Records relating to the Los Angeles CIO Industrial Union Council, 1942-1957.

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Records relating to the Los Angeles CIO Industrial Union Council, 1942-1957.

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Collection consists of correspondence, ephemera, and photographs relating to the Los Angeles labor movement and activities during the 1940s and 1950s. Includes files on 1948 national CIO convention, Henry Wallace third party movement, Mexican and South American labor, U.S. motors strike, opposition to 1946 subversives act, Catholic Interracial Council, anti-Taft-Hartley campaign, relations with LA mayor Fletcher Bowron, black community relations, and AFL-CIO Brotherhood cooperation.

5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)2 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7411674

University of California, Los Angeles

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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...

Connelly, Philip Marshall.

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