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The following Reel Index is a guide to Papers of the NAACP, Part 13, NAACP and Labor, 1940–1955, Series
A: Subject Files on Labor Conditions and Employment Discrimination, 1940–1955. Substantive issues are
highlighted under the heading Major Topics as are prominent correspondents under the heading Principal
Correspondents.
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File Folder
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Group II, Series A, General Office File
Group II, Box A-9
Alabama
0001 National Defense, 1941. 57pp.
Major Topics: Employment of blacks in defense industry; employment
discrimination; construction; retail; shipbuilding; strike, Mobile shipyards; black
shipyard workers in southern ports; defense housing; harassment of local
NAACP officer; metallurgical plants; FEPC complaints; discriminatory trade
license policies; race-based wage differentials, iron industry.
Principal Correspondents: T. T. Allen; John L. LeFlore; Phillip Van Gelder; Walter F.
White; Lawrence Creamer; Frank D. Reeves; Robert C. Weaver; E. W. Taggart.
Group II, Box A-233
Discrimination
0057 Aircraft Industry: Swallow Aircraft Co., Kansas, 1941. 20pp.
Major Topics: Integration of Ft. Riley construction work; employment discrimination,
aircraft industry.
Principal Correspondents: Sidney Hillman; Roy Wilkins.
Group II, Box A-238
Discrimination
0077 New Jersey State Employment Service, 1941. 28pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, teaching; United States Employment
Service; steering black women into domestic service.
Principal Correspondents: Lila B. Terhune; Walter White; J. C. McKelvie.
0115 New York State Committee on Discrimination in Employment, 1942–1944. 192pp.
Major Topics: Employment opportunities for blacks in steel industry, shipbuilding,
and as machinists; administration of state fair employment practices law;
statistics on investigation of race discrimination complaints.
Principal Correspondents: Frieda S. Miller; Charles Berkeley.
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Group II, Box A-331
Labor
0307 Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1940–1941. 51pp.
Major Topic: Theft of AAA checks to sharecroppers in Mississippi and other
southern states.
Principal Correspondents: Thurgood Marshall; Walter White; R. M. Evans.
0358 Alabama Drydock Riot, 1943. 52pp.
Major Topics: Race riot; employment discrimination, shipbuilding.
Principal Correspondents: J. L. LeFlore; Walter F. White; Paul V. McNutt; Fr.
Francis J. Haas.
0410 Atomic Energy Commission, 1955. 4pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination, vigilante intimidation.
Principal Correspondents: Roy Wilkins; Paul Sifton.
0414 Labor-Bayuk Cigars, Ind., Philadelphia, Pa., 1945. 8pp.
Major Topic: Employment opportunities for blacks, cigarmaking.
Group II, Box A-332
Labor cont.
0422 Bell Aircraft Co., New York, 1940–1941. 70pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination, aircraft industry.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Frank D. Reeves; Frieda S. Miller; Ira
De A. Reid.
0492 Bethlehem Steel Co., 1941. 32pp.
Major Topics: Interracial cooperation in steel strike, Lackawana, New York;
employment discrimination, shipbuilding, NYC, Sparrows Point, Maryland, and
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Principal Correspondents: Walter F. White; William L. Evans; Robert C. Weaver.
0524 Bills, 1943–1949. 258pp.
Major Topics: State and federal labor legislation; federal war manpower bills; federal
farm labor bill; federal labor conscription bill (Austin-Wadsworth); conscription of
women; antidiscrimination amendment to National Labor Relations Act; antiunion
amendments to National Labor Relations Act (Taft-Hartley).
Principal Correspondents: A. J. Muste; Sen. Arthur Capper; Walter White; Aubrey
Williams; Edward Lindeman.
0728 Bills, 1950–1955. 196pp.
Major Topics: State and federal labor legislation; federal maritime labor bill
(Magnusson-Lesinski); federal employment bill; proposed antidiscrimination
amendment to federal railway labor act; illegal Mexican immigration;
unemployment benefit bill; New York State minimum wage bill; equal pay for
women; Missouri fair employment practices bill.
Principal Correspondent: Felice Louria.
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Group II, Series A, General Office File cont.
Group II, Box A-332 cont.
Labor cont.
0001 Birmingham-Bessemer, Alabama Problem (CIO), 1953–1954. 49pp.
Major Topics: NAACP youth work; CIO membership drive; NAACP-CIO
cooperation; Communist activity in mine-mill union; steelworkers organization.
Principal Correspondents: George L.P. Weaver; James Carey; Carey Haigler; Ruby
Hurley; Herbert Hill; Walter P. Reuther.
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0049 Boeing Aircraft Co. [Seattle, Wash.], 1940–1941. 44pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination, labor unions, aircraft industry.
0093 Breslee Mfg. Co. [New York City], 1943–1944. 50pp.
Major Topic: Racial integration in canvas and leather industry.
0143 Brewster Aeronautical Corp., 1941–1942. 109pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination in aircraft industry, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania; Office of Production Management laxity on racial
discrimination; employment discrimination, U.S. Navy.
Principal Correspondents: Thurgood Marshall; Robert C. Weaver; Lawrence
Creamer; Walter White; Anson Phelps Stokes.
0252 British West Indies, 1940–1949. 201pp.
Major Topics: Self-determination for Caribbean Islands; exclusion of foreign workers
from Jamaica; employment discrimination and racial wage differentials on U.S.
military installations in Caribbean; race riot, Bahamas; arrest of W. A. Domingo.
Principal Correspondents: W. A. Domingo; Leopoldo Melo; Cordell Hull; Arthur B.
Spingarn; Oswald Garrison Villard; William H. Hastie; Alfred Baker Lewis.
Group II, Box A-333
Labor cont.
0453 Dr. Charles Brown, 1953–1955. 94pp.
Major Topic: Race discrimination in staffing of foster homes under New York
Children’s Aid Society.
Principal Correspondents: Charles Brown, M.D.; Eleanor Roosevelt.
0548 California, 1943. 5pp.
Major Topic: Racial integration in aircraft industry.
Principal Correspondent: Walter White.
0553 Colt Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co., 1940–1941. 71pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and Colt
Firearms, Hartford, Connecticut; FEPC complaint.
Principal Correspondents: Allen T. Jackson; Lawrence Creamer.
0624 Consolidated Aircraft Corp., 1940–1941. 111pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination, aircraft industry, San Diego.
Principal Correspondents: Walter F. White; Arthur Capper; Thomas L. Griffith;
Roy Wilkins.
0735 Cutbacks, 1945. 75pp.
Major Topics: Reconversion of manpower policies nationwide; racial discrimination
in layoffs.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Lulu White.
0817 Defense Plant Picketing, 1941. 44pp.
Major Topic: NAACP-inspired picketing program of defense industries nationwide.
0851 Department Store Discrimination in New York City and Connecticut, 1945–1949.
71pp.
Major Topics: New York League of Women Shoppers campaign against
employment discrimination by retailers; Congress of Racial Equality campaign
against employment discrimination by Chicago retailers; City-Wide Citizens
Committee of Harlem; Sears-Roebuck employment discrimination; American
Jewish Congress; National Urban League; Retail and Wholesale Employees
Union.
Principal Correspondents: Alice Rivkin; George Houser; Will Maslow;
Madison S. Jones.
0921 Dining Service Employees, 1941. 16pp.
Major Topic: Discriminatory work rules, wages, hours protested for black dining car
workers on New York Central Railroad.
Principal Correspondents: Roy Wilkins; Dudley Washington; Frank Fenton;
William Green.
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Group II, Series A, General Office File cont.
Group II, Box A-333 cont.
Labor cont.
0001 Discrimination in National Defense Industries, Detroit, Michigan, 1940–1941.
148pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination and job opportunities for blacks, General
Motors Corp.; employment discrimination, auto industry; discrimination in
Vocational Education Program for National Defense; employment discrimination,
Chrysler-Dodge Corp., Briggs Mfg. Co., Detroit Civil Service; FEPC complaints;
Detroit NAACP Branch Labor and Industry Committee; UAW-CIO
antidiscrimination resolution.
Principal Correspondents: Roy Wilkins; J. J. McClendon; Thurgood Marshall; Robert
C. Weaver; George W. Hawkins; Sidney Hillman; Gloster B. Current; William
Hastie; Walter F. White.
0148 Discrimination in National Defense Industries, General, 1940–1941. 59pp.
Major Topics: Committee on Participation of Negroes in the National Defense
Program; petition of National Defense Advisory Commission; compulsive military
training bill (Burke-Wadsworth); AFL acquiescence in race discrimination;
reaction to Walter F. White article, “It’s Our Country, Too”; proposed
congressional investigation of race discrimination in defense program; Georgia
construction discrimination; FEPC bill.
Principal Correspondents: Charles H. Houston; Roy Wilkins; Louis Lautier; Rayford
Logan; Walter F. White; E. W. Taggart; Rep. Emanuel Celler.
0207 Discrimination in National Defense Industries, Kansas City, Kansas, 1941. 113pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, aircraft industry (North American Aviation
Co.); steering blacks to janitorial jobs; strike at North American Aviation plant.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; William Pickens; Herbert Seligman; Roy
Wilkins; Sen. Arthur Capper; Robert C. Weaver.
Group II, Box A-334
Labor cont.
0320 Discrimination in National Defense Industries, Missouri, 1940–1941. 129pp.
Major Topics: Labor supply, training, and placement, Kansas City, Mo; black
unemployment in Kansas City; discrimination in defense training classes and
defense industries; Negro National Defense Committee (of Kansas City, Mo.);
employment discrimination, painters union, Mo. State Employment Service.
Principal Correspondents: Walter F. White; Sen. Arthur Capper; C. A. Franklin;
Thomas A. Webster.
0449 Discrimination in National Defense Industry, New Jersey, 1942. 5pp.
Major Topic: Proposed survey of black employment in Philadelphia-Camden area.
0454 Discrimination in National Defense Industries, Resolutions Supporting NAACP,
1940–1942. 146pp.
Major Topics: Resolutions from Commission on Interracial Cooperation; Social
Justice Committee, the Rabbinical Assembly of America; Chicago Pan-Hellenic
Council; Colored Methodist Episcopal Church; American Peace Mobilization;
National Federation for Constitutional Liberties; National Baptist Convention;
Women’s City Club of New York; Hampton Institute; Federal Council of Churches
of Christ; Women Voters Council of Brooklyn; Phelps-Stokes Fund; Central
Conference of American Rabbis; Sunday School and Baptist Training Union;
State Welfare Conference of Ohio; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks;
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National Federation of Settlements; CIO: American Defense, Harvard Group;
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; International Fur and
Leather Workers Union; UAW-CIO; survey of racial composition of industrial
workforce in New York area by Women’s City Club of New York.
0601 Employment Survey, 1953–1954. 42pp.
Major Topics: Negro employment policies of firms holding U.S. defense contracts in
the following areas: Baltimore, Md.; Birmingham, Ala.; Charleston, W.Va.;
Detroit, Mich.; Dallas, Ft. Worth, Grand Prairie, Greenville, Houston, Texas City,
Tex.; Illinois; Kansas City, St. Louis, Mo.; Los Angeles, Ca.; Nashville, Tenn.;
Norfolk, Richmond, Va.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Tulsa, Okla.; Atlanta, Ga.; west coast,
general; implementation of nondiscrimination clause provision in federal
contracts.
Principal Correspondents: Walter F. White; Herbert Brownell.
0643 Fairchild Aviation Corp., 1941–1942. 24pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, Fairchild Industries, Sperry Co., Ford
Instrument Co., Brewster Co., Grumann Aircraft Co., and Republic Aircraft Co.
(New York area); General Motors (Chicago); FEPC complaint.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Lawrence Creamer; Frieda S. Miller.
0667 Florida, 1954–1955. 83pp.
Major Topics: Segregated union locals, Miami building trades; Committee on
Government Contract Compliance complaint; integration of Miami building
trades unions.
Principal Correspondents: Howard Dixon; Herbert Hill.
0750 Ford Motor Co. Employment of Women, 1942. 14pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination against black women; FEPC complaint.
Principal Correspondents: James J. McClendon; Gloster B. Current;
Lawrence Cramer.
0764 Ford Strike, April 1941. 112pp.
Major Topics: Black support for Ford strike; NAACP support for Ford strike.
Principal Correspondents: Walter F. White; James J. McClendon; A. J. Muste.
0876 Ford Strike, May–October, 1941. 68pp.
Major Topics: NAACP-CIO conference on race and employment in Detroit; National
Negro Congress, Communist activity; Ku Klux Klan in auto unions; black support
for Ford strike.
Principal Correspondents: Charles Diggs; Gov. Murray Van Wagoner; Philip Murray;
John P. Davis.
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Group II, Series A, General Office File cont.
Group II, Box A-334 cont.
Labor cont.
0001 General, January–March 1940. 71pp.
Major Topics: National League to Protect Colored Workers in the Cane Sugar
Refining Industry; International Labor Defense; segregated NYC local union of
IATSE; employment discrimination, Sheffield, Alabama metallurgical industry;
wood products industry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; American Guild of Variety
Artists strike at Apollo Theatre; federal antilynching bill.
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Principal Correspondents: Thurgood Marshall; Walter White.
Group II, Box A-335
Labor cont.
0072 General, April–June 1940. 130pp.
Major Topics: Garment union’s support of federal antilynching bill; ILGWU financial
support of antilynching lobby; employment discrimination, New York area,
Memphis, Tennessee dredge boats; Negro Labor Committee; migrant labor and
sharecropper conditions; violence in labor disputes; race discrimination in labor
unions; NAACP encouragement of union membership in CIO; Commonwealth
College (Mena, Arkansas); employment discrimination, railroad brotherhoods.
Principal Correspondents: Sidney Hillman; David Dubinsky; Joseph Curran;
William Henderson; Frieda S. Miller; David Rockefeller; Joseph Schlossberg;
Abraham Isserman.
