[CIO collection of Katherine Pollack Ellickson, 1935-1937] [microform]. [1968]
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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...
Ellickson, Katherine Pollak, 1905-1996
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Labor economist Katherine Pollak Ellickson served as executive secretary of the President's Commission on the Status of Women, 1961-1963. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., she graduated from Vassar College, worked as an economist for the National Labor Relations Board (1938-1940) and the Social Security Board (1940-1941), as associate director of research at the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1935-1937, 1942-1955) and as assistant director of the social security department of the AFL-CIO (1955- ). ...