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Box 9

 Container

Contains 45 Results:

Political Appointments, Attempts to Influence, 1898-1952

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents

Copy of telegram to President-elect Harding from AFL President Gompers re appointment of Secretary of Labor, February 7, 1921, 2 pages; miscellaneous correspondence; notes

Dates: 1898-1952

Political Campaigns (non-partisan), 1920-1946

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents

Letter from AFL President Gompers to Executive Council re establishment of non-partisan political action committee, January 15, 1920; "Supplemental Report of the Executive Council - Non-Partisan Political Policy" with hand notation "1937", 4 pages; "Report of the National Non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee of the AFL," [1937], 3 pages; form letters; correspondence

Dates: 1920-1946

Political Candidates, Endorsement of, 1894-1948

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents

Several "Memoranda for Mr. Green" from AFL legislative representatives Roberts and Hushing re AFL support of various legislators, 1936-40; letter from AFL President Green to Secretary-Treasurer, Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, exhorting that support for a CIO-backed candidate was treason against the AFL, September 28, 1938; memorandum re Minnesota legislative and congressional campaigns, outlining strategy, budget, 4 pages, October 24, 1947; form letters; notes

Dates: 1894-1948

Political Conventions, Democratic and Republican, 1897-1948

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents

"Excerpts from the Declarations of AFL Conventions on Political Action," 1897-1935, 6 pages; numerous AFL recommendations submitted to the platform committees of national Democratic and Republican conventions, 1928-48; form letters; correspondence; notes

Dates: 1897-1948