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Scope and Contents From the Collection: Specifically, this collection includes minutes of CIO meetings (1935-1936) covering the following subjects and issues: the formation of the Committee for Industrial Organization; the need to organize workers in mass-production industries on an industrial basis; the naming of John Brophy as director of the CIO office in Washington, D.C.; relations with the American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.); the suggested need for modernization of A.F. of L. organizing policies to take into...