Oral history interview with Don Harris in Waterloo, Iowa, 1982 Aug. 20 [microform] / conducted by Merle O. Davis.

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...

Packinghouse Workers' Organizing Committee

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American Federation of Hosiery Workers

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The American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers organized in 1915, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor in 1923, and took the name American Federation of Hosiery Workers in 1933. It later merged with the Textile Workers Union of America in 1965. From the description of American Federation of Hosiery Workers records, 1930-1945. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 455340555 ...

American Federation of Hosiery Workers (Branch 50 (Des Moines, Iowa)

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Davis, Merle J.

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Harris, Don, 1912-

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National Farmers Organization (U.S.)

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The National Farmers Organization (NFO) was founded in 1955 to combat low prices farmers received from food processors. The NFO argued that farmers made up nine percent of the nation's population but only earned four percent of its income. The early history of the NFO was marked by radicalism; farmers organized withholding actions to increase prices, then staged boycotts and protests. The more aggressive aspects of the organization's activities receded by 1979, when its focus turned to collectiv...