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The respective archives of the University of Virginia value access to their growing collections of materials that document the Potentially Offensive Materials Disclaimer In 1955, the CIO rejoined the AFL, forming the new entity known as the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).' This summary was taken directly from Wikipedia Many CIO leaders refused to obey that requirement, later found unconstitutional. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 required union leaders to swear that they were not Communists. In 1938, these unions formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations as a rival labor federation. On September 10, 1936, the AFL suspended all 10 CIO unions (two more had joined in the previous year). The CIO failed to change AFL policy from within. In its statement of purpose, the CIO said it had formed to encourage the AFL to organize workers in mass production industries along industrial union lines. The CIO (Congress for Industrial Organization) was founded on November 9, 1935, by eight international unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor. The rivalry for dominance was bitter and sometimes violent. Both the CIO and its rival the AFL grew rapidly during the Great Depression. Roosevelt and the New Deal Coalition, and was open to African Americans. It also changed names because it was not successful with organizing unskilled workers with the AFL. Lewis, who was a part of the United Mine Workers (UMW), it was originally called the Committee for Industrial Organization but changed its name in 1938 when it broke away from the American Federation of Labor. 'The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. Houck, Thomas Kennedy, Donald MacMillan, and A.O. Frey, William Green, Sydney Hillman, Earl E. Bittner, Sophia Carey, David Dubinsky, P.T. Wells, and Ray Lyman Wilbur and the labor leaders Jacob Baker, Solomon Barkin, Van A.

The educators include Hardy Dillard, Edward C. Mundt, Donald Nelson, Judge Ferdinand Pecora, Frances Perkins, Gifford Pinchot, James H. Gillette, Leon Henderson, Herbert Hoover, Hugh S.

His correspondence with individuals heading organizations interested in labor and industrial relations was wide-spread, just as it was with political figures, educators, and labor leaders.Īmong the public figures with whom he corresponded are Bernard Baruch, Homer S.

Jett Lauck papers deal with cases and arbitrations, chiefly railroad and coal related, his work on various boards and commission and topical files. Other manuscripts deal with studies of government competition with private business, the American Association for Economic Freedom, the New York Power Authority branch, chain, and group banking, drafts of speeches, and work diary accounts of activities and meetings with prominent congressional and labor leaders on labor problems and legislation. They begin with his association with the progressive labor codes of the Taft-Walsh Labor Relations Commission and continue with the Railway Labor Act of 1926 the fight to gain recognition of labor's right to collective bargaining 'through representatives of their own choosing' under the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933 the incorporation of its principles in the National Labor Relations Act and further activity in defense of this act. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks of news clippings reflecting his activities, labor reports and studies, drafts of congressional bills, legal briefs, and other material concerning labor problems in the United States from its formative World War I years until 1949. Jett Lauck collection consists of his professional, business and personal papers as an economist, statistician and government consultant on immigration, banking, railroads, coal, and unemployment problems as well as other facets of labor in the United States.

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