William Mitch scrapbooks, 1924-1946.

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William Mitch scrapbooks, 1924-1946.

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Scrapbooks contain clippings of Alabama newspapers and a few letters, photographs of Mitch and workers (probably coal miners), and broadsides pertaining to the coal industry. Five scrapbooks relate to the Alabama coal industry and the United Mine Workers of America District No. 20. They concern coal mine strikes and disasters, labor relations with management, New Deal labor legislation and politics and the National Recovery Act, workers attitudes towards World War II, and the conflict between William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and John L. Lewis, president of the CIO. The scrapbooks contain information concerning other CIO unions and strikes in Alabama; the Southern Conference on Human Welfare; opposition to the CIO by the Dies Congressional Committee, the Ku Klux Klan, and the American Legion; and John L. Lewis' opposition to the third presidential term of Franklin D. Roosevelt. One scrapbook pertains chiefly to the Alabama steel industry and concerns the organization of Alabama steel workers by the CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee, labor relations with management, and New Deal labor legislation. Included are minutes of a meeting held in the office of the manager of industrial relations, J.L. Vance (1938).

6 v.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6704834

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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