Congress of Industrial Organizations records, 1935-1937.

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Congress of Industrial Organizations records, 1935-1937.

Office files of Ellickson while serving as Assistant to the Director of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

6 microfilm reels.

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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...

Ellickson, Katherine Pollack, 1905-

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