0202 General, July–December 1940. 105pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination in defense industries, New York area;
Conference on Employment Problems of Negroes (New York); National League
to Protect Colored Workers in the Cane Sugar Refining Industry; NAACP
encouragement of blacks to apply to work with defense industries; labor union
exclusion of blacks, Tampa, Florida; Communist activity in American Labor Party;
United Electrical Workers (UE) antidiscrimination resolution; employment
discrimination, construction trades, Georgia defense work; Illinois Commission on
the Condition of the Urban Colored Population; Fisk University courses in labor
relations; employment discrimination, aircraft industry (California), military
installations (New Jersey and Florida); blacks in theatrical unions (NYC).
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Frank Crosswaith; Mary Dreier;
Charles S. Johnson.
0307 General, January–June 1941. 38pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, military installations, Florida, Georgia;
reaction to Walter White’s article, “It’s Our Country, Too”; discrimination,
California civil service.
Principal Correspondents: Alfred Edgar Smith; Robert C. Weaver.
0345 General, July 1941–1942. 202pp.
Major Topics: Integration of shipping service at New York Port; Negro Labor
Committee; anti-Semitism in Harlem; employment discrimination in Harlem;
Industrial Insurance Agents Union (UOPWA-CIO); employment discrimination
against blacks in central New Jersey, St. Louis, Mo., Colorado Springs, Col.,
Phoenix, Ariz., Fairbanks, Alaska; employment opportunities for blacks in war
industry in New York, New Jersey, and California.
Principal Correspondents: Frank Crosswaith; Rose Schneiderman; Walter White;
Douglas L. MacMahon.
0547 General, 1943. 69pp.
Major Topics: United Office and Professional Workers-CIO antidiscrimination
policies; NAACP criticism of War Manpower Commission relations with FEPC;
employment integration, New York, Baltimore; employment discrimination,
Newark, New Jersey; NAACP-CIO cooperation; statistics on racial composition of
workforce occupations.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Robert C. Weaver.
0616 General, 1944. 141pp.
Major Topics: Integration of Wright Aeronautical plant, Lockland, Ohio; employment
of black dining car stewards by Pennsylvania Railroad; employment
discrimination, Lexington, Ky.; Danville, Va. textile workers discrimination;
Shipyard Committee against Discrimination conflict with boilermakers’ union,
Richmond, California; shipyard discrimination, Mobile, Ala.; CIO network with
black vote; peonage, Cross County, Ark.; unionization of black tobacco workers,
Winston-Salem, N.C.
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Principal Correspondents: Gloster B. Current; William R. Brown; J. L. LeFlore;
James B. Carey; A. Philip Randolph; Roy Wilkins; Louis Lautier.
0757 General, 1945–1948. 118pp.
Major Topics: Vocational attitudes of blacks in New York foundry; Trades Union
Congress of Nigeria; Walter White defense of trade union tactics; proposed
antidiscrimination amendment to railroad strike settlement; NAACP opposition to
Truman threat to conscript railroad strikers; NAACP defense of closed-shop
union policy; NAACP opposition to Taft-Hartley legislation.
Principal Correspondents: Robert Lynd; Roy Wilkins; A. A. Adio-Moses; Alben W.
Barkley; Walter F. White; William Green; Clarence Mitchell.
Group II, Box A-336
Labor cont.
0875 General, 1949. 145pp.
Major Topics: Federal labor extension program bill; union locals’ contributions to
NAACP; antidiscrimination amendment to National Labor Relations Act; NAACP
membership drives in labor union locals; union protest of federal investigation of
federal employees’ loyalty.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
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Group II, Series A, General Office File cont.
Group II, Box A-336 cont.
Labor cont.
0001 General, 1950–1952. 110pp.
Major Topics: Union locals’ contributions to NAACP; cooperation between NAACP
and labor union locals, NYC area; abolition of segregation on Illinois Central
Railroad; New York state minimum wage bill hearings.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
0110 General, 1953. 162pp.
Major Topics: Forced labor; admission of blacks to Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
at Washington, D.C. terminal; Hotel Workers Union support for NAACP; United
Mine Workers opposition to federal labor bills; cooperation between NAACP and
garment workers unions; integration of musicians’ union, Los Angeles; National
Negro Labor Council designated “subversive organization” by U.S. Attorney
General; chemical workers union integration.
Principal Correspondents: Clarence Mitchell; Herbert Hill; Willard S. Townsend.
0262 General, 1954. 172pp.
Major Topics: Anti-union articles by George S. Schuyler; integration of International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local in Connecticut; racketeering indictment of
Harold J. Gibbons of Teamsters Union; National Negro Labor Council named
“subversive organization”; NAACP cooperation with union movement in deterring
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black strikebreakers in Connecticut; NAACP cooperation with International
Association of Machinists; NAACP solicitation of labor union contributions;
NAACP cooperation with ILGWU.
Principal Correspondents: Ernest Calloway; Coleman Young; Herbert Hill.
0434 General, January–June 1955. 134pp.
Major Topics: College placement offices’ discrimination survey; employment
discrimination by corporations relocating in southern states; New York
dressmakers’ union conference on implications of Brown v. Board of Education;
Herbert Hill address to Transport Workers of America convention; employment
agency abuses of domestics in New York area; NAACP-CIO cooperation in
Texas; NAACP membership drives in New York Hotel Workers Union, Shoe
Workers Union; employment discrimination in federal service; President’s
Committee on Government Employment Policy.
Principal Correspondents: Frank Crosswaith; Michael Quill; Charles Zimmerman;
Herbert Hill.
0568 General, July–December 1955. 246pp.
Major Topics: AFL-CIO Convention resolutions on civil rights; Association of
Catholic Trade Unionists antisegregation resolution; integration in California Hod
Carriers union; NAACP branch Labor and Industry Committees’ model
constitution; admission of blacks to IATSE in NYC; Herbert Hill address to
International Association of Machinists state convention in New York; New
Jersey Tunnel Construction Union exclusion of blacks; Transport Workers Union
of America condemnation of Emmett Till lynching; NAACP encouragement of
blacks to honor picket line in California Communications Workers of America
strike; NAACP policy on Communist-controlled unions; NAACP-CIO cooperation;
National Trade Union Committee for Racial Justice; Herbert Hill condemnation of
New York Gov. Averill Harriman for honoring South Carolina request for black
fugitive; Charles Flint Kellogg’s study of NAACP; NAACP cooperation with
International Federation of Free Trade Unions; NAACP solicitation of contribution
from NYC Waiters Union; George Meany speech in support of NAACP legal
redress campaign; Urban League snub of Walter Reuther; employment
discrimination by Baltimore and Washington, D.C. telephone companies; federal
orders about nondiscrimination in employment for government contractors.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Michael Quill; Roy Wilkins; Charles Flint
Kellogg; Walter P. Reuther.
0814 General Motors–UAW Strike Fund, 1945–1947. 134pp.
Major Topics: Walter White visit to Detroit; Walter White service on strike fund;
NAACP contributions to strike fund; petition of Southern Cotton Oil Workers
Strike Committee for NAACP contribution; petition of Food and Tobacco Workers
union for NAACP contribution to Charleston, South Carolina strike fund; CIO
support for United Negro College Fund; NLRB ruling permitting segregated union
locals; National Council of Negro Women’s protest of NLRB ruling on segregated
union auxiliaries.
Principal Correspondents: Walter F. White; Walter P. Reuther; Elizabeth Janeway;
Philip Murray.
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Group II, Series A, General Office File cont.
Group II, Box A-337
Labor cont.
0001 General Motors–UAW Strike, Negotiations, 1945–1946. 234pp.
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Major Topics: Wage data for auto industry; formation of Citizen’s Committee to Aid
Families of GM Strikers; reports of Citizens Committee; UAW-GM negotiations
and positions.
Principal Correspondent: Walter P. Reuther.
0234 Government Contracts, 1940–1941. 91pp.
Major Topic: Nationwide list of defense contractors by state and city.
0325 Government Contracts, 1953–1955. 187pp.
Major Topics: Nationwide list of defense contractors by city; reports from NAACP
branches on local industries’ compliance with federal nondiscrimination
provisions in: Philadelphia, Pa., Richmond, Va., Norfolk, Va., Kansas City, Mo.,
St. Louis, Mo., Pittsburgh, Pa., Baltimore, Md., Chicago, Ill., East St. Louis, Ill.,
Los Angeles, Calif., District of Columbia, Houston, Tex., Texas City, Tex., Ft.
Worth, Tex., Dallas, Tex., Charleston, W. Va., Grand Rapids, Mich., Columbus,
Oh., New Jersey; protest of Eisenhower administration exemption of farm-loan
contracts from nondiscrimination provisions; employment discrimination, Douglas
Aircraft Co, Tulsa, Okla., Studebaker-Packard Corp., South Bend, Ind.; protest of
discriminatory impact of seniority clauses in IUE contracts in Cincinnati, Ohio
industries.
Principal Correspondents: Channing Tobias; Clarence Mitchell; Herbert Hill; Al
Hartnett; Ellison Jeffries.
0513 Kent Cleaners and Dryers, [Whitestone, Long Island, N.Y.], 1940–1941. 42pp.
Major Topics: Strike by black employees; National Negro Congress; Cleaners and
Dyers Union.
Principal Correspondents: Alexander Hoffman; Walter White.
0555 Kingston Trap Rock Co. Strike, 1952. 3pp.
Major Topic: Teamsters strike on behalf of Puerto Rican workers at New Jersey
quarry.
0558 Labor Secretary [for NAACP], Idea for, 1941–1944. 72pp.
Major Topics: NAACP support for labor unions; employment discrimination, general;
objectives of NAACP Labor Department.
Principal Correspondents: Alfred Baker Lewis; Walter White; Prentiss Thomas; Roy
Wilkins; Clarence Mitchell.
0625 Legislation, Taft-Hartley Act, 1947–1949. 302pp.
Major Topics: Controversy between NAACP National Labor Department and
NAACP branches over closed shop practices and Taft-Hartley legislation;
NAACP participation in network of opposition to Taft-Hartley legislation; protest of
Taft-Hartley acceptance of jim crow union locals.
Principal Correspondents: Clarence Mitchell; Wayne Morse; Michael Widman; Hilda
W. Smith; Walter White; Roy Wilkins; Carl Murphy; Frank D. Reeves.
0927 Legislation, Taft-Hartley Act, 1950–1954. 150pp.
Major Topics: Protest of Taft-Hartley acceptance of jim crow union locals; efforts to
amend Taft-Hartley Act.
Principal Correspondents: Max Delson; U.S. Sen. Matthew Neeley; Paul H.
Douglas; James E. Murray; Dwight Griswold; H. Alexander Smith.
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Group II, Box A-338
Labor cont.
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0001 Longshoremen of New York and New Jersey, 1940. 35pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, International Longshoreman’s
Association; violence on Brooklyn waterfront.
Principal Correspondent: Thurgood Marshall.
0036 Michigan Labor, 1942–1943. 109pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination at Ford Motor Co., Willow Run, Mich.,
UAW union local, Dodge plant, New York Central Railroad, UAW local at Hudson
Motors plant, Michigan Bell Telephone Co., Briggs Mfg. Co.; FEPC complaints;
black women hired at Willow Run Ford plant; Walter White visit to Detroit; United
Office and Professional Workers of America Union’s promotion of racial
integration; Detroit NAACP branch pickets War Manpower Commission; blacks in
international politics of Ford-UAW local 600; NAACP-UAW Interracial Committee
rally.
Principal Correspondents: Gloster B. Current; Horace Sheffield; James B. Carey;
Walter White.
0145 Migrant Labor [and] Child Labor, General, 1952–1955. 142pp.
Major Topics: Farm workers’ housing, sanitation, education, voting rights; federal
funding proposals for migrant education; proposed exemptions to federal child
labor laws; illegal child farm labor; state child labor bills and legislation, New
York, Pennsylvania; study of child fruit and vegetable pickers in New York state;
National Child Labor Committee.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Lehman; Herbert Wright; Gertrude Folks Zimand;
Gloster Current; Eleanor Roosevelt; James P. Mitchell; Oveta Culp Hobby;
Paul H. Douglas.
0207 Migrant Labor [and] Child Labor, Wadlin Bill, 1953. 26pp.
Major Topics: Amendment to weaken New York State child labor law; National Child
Labor Committee.
Principal Correspondent: Gloster Current.
0313 Migrant Labor, General, 1950–1955. 239pp.
Major Topics: Child labor among migrant workers; state legislation for farm labor;
President’s Commission on Migratory Labor; licensing of labor contractors;
minimum wages; housing; education; East Coast Migrant Conference; Tri-state
(N.Y., N.J., Pa.) governor’s conference on migrant labor.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Milton Konvitz; Ben Davidson; Sol Markoff.
0542 Migrant Labor, Henderson Case, 1953–1954. 16pp.
Major Topic: Impounding migrant labor family’s personal belongings; New York
state.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
0558 Migrant Labor, Institute on Migrant Labor Problems, Princeton, N.J., 1945. 80pp.
Major Topic: Proposed federal labor standards for migrant workers.
0638 Migrant Labor, Investigation of Pennsylvania Migrant Labor Camps, 1951. 4pp.
Major Topic: Herbert Hill investigation of Pennsylvania migrant labor camps.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
0642 Migrant Labor, Migrant Labor Bill, 1952–1954. 58pp.
Major Topic: Labor legislation about migrant laborers, Pennsylvania, federal,
New York.
0700 Migrant Labor, New York State, General, 1951–1953. 126pp.
Major Topics: Statistics on farm inspections; cooperation between Puerto Rican
Department of Labor and labor unions in New York; proposed weakening of New
York state child labor law; New York state Interdepartmental Committee on Farm
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Labor report; Rochester area migrant labor report; statistics on criminal arrests
on farm labor camps; Citizens’ Committee on Seasonal Farm Labor in New
York State.
