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Labor unions -- United States -- Political activity

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

CIO Files of John L. Lewis, Pt. II: CIO General Files on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5831 mf
Abstract

This collection documents the origins and early history of the CIO as well as the dynamics of working-class militancy in the era of the Great Depression. The collection also provides a substantial amount of information concerning workers and trade unionism before the creation of the CIO and also after the UMWA's separation from the CIO in 1942.

Dates: 1922-1962

Committee for Industrial Organizations Minutes on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5418 mf
Abstract

Consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, statements, and manuscripts relating to the early history of the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and to certain aspects of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, its successor.

Dates: 1935-1936