Reel 11

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19 pp.: 1937 state CIO convention; CIO regional directors; union organization; CIO-UMWA cooperation; Michael F. Widman.

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[1937-]1938. 11 pp.: 1938 state CIO convention; CIO-UMWA cooperation; Michael F. Widman.

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18 pp.: 1939 state CIO convention; support for CIO presidency of John L. Lewis; anti-war sentiments; CIO organizers and regional directors; 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; 1941 state CIO convention; support for UMWA contract negotiations; Michael F. Widman; Michael Tyson; Robert L. Glenn; Hugh Lyons; Joseph Mayo; Joseph A. Salerno.

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41 pp.: CIO regional directors; UAW factionalism and internal politics; 1937 Atlantic City, NJ, CIO conference; Labor's Non-Partisan League; AFL-CIO competition; beating of CIO organizer; UAW contract negotiations with General Motors Corporation; union organization; Communist influence in UAW; Adolph Germer; Walter Smethurst; William S. Knudsen; Homer Martin; George F. Addes.

Scope and Contents 99 pp.: NLRB elections; CIO regional directors; political activities; AFL-CIO unity negotiations; Communist party activities; UAW-CIO friction; AFL-CIO competition; UAW factionalism and internal politics; influence of Jay Lovestone in UAW; criticism of AFL presidency of William Green; AFL criticism of NLRB; UAW presidency of Homer Martin; Consumers Power Corporation contract negotiations; strikes; Labor's Non-Partisan League; Utility Workers Organizing Committee; press relations; William...

Scope and Contents 365 pp.: CIO regional directors; anti-Communist activities; Labor's Non- Partisan League; radio broadcasts; UAW factionalism and internal politics; NLRB elections; AFL proposal of amendments to the Wagner Act; press relations; CIO and UAW organizers; 1939 state CIO convention; 1940 US presidential campaigns of FDR and Wendell Willkie; UAW campaign to organize employees at the Ford Motor Company; national defense mobilization efforts; anti-war sentiments; support for CIO presidency of John L....

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9 pp.: 1937 state CIO convention; TWOC organizers; organization of packing house workers; CIO and UMWA organizers; CIO regional directors; Joe Van Norstrand; John Brophy; Frank Rosenblum; Sander Genis.

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16 pp.: CIO regional directors; AFL-CIO competitions; Farmer-Labor Party; Joe Van Norstrand; Kathryn Lewis.

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6 pp.: Political activities; US Department of Agriculture; 1940 US presidential campaign of FDR; Joe Van Norstrand; Henry A. Wallace.

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28 pp.: Labor's Non-Partisan League; protests against the America First Committee; support for UMWA in captive mines dispute; John T. Jones; Leonard Lageman.