Principal Correspondents: Clarence Senior; William Green; Phillip Murray; Herbert
Hill; Sol Markoff; G. Shubert Frye.
Group II, Box A-339
Labor cont.
0826 Migrant Labor, New York State, General, 1954–1955. 181pp.
Major Topics: State NAACP Committee on Migrant Agricultural Labor; migrant camp
conditions; child labor; state legislation on migrant labor; Citizens’ Committee on
Migrant Labor; minimum wage; Consumers League of New York; proposed
legislation to weaken child labor laws.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; G. Shubert Frye; Sol Markoff.
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Group II, Series A, General Office File cont.
Group II, Box A-339 cont.
Labor cont.
0001 Migrant Labor, New York State, Legislative Proposals, 1953–1955. 203pp.
Major Topics: Child labor legislation; cannery labor camps; Joint Legislative
Committee on Migratory Labor report; bills regulating migratory labor.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
0203 Migrant Labor, New York State Legislative Report, 1953. 44pp.
Major Topics: Analysis of New York State agriculture; sources of migrant labor;
migrant camp conditions; legislative recommendations.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Sol Markoff.
0247 Migrant Labor, New York State, NAACP State Branch Committee, 1953–1954. 74pp.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; G. Shubert Frye.
0321 Migrant Labor, New York State, State Agencies, 1953–1955. 29pp.
Major Topic: Protest of pejorative racial depictions in final report of New York State
Joint Legislative Committee on Migrant Labor.
Principal Correspondents: Edward Corsi; G. Shubert Frye.
0350 Migrant Labor, Pennsylvania, Bucknell University Labor Conference, 1952. 71pp.
Major Topics: Migrant labor camps in Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania labor laws; child
labor; migrant camp conditions.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Wright.
0421 Migrant Labor, Pennsylvania, Citizens Committee, 1952–February 1953. 236pp.
Major Topics: Migrant camp conditions; peonage; child labor; racial discrimination;
violence and intimidation; proposed Pennsylvania State Commission on
Migratory Labor; proposed state labor legislation; migrant labor conference,
Bucknell University; Pennsylvania labor union endorsement of migrant labor
legislation; National Child Labor Committee.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Sol Markoff; Cyrus Karraker.
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0557 Migrant Labor, Pennsylvania, Citizens Committee, March–December 1953. 117pp.
Major Topics: Proposed state labor legislation on migrant labor; child labor
legislation; network with organized labor; National Child Labor Committee;
NAACP investigation of migrant labor camps in the state; migrant camp
conditions; child labor; child care policies.
Principal Correspondents: Cyrus Karraker; Herbert Hill; Sol Markoff.
0674 Migrant Labor, Pennsylvania, Citizens Committee, 1954–1955. 80pp.
Major Topics: Child care policies in migrant camps; National Child Labor
Committee; National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor; migrant labor in N.Y.,
N.J., Pa., Wis., Tex., N. Mex., Calif., Ore., Wash.; solicitation of contribution from
United Steel Workers of America; migrant labor camp conditions; NAACP branch
investigation of migrant camp conditions.
Principal Correspondents: Cyrus Karraker; Sol Markoff; Herbert Hill; Corrine Banyai.
0754 Migrant Labor, Pennsylvania, General, 1951–1955. 282pp.
Major Topics: Investigation of migrant camps by NAACP Labor Secretary, Herbert
Hill; migrant camp conditions; peonage; NAACP plan concerning migrant labor
camps; NAACP state conference on migrant labor, Bucknell University; state
investigation of migrant camps; state labor bills on migrants; Herbert Hill address
to Texas State CIO about displacement of southern agricultural workers by
mechanization; cooperation between NAACP and United Steel Workers of
America on migrant labor legislation; child labor legislation; intimidation and
violence.
Principal Correspondents: Cyrus Karraker; Gloster B. Current; Jack Greenberg;
Burrell K. Johnson; Herbert Hill; Walter White; Michael Shane; Arthur Chapin;
Sol Markoff.
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0001 Migrant Labor, Pennsylvania, Legislative Proposals, 1951–1955. 50pp.
Major Topics: Migrant labor camp conditions; child labor; National Child
Labor Committee.
Principal Correspondents: Sol Markoff; Herbert Hill.
0050 Migrant Labor, Pennsylvania, State Agencies, 1952–1954. 76pp.
Major Topics: Industrial Race Relations Committee of Pennsylvania; NAACP
investigation of migrant camps; National Child Labor Committee; child labor.
Principal Correspondents: William H. Gray, Jr.; Robert E. Woodside; Herbert Hill;
Sol Markoff; Walter White.
0126 Migrant Labor, Pennsylvania State Conference, 1952–1953. 268pp.
Major Topics: National Child Labor Committee; United Steel Workers of America
Committee on Civil Rights; NAACP investigation of migrant camps; Pennsylvania
Migrant Labor Conference, Pittsburgh; migrant camp conditions.
Principal Correspondents: Sol Markoff; Marion Jordan; Herbert Hill; Daisy Lampkin;
Mike Shane; James B. Carey; William H. Gray, Jr.; Burrell K. Johnson.
0394 Migration of Negroes to War Industries, Attorney General Francis Biddle
Recommendations, 1943. 32pp.
Major Topics: Recommendation for federal restriction of black migration from
southen states to northern war industry centers; Detroit race riot.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Roy Wilkins; Wendell Berge; Francis
Biddle; A. J. Muste.
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0426 NAACP Labor Department, Monthly Reports, 1945–1949. 73pp.
Major Topics: Apprentice training programs in construction; United States
Employment Service; NLRB acquiescence in segregation of union locals;
NAACP cooperation with AFL and CIO; federal FEPC bills; state FEPC bills and
laws; Railway Brotherhoods, discrimination; integration of telephone companies;
labor union’s discrimination; U.S. Department of Labor appropriation cuts;
discrimination in government employment; migrant farm workers; NAACP policy
on strikes; federal “loyalty” investigations; U.S. Postal Service discrimination.
0499 National Bronze and Aluminum Foundry (Cleveland, Ohio), 1941–1942. 155pp.
Major Topics: Employment opportunities for blacks; company union.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Lester Granger; Pearl Mitchell; Harry E.
Davis; John L. Schmeller; Robert C. Weaver.
0654 National Bronze and Aluminum Foundry (Cleveland, Ohio), 1942–1944. 84pp.
Major Topics: National Bronze’s contribution to NAACP; employment opportunities
for blacks; espionage case against company officials.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; John L. Schmeller.
0740 National Council of Churches of Christ, 1954. 27pp.
Major Topics: National Council unfair labor practices; Government and Civic
Employees Organizing Committee-CIO.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; J. E. Luton.
0767 Navy Yard and Bases, 1952–1955. 44pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va.
Navy Yard, Alemeda, Calif. Naval Air Base, Port Chicago, Calif., New York Navy
Yard; integration of Charleston, S.C. Navy Yard.
Principal Correspondent: Walter White.
0811 Negro Labor Committee, 1941–1946. 19pp.
Principal Correspondents: Frank Crosswaith; Mark Starr.
0830 New York City Board of Transportation, 1940–1941. 60pp.
Major Topics: New York subway unification; labor union discrimination against
blacks, Brotherhood of Locomotive Trainmen; integration of NYC subway
workforce.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; John L. Lewis; Roger Baldwin;
John T. Delany.
0890 New York City Bus Line, 1941. 15pp.
Major Topic: New York bus strike.
Principal Correspondents: Michael Quill; J. A. Ritchie.
0905 New York City Department of Welfare, 1947–1949. 61pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, NYC Dept. of Welfare; housing
discrimination, NYC.
Principal Correspondents: Thurgood Marshall; Madison Jones; Walter White;
Raymond Hilliard.
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0001 New York City, General, 1941–1949. 123pp.
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Major Topics: Employment opportunities for blacks in defense industries;
employment discrimination, federal agencies in NYC, New York Naval Yard,
construction of Brooklyn Battery Tunnel; United Office and Professional Workers
of America investigation of racial discrimination in NYC; labor relations on New
York subway; New York Industrial Union Council (CIO); New York Metropolitan
Council on Fair Employment Practices.
Principal Correspondents: Lawrence Creamer; Michael Quill; Joseph Curran.
0123 New York City, Radio and Telephone Operator Recruitment, 1941. 42pp.
Major Topic: NAACP assistance to applicants for positions in broadcasting industry.
Principal Correspondent: Walter White.
0165 New York State, Aircraft Schools, 1940. 37pp.
Major Topic: NAACP solicitation of students for aeronautical training schools.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Robert C. Weaver.
0202 New York State, General, January–June 1941. 74pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, U.S. Maritime Service, aircraft industry,
Teamsters Union, National Maritime Union; domestic workers; Women’s Trade
Union League.
Principal Correspondents: Ira Williams; Eardlie John; Walter White; Clara Cook.
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0276 New York State, General, July–December 1941. 63pp.
Major Topics: American Civil Liberties Union policies on civil rights in labor relations;
strike of Gimbel’s department stores; employment discrimination, Window
Trimmers Union; typographical union strike; Social Service Employees Union
(UOPWA-CIO) organization of black maintenance employees.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph Curran; Joseph Levey; Walter White.
0339 New York State, Perry Bill, 1940. 24pp.
Major Topic: NAACP opposition to bill to prohibit racial discrimination by labor
unions in New York State.
Principal Correspondent: Thurgood Marshall.
0363 Packard Strike, 1943. 93pp.
Major Topics: Strike of white workers in protest of hiring and promotion of blacks;
Ku Klux Klan.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Gen. George E. Strong.
0426 Performance of Negro Workers, References, 1943. 33pp.
Major Topics: National Urban League report; FEPC study on black employees in
postwar conversion.
0459 Philco Plant, Philadelphia, Pa., 1952–1955. 82pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination; integration of Philco.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; James B. Carey.
0541 Pollatesk, Frank, 1944–1945. 39pp.
Major Topic: NAACP protest of dismissal of chief of New York Shipping Board, fired
for combatting racial discrimination.
Principal Correspondent: Roy Wilkins.
0580 Postwar Labor Problems Facing Negroes, 1944. 1p.
Principal Correspondent: Felix Gobble.
0583 Publicity Material, 1949–1955. 91pp.
Major Topic: Herbert Hill speaking engagements.
0674 Quoddy Village, Maine, 1941. 9pp.
Major Topic: Employment opportunities for blacks in aeronautical industry.
0683 Railroads, 1941–1943. 80pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, labor unions, Railroad Brotherhoods;
FEPC complaints.
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Principal Correspondents: Walter White; A. Philip Randolph; Malvina Thompson;
Charles Houston; Milton Konvitz; Matt Mason; Prentice Thomas.
0763 Red Caps, 1940. 106pp.
Major Topics: Back pay claims; protest of railroads construing tips as wages; United
Transport Service Employees; Interstate Commerce Commission case; National
Mediation Board case; federal court case.
Principal Correspondents: Willard Townsend; John L. Yancey; Thurgood Marshall;
Katherine Gardner.
0869 Red Caps, 1941. 180pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, labor union, Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks, St. Paul, Minn. Terminal; United Transport Service Employees; wage
case, Washington, D.C. terminal; union recognition case for United Transport
Service Employees for maintenance-of-way employees, Florida East Coast
Railroad; National Mediation Board cases.
Principal Correspondents: Alfred Baker Lewis; Walter White; Willard Townsend;
George M. Harrison; Frances Perkins; John L. Yancey.
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0869 Red Caps, 1941. 180pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, labor union, Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks, St. Paul, Minn. Terminal; United Transport Service Employees; wage
case, Washington, D.C. terminal; union recognition case for United Transport
Service Employees for maintenance-of-way employees, Florida East Coast
Railroad; National Mediation Board cases.
Principal Correspondents: Alfred Baker Lewis; Walter White; Willard Townsend;
George M. Harrison; Frances Perkins; John L. Yancey.
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0001 Requests and Recommendations, 1954–1955. 36pp.
Major Topics: Employment assistance for Scottsboro defendant, Willie Norris;
requests for employment assistance.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
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Labor cont.
0037 Southern Economy Survey, 1942. 18pp.
Major Topic: NAACP concern for awarding war contracts to southern garment
industry at expense of the North.
Principal Correspondent: Walter White.
0055 Statements and Testimonies on Labor, 1953–1955. 76pp.
Major Topics: Migrant labor; labor union support of integrated work force;
employment discrimination in military posts; role of organized labor in school
integration; amendments to New York state employment agency regulations;
mergers and monopolies.
0131 Sun Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1941–1943. 144pp.
Major Topics: NAACP protest development of all-Negro shipyard, Chester, Pa.;
employment opportunities for blacks in defense industries.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Orin Evans; Herman Laws; Warren Chew.
0275 Tampa, Florida, 1940–1943. 33pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, shipbuilding; labor union discrimination.
Principal Correspondents: Thurgood Marshall; Robert C. Weaver.
0308 Tennessee Valley Authority, 1941–1943. 82pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination, construction.
Principal Correspondents: Arthur D. Shores; Thurgood Marshall; Daisy Lampkin.
0390 Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 1942. 41pp.
Major Topics: Communist activity, New Haven, Conn. plant; employment
opportunities for blacks in firearms assembly.
Principal Correspondents: Thomas I. Boak; Walter White; Robert E. Treman.
0431 Wright Aeronautical Corp., 1940–1942. 49pp.
Major Topics: Employment opportunities for blacks in aeronautical industry;
employment discrimination, United Auto Workers Union local, Columbus, Ohio;
CIO reprimand of racist UAW organizer.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Robert C. Weaver; R. J. Thomas.
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0480 Alabama, 1949–1955. 35pp.
Major Topics: Friction between Bessemer, Ala. NAACP and Ala. CIO; Communist
activity; jurisdiction dispute between Steel Workers and Mine-Mill Workers
unions; Herbert Hill visit to Alabama.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Gloster Current; Ruby Hurly.
