Reel 20

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19 pp.: Contract negotiations; economic analysis of industrial production; public relations activities; I.W. Abel; David J. McDonald.

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79 pp.: Contract negotiations and strike settlement; economic analysis of industrial production; labor-management relations; David J. McDonald; Kathryn Lewis; C.F. Hood.

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86 pp.: Statement before the US Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly regarding steel price increases; economic analysis of industrial production; contract negotiations; allegations of irregularities in union elections; adoption of code of ethics on use of union funds; proposed amendment of Taft-Hartley Act; state legislation; financial matters; A. D. Lewis; Robert Howe; Otis Brubaker; David J. McDonald; John Owens; I.W. Abel.

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24 pp.: Support for UMWA contract negotiations; UMWA cooperation; report on twenty years of progress (1938-1958) of the Kentucky state industrial union council, AFL-CIO; Labor's Non-Partisan League; public relations activities; David J. McDonald; Albert Whitehouse; Robert Howe; Welly K. Hopkins; Thomas Kennedy; Emory F. Bacon.

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108 pp.: Strikes and contract negotiations; WFTU; Taft-Hartley Act; use of injunctions in labor disputes; anti-Communist activities; publications; economic analysis of industrial production; foreign competition in steel industry; international labor relations; labor-management relations; Meyer Bernstein; David J. McDonald; R. Conrad Cooper; Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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15 pp.: Factionalism and internal politics; ascension of Thomas Kennedy to the UMWA presidency; contract negotiations; David J. McDonald; Thomas Kennedy; Emmett Thomas.

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...