Elmer Fern Cope papers, 1903-1965.

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Elmer Fern Cope papers, 1903-1965.

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Papers of labor union official, Elmer Fern Cope, and of his assistant Jay B. Krane. Correspondence, clippings, and other papers relating to Cope's activities as a steelworker and an organizer of the unemployed and as CIO representative in Europe (1947-51). Topics include postwar rivalries between European Communist and non-Communist labor organizations, steelworkers' wages, foreign trade policy, labor education, religion and economic life, legislative proposals supported by labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the World Federation of Trade Unions, and Labor Unions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Correspondents include James B. Carey, Jay B. Krane, David H. McDonald, Philip Murray, A.J. Muste, and Michael Ross.

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Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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