0515 Arkansas, 1955. 4pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination against NAACP leader in Ft. Smith, Ark.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; S. R. Rutledge.
0519 California, 1954–1955. 155pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, AFL musicians union, Los Angeles;
picketing; employment discrimination, U.S. military, Oakland; discrimination in
referrals of black teachers; state unemployment survey by NAACP branches;
integration in California maritime unions, Seafarers Union of the Pacific (SUP),
ILWU; NAACP policy of noncooperation with unions expelled from CIO for
Communist activity; ILWU (Marine Cooks)-SUP jurisdiction dispute; NAACP
relations with ILWU; integration of Campbell’s Soup plant; boycott of San
Francisco Yellow Cabs; violence and intimidation against black ship stewards;
labor union discrimination by IATSE against black film projectionist, Los Angeles;
labor union discrimination by Sailors Union of the Pacific; Pasadena survey of
black employment.
Principal Correspondents: Lester Bailey; Gloster Current; Franklin H. Williams;
Richard L. Fulton.
0674 Connecticut, 1953–1955. 59pp.
Major Topics: Survey of black employment in Connecticut; employment
discrimination, IBEW; Communist activity; NAACP dissuades black
strikebreakers in Norwalk hatters strike.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Ralph Lockwood; Willard S. Townsend.
0733 Delaware, 1953–1954. 38pp.
Major Topics: Violence and intimidation against black poultry works strikers; NAACP
dissuades black strikebreakers in Wilmington garment industry.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; John Justin.
0771 Florida, 1954. 40pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, Homestead Army Air Force Base, Dade
County; integration of Dade County bricklayers union; employment
discrimination, Jacksonville Naval Air Station.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Louise Guinyard.
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0811 Illinois, 1953–1955. 49pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, A & P Groceries, retail chains
(Woolworth, Sears, Montgomery Ward); integration of liquor salesmen’s union
local; employment discrimination, utilities companies, East St. Louis; United
Packing House Workers successful integration of Swift packing houses, Chicago.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
0860 Indiana, 1952–1955. 90pp.
Major Topics: Farm-Equipment Workers strike, Richmond; employment
discrimination (union seniority), auto industry; union discrimination, building
trades unions, Terre Haute.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Willard B. Ransome.
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0001 Iowa, 1955. 3pp.
Major Topic: NAACP branch president objects to union security agreement with
Communist-influenced Electrical Workers Union.
Principal Correspondent: Charles Toney.
0005 Kentucky, 1954. 13pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, U.S. military, Ft. Knox, Ky.; employment
opportunities for blacks in Louisville.
0018 Louisiana, 1953–1955. 43pp.
Major Topics: Sugar workers strike; Agricultural Workers Union; United
Packinghouse Workers of America.
Principal Correspondents: John Lewis; A. P. Tureaud; H. L. Mitchell; Russell Lasley.
0061 Maryland, 1951–1953. 7pp.
Major Topic: Strike of paper workers union at Baltimore Afro-American.
Principal Correspondents: James B. Carey; Harry Scott.
0068 Massachusetts, 1953. 11pp.
Major Topic: Employment opportunities for blacks in chemical industry.
0079 Medical Armed Services Procurement Station, New York City, 1954. 115pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination, promotions.
0196 Medical Armed Services Procurement Station, 1955. 103pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination, promotions.
0309 Michigan, 1952–1954. 63pp.
Major Topics: United Auto Workers model antidiscrimination clause; UAW-NAACP
efforts to integrate industrial plants in Port Huron; employment opportunities for
blacks in radio and electron plants.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
0372 Mississippi, 1955. 8pp.
Major Topic: Wage reductions for Delta cotton choppers.
Principal Correspondent: Dr. Maurice Mackel.
0388 Nebraska, 1952–1955. 17pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination, Mutual of Omaha insurance company.
Principal Correspondent: Milton Lewis.
0405 Labor-Nevada, 1954. 4pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination, plumbers union.
0409 New Jersey, 1953–1955. 30pp.
Major Topics: Employment agents’ perceptions of problems in placing black
applicants; employment discrimination, Ft. Monmouth, N.J., school teachers,
Lincoln Tunnel construction.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
0439 New Mexico, 1955. 8pp.
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0447 New York City, Lee Griffin v. Columbian Shoppes, 1953–1955. 26pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, restaurant; Retail Drug Employees
Union; SCAD case.
Principal Correspondent: Caroline K. Simon.
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0473 New York City Typographical Union #6, 1942. 9pp.
Major Topic: Typographical union efforts to have The Crisis printed at union shop
in NYC.
Principal Correspondents: Roy Wilkins; Ralph Wright.
0482 New York State, 1952–1954. 186pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, electricians union, White Plains, of school
teachers, NYC, in cafeteria, NYC; employment agency discrimination, NYC;
“non-enforceable” state FEP laws; SCAD case; NAACP policy of refusing to
support Communist unions; Hearn’s Department Store strike; Sperry Gyroscope
strike; Jewish Labor Committee; employment discrimination, brewing industry.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Walter White; Emmanuel Muravchick;
Edward Corsi; Roy Wilkins.
0666 New York State, January–June 1955. 120pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, SCAD case, breweries, Teamsters
Union; New York City civil service (probation officers); American Jewish
Committee; employment discrimination, Hod Carriers Union, NYC; racial
discrimination, employment agency newspaper ads.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Caroline K. Simon.
0786 New York State, July–December 1955. 129pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, plumbers union; National Broadcasting
Corp. search for black newscasters; employment opportunities for blacks in
radio and television; United Electrical Workers arbitration on behalf of black
electrical workers.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Henry Lee Moon; John Hammond;
Clifton Cameron.
0915 North Carolina, 1953–1955. 40pp.
Major Topics: Discrimination, unemployment insurance; employment discrimination,
civil service; NAACP support of union drive in textile mills; employment agencies
defrauding domestic workers; convict labor in cotton picking.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Ken Kramer.
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0001 Ohio, 1952–1955. 54pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination in roller bearing industry, Canton; Walter
White’s testimony before U.S. Senate about permanent FEPC; Harvey S.
Firestone support for United Negro College Fund.
Principal Correspondents: U.S. Sen. William Benton; Walter White.
0054 Oil Industries, 1954–1955. 53pp.
Major Topics: Oil Workers International Union policy against discrimination in
collective bargaining agreements; NAACP complaint to NLRB about employment
discrimination by Texas and Louisiana oil refineries; employment discrimination,
oil and chemical industry, El Dorado, Ark., chemical industry, Baton Rouge, La.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
0107 Oklahoma, 1941–1955. 45pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, aeronautics industry; union exclusion,
carpenters union, plumbers and steamfitters union.
Principal Correspondents: Amos T. Hall; Walter White; Frank Fenton; Thurgood
Marshall.
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0152 Pennsylvania, 1953–1955. 119pp.
Major Topics: Wrongful dismissal, dry cleaners; union discrimination, garment
workers; NAACP cooperation with International Union of Electrical Workers;
union discrimination, United Electrical Workers; racial tensions, UAW local;
Pittsburgh department store strike; Pittsburgh Fair Employment Practices
Commission.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Walter White; Harry Boyer; Charles C. Levy;
Rev. Charles Foggie; Marion Jordan.
0261 South Carolina, 1954–1955. 25pp.
Major Topic: Employment opportunities for blacks in shoe industry, Myrtle Beach.
0286 Tennessee, 1953–1955. 26pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, construction industry, brake shoe
industry; employment opportunities for blacks at Ford Motor Co.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Muriel Outlaw.
0312 Texas, 1953–1955. 29pp.
Major Topics: Segregated union locals; employment discrimination, steel industry;
union exclusion, carpenters union.
Principal Correspondents: U. Simpson Tate; Herbert Hill.
0341 Transit Systems, 1952–1954. 131pp.
Major Topics: United Railroad Workers of America; employment discrimination,
Pennsylvania Railroad, Erie Railroad; New Jersey Division Against
Discrimination; employment discrimination, Union Pacific Railroad., S.S. United
State Line, Pullman Co.; study of blacks in the U.S. railroad industry;
employment discrimination, Capitol Transit Co.; employment opportunities for
blacks, Long Island Railroad; railway labor unions exclusion of blacks.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Charles L. Hibbard; Clarence Mitchell.
0472 Transit Systems, 1955. 73pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, Northern-Pacific Railroad, Missouri-
Pacific Railroad, B and O Railroad, Greyhound Bus Co., New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroads; dining car employees strike.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; John Sandifer; Muriel Outlaw; Elmer Carter.
0545 U.S. Post Office, 1953–1955. 59pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination; NAACP protest of segregation in U.S.
postal facilities; threats to dismiss NAACP activists.
Principal Correspondents: J. L. LeFlore; Herbert Hill; Muriel Outlaw.
0604 U.S. Territories and Foreign, 1951–1955. 79pp.
Major Topics: Racial discrimination in foreign service; employment discrimination,
Alaska civil service, Hod Carriers Union, Alaska Plumbers Union, Alaska; federal
employment, Puerto Rico; British Transport and General Workers Union
proposed racial exclusion policies.
0683 Virginia, 1955. 20pp.
Major Topic: Retail Store Union strike, Newport News.
Principal Correspondent: Cleveland Robinson.
0703 Washington, 1954. 8pp.
Major Topic: Washington State Board Against Discrimination in Employment.
0711 West Virginia, 1955. 5pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, power utility companies; coal mining
companies and union.
Principal Correspondent: George H. Payne.
0716 Wisconsin, 1955. 3pp.
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0721 Detroit, Michigan, 1945. 8pp.
Major Topic: Postwar conversion layoffs.
Principal Correspondents: Gloster B. Current; Walter White.
Labor Department
0733 Wages and Hours Division, 1940–1941. 156pp.
Major Topics: Laws concerning state wage collections; National Council To Aid
Agricultural Workers; proposed amendments to Fair Labor Standards Act.
Principal Correspondents: William Hastie; Willard Townsend; Roy Wilkins; A. Philip
Randolph; John L. Yancey.
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0889 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1948–1949. 26pp.
Major Topics: ACWA contributions to NAACP; NAACP financial solicitations
of ACWA.
Principal Correspondents: Jacob Potofsky; Walter White; Herbert Hill.
0915 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1950–1955. 22pp.
Major Topics: NAACP financial solicitations of ACWA; ACWA contributions
to NAACP.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Jacob Potofsky; Channing Tobias.
0937 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, 1949–1953.
25pp.
Major Topics: Union contributions to NAACP; NAACP financial solicitations.
Principal Correspondents: Patrick Gorman; Herbert Hill.
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0001 American Federation of Labor, Building [Trades] Monopoly, 1941. 60pp.
Major Topics: Exclusion of blacks from building trades unions; Office of Production
Management; United Construction Workers Organizing Committee; labor
violence.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; John L. Lewis.
0061 American Federation of Labor, General, 1952–1955. 106pp.
Major Topics: Implications of the civil rights movement and the loyalty-security
program for the labor movement; George Meany advocacy of civil rights
legislation; proposed Fair Employment Practices amendment to Taft-Hartley Act;
NAACP solicitation of contribution from AFL; coordination with AFL on grassroots
implementation of Brown vs. Board of Education decision; AFL-CIO
merger; AFL Executive Council actions on Civil Rights issues; AFL-CIO
antidiscrimination policies.
Principal Correspondents: George Meany; Walter White.
0167 American Federation of Musicians, 1942–1944. 92pp.
Major Topics: 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.
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0259 C.I.O., General, 1943–1947. 193pp.
Major Topics: Wilmington, North Carolina organizing drive by CIO opposed by local
NAACP branch; CIO organization of black workers; Retail Store Employees
Union; CIO organizing in the south; CIO opposition to March On Washington by
National Committee for a Permanent FEPC; CIO challenge to pay differentials in
southern smelting industry; NAACP-CIO cooperation; NAACP anti-communism;
state FEP legislation; NAACP–United Auto Workers cooperation; federal bills to
weaken labor unions; tobacco workers strike, Winston-Salem, North Carolina;
United Public Workers of America support for permanent FEPC, allegations of
Communist influence; CIO-PAC.
Principal Correspondents: William Smith; Lee Pressman; George L. P. Weaver;
John Brophy; Gloster B. Current; Victor Reuther; James B. Carey; Virginia Durr;
William Oliver.
0452 C.I.O., General, 1948–1952. 247pp.
Major Topics: NAACP-CIO cooperation; President’s Committee on Civil Rights
report; CIO National Civil Rights Conference; NAACP–United Auto Workers
cooperation; CIO challenge to NLRB recognition of segregated locals; strategy of
soliciting contributions from CIO unions; CIO organizing among southern blacks;
expulsion of leftists from CIO; CIO organizing drive for tobacco workers, North
Carolina; appointment of A. Philip Randolph as vice-president of AFL-CIO;
National Urban League testimonial in honor of A. Philip Randolph and Willard
Townsend; address of Thurgood Marshall to 1955 AFL-CIO convention; NAACPCIO
cooperation in N.J. , N.Y., Minn., Los Angeles, Calif.; CIO-PAC; NAACP
solicitations of contributions from CIO locals; CIO amicus curiae briefs before
U.S. Supreme Court in suits challenging segregation in dining cars and schools;
resistance of Alabama steel workers local against CIO desegregation policies;
CIO relations with blacks in Birmingham, Ala.; CIO financial contributions to
NAACP; Thurgood Marshall address to 1952 CIO convention.
Principal Correspondents: George L.P. Weaver; Palmer Weber; Carl Holderman;
William Smith; Herbert Hill; Arthur Goldberg; Emory O. Jackson; Walter White;
Lester Bailey.
0699 C.I.O., General, 1953–1955. 122pp.
Major Topics: NAACP-CIO cooperation, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania;
NAACP membership drives among CIO unions; NAACP fundraising strategy
among CIO unions; CIO-PAC; federal civil rights legislation; NAACP-CIO
cooperation in implementing desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of
Education; Thurgood Marshall’s appreciation of the CIO.
