Records, 1936-1944.

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Records, 1936-1944.

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Records of a CIO auxiliary formed in 1936 to marshal labor support for political candidates favorable to labor on all levels of government, and to form public opinion on issues such as labor legislation and public housing. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, resolutions, telegrams, and speeches. Correspondence is between league officers and union officials, attorneys, scholars, and office holders on topics of concern to labor, particularly proposed labor legislation. The correspondence and memoranda of Russell Nixon, the Washington representative of the league, to Secretary John T. Jones illustrate the organization's lobbying methods. Other correspondents include George L. Berry, John L. Lewis, and Robert M. La Follette, Jr.

3.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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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...

La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1895-1953

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Labor's Non-Partisan League

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Berry, George Leonard, 1882-1948

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Berry served on whaling ships in the South Atlantic prior to the Civil War. He enlisted into the 5th Maine Infantry and participated in the Seven Days' Battle, 1862. From the description of Papers, 1857-1864. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 43641698 Senator from Tennessee. President of the International Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America from 1907 to 1948. From the guide to the George L. Berry letter to Abraham Mandelstam, 1938, (The New Yor...

Nixon, Russell A.

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Jones, John Treasure, 1905-1993

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Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969

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John L. Lewis was born in Lucas, Iowa in 1880. From 1917 until his death in 1969 he served the United Mine Workers of America, acting as its president from 1920 to 1960. Lewis led in the establishment of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and served as CIO president until his resignation from that post in 1940. From the description of Papers, 1879-1969. [microform] (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64091529 From its founding in 1935 until 1942, the hist...