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International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. President's Office. Government hearings files of Presidential Assistant Les Finnegan, 1948-1959 (bulk 1952-1957).

Title: Government hearings files of Presidential Assistant Les Finnegan, 1948-1959 (bulk 1952-1957).

From 1948 to 1959 the UE and other alleged Communist-dominated unions became the chief focus of congressional and federal probes concerning Communist infiltration of American labor unions and vital defense industries. The IUE and Carey, seeking to discredit the UE's left-wing leadership in hopes of fomenting a disaffiliation movement among remaining UE locals, offered its full cooperation in providing evidence and key witnesses to substantiate UE ties to the Communist Party of America (CPA) and other Communist-front organizations. Carey's testimony before various House and Senate subcommittees is contained within this series. Several IUE members--formerly associated with the UE and CPA--were key witnesses in the HUAC hearings and the "Red" probes associated with the McCarthy era. Lee Lundgren, Samuel DiMiria, Ernst Pollock, and James B. McLeish appeared before the HUAC and chronicled communist influence within UE locals and districts in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and the New England region.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 cubic ft.

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United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America. Records of United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, 1936-2006.

Title: Records of United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, 1936-2006.

In 1975, the Archives of Industrial Society at the University of Pittsburgh was selected by the UE General Executive Board to be the national repository for the union's records. Since that time the UE national office, districts, and locals have donated their records to the Archives Service Center. This finding aid is meant to serve as a guide to the entire UE collection. Within the collection, records have been arranged into record groups, subgroups, and series to both make the collection more manageable and to properly reflect the original use of the documents. Many of the finding aids for these smaller groupings are being developed and placed online by the Archives Service Center. Included in this collection are correspondence from national officers and staff, organizers, and locals; publications created by the national union and shop papers created by locals; and research material such as clippings, publications, and reports regarding companies, communism, and other labor issues. Also present are photographs documenting UE events and members from the union's founding to the present, as well as cartoons and films addressing several important topics within the labor movement.

ArchivalResource: 3,000 linear ft. (approx. 3,000 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320834686 View

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), 1940-1985.

Title: Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), 1940-1985.

This collection contains information gathered by United States government agencies as part of the federal investigation into the purported Communist infiltration of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). This collection contains reports, correspondence, reference materials and court exhibits. Researchers should be aware that the collection is still significantly redacted to nominally protect the identity of informants and third party individuals.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet ( 48 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/301734079 View

International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. President's Office. UE local and district files of Presidential Assistant Les Finnegan, 1938-1956.

Title: UE local and district files of Presidential Assistant Les Finnegan, 1938-1956.

As Carey's Presidential Assistant Finnegan maintained the latter's office correspondence and reference files pertaining to UE districts and locals. These files span the last year of Carey's tenure as UE President (1941), the formation of IUE (1949), and the disaffiliation movement within UE locals and districts during the 1950s. The bulk of the series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, telegrams, reports, memoranda, minutes of district and local union meetings, statistical data on membership figures, resolutions, statements, and press clippings received from UE district and local officers within the pro-CIO camp. Major topics include: allegations of communist domination at the district and local levels; protests registered by pro-CIO locals against unwarranted actions (suspension of officers, seizure of assets, revocation of charters) taken by the UE leadership against right-wing locals; the raiding of UE locals desiring disaffiliation with the UE; and local petitions and resolutions of support for Carey, Philip Murray, and national CIO policies. There are scant references to local strikes, collective bargaining, and political action activities.

ArchivalResource: 3.50 cubic ft.

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International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. President's Office. IUE Executive Board files, Carey era, 1949-1965.

Title: IUE Executive Board files, Carey era, 1949-1965.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510568 View