Principal Correspondents: James B. Carey; Ruby Hurly; George L. P. Weaver;
Thurgood Marshall; Walter P. Reuther; William Oliver.
0821 C.I.O. National Urban League-NAACP Conference, 1947. 8pp.
Major Topic: Displacement of agricultural workers by mechanization.
Principal Correspondent: Madison Jones.
0829 C.I.O. Packinghouse Workers Sugar Strike, 1955. 53pp.
Major Topics: Strike of Louisiana sugar refineries; labor and living conditions among
Louisiana sugar workers; United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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0001 Distributive Workers Union, Local 65, 1953–1955. 36pp.
Major Topics: Communist 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.
0036 General, 1940–1941. 177pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, labor unions; NAACP compilations of
labor unions with official discrimination policies; statistics on Negro unionists; CIO
antidiscrimination resolution; NAACP-proposed antidiscrimination amendment to
National Labor Relations Act; NAACP protest to AFL convention about
discrimination of blacks by labor unions; federal Fair Employment Practices
legislation; United Auto Workers of America nondiscrimination policy;
employment opportunities for blacks in national defense industries; United
Transport Service Employees of America’s efforts to organize black railway
workers in Florida; NAACP opposition to federal anti-strike bill (Smith Bill);
unionization of steel workers.
Principal Correspondents: Frances Perkins; William Green; Abram Harris;
Lester Granger; Rayford Logan; R. J. Thomas; A. Philip Randolph; Roy Wilkins;
Philip Murray.
0213 General, 1942. 175pp.
Major Topics: CIO nondiscrimination policies; employment discrimination
(Plasterer’s and Cement Finisher’s union, Machinists Union, North Carolina;
UAW local, Toledo, Ohio, AFL unions, general); United Retail Store Employees
Union cooperation with NAACP; United Mine Workers of America financial
support for CIO; United Mine Workers of America rift with CIO; opposition to
unionization of blacks in southern states, Birmingham, Alabama region; United
Farm Equipment Workers nondiscrimination policies; attempts to unionize
domestic workers.
Principal Correspondents: James Carey; Samuel Wolchok; J. P. Bond; A. Philip
Randolph; George Meany; Julia Baxter.
0388 General, 1943. 158pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, General Motors Corp.; United Auto
Workers opposition to federal labor conscription bill (Austin-Wadsworth); NLRB
recognition of unions discriminating against blacks; racial tensions in Texas oil
refineries; NAACP protest to AFL about racial discrimination; legal analysis of
jim-crow auxiliary union locals; CIO Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination;
employment discrimination, IATSE; Reynolds Tobacco Co., union jurisdiction and
recognition dispute; employment discrimination, Oregon Boilermakers union;
Wilmington, North Carolina NAACP branch opposition to CIO organization of
shipbuilding company; New York State War Council antidiscrimination measures.
Principal Correspondents: Robert B. Watts; Roi Ottley; Prentice Thomas; Emil
Rieve; William Green; Roy Wilkins.
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Labor Unions cont.
0546 General, 1944. 133pp.
Major Topics: NAACP national office reprimand of Wilmington, North Carolina
branch for opposition to CIO; survey of employment discrimination by labor
unions; reports, conference on CIO Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination;
AFL conference on postwar conversion; United Auto Workers Union
nondiscrimination policies.
Principal Correspondents: Roy Wilkins; George L. P. Weaver; David Dubinsky.
0673 General, 1946–1949. 101pp.
Major Topics: American Labor Research Institute; NAACP endorsement of southern
organizing drives by CIO and AFL; integration of unions in New York and Boston
areas; Reynolds Tobacco Co.’s nonrecognition of Tobacco Workers union;
NAACP efforts to desegregate Machinists and Teamsters unions; discrimination
by AFL affiliates; International Woodworkers of America and southern blacks.
Principal Correspondents: Clarence Mitchell; William Green; Jay Lovestone;
Carl Winn.
0774 General, 1950–1955. 127pp.
Major Topics: American Labor Party; exclusion of United Electrical Workers union
from civil rights mobilization; technical vocation training for blacks; jurisdiction
dispute between ILWU and Seafarer’s International Union; employment
discrimination, Miami, Florida and Galveston, Texas building trades unions;
peonage violations in migrant labor camps in Pennsylvania; New Jersey
employment agency law applicability to migrant labor.
Principal Correspondents: Julius Emspack; A. Philip Randolph; Herbert Hill.
Reel 16
Group II, Series A, General Office File cont.
Group II, Box A-349 cont.
Labor Unions cont.
0001 International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, 1949–1954.
175pp.
Major Topics: Strike at Singer Sewing Machine Co.; United Electrical Workers
Union; IUE-CIO Civil Rights Committee; anti-communism of the NAACP; IUENAACP
cooperation; integration of New York and New Jersey IUE plants; IUE
organizing in Philadelphia; IUE support for school integration.
Principal Correspondents: Julius Emspack; Herbert Hill; Paul Jennings; Jack Flynn.
0175 International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers, 1955. 49pp.
Major Topics: IUE-CIO Civil Rights Committee, reports, conference; civil rights
legislation.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Al Hartnett.
0224 Laundry Workers Joint Board, 1949–1955. 45pp.
Major Topics: ACWA-NAACP cooperation; ACWA contributions to NAACP; NAACP
solicitations of financial contributions from Laundry Workers.
Principal Correspondents: Louis Simon; Herbert Hill.
0269 National Maritime Union, 1942–1954. 114pp.
Major Topics: Capt. Hugh Mulzac, first black merchant ship captain; NMU
antidiscrimination policies; factional dispute within NMU; allegations of racial bias
in NMU.
Principal Correspondents: Neal Hanley; Herbert Hill; Joseph Curran.
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0383 Theatrical Problems, 1941. 7pp.
Major Topics: 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.
0390 Union Seniority, 1944. 23pp.
Major Topics: Discrimination in postwar layoffs; discrimination in Industrial Union of
Marine and Shipbuilding Workers, Mine-Mill union, Alabama.
Principal Correspondents: Doxey Wilkerson; E. Jackson; Walter White; Leslie Perry.
0413 U.A.W.-C.I.O., Civil Rights Testimony, 1955. 38pp.
Major Topics: Federal Fair Employment Practices legislation; state and local FEP
laws; automation accelerates job discrimination; UAW nondiscrimination policies.
0451 U.A.W.-C.I.O., Contributions, 1948–1955. 88pp.
Major Topics: NAACP solicitation of financial contributions from UAW; UAW locals’
contributions to NAACP; UAW support for federal civil rights legislation.
Principal Correspondents: Walter P. Reuther; Herbert Hill; Charles Kerrigan;
William Oliver.
0537 U.A.W.-C.I.O., General, 1942–1950. 95pp.
Major Topics: Presidential politics; Communist activity in the UAW; assassination
attempt on Walter Reuther; black voting strength.
Principal Correspondents: R. J. Thomas; Roy Wilkins; Walter Reuther; Gloster
Current; Victor Reuther; Walter White; Paul Sifton.
Group II, Box A-350
Labor Unions cont.
0632 U.A.W.-C.I.O., General, 1949–1955. 168pp.
Major Topics: UAW-NAACP cooperation; Labor Great Books Program; civil rights
legislation; Communist exploitation of racial tensions within UAW; dissaffection of
black auto workers with UAW; employment discrimination in auto industry; UAW
protest of racist occupation designations in Dept. of Labor Dictionary of
Occupational Titles ; KKK activity in southern UAW locals; UAW protest
lynchings and vigilante murders in Mississippi.
Principal Correspondents: William Oliver; Herbert Hill; Gloster B. Current; Paul
Sifton; Brendan Sexton; Roy Reuther; Walter Reuther.
0801 U.A.W.-C.I.O., Philip Murray Statement on Discrimination, 1942. 30pp.
Major Topics: KKK activity in Detroit auto industries; UAW-NAACP cooperation to
defuse racist tendencies among auto workers; threatened race riots in Detroit.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Edward Levinson; Philip Murray;
James Carey.
0831 U.A.W.-C.I.O., Ohio, 1941. 12pp.
Major Topic: Employment discrimination in auto industries.
Principal Correspondent: Walter White.
0843 United Federal Workers of America, 1942–1946. 41pp.
Major Topics: Unionization of black government employees; UFWA conference on
racial discrimination.
Principal Correspondents: Eleanor Nelson; Walter White; Willard Townsend.
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Group II, Box A-351
Labor Unions cont.
0001 United Packinghouse Workers of America, General, 1951–1955. 127pp.
Major Topics: UPWA nondiscrimination policies; dismissal of UPWA southern
district officer for segregationist practices; factional disputes in UPWA; NAACP
controversy over siding with internal UPWA faction; strike of Louisiana sugar
workers; vigilante attack on UPWA organizers in Florida; UPWA cooperation with
NAACP membership drives.
Principal Correspondents: Russell Lasley; Roy Wilkins; Alfred Baker Lewis;
Thurgood Marshall; David S. Burgess; William Boyd; Walter White; Emil Mazey;
Richard Durham; Herbert Hill; Ralph Helstein.
0127 United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastics Workers of America, 1949–1954.
52pp.
Major Topics: URWA-NAACP cooperation; NAACP membership drive in New
Jersey and Massachusetts locals of URWA; federal civil rights legislation; URWA
locals contibutions to NAACP.
Principal Correspondents: O. H. Bosley; John Baldante; Herbert Hill.
0179 United Steelworkers of America, 1949–1955. 116pp.
Major Topics: 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.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; John Thornton; Walter White; Roy Wilkins;
Philip Murray; Frank Shane.
0295 United Transport Service Employees of America, 1942. 15pp.
Major Topics: 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.
Group II, Box A-389
Leagues
0310 National ‘Hold Your Job’ Committee, 1943–1944. 54pp.
Major Topic: Postwar conversion planning.
Principal Correspondent: Jeanetta Welch.
Group II, Box A-441
National Defense
0364 National Defense Day (January 26, 1941), 1940–1941. 182pp.
Major Topics: Protests against employment discrimination in defense industries;
NAACP cooperation with churches; federal civil rights legislation proposed;
NAACP branch rallies.
Principal Correspondents: E. Frederick Morrow; Madison Jones.
0546 Discrimination in Industry, New Jersey, 1940–1941. 55pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, Radio Corp. of America, industrial plants;
Bayonne Colored Citizens Association.
Principal Correspondents: Frank D. Reeves; Walter White.
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0601 Discrimination in Industry, New York, 1941. 146pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, U.S. Maritime Service, Ladies Garment
Workers Union, Fort Hamilton Army Camp, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Window
Trimmers Union, industrial plants; Anti-Job Discrimination League; integration of
ILGWU Dressmakers Union; discrimination, U.S. Employment Compensation
Commission; FEPC cases.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Robert T. Bess; Walter White; Thurgood
Marshall; Lawrence Cramer.
0747 Discrimination in Industry, Ohio, 1940–1941. 24pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, Wright Air Field, WPA projects.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Thurgood Marshall.
0771 General, 1940–1941. 267pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination; discrimination in armed forces; St. Louis
Missouri industrial area; FEPC bills; youth work, Montclair, New Jersey.
Principal Correspondent: Walter White.
Reel 18
Group II, Series A, General Office File cont.
Group II, Box A-441 cont.
National Defense cont.
0001 General, 1942. 189pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, defense plants, Machinists union; race
riots in army cantonments.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Frank D. Reeves.
Group II, Box A-442
National Defense cont.
0189 Migration, 1940–1942. 36pp.
Major Topics: Migration of blacks to northern war industry communities from
southern states; migration of blacks to Detroit; U.S. House Committee
Investigating National Defense Migration.
Principal Correspondents: U.S. Rep. John Tolan; Walter White.
0225 Conference on Participation of the Negro in National Defense, 1940–1941. 171pp.
Major Topics: Hampton University; occupations exempt from Selective Service;
education and training of defense workers; employment opportunities for blacks
in defense industries and in agriculture.
Principal Correspondents: Malcolm McLean; J. Henry Scattergood; Walter White.
Group II, Box A-443
National Labor Relations Board
0369 1943. 66pp.
Major Topics: Employment discrimination, Brotherhood of Boilermakers and
Shipbuilders Union; jurisdiction dispute between Boilermakers and Steel Workers
unions; San Francisco-Alemeda shipyards.
Principal Correspondents: Willard Townsend; Walter White; Bartley Crum.
Group II, Box A-457
New York State Commission against Discrimination
0435 1943–1946. 200pp.
Major Topics: Annual Reports; cooperation with NAACP.
Principal Correspondent: Vivian Shirley Nason.
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0635 1947–1953. 174pp.
Major Topics: Integration of labor unions; discrimination in nonpublic educational
institutions; reports; studies; employment discrimination, tunnel construction.
Group II, Box A-458
New York State Employment Service
0809 1941. 88pp.
Major Topics: Discrimination by New York State Employment Service; cooperation
between NAACP and New York State Employment Service.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Frieda S. Miller.
Group II, Box A-462
Office of Production Management
0897 1940–1941. 133pp.
Major Topics: Employment opportunities for blacks in national defense industries;
training programs for blacks.
Principal Correspondents: Sidney Hillman; Robert C. Weaver.
Reel 19
Group II, Series A, General Office File cont.
Group II, Box A-467
Pennsylvania
0001 Philadelphia Rapid Transit Strike, 1943. 54pp.
Major Topic: Strike by Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen in protest against hiring
blacks.
Principal Correspondents: Prentice Thomas; Carolyn Davenport.
Group II, Box A-468
Pennsylvania cont.
0054 Philadelphia Rapid Transit Strike, 1944–1945. 137pp.
Major Topics: FEPC order to upgrade positions of Negroes in Philadelphia
Transportation Co.; strike against hiring and upgrading jobs of blacks; race
relations in Philadelphia.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Thurgood Marshall; Roy Wilkins.
