Series 2, Subseries 2. Correspondence of labor members of the Board of Directors, 1953-1957.

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Series 2, Subseries 2. Correspondence of labor members of the Board of Directors, 1953-1957.

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Consists of correspondence of Joseph Mire (executive secretary) with John Conners (director of education, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) and George Guernsey (director of education, Congress of Industrial Organizations) and the directors of education of various labor unions regarding meetings, budgets, workers' education, grant proposals, and extension of the grant from the Ford Foundation Fund for Adult Education.

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Cornell University Library

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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Ford Foundation. Fund for Adult Education.

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Conners, John A., 1941-

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Mire, Joseph

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Guernsey, George.

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Inter-University Labor Education Committee.

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