Congress of Industrial Organizations photographic collection 1944-1949

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Congress of Industrial Organizations photographic collection 1944-1949

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100 black and white photographs with documents and scrapbook pages, 1944-1949. Album 376 includes news and events from the Oregon Chapter of the CIO during November 1948, and photographs from the CIO convention in Bend, Oregon in 1949.

.5 cubic feet (4 folders and 3 oversize folders)

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was formed by the presidents of eight international unions in 1935. The presidents of these unions were dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor's unwillingness to commit itself to a program of organizing industrial unions. In 1936, the A.F. of L. suspended the ten unions which proceeded to organize an independent federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO subsequently became the A.F. of L.'s chief rival for the leadership of...