Peonage
0191 General, 1941–1955. 33pp.
Major Topics: Criminal surety system, Florida; Workers Defense League; bogus
peonage case; peonage, Warren County Georgia, Austin-Wadsworth federal
“work or fight” legislation; state “work or fight” laws; peonage, New York State,
Mississippi Delta, New Jersey quarries.
Principal Correspondents: Roy Wilkins; J. L. LeFlore.
Group II, Box A-469
Picketing
0224 National [Defense] Industries, 1941. 85pp.
Major Topic: NAACP program to picket national defense industries that discriminate
in employing blacks.
Principal Correspondent: Walter White.
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Sharecroppers
0309 1940–1943. 117pp.
Major Topics: Poll tax; United Canary Workers-CIO jurisdiction dispute with STFU;
National Sharecroppers Week; sharecropper conditions.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Gardner Jackson.
Group II, Box A-527
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
0426 1940–1941. 114pp.
Major Topics: Evictions of STFU members; jurisdiction dispute betwen STFU and
Canary Workers-CIO; National Sharecroppers Week; STFU conferences;
Eleanor Roosevelt.
Principal Correspondents: J. R. Butler; Pauli Murray; Gardner Jackson; Walter
White; Rev. William Spofford; Frank Crosswaith; H. L. Mitchell.
0540 1942. 81pp.
Major Topics: American Farm Bureau attacks on STFU; Crittenden Co., Arkansas
land frauds against blacks; STFU conference proceedings; application of federal
labor standards to farm workers.
Principal Correspondents: H. L. Mitchell; K. T. Sutton; Frank D. Reeves;
Morris Milgram.
0621 1943–1944. 86pp.
Major Topics: Exclusion of federal labor standards from agricultural extension
service; American Farm Bureau attacks on STFU; opposed curtailment of Farm
Security Administration; plantation conditions, Arkansas.
Principal Correspondents: H. L. Mitchell; Paul McNutt; Prentice Thomas.
Group II, Box A-528
Speakers
0707 Herbert Hill, Branches, 1952–1953. 126pp.
Major Topics: Cooperation with CIO labor unions; model antidiscrimination clause
for collective bargaining agreements.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Al Hartnett; Frank Shane; Arthur Chapin.
0831 Herbert Hill, Branches, 1954. 160pp.
Major Topics: Cooperation with CIO labor unions; impact of Brown v. Board of
Education decision on segregation of union locals.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; William H. Gray.
Reel 20
Group II, Series A, General Office File cont.
Group II, Box A-529
Speakers cont.
0001 Herbert Hill, General, 1949, 1952–1954. 125pp.
Major Topics: Communist activity in NAACP youth councils; cooperation with Hotel
and Restaurant Employees Union; cooperation with United Auto Workers in
Michigan.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; August Claessens; Arthur Chapin.
0125 Herbert Hill, General, 1955. 142pp.
Major Topic: Impact of Brown v. Board of Education decision on employment
discrimination.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Kivie Kaplan; Charles Flint Kellogg.
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0267 Herbert Hill, Texas State C.I.O. Convention, 1952–1953. 60pp.
Major Topic: Herbert Hill field trip through southern states.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Gloster Current; Ruby Hurley.
Group II, Box A-586
Staff
0327 Herbert Hill, March–July 1949. 80pp.
Major Topics: NAACP solicitation of financial contributions from unions; employment
discrimination, NYC building trades unions; NAACP cooperation with CIO;
NAACP opposition to racial hiring quota plan, Bridgeport, Connecticut; NAACP
membership campaigns in CIO locals in New York and New Jersey.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Charles Kerrigan; Louis Hollander; Madison
Jones; Michael Marinaccio; Thurgood Marshall.
0407 Herbert Hill, August–December 1949 and undated. 93pp.
Major Topics: NAACP opposition to racial hiring quota plan, Bridgeport, Connecticut;
NAACP solicitation of financial contributions from union in Chicago area.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Thurgood Marshall; Clarence Mitchell;
Ray O’Connor.
0500 Herbert Hill, 1950–1952. 58pp.
Major Topics: Financial contributions to NAACP from labor unions; labor union
support for Civil Rights Mobilization program; migrant labor; New York State
minimum wage legislation.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Gloster Current; Walter White.
0558 Herbert Hill, 1953. 94pp.
Major Topics: NAACP ten-year plan to secure full integration of blacks in American
labor unions; migrant labor.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Walter White; Theodore Spaulding.
0652 Herbert Hill, 1954. 109pp.
Major Topics: Herbert Hill speaking engagements; employment discrimination,
Florida building trades unions; digests of state and federal labor legislation.
Principal Correspondent: Herbert Hill.
0771 Herbert Hill, 1955. 170pp.
Major Topics: Impact of minimum wage increase of 1950 on low wage industries;
Herbert Hill network with state FEPCs; Herbert Hill labor survey of southern
states; Citizen’s Guide to Desegregation; networking with CIO unions.
Principal Correspondents: Herbert Hill; Kivie Kaplan; William Oliver.
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Group II, Box A-587
Staff cont.
0001 Herbert Hill, Monthly and Annual Reports, 1949–1955. 124pp.
Major Topics: Networking with CIO unions; networking with state FEPCs; racial
hiring quotas, Bridgeport, Conn. electrical workers; litigation against Knoxville,
Tenn. Carpenters Union, Douglas Aircraft Co, Tulsa, Okla.; federal Loyalty
Program; Pennsylvania migrant labor conference; NAACP solicitations of financial
contributions from unions; labor training institutes; opposition to amendments
to New York State child labor law; Delaware poultry workers strike; NAACP-CIO
relations in Birmingham-Bessemer area of Ala.; Steelworkers Civil Rights Committee;
Herbert Hill consultation in General Motors plants about black promotions;
New York State migrant labor; United Nations memorandum on racial discrimination
in American trade unions; NAACP discouragement of black strikebreakers
in Connecticut hatters strike and in Delaware garment workers strike; employment
opportunities for blacks in Newark, N.J. area; network with SCAD;
integration of Fisher Body Works, Mich.; employment discrimination, AFL building
trades unions, Fla.; employment agencies, domestic service, New York area;
employment discrimination, National Council of Churches; integration of Florida
bricklayers union; employment discrimination, Pittsburgh, Penn. department
stores, Pennsylvania State Employment Office, Williamsport branch, oil refineries
and chemical industries in Ark., Tex., and La.; integration of Indiana building
trades unions; peonage and domestics hired by New York area employment
agencies; integration of union movement in southern states.
Group II, Box A-665
War Manpower Commission
0124 1942. 125pp.
Major Topics: War Production Board and War Manpower Commission neglect of
racial discrimination; NAACP protest of Clark Foreman dismissal from Defense
Housing Authority.
Principal Correspondents: Roy Wilkins; Clark Foreman; Walter White;
Gloster B. Current.
0249 1943. 89pp.
Major Topics: NAACP protest of War Manpower Commission (WPC) refusal to hire
black staff members; WPC neglect of racial discrimination in defense industries.
Principal Correspondents: Walter White; Anna Rosenberg; Lawrence Cramer;
Robert C. Weaver.
Group II, Series J, General Miscellany
Group II, Box J-38
Digest of Letters Received and Sent
0338 Labor Department, 1947. 171pp.
Group II, Box J-40
Digest of Letters Received and Sent cont.
0507 Labor Department, 1948. 166pp.
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Digest of Letters Received and Sent cont.
0673 Washington Bureau, Labor Department, 1949. 143pp.
Group II, Box J-45
Digest of Letters Received and Sent cont.
0816 Herbert Hill, Rufus Smith, 1951. 2pp.
Group II, Box J-46
Digest of Letters Received and Sent cont.
0819 Herbert Hill, 1942. 15pp.
Group II, Box J-49
Digest of Letters Received and Sent cont.
0834 Herbert Hill, 1954. 30pp.

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SUBJECT INDEX
The following index covers the major topics found in Papers of the NAACP, Part 13. NAACP and Labor, 1940–
1955, Series A: Subject Files on Labor Conditions and Employment Discrimination, 1940–1955. The first arabic
number refers to the reel number at which the subject begins, and the second arabic number indicates the specific
frame number of the file folder in which the subject is covered. For example, a citation for 1: 0057 means that
the subject is covered in the file folder that begins on frame 0057 of Reel 1.
Aeronautics industry
employment opportunities for blacks 10: 0165,
0674; 11: 0431
integration of workforce—Wrights Aeronautics
4: 0616
NAACP solicitation of applicants for 10: 0165
race discrimination in
California—Consolidated Aircraft 2: 0624
California—general 2: 0548; 4: 0202
Connecticut—Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co.
2: 0553
New Jersey—Brewster Aircraft Co. 2: 0143;
3: 0643
New York—Bell Aircraft Co. 1: 0422
New York—Brewster Aircraft Corp. 2: 0143
New York—Fairchild Aviation 3: 0643
New York—general 10: 0202
New York—Gruman Corp. 3: 0643
Kansas—Swallow Aircraft Co. 1: 0057
Kansas—North American Aviation 3: 0207
Oklahoma—Douglas Aircraft 6: 0325;
13: 0107; 21: 0001
Seattle—Boeing Co. 2: 0049
AFL-CIO
convention resolutions on civil rights 5: 0568
executive council actions on civil rights 14: 0061
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
theft of sharecroppers’ checks by southern
landlords 1: 0307
Agricultural workers
displaced by mechanization 14: 0821
see also Migrant labor; Sharecroppers
Alabama
defense industries
employment discrimination
construction 1: 0001
metallurgical plants 1: 0001; 4: 0001
shipbuilding 1: 0001, 0358; 4: 0616;
16: 0390
employment of blacks in 1: 0001
FEPC complaints 1: 0001
shipyard strike and race riot—Mobile 1: 0001,
0358
harassment of NAACP official 1: 0001
iron industry—race-based wage differentials in
1: 0001
steel industry
jurisdiction dispute between mine-mill union
and steelworkers 11: 0480
relations between NAACP and CIO 14: 0452;
21: 0001
resistance of Steelworkers Union to
desegregation 14: 0452
trade licensing—discriminatory practices in
1: 0001
unionization of blacks opposed in 15: 0213
Alaska
employment discrimination 4: 0345; 13: 0604
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
(ACWA)
financial contributions to NAACP 13: 0889, 0915,
0937; 16: 0001
Laundry Workers Joint Board 16: 0001
NAACP solicitations of financial contributions
13: 0889, 0915, 0937; 16: 0001
American Civil Liberties Unions
policy on labor disputes 10: 0276
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
building trades unions discrimination against
blacks 14: 0001
conference on postwar conversion 15: 0546
coordination with NAACP on implementation of
Brown v. Board of Education 14: 0061
discrimination by affiliates of 15: 0673
NAACP protest of acquiescence in racial
discrimination 3: 0148; 15: 0036, 0213
NAACP solicitation of financial contribution
14: 0061
southern organizing drive 15: 0673
see also Building trades unions; Labor unions
American Federation of Musicians
employment discrimination by 14: 0167
see also Los Angeles, California
integration of 14: 0167
American Labor Party
15: 0774
see also Communist activity
American Labor Research Institute
15: 0673
Antilynching bills
garment workers support for 4: 0072
Arkansas
employment discrimination against NAACP
leader in Ft. Smith 11: 0515
employment discrimination in chemical industry in
El Dorado 13: 0064; 21: 0001
peonage 4: 0616
plantation conditions 19: 0540, 0621
Arizona
employment discrimination 4: 0345
Association of Catholic Trade Unionists
5: 0568
Atlanta, Georgia
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Atomic Energy Commission
employment discrimination 1: 0410
Auto industry
employment discrimination
Ford Motor Co. 3: 0750; 7: 0036
general 16: 0632
General Motors 15: 0388
Ohio 16: 0831
Studebaker-Packard Corp. 6: 0325
United Auto Workers locals 7: 0036
employment opportunities for blacks in Ford
Motor Co. 13: 0286
FEPC complaints 3: 0750
integration of Fisher Body Works 21: 0001
Ku Klux Klan activity in 16: 0801
see also United Auto Workers, CIO
promotion policies affecting blacks 21: 0001
strikes in Ford Motor Co. 3: 0764, 0876; 5: 0814
strikes in General Motors 6: 0001
wage data for 6: 0001
see also United Auto Workers, CIO
Auxiliary union locals (jim crow locals)
legal analysis of 15: 0388
see also Building trades unions; Labor unions;
National Labor Relations Board; Red Caps
Bahamas, British West Indies
race riot 2: 0252
Baltimore, Maryland
employment discrimination 5: 0568
integration in labor force 4: 0547
paper workers union strike at Baltimore Afro-
American 12: 0061
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Biddle, Francis
recommends federal interdiction of black
migration to northern war industry areas
9: 0394
Birmingham, Alabama
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Boilermakers, International Brotherhood of
employment discrimination 4: 0616;
15: 0388; 18: 0369
jurisdiction dispute with steelworkers 18: 0369
British Transport and General Workers Union
proposes racial exclusion policies for Britain
13: 0604
Broadcasting industry
employment opportunities for blacks in New York
12: 0786
NAACP assistance to black job applicants in
10: 0123
National Broadcasting Co. integration efforts by
musicians union 14: 0167
National Broadcasting Co. search for black
broadcasters 12: 0786
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
AFL cooperation with NAACP to implement
14: 0061, 0699
CIO amicus curiae briefs in 14: 0452
reactions to decision among labor unions
5: 0434; 19: 0831; 20: 0125
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Building trades unions
integration of 3: 0667; 21: 0001
racial discrimination by
Florida 3: 0667; 4: 0202; 15: 0774; 20: 0652;
21: 0001
Georgia 4: 0202
Indiana 11: 0860
New York 12: 0666; 20: 0327
Oklahoma 13: 0107
Tennessee 21: 0001
Texas 13: 0312; 15: 0744
see also Construction industry
California
employment discrimination
civil service 4: 0307; 11: 0519
general 4: 0547
shipbuilding 4: 0616; 18: 0369
see also under Aeronautics industry
employment opportunities for blacks 4: 0345
integration of Hod Carriers union 5: 0568
integration of Navy yards 9: 0767
maritime industry—jurisdiction dispute in
11: 0519
maritime industry—violence and intimidation
against black stewards in 11: 0519
San Francisco Bay shipbuilders jurisdiction
dispute 18: 0369
survey of racial policies of defense contractors in
3: 0601
surveys of black employment patterns 11: 0519
see also Los Angeles, California; Migrant
laborers; Shipyard workers and ship building
Charleston, South Carolina
navy yard integrated 9: 0767
tobacco workers strike 5: 0814
Charleston, West Virginia
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Chester, Pennsylvania
employment opportunities for blacks in defense
industries 11: 0131
NAACP protest plans for all-black shipyard
11: 0131
Chicago, Illinois
NAACP fundraising among unions in 20: 0407
Child labor
see Migrant laborers
Cigar making
employment opportunities for blacks in
Philadelphia 1: 0414
Cincinnati, Ohio
NAACP protest of IUE seniority rules 6: 0325
Civil Rights Mobilization
exclusion of United Electrical Workers Union from
15: 0774
unions’ support for 20: 0500
United Steelworkers support for 17: 0179
Cleveland, Ohio
employment opportunities for blacks in
foundries 9: 0499, 0654
Colorado
employment discrimination in 4: 0345
College placement offices
discriminatory placement practices by 5: 0434
Columbus, Ohio
labor union discrimination in aeronautics industry
11: 0431
Committee on Participation of Negroes in the
National Defense Program
3: 0148
Commonwealth College
4: 0072
Communist activity
Alabama 11: 0480
American Labor Party 4: 0202
Connecticut firearms manufacture 11: 0390
Distributive Workers union 15: 0001
Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union 2: 0001
NAACP policies 5: 0568; 14: 0259; 20: 0001
Company unions
NAACP opposition to 9: 0499
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
antidiscrimination resolutions 15: 0036
Civil Rights Conference 14: 0452
Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination
15: 0388, 0546
cooperation with NAACP
California 14: 0452
general 2: 0001; 4: 0547; 5: 0001, 0568;
21: 0001
Michigan 14: 0699
Minnesota 14: 0452
New Jersey 14: 0452, 0699
New York 14: 0452
Pennsylvania 14: 0699
Texas 5: 0434
expulsion of leftists from 14: 0452
financial support from United Mine Workers union
15: 0213
interest in black electoral strength 4: 0616
NAACP encouragement of membership in
4: 0072
NAACP membership drives in local unions
2: 0001; 4: 0875; 14: 0699; 20: 0327
NAACP solicitation of financial contributions from
20: 0407
36
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) cont.
