CIO--Kentucky., 1939-1942

62 pp.: 1939 state CIO convention; CIO-UMWA cooperation; use of National Guard as strikebreakers in Harlan County; union organization of black workers; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; 1940 state CIO convention; 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; Labor's Non-Partisan League; 1941 state CIO convention; support for UMWA contract negotiations; CIO regional directors; factionalism and internal politics; National Maritime Union organizers; war mobilization efforts; support and criticism of UMWA presidency of John L. Lewis; anti-Communist activities@United Construction Workers Organizing Committee; political activities; UMWA withdrawal from CIO; William Turnblazer; Samuel Caddy; A.D. Lewis; Peter Campbell; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Frank Murphy; J. Raymond Bell; David Fowler; Ray Edmundson; Walter Smethurst; John T. Jones; Kathryn Lewis; Ora E. Gasaway.