Subject files of President James B. Carey, 1936-1965 (bulk 1950-1964).

United States. National Labor Relations Board

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After the first National Labor Relations Board was functionally abolished by the Supreme Court decision invalidating the National Industrial Recovery Act, May 27, 1935, a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established as an independent agency by the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (NLRA) (49 Stat. 195), dated July 5, 1935. The Supreme Court in 1937 declared the Board constitutional and sustained Congress’s power to regulate employers whose operations affected interstate commerce...

Pegler, J. Westbrook (James Westbrook), 1894-1969

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James Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969), freelance journalist, was a columnist for Scripps-Howard Syndicate from 1933 to 1944, and a columnist for King Features Syndicate from 1944 to 1962. From the description of Pegler, J. Westbrook (James Westbrook), 1894-1969 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10569759 Conservative syndicated columnist. Won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing labor union corruption. From the description of Letter to Lola Kovener ...

Riesel, Victor

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Victor Riesel (1917-1995) was a nationally syndicated labor journalist, and an advisor to labor leaders and politicians. A product of New York's Lower East Side Jewish community, Riesel graduated from City College, and from its progressive political milieu to become a knowledgeable and militantly anti-communist social democrat. After work for a news service and writing for various publications, including a stint as managing editor of the New Leader (a social democratic weekly), in 1946 he began ...

Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969

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Journalist. From the description of Papers of Drew Pearson, 1947-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74986025 Andrew Russell "Drew" Pearson (1897-1969) was a journalist who traveled extensively as a foreign correspondent for several newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun. In 1931, Pearson and Robert S. Allen anonymously co-authored a book entitled Washington Merry-Go-Round, with gossip about the Washington, D.C. higher-ups, President Herbert Hoover, and Congress. In 1932, ...

Carey, James B. (James Bain)

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James Barron Carey (1911-1973) was the president of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. From the description of Autobiography, and labor union communists, 1938-1968. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 36028118 Labor executive. From the description of Reminiscences of James Barron Carey : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309732165 ...

International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine & Furniture Workers

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Chartered as an affiliate of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) on 2 November 1949, after a tumultuous split with its parent organization--the communist-dominated United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)--the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (IUE) evolved into one of the most influential trade unions in North America. Its membership reached a high of 400,000 during the mid-1950s and comprised a significant proportion of the...

Click, James Weldon, 1917-1988

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