Green, William (president AFL) 1934-36

AFL Executive Council's statement on communists and "communistic activity" in the AFL (9/11/34); AFL's rejection of the Steel Labor Relations Board's proposed plan of collective bargaining for the steel industry; list of officers of the Building Trades Department recognized by the AFL; conference to discuss the Wagner-Connery Bill; AFL statement supporting relief to victims of Fascism and Nazism at home and abroad (1935); ACWA investigation into Government contracts (for the manufacture of Civil Conservation Corp uniforms) being awarded to non-union firms; jurisdictional dispute between the ACWA and the Journeymen Tailors' Union of America; AFL Resolution No. 227, calling for a boycott of clothes manufactured by the Sam Finkelstein Clothing Company; significant letter regarding the formation of the Committee for Industrial Organization, and Green's opposition to it (11/25/35); substantial documentation of the AFL's and Committee for Industrial Organization's dispute, including correspondence from Thomas Kennedy (Secretary-Treasurer, International Executive Board of the United Mine Workers of America) and John P. Frey (President, Metal Trades Department, AFL).