; Daniel J. Tobin; George Meany; Lester Washburn; David Dubinsky; Harry S Truman.

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26 pp.: Plans for purchase of property in the District of Columbia; financial matters; AFL executive council matters; William Green; George Meany.

Scope and Contents 248 pp.: Minutes of meetings of the AFL executive council; postwar conversion; international labor relations; jurisdictional disputes; international Association of Machinists; Allied Printing Trades Council; legislative programs; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Hollywood, California, motion picture studios controversy; British Trades Union Congress; southern organizing campaign; US government legal case against UMWA; retirement annuity plan for AFL employees;...

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41 pp.: UMWA withdrawal from AFL; 1948 AFL convention; international labor relations; support for UMWA contract negotiations; AFL executive council matters; use of injunctions in labor disputes; AFL state and local organizations; AFL cooperation with UMWA in legal case before the US Supreme Court; AFL educational programs; John Owens; Thomas Kennedy; William Green; Leon Blum; Matthew Woll.

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34 pp.: Criticism of AFL presidency of William Green; proposed AFL strike fund assistance for United Steelworkers of America; support for labor unity negotiations; International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America; AFL and UMWA state and local organizations; William Green; J.F. Jurich; Philip Murray; George Griffiths; Thomas Kennedy; Florence Thorne; John J. Mates.

Scope and Contents 111 pp.: AFL educational programs; minutes of meetings of Workers Education Bureau of America; AFL absorption of Workers Education Bureau of America; ILGWU-UMWA cooperation; ILGWU strikes; UMWA district presidents; AFL and UMWA support for community chest campaigns; international labor relations; Economic Cooperation Administration; UMWA health and safety programs; labor-management cooperation; labor unity negotiations; economic conditions in Argentina; support for UMWA contract...

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24 pp.: 1950 AFL convention; UMWA District 50 competition with AFL; proposed AFL organization of coal miners; 1950 AFL Indiana state convention; UMWA district presidents; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; AFL no-strike pledge; support for UMWA contract negotiations; Louis Austin; William Green; W.P. Kennedy; H.W. Fraser; Alvanley Johnston; A.J. Hayes; Philip Murray; John Owens.

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65 pp.: AFL support for community chest campaigns@United Defense Fund support for USO clubs; legislative programs; political activities; the Smith Act (anti-labor legislation); international labor relations; AFL publications; Allied Syndicates, Inc. (UMWA public relations firm); AFL-CIO unity negotiations; William Green; Woodruff Randolph; Thomas Kennedy; Justin McCarthy; A. Philip Randolph; Reg Kennedy.

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44 pp.: AFL-UMWA cooperation; US importation of natural gas from Canada; radio broadcasts; AFL publications; Allied Syndicates, Inc. (UMWA public relations firm); Taft-Hartley Act; AFL Construction and Building Trades Department; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; 1951 AFL convention; press relations; UMWA organization in Kentucky; William Green; Thomas Kennedy; Harry S Truman; Justin McCarthy; Richard J. Gray.

Scope and Contents 53 pp.: 1952 ACA convention; support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations; support and criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; AFL press relations; investigation of the ILA on labor racketeering charges; international labor relations; 1952 AFL convention; Taft-Hartley Act; Labor's Non-Partisan League; international labor relations; AFL-UMWA cooperation; 1952 ILO conference; US importation of natural gas from Canada; Joseph P. Selly; Len De Caux; Thomas Kennedy; John J. Mates; William Green;...