Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
George L.P. Weaver Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001295
Abstract
George L. P. Weaver served as assistant to the secretary-treasurer of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as executive secretary of the American Federation of Labor-CIO (AFL-CIO) Civil Rights Committee, as political education and international programs assistant for the International Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Workers (IU), as Assistant Secretary of Labor for international Affairs during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and as special assistant to the...
Dates:
1950 - 1975
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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George L.P. Weaver Papers
Katherine Pollak Ellickson Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000321
Abstract
Katherine Pollak was active in workers' education from 1927-1934. She worked at the CIO national office from 1935-1937 as an assistant to the director. Her papers include original notes and minutes of the earliest CIO meetings. She returned to the CIO national office from 1942-55 as Associate Director of Research, she focused on Social Security, manpower, farm labor and women and children. At the AFL-CIO national office (1955-61), she was assistant director of the Social Security Department and...
Dates:
1921 - 1989
Lillian Sherwood Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000360
Overview
Convention proceedings, clippings, and photographs concerning Mrs. Sherwood's service with the Kent County, Michigan, and National Congress of Women's Auxiliaries of the CIO.
Dates:
1938 - 1966; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1957
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Lillian Sherwood Papers
Ted F. Silvey Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000625
Abstract
Ted Silvey began in the printer's trade before moving up the ranks in the Ohio Congress of Industrial Organizations and joining the national CIO Speakers Bureau in 1944. In that capacity, he lectured at labor union schools, union meetings and conferences, and non-union gatherings. His papers document his public speaking for the CIO as well as his writings, especially those on automation, computer, and industrial technology.
Dates:
1936 - 1969
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Ted F. Silvey Papers
UAW Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000637
Abstract
Subjects include: African-American workers; anti-Semitism; civil rights; community action programs; CIO state councils; race relations; Democratic Party; Detroit Revolutionary Union Movements; employment discrimination; Sunnyhills Housing Cooperative; Ku Klux Klan; Mexican Americans; gender discrimination; women's rights; United Steelworkers of America; sharecroppers; skilled trades; school desegregation
Note: Box 13 is unavailable.
Note: Box 13 is unavailable.
Dates:
1940 - 1980