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

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

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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.

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