Showing Collections: 1 - 3 of 3
CIO Office of the Secretary-Treasurer Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000185
Abstract
Part 1 contains James B. Carey records, secretary-treasurer of the CIO from 1938 to 1955. Mr. Carey served as chairman of the CIO Civil Rights Committee and secretary-treasurer of the Philip Murray Memorial Foundation. He was the CIO representative to many international conferences, held a number of advisory positions with U.S. government agencies, and was on the executive boards of many private organizations. The topics cover a wide range of CIO activities. Among these are attempts to reunite...
Dates:
1935 - 1960
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
George C. Edwards, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP000010
Abstract
George Edwards, Jr., son of George Clifton Edwards, attended Harvard University where he became involved with the Student League for Industrial Democracy. After coming to Detroit in 1936, he became a UAW organizer with Walter Reuther, was appointed director of the Detroit Housing Commission, and served on the Detroit Common Council. After serving in WWII, he went into private practice, followed by judgeships in the Wayne County court system. In 1956, Edwards was appointed to the Michigan State...
Dates:
1921 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1996
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Mary Fox Herling Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001729
Abstract
The wife of John Herling, Mary Fox Herling was a member of the Socialist Party. She worked for the League for Industrial Democracy, the War Labor Board, the Washington Newspaper Guild, and the Group Housing Cooperative which built the Bannockburn Community in Maryland. Her papers are mostly personal correspondence, but also reflect her professional affiliations.
Dates:
1914 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1969
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Filtered By
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Civil rights 1
- Courts --United States 1
- Detroit (Mich.) 1
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Politics and government 1
- Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations 1
- Labor 1
- Labor unions -- Organizing 1
- Labor unions and communism 1
- Michigan -- Politics and government 1
- Police-community relations 1
- Politics, Practical 1
- Socialism 1
- Youth organizations 1 ∧ view less
- Names
- Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) 1
- Detroit Housing Commission 1
- Herling, Mary Fox 1
- Humphrey, Hubert H., 1911-1978 1
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America 1
∨ view more