Pennsylvania Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) records, 1947-1961.

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Pennsylvania Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) records, 1947-1961.

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The Pennsylvania Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) Records consist of executive board meeting minutes, financial records, reports of officers at the 1947, 1957, and 1960 annual conventions, yearbooks, and convention proceedings for 1955 and 1957.

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Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council

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Eight international unions left the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1938 and reorganized as the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The Pennsylvania CIO, then called the Pennsylvania Industrial Council, took with it the vast majority of unions from the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. It operated as an affiliate of the CIO until 1957 when the Pennsylvania CIO merged with the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor to form the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO. From the description of Penn...

Pennsylvania AFL-CIO

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The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO was formed in 1959 after the merger of the parent national organizations. It brought together the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, formed in 1902, and the Pennsylvania CIO Council, formed in the late 1930s. The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO was responsible for protecting workers' rights with regard to collective bargaining, conducting member political education and training programs, monitoring legislative politics in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., and endorsing candidates tha...