Lewis, John L. (UMW and CIO) 1935-40

Correspondence documenting the organization of the CIO and its jurisdictional disputes with the AFL. Significant correspondence from John L. Lewis and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, concerning violations of the NLRA, as well as NLRB orders, by corporations under government contracts; Hillman's selection of members of the Labor Policy Advisory Committee, and James J. Matles' (Director of Organization, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America) contention that his industry was excluded from the Committee because it was "tinged with `Red'" (7/22/40); Donald Sham's (Professor of Economics, University of Santa Clara) explanation of how the United States Postal Saving System serves workers, and bankers' organized opposition to this system (11/14/36).