Papers, 1941-1953.

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Papers, 1941-1953.

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Papers relating to the Committee's activities in organizing workers in various industries in Virginia. The correspondence is principally that of Ernest Byron Pugh, regional director for the Virginia C.I.O. and Virginia director for the C.I.O. Organizing Committee, and of Theodore Dennis du Cuennois, assistant state director of the C.I.O. Organizing Committee in Virginia, with various union officials and political leaders. There is information on many unions, including the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America; the Textile Workers Union of America, the United Gas, Coke, and Chemical Workers of America, the United Mine Workers of America, and the United Steelworkers of America. There is material on labor-related groups, state and local agencies, and federal governmental agencies. Various issued covered in the papers are a telephone strike in 1950; cost of living statistics; discrimination; C.I.O. councils, conventions, and conferences; communism; the Democratic National Committee; and gubernatorial condidates.

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