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Labor unions and communism -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 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

ILGWU Local 22, Charles S Zimmerman Papers on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/014 mf
Abstract

Primarily correspondence, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and broadsides dealing with his activities as a leader in Local 22 (in Series I), as well as his other union and political activities (in Series II). Among the most significant material in the collection is correspondence documenting Zimmerman's activities with the Communist Party in the U.S. and its various factions and splinter groups, as well as other political organizations and figures.

Dates: 1933-1954

ILGWU. Local 22. Charles S. Zimmerman photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/014 P
Abstract

The collection includes images of important people in Local 22, along with images of sports and cultural events, parades, marches, strikes, meetings and educational programs.

Dates: 1930-1959

International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Benjamin Schlesinger, President. Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/010
Abstract

Correspondence and subject files relating to Schlesinger's term, October 1928 to June 1932.

Dates: 1928-1932.

International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Charles S. Zimmerman papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/014
Abstract

The Charles Zimmerman papers consist primarily of correspondence, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and broadsides dealing with his activities as a leader in Local 22 (in Series I), as well as his other union and political activities (in Series II).

Dates: 1919-1958 [bulk 1920-1945].

International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Morris Sigman, President. Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5780/006
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence, subject files, form letters, circulars, speeches and other items from Morris Sigman's term as ILGWU president.

Dates: 1923-1928.

Ralph D. Winstead Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5473
Abstract

Papers include research data and reports for the National Recovery Administration; reports Winstead made while a field investigator for the U.S. Senate Civil Liberties Committee regarding alleged acts of espionage against unions by employers; documents relating to the 1949 National Labor Relations Board staff hearing examiners controversy; and records relating to the Shipbuilders Stabilization Committee and to the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America.

Dates: 1927-1957

William Green Papers on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5761 mf
Abstract

Correspondents of note include Mother Jones, George Meany, Matthew Woll, Daniel Tobin, President Woodrow Wilson, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and officers of the United Mine Workers of America.

Dates: 1891-1956