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Microfilmed from the holdings of the George Meany Memorial Archives. Guide, compiled by Randolph H. Boehm, entitled: A guide to the microform edition of Minutes of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor.

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Major Topics: American Federation of Labor organizers retirement plans; prevailing wages in government contracts; Catholic unions in Quebec, Canada; convict labor; American Federation of Labor conference with President Hoover; United Mine Workers internal politics; Pan American Federation of Labor; southern states organizing campaign; American Federation of Labor finances and membership statistics.

Scope and Contents Major Topics: Bridge and Structural Iron Workers dispute with Tarrett Brothers Company; injunction relief legislation; coal industry legislation; Mexican immigration restriction; conscription legislation; convict labor; Filipino immigration restriction; Longshoremen's compensation; forty-four-hour work week; unemployment policies; United Mine Workers internal politics; unemployment at Navy Yards; Judge John J. Parker Supreme Court nomination; Owen J. Roberts Supreme Court appointment;...

Scope and Contents Major Topics: Dissension in Alabama State Federation of Labor; American Legion relations with American Federation of Labor; request for modification of Volstead Act; Building Trades Department policy on jurisdiction disputes; Catholic unions in Canada; Cigar Makers and Tobacco Workers amalgamation; American Federation of Labor involvement in congressional elections; United Mine Workers and Progressive Mine Workers; Pan American Federation of Labor; southern organizing campaign; Sugar Beet...

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Major Topics: Equal Rights Amendment; prevailing wages in government contracts; five day workweek; Sleeping Car Porters campaign to organize Pullman Company; southern organizing campaign; unemployment insurance; women's auxiliaries in American Federation of Labor.

Scope and Contents Major Topics: American Federation of Labor Building Trades Department relations with Carpenters Union; Catholic unions in Quebec; convict labor; Hod Carriers jurisdiction dispute with Marble Polishers; prevailing wages on government contracts; injunction relief bills; Mexican and Canadian immigration restriction; immigration restriction; five-day workweek; Navy Yards unemployment; workmen's compensation; military training in public schools; railroad consolidations; Sleeping Car Porters;...

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Major Topics: Workers education; Hod Carriers jurisdiction dispute with Marble Polishers; United Mine Workers internal politics; old age pension model legislation; industrial conditions in Puerto Rico; Railroad Trainmen re-affiliation; wage reductions; war mobilization of labor legislation; American Federation of Labor finances and membership statistics.

Scope and Contents Major Topics: Boulder Dam labor conditions; repression of labor unions in Cuba; Engineers jurisdiction dispute with Firemen; model injunction relief bill; Mooney case; National Civic Federation; old age pension bill; Pan American Federation of Labor; Teamsters dispute with Railway Clerks; United Textile Workers strike at Paterson, New Jersey, silk mills; unemployment insurance; wage reductions opposed by the American Federation of Labor; World Court; American Federation of Labor finances and...

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Major Topics: Convict labor; five-day workweek; immigration restriction; motion picture industry, directly affiliated unions; bill on illegal immigrant seamen; unemployment policies.

Scope and Contents Major Topics: American Legion relations with American Federation of Labor; political parties national conventions; federal employee unions; injunction relief legislation; Machinists dispute with Street Railway Employees; United Mine Workers strike in Harlan County, Kentucky; Mooney-Billings case; motion picture industry and union recognition; old age security bill; prevailing wage rate on government contracts; United States Supreme Court appointments; industrial preparedness war legislation;...