Reel 20

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...

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December 1, 1955. 165 pp.: Television broadcasts; press relations; newsclippings; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; analysis of AFL-CIO membership, leadership, and organization power of affiliates; Transport Workers Union; UMWA-IBT-United Steelworkers of America unity negotiations; AFL-CIO organizing campaigns; M.S. Rukeyser; James B. Carey; Justin McCarthy; Rex Lauck.

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41 pp.: Newsclippings regarding AFL-CIO merger.

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45 pp.: Newsclippings regarding AFL-CIO merger and UMWA demand for repayment of loans to CIO; UMWA demand for repayment of loans to CIO; UMWA non-payment of per capita tax prior to withdrawal from CIO; report on money owed to UMWA by CIO; statement of financial relationship of UMWA and CIO; James B. Carey; John Owens; Thomas Kennedy; J. Raymond Bell; Philip Murray; Kathryn Lewis.

Scope and Contents 58 pp.: Local union support for UMWA and United Steelworkers of America strikes and contract negotiations; mass meetings; United Steelworkers of America offer of gift to UMWA during 1950 UMWA contract negotiations; UMWA offer of strike fund assistance to United Steelworkers o f America during 1952 strikes; National Bank of Washington; UMWA district presidents; UMWA executive board members; Philip Murray; William Green; Benjamin F. Fairless; John Owens; Barnum L. Colton; Thomas Kennedy;...

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11 pp.: Contract negotiations and strike settlement; comparison of pension plan with UAW and UMWA pension plans; Benjamin F. Fairless.

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16 pp.: Contract negotiations; Allied Syndicates, Inc. (UMWA public relations firm); local union political activities; UMWA cooperation; local union support for UMWA contract negotiations; Justin McCarthy; Benjamin F. Fairless; Michael Honus.

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7 pp.: Southern organizing campaign; strikes; proposed 1952 special convention; John G. Ramsay; Philip Murray.

Scope and Contents 145 pp.: Contract negotiations; strikes; Taft-Hartley Act; UMWA offer of strike fund assistance to United Steelworkers of America during 1952 strikes; National Bank of Washington; US Supreme Court decision regarding collective bargaining agreements; Taft-Hartley Act; political activities; UMWA executive board matters; radio broadcasts; public and local union support for UMWA offer of strike fund assistance; public relations; Allied Syndicates, Inc. (UMWA public relations firm); US government...

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6 pp.: Financial matters; UMWA-IBT-United Steelworkers of America unity negotiations; newsclippings.