NAACP 1940-55 General office file. Labor unions -- Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1948-55
Correspondence and memoranda relating to ACWA contributions to NAACP and NAACP financial solicitations of ACWA. Principal correspondents: Jacob Potofsky, Walter White, Herbert Hill, Channing Tobias
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| Summary: | Correspondence and memoranda relating to ACWA contributions to NAACP and NAACP financial solicitations of ACWA. Principal correspondents: Jacob Potofsky, Walter White, Herbert Hill, Channing Tobias Correspondence concerning employment discrimination, IATSE; segregated locals; discrimination against black stagehands in New York City, in army camps, nationwide; Negro Actors Guild of America; exclusion of blacks from Theatrical Wardrobe and Attendants Union. Principal correspondent: Edna Thomas Correspondence regarding URWA-NAACP cooperation; NAACP membership drive in New Jersey and Massachusetts locals of URWA; federal civil rights legislation; URWA locals contributions to NAACP. Principal correspondents: O.H. Bosley; John Baldante; Herbert Hill Correspondence relating to the union's contributions to NAACP and NAACP financial solicitations. Principal correspondents: Patrick Gorman, Herbert Hill Correspondence, memoranda, and clippings concerning discrimination in postwar layoffs and discrimination in Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of American Correspondence, memoranda, and clippings regarding ACWA-NAACP cooperation; ACWA contributions to NAACP; NAACP solicitations of financial contributions from laundry workers. Principal correspondents: Louis Simon; Herbert Hill Correspondence, memoranda, and legal briefs regarding NAACP contribution to UTSEA; racial discrimination in CIO unions; jurisdiction dispute between UTSEA and Brotherhood or Railway Clerks over "Red Caps." Principal correspondents: Ernest Calloway; Willard Townsend; Roy Wilkins Correspondence, memoranda, and press release concerning the unionization of black government employees and the UFWA conference on racial discrimination. Principal correspondents: Eleanor Nelson; Walter White; Willard Townsend Correspondence, memoranda, and press releases referring to commnunist activity in Distributive, Processing and Office Workers union; NAACP anti-communism; "Trenton Six" case; unionization of blacks in the south; NAACP cooperation with DPO union in Philadelphia. Principal correspondents: Roy Wilkins, Cleveland Robinson, Herbert Hill Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, and clippings regarding the exclusion of blacks from building trades unions; the implications of the civil rights movement and the loyalty-security program for the labor movement; and NAACP solicitation of contribution from AFL. Principal correspondents: Walter White, John L. Lewis, George Meany Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, and press releases concerning UPWA nondiscrimination policies; dismissal of UPWA southern district officer for segregationist practices; factional disputes in UPWA; UPWA cooperation with NAACP membership drives Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, and reports which document relations between the NAACP and UAW Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, and clippings concerning criticism of NAACP nonpartisanship; NAACP solicitation of financial contribution from USA; financial contributions from USA locals and national office to NAACP; civil rights mobilization program; NAACP support for steelworkers strike Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, and clippings documenting NAACP relations with IUE Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, and clippings regarding integration of AFM; efforts to integrate National Broadcasting Corp. and Radio Corp. of America; exclusion of blacks from AFM locals outside NYC; NAACP challenge to AFM segregated local in Los Angeles. Principal correspondents: John Hammond; Walter White; David Sarnoff; James C. Petrillo Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, clippings, reports, and articles concerning NMU antidiscrimination policies; factional dispute within NMU; allegations of racial bias in NMU. Principal correspondents: Neal Hanley; Herbert Hill; Joseph Curran Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, clippings, reports, and articles documenting both the positive and the negative aspects of the NAACP's relations with organized labor during the 1940's and early 1950's Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, clippings, reports, and articles which document relations between the CIO and NAACP |
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| Item Description: | Guide title: Distributive Workers Union, Local 65, 1953-1955 Title from file folder heading "Group II, Box A-347"--Guide "Group II, Box A-348"--Guide "Group II, Box A-349"--Guide "Group II, Box A-350"--Guide "Group II, Box A-351"--Guide "Group II, Boxes A-348-349"--Guide "Group II, Boxes A-349-350"--Guide |
| Physical Description: | on 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm |