Reel 7

April 19-27, 1917. 15pp. Subjects: DOJ cooperation with I.S. Board of Meditation Conciliation; wartime efforts to avert strikes; Order of Railroad Telegraphers strike over replacement of telegraphers with telephones; open shop versus closed shop issues. Begins at 0452.

April 30-May 5, 1917. 7pp. Subjects: Local officials opposition to wartime union organization efforts; immigrant labor; open versus union shop issues. Begins at 0467.

May 4-14, 1917. 18pp. Subjects: DOJ operations with U.S. Board of Mediation and Conciliation and U.S. Department of Labor; efforts to avert wartime strikes; controversy over company disciplining of union employee. Begins at 0474.

March 6. 1917-April 9, 1920. 39pp. Subjects: AFL Fishermen's Union of the Atlantic request for DOJ intervention in 1940 strike plans; 1920 antitrust proceedings; closed shop versus open shop issues in the Atlantic fishing industry; International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffer's, Stablemen, and Helpers Union of America cooperation with closed shop effort; grand jury investigations. Begins at 0492.

May 10-16, 1917 and June 4, 1921. 17pp. Subjects: Interstate Commerce Commission valuation of Chicago, Terre Haute and Southeastern Railway Company property in 1921; International Iron Mouldes Union of America picketing of manufacturing plant in New Jersey in 1917; DOJ deferral of authority to Council of National Defense and U.S. Department of Labor; government contracts. Begins at 0531.

June 17-21, 1941. 7pp. Subjects: J. Hoover FBI memorandum on Communist influence and background of Alex Balint, leader of National Association of Die Casting Workers strike at Aluminum Company of America plant; immigrant labor; Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO; use of injunctions in labor disputes; Dies Committee hearings. Begins at 0548.

June 5-July 2, 1917. 18pp. Subjects: DOJ deferral of authority to the Council of National Defense and U.S Department of Labor; government contracts; Samuel Gompers' mediation of strike; eight-hour-day issues. Begins at 0555.

June 18-October 3, 1917. 28pp. Subjects: Kennecott Copper Company; alleged IWW and pro-German matters; U.S. Marshal and U.S. District Judge attempts to mediate dispute; DOJ deferral of authority to U.S. Department of Labor; requests for use of federal troops; effort to avert wartime strikes. Begins at 0573.

December 19, 1940-January 25, 1941. 15pp. Subjects: J. Edgar Hoover FBI memorandum regarding alleged sabotage in welding of propeller blades for government contracts; local strike plans by Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO. Begins at 0601.

June 22-28, 1917. 5pp. Subjects DOJ deferral of authority to U.S. Department of Labor; similar strikes in Utah and Arizona. Begins at 0616.