National Labor Relations Board recognition of
union segregation challenged by 14: 0452
nondiscrimination policies 15: 0213
opposition to March on Washington 14: 0259
Political Action Committee 14: 0259, 0452, 0699
racial discrimination of affiliates 17: 0295
southern organizing drive 14: 0259, 0452;
15: 0673
support for permanent FEPC 14: 0259
support for United Negro College Fund 5: 0814
Connecticut
Communist activity 11: 0390, 0674
Hatters union strike 11: 0674
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers—
discrimination by 11: 0674
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers—
integration of 5: 0262
NAACP deterrence of black strikebreaking in
5: 0262
race-based hiring quotas proposed in 21: 0001
survey of black employment 11: 0674
see also Firearms industry
Construction industry
apprentice training programs in 9: 0426
integration of, in Dade Co., Florida 11: 0771
integration of, in Ft. Riley, Kansas 1: 0057
race discrimination
in Florida 11: 0771
in Georgia 3: 0148
in Jamaica, B.W.I. 2: 0252
in New York 5: 0568
in Tennessee Valley Authority 11: 0308
see also Building trades unions
Dallas, Texas
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Defense industries
employment opportunities for blacks in 18: 0897
lists of defense contractors by state and city
6: 0234, 0325
see also Federal Office of Government Contract
Compliance; NAACP, encouragement of
blacks
Delaware
black strike breakers and garment workers strike
11: 0733
violence and intimidation against striking black
poultry workers 11: 0733
Detroit, Michigan
black migration to 18: 0189
see also Biddle, Francis
CIO-NAACP conference on race and
employment 3: 0876
Communist activity 3: 0876
employment discrimination in auto industry
3: 0001
employment discrimination in Detroit civil service
3: 0001
employment opportunities in auto industry
3: 0001
federal interdiction of black migration to,
recommended by U.S. Attorney General
9: 0394
FEPC complaints 3: 0001
Ku Klux Klan 3: 0876; 16: 0801
NAACP branch labor and industry committee
3: 0001
postwar conversion layoffs 13: 0721
race riot 9: 0394
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Distributive Workers Union, CIO
Communist activity 15: 0001
organizing in southern states 15: 0001
Domestic service employment
NYC area 5: 0434; 10: 0202; 21: 0001
steering of blacks to 1: 0077
unionization efforts among 15: 0213
Domingo, W. A.
arrest of 2: 0252
Electrical Workers, International Brotherhood of
discrimination by, New York 12: 0482
integration of Connecticut local 5: 0262
Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers,
International Union of (IUE)
Civil Rights Committee 16: 0001, 0175
civil rights legislation supported by 16: 0001
cooperation with NAACP 16: 0001
integration of plants in New York, New Jersey,
and Philadelphia 16: 0001
NAACP protest of impact of seniority rules in
6: 0325
Employment agencies
New Jersey 12: 0409
New York 5: 0434; 11: 0055; 12: 0482; 21: 0001
North Carolina 12: 0915
Fair Employment Practices Committee (federal)
complaints filed with 10: 0683
established 15: 0036
influence of War Manpower Commission on
4: 0547
NAACP testimony for permanent FEPC 13: 0001
Fair Employment Practices Committees (states)
21: 0001
37
Federal Office of Government Contract
Compliance
efforts to enforce nondiscrimination among
federal contractors 5: 0568
exemption of farm loans protested 6: 0325
list of defense contractors 6: 0325
see also United States Committee on
Government Contract Compliance
Firearms industry
employment discrimination in—Colt Firearms,
Hartford, Conn. 2: 0553
employment opportunities for blacks in—
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., Conn.
11: 0390
Firestone, Harvey S.
support of United Negro College Fund 13: 0001
Fisk University
course in labor relations 4: 0202
Florida
employment discrimination in building trades
unions 3: 0667; 4: 0202; 15: 0774; 20: 0652
employment discrimination in construction of
military installations 4: 0307; 11: 0771
integration of building trades unions 3: 0667;
11: 0771
Foreman, Clark
NAACP protest of dismissal from Defense
Housing Authority 21: 0124
Ft. Worth, Texas
defense contractors racial policies 3: 0601
Garment industry
southern states 11: 0037
Garment Workers Unions
employment discrimination in NYC 17: 0601
employment discrimination in Pennsylvania
13: 0152
integration of 17: 0601
support for NAACP 5: 0110, 0262, 0434
Georgia
employment discrimination in building trades
unions 4: 0202
employment discrimination in construction of
military installations 4: 0307
Hampton Institute
Conference on Participation of the Negro in
National Defense 18: 0225
Harlem, New York
anti-Semitism in 4: 0345
employment discrimination in 4: 0345
see also Negro Labor Committee
Hill, Herbert
Citizen’s Guide to Desegregation 20: 0771
condemns Governor Harriman for honoring South
Carolina extradition request 5: 0568
consultation with—promotion policies for blacks
in General Motors plants 21: 0001
displacement of black agricultural workers by
mechanization in south 8: 0754
International Association of Machinists
convention addressed by 5: 0568
investigation of migrant labor camps in
Pennsylvania 7: 0638; 8: 0754
solicitation of financial contributions from labor
unions 20: 0327, 0407, 0500,
speaking engagements 20: 0001, 0125, 0267
Ten-Year Plan to Secure Integration of American
Labor Unions 20: 0558
Transport Workers Union of America convention
addresses by 5: 0434
trip through southern states 20: 0267
work with NAACP branches 19: 0707, 0831
Hod Carriers Union
integration of 5: 0568
Houston, Texas
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union
NAACP membership drives in 5: 0434
support for NAACP 5: 0110; 20: 0001
Illinois
Commission on the Condition of the Urban
Colored Population 4: 0202
employment discrimination in retail chains
11: 0811
employment discrimination in utilities companies
11: 0811
integration in packinghouse industry 11: 0811
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Immigration
see Mexican immigration to U.S.
Indiana
employment discrimination in—auto workers
seniority rules 11: 0860
employment discrimination in—building trades
unions 11: 0860
farm equipment workers strike 11: 0860
integration of building trades unions in 21: 0001
Industrial Insurance Agents Union (UOPWA-CIO)
4: 0345
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees (IATSE)
admission of blacks to, NYC 5: 0568
employment discrimination
general 15: 0388; 16: 0383
NYC 4: 0001, 0202; 16: 0383
Los Angeles 11: 0519
38
International Federation of Free Trade Unions
NAACP cooperation with 5: 0568
International Labor Defense
4: 0001
International Longshoreman’s Association
race discrimination by 7: 0001
Jamaica, British West Indies
arrest of Jamaican nationalist W. A. Domingo
2: 0252
employment discrimination—race-based wage
differentials 2: 0252
employment discrimination—U.S. military
contractors 2: 0252
exclusion of non-Jamacian workers 2: 0252
Janitorial work
steering blacks toward 3: 0207
Jim crow
see Auxiliary union locals
Kansas City, Missouri
black unemployment 3: 0320
discrimination in job training programs 3: 0320
employment discrimination in painters union
3: 0320
employment discrimination in State Employment
Service 3: 0320
survey of racial practices of defense contractors
3: 0601
Kentucky
employment discrimination 4: 0616; 12: 0005
employment opportunities in Louisville 12: 0005
Ku Klux Klan
10: 0363
Labor legislation
digest of state and federal labor legislation (1954)
20: 0652
federal
anti-strike (Smith) bill 15: 0036
Fair Employment Practices bills 3: 0148;
9: 0426; 16: 0413; 17: 0364, 0771
Fair Labor Standards Act—proposed
amendments to 13: 0733
general 1: 0524, 0728; 5: 0110
labor conscription bill (Austin-Wadsworth)
1: 0524; 3: 0148; 15: 0388; 19: 0191
Labor Department extensions service bill
4: 0875
maritime labor bill (Magnusson-Lesinski)
1: 0728
minimum wage—impact on low-wage
industries 20: 0771
National Labor Relations Act—proposed
antidiscrimination amendments 1: 0524;
4: 0875; 15: 0036
railway labor bill—proposed antidiscrimination
amendments to 1: 0728
federal cont.
Taft-Hartley act opposed by NAACP 1: 0524;
6: 0625, 0927
unemployment legislation 1: 0728
states
general 1: 0524, 0728; 9: 0426; 16: 0413
Hill, Herbert—work with state FEPCs 20: 0771
Missouri FEPC law 1: 0728
New York
child labor legislation 7: 0145, 0207;
21: 0001
employment agency regulations 11: 0055
minimum wage legislation 1: 0728; 5: 0001;
20: 0500
prohibition of racial discrimination by labor
unions 10: 0339
Labor unions
integration of—New York and Boston areas
15: 0673
race discrimination
aeronautics industry 2:0049; 11: 0431
general 4: 0072; 9: 0426; 15: 0036
NYC transit workers 9: 0830
NYC Window Trimmers union 10: 0276
Pennsylvania garment workers 13: 0152
survey of 15: 0546
Tampa, Florida 4: 0202; 11: 0275
see also American Federation of Labor;
Building trades unions; International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees;
Railroad Brotherhoods; United Auto
Workers
support for integration in labor force 11: 0055
see also Congress of Industrial Organizations
support for integration of public schools 11: 0055
Los Angeles, California
employment discrimination in local musicians
union 11: 0519; 14: 0167
integration of local musicians union 5: 0110
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
union discrimination against black film
projectionists by IATSE 11: 0519
Louisiana
employment discrimination in oil and chemical
industry 13: 0054; 21: 0001
sugar workers strike 12: 0018; 14: 0829;
17: 0001
Loyalty-Security Program (federal)
general 21: 0001
National Negro Labor Council designated
“subversive organization” 5: 0110, 0262
protested by NAACP 4: 0875; 9: 0426
39
38
International Federation of Free Trade Unions
NAACP cooperation with 5: 0568
International Labor Defense
4: 0001
International Longshoreman’s Association
race discrimination by 7: 0001
Jamaica, British West Indies
arrest of Jamaican nationalist W. A. Domingo
2: 0252
employment discrimination in—race-based wage
differentials 2: 0252
employment discrimination in—U.S. military
contractors 2: 0252
exclusion of non-Jamaican workers 2: 0252
Janitorial work
steering blacks toward 3: 0207
Jim crow
see Auxiliary union locals
Kansas City, Missouri
black unemployment 3: 0320
discrimination in job training programs 3: 0320
employment discrimination in painters union
3: 0320
employment discrimination in State Employment
Service 3: 0320
survey of racial practices of defense contractors
3: 0601
Kentucky
employment discrimination in 4: 0616; 12: 0005
employment opportunities in Louisville 12: 0005
Ku Klux Klan
10: 0363
Labor legislation
digest of state and federal labor legislation (1954)
20: 0652
federal
anti-strike (Smith) bill 15: 0036
Fair Employment Practices bills 3: 0148;
9: 0426; 16: 0413; 17: 0364, 0771
Fair Labor Standards Act—proposed
amendments to 13: 0733
general 1: 0524, 0728; 5: 0110
labor conscription bill (Austin-Wadsworth)
1: 0524; 3: 0148; 15: 0388; 19: 0191
Labor Department extensions service bill
4: 0875
maritime labor bill (Magnusson-Lesinski)
1: 0728
minimum wage—impact on low-wage
industries 20: 0771
National Labor Relations Act—proposed
antidiscrimination amendments to 1: 0524;
4: 0875; 15: 0036
railway labor bill—proposed antidiscrimination
amendments to 1: 0728
federal cont.
