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Box 9

 Container

Contains 45 Results:

Natural Resources (Development of), 1922-1952

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents Letter from AFL President Gompers to San Francisco Labor Council, quoting resolution adopted at AFL Convention urging strict government regulation of private development of natural resources, halting of further transfer of public to private ownership, March 14, 1922; "Declaration Made by the AFL Convention," opposing government subsidy to private power systems, 1923; "The Employee Relationship Policy of the Tennessee Valley Authority As of August 28, 1935," 11 pages, with cover letter to AFL...
Dates: 1922-1952

Negroes, 1944-1970

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents Memos to President Green re AFL position on anti-poll tax and anti-lynching legislation, September 11, 1940, 3 pages, and re status of anti-poll tax legislation, January 29, 1941, 2 pages; letter from AFL National Legislative Committee Chairman Hushing to Senator Chavez, Senate Subcommittee on Education and Labor Chairman, re AFL stand on President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), September 7, 1944, 4 pages; memo re three bills patterned after FEPC, February 28,...
Dates: 1944-1970

Newspaper Guild, 1900-1942

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents Material relating to strike of [CIO] Newspaper Guild against Chicago Herald- American: "Statement by Frank Morrison, Secretary, AFL" re strike as CIO/Communist attack on AFL, December 5, 1938, 3 pages; several press releases by the Chicago Newspaper Guild Hearst Strike Committee, claiming AFL support, describing violence by Hearst "hoodlums" against women and elderly Catholic strikers, n.d.; form letter to Chicago-area businesses from AFL representative, urging advertising support for...
Dates: 1900-1942

Oil Workers, 1937-1955

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

Letter from AFL President Green informing Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers of America that charter has been revoked, due to affiliation of union with CIO, May 16, 1938; notes

Dates: 1937-1955

Older Workers, 1929-1961

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

Survey sent to all AFL Central Bodies re situation of older workers; March 8, 1929; summary of retirement/alternative assignment policies of several industrial plants, April 5, 1961

Dates: 1929-1961

Open Shop, 1920

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

Letter from AFL President Gompers to Executive Council with resolution of special conference re formation of publicity bureau in support of open shop, December 30, 1920

Dates: 1920