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Box 3

 Container

Contains 59 Results:

Actors, 1896-1940

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1

Air - Transportation, Freedom of the, 1931-1945

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Six page statement by Edward F. McGrady, representing the American Federation of Labor (AFL), before Congressional committee, opposing award of mail carrier contract to Century Air Line. Includes table comparing pilots' hours and wages among air mail carriers (c. 1931). "Freedom of Air," 4 page statement, adopted May 4, 1945, by AFL Executive Council and sent to Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opposing executive agreements re foreign airlines

Dates: 1931-1945

Aluminum Workers, 1934-1942

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Includes vituperative correspondence between officials of Aluminum Workers Union and AFL

Dates: 1934-1942

American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, 1917-1919

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

List of Officers and Executive Council, including Samuel Gompers, President; 4 page manuscript re formation of Alliance (C. 1917); "Outline of Plans of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy," 6 page document, pages 3 and 4 missing; 3 page minutes of conference, July 27, 1917; 7 page account of a meeting with unemployed Cloakmakers, December 12, 1917; form letter; miscellaneous notes re the Alliance

Dates: 1917-1919

American Federation of Labor - Beginnings - Early Organizations, 1891-1925

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

"An Introduction and Over All View," n.d., 16 pages; "Journal of Proceedings," 1901, 14 pages; letter to Central Federated Union (from Gompers?), December 31, 1902, 2 pages

Dates: 1891-1925

American Federation of Labor - Building Trades Department Documents, 1911-1957

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Manuscript "Labor in the Construction Industry," n.d., 26 pages; defense agreement between Building and Construction Trades Department and U.S. government, July 22, 1941, 4 pages

Dates: 1911-1957

American Federation of Labor - Building Trades Department - Notes, 1900-1941

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

"Building Trades," fragmented rough draft of manuscript, probably by Taft.

Dates: 1900-1941