Series 2, Subseries 4. Correspondence on regional conferences, 1955-1957.

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Series 2, Subseries 4. Correspondence on regional conferences, 1955-1957.

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Consists of correspondence of Joseph Mire (executive secretary) with the executives and staff of various labor unions and non-labor organizations regarding the Inter-University Labor Education Committee (IULEC) conferences held in Atlanta, California, Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Oklahoma. Correspondents include George Mitchell, (executive director, Southern Regional Council, Inc.); Rufus E. Clement (president, Atlanta University); Stanton E. Smith (president, Tennessee State Federation of Labor); B.R. Brazeal (dean, Morehouse College); John Mates (assistant to president, United Mine Workers of America); John Conners (director of education, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations); Clark Kerr (chancellor, Univ. of California at Berkeley), John Hutchison (coordinator of labor programs), and Arthur Carstens (assistant director of labor programs) of the University of California; John L. Lewis (president, United Mine Workers of America); George Higgins (director, National Catholic Welfare Conference); Clinton Golden (executive director, Harvard University Trade Union Program); B.A. Whitney (director, Education and Research, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen); Stanton E. Smith (president, Tennessee Federation of Labor); E.J. Soop (director of Extension Service, University of Michigan); and Guy Berry (associate director, Department of Adult Education, University of Arkansas). The correspondence regards the study of needs of workers in the field of education, advanced liberal education, cooperative workers' education programs conducted by labor and non-labor groups, and arrangements for and participants in the various conferences.

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