Philip M. Weightman Papers 1944-1967.

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Philip M. Weightman Papers 1944-1967.

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The collection documents in detail Weightman's work as national field representative for the CIO Political Action Committee and as a staff member and Assistant Director of AFL-CIO COPE. There is no information on his early career and political activities or on his later move, after mandatory retirement from the AFL-CIO, to the Office of Economic Opportunity.Series I: CIO-Political Action Committee, 1947-1958, consists of two sections, work files arranged alphabetically by state and subject files ... Philip M. Weightman, a native of Vicksburg, MS, began his career as a labor organizer and political activist as a teenager in St. Louis. In 1930 he moved to Chicago, where he became an organizer and representative of packinghouse workers. In 1948 he went to work for the CIO's Political Action Committee, based in Washington. The collection documents in detail Weightman's work as national field representative for the CIO Political Action Committee and as a staff member and Assistant Director of AFL-CIO ...

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