John A. Philips Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council correspondence and clippings, 1933-1947.

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John A. Philips Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council correspondence and clippings, 1933-1947.

The collection contains correspondence with, and newspaper clippings about, John A. Philips, the President of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor (PFL) and the President of the Pennsylvania State Industrial Union Council (PSIUC) from 1933 to 1947.

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Pennsylvania Federation of Labor

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A Pennsylvania State Branch of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded in 1890, but it failed four years later. The Pennsylvania Federation of Labor (PFL) was chartered as a state branch of the AFL in 1902 and achieved considerable strength under James H. Maurer, its president from 1912 to 1928. The organization was crippled by the establishment of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) in the late 1930s, with most of its member unions leaving to join the CIO. Another prominent...

Philips, John A.

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The Pennsylvania Federation of Labor was the state organization of the American Federation of Labor. The Pennsylvania State Industrial Union Council led regional union councils which, in turn coordinated labor's activities at the local level. Philips presided over the PFL from 1930 to 1938, and PSIUC from 1938 to 1946. From the description of John A. Philips Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council correspondence and clippings, 1933-1947. (Pennsylvan...

Pennsylvania State Industrial Union Council.

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