Joseph N. Scanlon Papers from United Steelworkers of America Research Department [microfilm], 1941-1945

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Joseph N. Scanlon Papers from United Steelworkers of America Research Department [microfilm], 1941-1945

1941-1945

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This microfilmed collection of papers of papers of Research Director of the United Steelworkers, Joseph N. Scanlon, details the prosperous era of the American steel industry during World War II. Records include: War Production Board correspondence and posters; War Manpower Commission post war planning materials; National War Labor Board wage stabilization general orders; wage data charts; documents concerning small business and labor cooperation in winning the war; industrial engineering systems and labor management committees' war fund plans; the CIO Political Action Committee pamphlets - Every Worker a Voter Series; and a cartoon, They got the Blame: the Story of Scapegoats in History, by Kenneth Gould.

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Scanlon, Joseph N. (Joseph Norbert), 1899-1956

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Joseph Scanlon was born to Irish immigrants in Cleveland, Ohio in 1899. He served with the Navy in the early 1920s before being trained as an accountant. His experiences with industrial relations began when he worked as a cost accountant for a small Ohio steel company. Scanlon quit this position to tend an open hearth at the mill and in 1936 became a volunteer union organizer for the C.I.O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee (S.W.O.C.). By 1938 he was president of S.W.O.C. Local 169 in Ohio. Whi...