Finding Aid for the Philip Marshall Connelly Collection of Los Angeles CIO Industrial Union Council Records, 1942-1957 LSC.2015
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Title: Philip Marshall Connelly Collection of Los Angeles CIO Industrial Union Council records
Creator:
Connelly, Philip Marshall
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2015
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear Feet
(5 boxes)
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear Feet
(2 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1942-1957
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General Physical Description note: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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- Gift of Ted Ellsworth, 1970.
- Purchase, 1972.
- Collection was originally housed in the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations Library.
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[Identification of item], Philip Marshall Connelly Collection of Los Angeles CIO Industrial Union Council Records (Collection
2015). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, ephemera, and photographs relating to the Los Angeles labor movement and activities
during the 1940s and 1950s. Includes files on 1948 national CIO convention, Henry Wallace third party movement, Mexican and
South American labor, U.S. motors strike, opposition to 1946 subversives act, Catholic Interracial Council, anti-Taft-Hartley
campaign, relations with Los Angeles mayor Fletcher Bowron, black community relations, and AFL-CIO Brotherhood cooperation.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Los Angeles CIO (Boxes 1-3).
- Ford-CIO, ca. 1948-50 (Boxes 4-5).
- Scrapbook clippings, poster layouts, photographs (Box 6).
- Poster of Vicente Lombardo Toledano (Box 7).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Labor unions -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Connelly, Philip Marshall--Archives.
box 1, folder 1
Council annual elections.
box 1, folder 2
Charges against N.Y. council.
box 1, folder 3
National CIO effort to organize BRT members in Southern California. Also printing craftsmen into lithographers.
(1946)
box 1, folder 4
Early shoe worker organization dispute with AFL (William Green signature).
box 1, folder 5
Report to Los Angeles council
re national CIO convention at Portland.
1948
box 1, folder 6
Challenged election of council delegate to national convention.
1947
box 1, folder 7
Political split over Marshall Plan and Third party threat.
box 1, folder 8
Attack on council sponsored personnel on community agencies by right wing.
box 1, folder 10
Steelworkers drive against Wallace - Third party proponents.
box 1, folder 11
Take over activities - pro and con.
box 1, folder 12
History campaign to oust Bridges as California director.
box 1, folder 13
First Herald-Express strike
(1946).
box 1, folder 14
Huntington Park Bulletin - strike.
box 1, folder 15
CIO council
vs. publications
re Third party candidates.
box 1, folder 16
CIO council relations with Mexican and South American labor.
box 1, folder 18
CIO building photographs.
box 1, folder 19
Early Hearst guild organizing in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
box 2, folder 2
Labor community campaign
vs. G.L.K. Smith.
box 2, folder 3
Opposition to subversives act.
1946
box 2, folder 4
CIO council campaigns for Palestine defense.
box 2, folder 5
CIO and Catholic Interracial Council.
box 2, folder 6
Council civil rights fights
vs. police brutality.
box 2, folder 8
Labor day parade photos, also other years.
box 2, folder 9
Guild left-right issues in .
1950s
box 3, folder 1
Anti Taft-Harley campaign.
box 3, folder 2
North American Aircraft pre-war strike-labor wartime follow-ups.
box 3, folder 3
Hollywood Citizen News strike.
box 3, folder 4
Hollywood Citizen News strike photos.
box 3, folder 5
campaign
vs. Smith - Connelly congressmen.
1943
box 3, folder 6
Relations with Mayor Bowron (up and down).
box 3, folder 7
Council - Negro community relations.
box 3, folder 8
Anti Munt-Nixon Bill campaign photos.
box 3, folder 9
UE national convention in Long Beach.
box 3, folder 10
Council war cooperation activities.
box 3, folder 11
Visit to Los Angeles by various CIO and other "brass."
box 3, folder 12
Photo instances of AFL-CIO Brotherhood cooperation.
box 3, folder 13
Los Angeles
CIO Council Report.
box 6
Scrapbook
re industrial labor clippings, .
July 1945-February 1946
box 6
Poster layouts.
General Physical Description note: [8 items].
box 6
Photographs
re union activities, .
ca. 1942-1945
General Physical Description note: [15 photos].
box 6
Files
re Ford-CIO, .
ca. 1948-1950
box 4, folder 10
Miscellaneous materials, unsorted.
box 5, folder 1
File of
New York Guild paper, Front Page, .
January 1947-September 1948
box 5, folder 2
Reisel material and CIO News times of council take-over.
box 5, folder 3
Council ouster campaign throughout the country other than California.
box 5, folder 4
Literature
re split over Marshall Plan and Wallace "third party" move.
box 5, folder 5
Miscellaneous printed material.
box 7
Poster of Vicente Lombardo Toledano.
General note
(Formerly in Box 1, folder 16.)
