Miscellany, 1937-1951.

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...

United States. War Manpower Commission

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History Roy Pearson was a labor representative from the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, or IUMSWA, Local No. 9 in San Pedro, California. The IUMSWA was a labor union that represented all shipyard workers. Established in the 1930’s, the Congress of Industrial Relations, or C.I.O, was a federation that organized industrial unions, such as the IUMSWA, in the United States and Canada. The C.I.O. merged ...

New Trading Company.

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Crown Chemical Pty., Ltd.

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Allied Kid Company.

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The Allied Kid Company was incorporated in Massachusetts on May 24, 1929, by the merger of the McNeely Company, the Quaker City Morocco Company, the Standard Kid Company, and the Standard Kid Manufacturing Company. From the latter it inherited a plant at 4th and Monroe Streets in Wilmington, Del., and in 1937 it purchased the nearby factory of the New Castle Leather Company at 11th and Poplar Streets. The Allied Kid Company was a major manufacturer of kid leather and suede and one of the most im...