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Scope and Contents 70 pp.: National Committee for Labor Israel; AFL health and welfare programs; AFL health and welfare programs; AFL support for community chest programs; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; international labor relations; Taft-Hartley Act; legislative programs; political activities; AFL and CIO proposals before the 1952 Republican National Convention; UMWA mine safety legislative programs; UMWA District 50 jurisdictional dispute with International Typographical Union; George Meany; Thomas Kennedy;...

Scope and Contents 35 pp.: AFL-CIO negotiations; Allied Syndicates, Inc. (UMWA public relations firm)@United Brotherhood of Carpenters withdrawal from AFL; 1953 AFL convention; international labor relations; Moral Re-Armament Movement (MRA); UMWA District 50; UMWA-IBT cooperation; AFL-UMWA cooperation; AFL state and local organizations; UMWA-IBT-United Steelworkers of America unity negotiations; ILGWU organizers; Thomas Kennedy; John Owens; M.A. Hutcheson; Dave Beck; William F. Schnitzler; Edward Kennedy;...

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35 pp.: International Union of Operating Engineers labor racketeering; AFL Construction and Building Trades Department; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; AFL press relations; television broadcasts; Cecil Owen; George Meany.

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47 pp.: Support for AFL-CIO unity negotiations; UAW factionalism and internal politics; Allied Syndicates, Inc. (UMWA public relations firm); conference of AFL and CIO maritime unions; Sailors' Union of the Pacific; UMWA-IBT-United Steelworkers of America unity negotiations; international labor relations; Jules Kimmett; Justin McCarthy; John T. Jones; Matthew Woll.

Scope and Contents 114 pp.: ILA-IBT cooperation; NLRB decisions; AFL educational programs; criticism of Senator Joseph McCarthy; legislative programs; political activities; international labor relations; analysis of voting records of US congressmen; AFL support for community chest programs; UMWA pension fund applications; Moral Re-Armament Movement (MRA); UMWA-IBT-United Steelworkers of America unity negotiations; American Newspaper Guild strikes; CIO factionalism and internal politics; Taft-Hartley Act; CIO...

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[1954-]1955. 50 pp.: AFL-CIO no-raiding agreement; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; CIO publications; AFL-CIO constitution; 1955 AFL-CIO convention; AFL-CIO merger; international labor relations; AFL state and local organizations; Walter P. Reuther; George Meany; David Dubinsky; Anthony Wayne Smith; Richard H. Stroud; J. Scott Milne; Joseph D. Keenan; M.A. Hutcheson; George Duffy.

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...