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Labor unions and communism -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 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

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