Records of the Congress of Industrial Organizations
The CIO Records Collection originated from the main office of the national CIO located in Washington, DC. The records span from 1934-1958, but the vast majority encompass 1936-1955, the CIO's years as an independent labor federation. Throughout the CIO Records Collection researchers will find c...
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| 110 | 2 | 0 | |a The Catholic University of America, The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Records of the Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| 300 | |a 59 linear feet; 116 boxes, 1 oversized box | ||
| 351 | |a ArrangementThe Records of the Congress of Industrial Organizations consists of six series:Series 1: National and International Unions, 1934-1958 (Boxes 1-21)Series 2: State Industrial Union Councils, 1938-1956 (Boxes 22-29)Series 3: Local Industrial Union Councils, 1936-1956 (Boxes 30-52)Series 4: Local Industrial Unions, 1937-1957 (Boxes 53-76)Series 5: Central Office Correspondence, 1936-1941 (Boxes 77-115)Series 6: Import-Export Bank, 1953-1954 (Box 116) | ||
| 506 | |a Restrictions on AccessThere are no access restrictions. | ||
| 520 | 2 | |a The CIO Records Collection originated from the main office of the national CIO located in Washington, DC. The records span from 1934-1958, but the vast majority encompass 1936-1955, the CIO's years as an independent labor federation. Throughout the CIO Records Collection researchers will find central office work completed by the entire CIO office staff, included most prominently are John Brophy, Katherine Pollick Ellickson, Len DeCaux, Walter Smethhurst, Anthony Smith, Allen Haywood, and Ralph Hetzel. Although much of the correspondence that the CIO office staff is responding to was mailed to CIO Presidents' John Lewis (1935-1940) and Phil Murray (1940-1952), only rarely do the records document work done by them. The records appear to be from a central office filing location which many people in the office had access to, filed into, and probably referred to while conducting routine office business. As a whole, the CIO Records Collection documents the creation of the CIO's central bureaucracy and all its component structures. | |
| 544 | 1 | |a The American Catholic Research Center and University Archives:CIO Executive Board Meetings, microfilm edition (guide available), Volumes 1-2, 1935-1941CIO Convention Proceedings, 1938-1955CIO News, 1938-1955AFL-CIO News, 1956-1958Additional Major Archival Sources on the CIO and Its National Unions:Catherwood Library, Labor-Management Documentation Center, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America RecordsInsurance Workers of America RecordsInternational Fur and Leather Workers Union RecordsInternational Ladies Garment Workers Union RecordsDepartment of Manuscripts, University of Virginia Library (Charlottesville, VA)W. Jett Lauck PapersInternational Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (San Francisco, CA) Library (Charlottesville, VA)International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union RecordsPennsylvania State University, Labor Archives (University Park, PA)David J. McDonald PapersClinton Golden PapersUnited Steelworkers of America RecordsPerkins Library, Manuscripts Department, Duke University (Durham, NC)CIO Organizing Committee (Operation Dixie)Rutgers University Libraries, Special Collections (New Brunswick, NJ)International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers RecordsState Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)American Communications Workers of AmericaTextile Workers Union of AmericaAdolph Germer PapersUnited Packinghouse Workers of America RecordsUnited Electrical Workers Union/Labor Archives, University of Pittsburgh Library (Pittsburgh, PA)United Electrical Workers Union RecordsUniversity of Maryland Department of Manuscripts and Archives (College Park, MD)International Union of Marine, Shipyard Workers of America RecordsUniversity of Texas-Arlington Southwestern Labor History Archives (Arlington, TX)United Packinghouse Workers of America (Southwest)Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor History and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI)James Carey Papers, (CIO Secretary-Treasurer)Katherine Pollick Ellickson PapersCIO Washington Office (1952-1955)UAW President's Office--Walter Reuther PapersLen DeCaux PapersWestern Historical Collections, University of Colorado Libraries (Boulder, CO)International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Records | |
| 545 | |a Discontented leaders of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO) after the 1935 AFL Convention. The AFL's refusal to organize workers on an industrial model motivated John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers Union (UMW) President, Sidney Hillman, Amalgamated Clothing Workers (ACW) President, and other AFL leaders to form the CIO. The renegade union leaders also argued that the union movement should be more active in politics and enlist the support of the federal government in labor relations. Both worker activism, as embodied in major strikes in 1934 in San Francisco, Toledo, and Minneapolis, and federal government actions that favored union recognition, particularly passage of the Wagner Act earlier in 1935, encouraged Lewis, Hillman and the others. The CIO quickly evolved into an independent and competing union federation. At its first Constitutional Convention in 1938 the CIO changed its name to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, demonstrating its already established autonomy. | ||
| 546 | |a English | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Brophy, John |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a DaCau, |d Len--Cor. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Ellickson, Katherine P, |d lick--Cor. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Lewis, J, |d n L.--Cor. |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a American Committee for Defense of Foreign Born |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a American Communications Association |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a American Labor Party |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a American Legion-Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a American Newspaper Guild |x Hearst Newspaper Co. |x Hearst Newspaper Co.--strike |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a American Student Union |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a American Youth Congress |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Communications Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Federal Council of Churches |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Federation of Architects, Chemists and Technicians |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Fortune Magazine |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a International Longshoremen's and Warehousemens' Union |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a International Woodworkers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Labor's Non-Partisan League |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a League for Industrial Democracy |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Los Angeles Industrial Union Council |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a National Maritime Union |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a National Negro Congress |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a National Religion and Labor Foundation |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Oil Workers International Union |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Playthings, Jewelry and Novelty Workers International Union |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a State, County, and Municipal Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Textile Workers Union of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Transport Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Worker of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Federal Workers |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Furniture Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Office and Professional Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Packinghouse Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Paper, Novelty and Toy Workers International Union |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Railroad Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Rubber Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Shoe Workers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United Steelworkers of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Utility Workers Union of America |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Workers' Alliance |x Correspondence |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a Works Progress Administration |x Correspondence |
| 650 | 0 | |a Legislation |x Import-Export Bank | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Local Industrial Union Councils | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Local Industrial Unions | |
| 650 | 0 | |a State Industrial Union Councils | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Trade unions |x Jurisdictional disputes | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Washington (D.C.) | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |u http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/cio.html |z View the finding aid online. |