Taft-Hartley act opposed by NAACP 1: 0524;
6: 0625, 0927
unemployment legislation 1: 0728
states
general 1: 0524, 0728; 9: 0426; 16: 0413
Hill, Herbert, work with state FEPCs 20: 0771
Missouri FEPC law 1: 0728
New York
child labor legislation 7: 0145, 0207;
21: 0001
employment agency regulations 11: 0055
minimum wage legislation 1: 0728; 5: 0001;
20: 0500
prohibition of racial discrimination by labor
unions 10: 0339
Labor unions
integration of—New York and Boston areas
15: 0673
race discrimination
aeronautics industry 2:0049; 11: 0431
general 4: 0072; 9: 0426; 15: 0036
NYC transit workers 9: 0830
NYC Window Trimmers union 10: 0276
Pennsylvania garment workers 13: 0152
survey of 15: 0546
Tampa, Florida 4: 0202; 11: 0275
see also American Federation of Labor;
Building trades unions; International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees;
Railroad Brotherhoods; United Auto
Workers
support for integration in labor force 11: 0055
see also Congress of Industrial Organizations
support for integration of public schools 11: 0055
Los Angeles, California
employment discrimination in local musicians
union 11: 0519; 14: 0167
integration of local musicians union 5: 0110
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
union discrimination against black film
projectionists by IATSE 11: 0519
Louisiana
employment discrimination in oil and chemical
industry 13: 0054; 21: 0001
sugar workers strike 12: 0018; 14: 0829;
17: 0001
Loyalty-Security Program (federal)
general 21: 0001
National Negro Labor Council designated
“subversive organization” 5: 0110, 0262
protested by NAACP 4: 0875; 9: 0426
39
Machinists, International Association of
cooperation with NAACP 5: 9262
employment discrimination 15: 0213; 18: 0001
Hill, Herbert—convention address 5: 0568
NAACP efforts to desegregate 15: 0673
Maritime industry
employment discrimination 10: 0202, 0541
integration of—New York port 4: 0345
West Coast jurisdiction disputes in—International
Longshoremen and Seafarers’ International
Union 15: 0774
West Coast jurisdiction disputes in—Sailors
Union of the Pacific and Marine Cooks Union
11: 0519
see also National Maritime Union
Marshall, Thurgood
appreciation of CIO 14: 0699
Maryland
employment discrimination in shipbuilding
1: 0492
Massachusetts
employment opportunities for blacks in chemical
industry 12: 0068
Meany, George
advocates civil rights progam for American
Federation of Labor 14: 0061
speech in support of NAACP legal redress
campaign 5: 0568
Mexican immigration to U.S.
1: 0728
see also Migrant laborers
Michigan
employment opportunities for blacks in 12: 0309;
21: 0001
see also Detroit, Michigan
Migrant laborers
California camps 8: 0674
child labor among 7: 0145, 0207, 0313, 0826;
8:0001, 0350, 0557, 0674, 0754; 9: 0001
employment agents and 15: 0774
exemptions from proposed Federal Child Labor
Act 7: 0145, 0826
general conditions 4: 0072; 7: 0145, 0826;
8: 0203; 9: 0426; 11: 0055; 20: 0500, 0558
labor agent’s licensing and 7: 0313
legislation regarding
federal 7: 0558, 0642
state—New York 7: 0145, 0207, 0642, 0826;
8: 0001, 0321
state—Pennsylvania 7: 0642; 8: 0350, 0421,
0557, 0674, 0754
minimum wages for 7: 0313
NAACP investigations of 7: 0638; 8: 0557, 0674,
0754; 9: 0050
NAACP-United Steelworkers of America plan
8: 0754
New Jersey camps 8: 0674
New Mexico camps 8: 0674
New York camps 7: 0700; 8: 0674; 21: 0001
Oregon camps 8: 0674
Pennsylvania camps 7: 0638; 8: 0350, 0421,
0754; 9: 0001, 0126; 15: 0077; 21: 0014
President’s Commission on 7: 0313
sources of 8: 0203
Texas camps 8: 0674
Washington state 8: 0674
Wisconsin camps 8: 0674
Migration
studies of southern blacks migrating to northern
defense areas 18: 0189
see also Biddle, Francis
Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union
11: 0480
Mississippi
cotton choppers wage reductions 12: 0372
sharecroppers’ AAA checks stolen by landlords
1: 0307
Missouri
Fair Employment Practices law 1: 0728
Musicians union
integration of 5: 0110
Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co.
employment discrimination 12: 0388
Nashville, Tennessee
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
anti-Communist policies 5: 0568; 11: 0519;
12: 0001, 0482; 14: 0259; 15: 0001; 16: 0001
branches
dispute with national office over union security
agreements and Taft-Hartley Act 6: 0625
labor and industry committees of—Detroit
3: 0001
labor and industry committees of—model
constitutions for 5: 0568
reprimanded for opposition to CIO 15: 0546
Committee on Migrant Agricultural Labor 7: 0826;
8: 0754
controversy over joining internal dispute within
Packinghouse workers union 17: 0001
cooperation with CIO 5: 0001, 0434; 9: 0426;
11: 0519; 14: 0259; 19: 0707, 0831; 20: 0032,
0771; 21: 0001
see also Congress of Industrial
Organizations
40
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) cont.
cooperation with non-CIO unions
general 9: 0426
Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union 5: 0110,
0434
IAM 5: 0262
ILGWU 5: 0262
defense of closed-shop union security
agreements 4: 0757; 6: 0625; 12: 0001
defense of trade union tactics and strikes
4: 0757; 9: 0426
deterrence of black strikebreakers
California 5: 0568
Connecticut 5: 0262; 11: 0674; 21: 0001
Delaware 11: 0733; 21: 0001
encouragement of blacks to apply for
employment in defense industries 4: 0202
labor department objectives 6: 0558
model antidiscrimination clause for collective
bargaining agreements 19: 0707
opposition to bill prohibiting race discrimination in
labor unions in New York 10: 0339
opposition to Taft-Hartley federal labor legislation
1: 0524; 4: 0757; 6: 0625, 0927
picketing of defense industries that discriminate
2: 0817; 19: 0224
printing The Crisis at nonunion shop 12: 0473
racial hiring quotas opposed by 20: 0327, 0407;
21: 0001
solicitation of financial contributions from labor
unions 5: 0262, 0568; 14: 0452, 0699;
21: 0001
study of NAACP by Charles Flint Kellogg 5: 0568
Ten-Year Plan to Secure Full Integration of
American Labor Unions 20: 0588
union locals contributions to NAACP 4: 0875;
5: 0001
unions with discriminatory policies 15: 0036
see also Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America; Congress of Industrial
Organizations; Hotel and Restaurant
Employees Union; United Auto Workers,
CIO; United Steelworkers of America
youth work 2: 0001
National Child Labor Committee
7: 0145, 0207, 0313
National Council of Churches
employment discrimination by 9: 0740; 21: 0001
National Defense Day
17: 0364
National Hold-Your-Job Week
17: 0310
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
acquiesence in union segregation 5: 0814;
9: 0426; 15: 0388
National Maritime Union
antidiscrimination policies 16: 0269
first black merchant ship captain 16: 0269
National Negro Congress
3: 0876
National Negro Labor Council
designated “subversive organization” by U.S.
Attorney General 5: 0110, 0262
Negro Labor Committee
4: 0072, 0345
New Jersey
employment agency perception of difficulty in
placing blacks 12: 0409
employment discrimination
defense industries 17: 0546
Ft. Monmouth 12: 0409
general industrial 4: 0345, 0547
Radio Corporation of America 17: 0546
school teachers 12: 0409
employment opportunities for blacks 4: 0345;
21: 0001
state employment service—discriminatory hiring
policies of 1: 0077
New York
Brooklyn waterfront violence 7: 0001
CIO-NAACP cooperation 5: 0001
employment discrimination
aeronautics industry
see under Aeronautics industry
brewing industry 12: 0482, 0666
cafeteria work 12: 0482
civil service 12: 0666
defense industries 4: 0202
employment agencies 12: 0482, 0666
Garment Workers union 17: 0601
general 4: 0072; 9: 0905
Hod Carriers union 12: 0666
investigated by UOPWA-CIO 10: 0001
Navy yards 10: 0001; 17: 0601
Plumbers union 12: 0666
restaurants 12: 0447
State Employment Service 18: 0809
Teamsters Union 12: 0666
theatrical stage employees—American Guild
of Variety Artists 4: 0001
see also International Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees
tunnel construction union 5: 0568; 10: 0001;
12: 0409
U.S. Maritime Service 17: 0601
41
employment opportunities for blacks
defense industries 10: 0001
general 4: 0345
machinists 1: 0115
Medical Armed Services Procurement Section
12: 0079, 1096
shipbuilding 1: 0115
steel industry 1: 0115
Fair Employment Practices law 1: 0115; 10: 0001
Fair Employment Practices law—statistics on
complaints under 1: 0115
foster homes program 2: 0453
integration in labor force—general 4: 0547
integration in labor force—Theatrical Stage
Employees Union 5: 0568
Metropolitan Council on Fair Employment
Practices 10: 0001
State Commission against Discrimination
1: 0115; 12: 0447, 0482, 0666; 18: 0435,
0635; 21: 0001
State War Council—antidiscrimination measures
by 15: 0388
strikes in—department store employees 12: 0482
strikes in—Dry Cleaners union 6: 0513
survey of racial composition of industrial
workforce in NYC area by Women’s City Club
of New York 3: 0454
transit system integrated 9: 0830
Transport Workers Union of America—Herbert
Hill address to convention of 5: 0434
see also Labor legislation, New York; Migrant
laborers
Nigeria, Trades Union Congress of
4: 0757
Norfolk, Virginia
integration of navy yard 9: 0767
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Norris, Willie (Scottsboro case)
NAACP employment assistance to 11: 0001
North Carolina
convict labor 12: 0915
employment agency abuses of domestics
12: 0915
ship building 15: 0388, 0546
unionization of black tobacco workers 4: 0616;
15: 0673
unionization of textile workers 12: 0915
Ohio
employment discrimination in—construction
industry 17: 0747
employment discrimination, roller bearing
industry, Canton 13: 0001
see also Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio;
Firestone, Harvey
Oil and chemical industry
employment discrimination in 13: 0054; 21: 0001
racial tensions in 15: 0388
Oil and Chemical Workers Union
integration of 5: 0110
nondiscrimination policy in union contracts
13: 0054
Oregon
survey of racial practices of defense contractors
3: 0601
Pennsylvania
employment discrimination
garment workers 13: 0152
electrical workers 13: 0152
state employment office 21: 0001
racial tensions, auto workers 13: 0152
see also Migrant laborers, Pennsylvania
Peonage
Arkansas 4: 0616
Florida 19: 0191
Georgia 19: 0191
Mississippi 19: 0191
New Jersey 19: 0191
New York 19: 0191; 21: 0001
Pennsylvania 8: 0421, 0754; 15: 0774
state “work-or-fight” laws 19: 0191
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
cigar making industry—employment opportunities
for blacks 1: 0414
Distributive Workers Union supported by NAACP
15: 0001
electrical and radio workers integration 10: 0459
navy yard—employment discrimination 9: 0767
survey of black employment in Philadelphia area
3: 0449
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
transit workers strike in protest of hiring blacks
19: 0001, 0054
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
employment discrimination in department stores
21: 0001
employment discrimination in wood products
industry 4: 0001
Postwar reconversion layoffs
2: 0735; 10: 0426; 15: 0546; 17: 0310
President’s Committee on Government
Employment Policy
5: 0434
Puerto Rico
cooperation with New York labor unions in—
guest workers 7: 0700
employment discrimination in federal service
13: 0604
42
Railroad Brotherhoods
exclusion of blacks from 4: 0072; 9: 0426, 0830;
10: 0683, 0869; 13: 0341; 19: 0001
Railroad Dining Service employees
discriminatory wage, work rules, and hours on
New York Central Railroad 2: 0921
Pennsylvania Railroad 4: 0616
Railroad industry
employment discrimination
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 13: 0472
Erie Railroad 13: 0341
Missouri Pacific Railroad 13: 0472
New York Central Railroad 7: 0036
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad
13: 0472
Northern Pacific Railroad 13: 0472
Pennsylvania Railroad 13: 0341
Pullman Company 13: 0341
Union Pacific Railroad 13: 0341
integration
District of Columbia terminal 5: 0110
Illinois Central Railroad 5: 0001
Long Island Railroad 13: 0341
study of black employment in 13: 0341
Railroad strike
nondiscrimination clause proposed in strike
settlement agreement 4: 0757
opposition to President Truman threat to
conscript strikers 4: 0757
Red Caps
back pay claims 10: 0763
National Mediation Board cases 10: 0763, 0869
protest wage computation of 10: 0763, 0869
union exclusion case of—Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks 10: 0869
United Transport Service Employees union
10: 0763, 0869
Retail industry
employment discrimination
Chicago, Illinois 2: 0851; 11: 0811
Connecticut 2: 0851
Illinois 11: 0811
New York 2: 0851
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 21: 0001
see also Strikes
Retail and Wholesale Employees Union, CIO
2: 0851
Reuther, Walter P.
assassination attempt on 16: 0537
Urban League snub of 5: 0568
Richmond, Virginia
survey of racial practices of defense contractors
3: 0601
St. Louis, Missouri
employment discrimination 4: 0345; 17: 0771
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
School teachers
employment discrimination 1: 0077
Sharecroppers
AAA checks stolen by landlords 1: 0307
conditions 4: 0072; 19: 0309, 0426
unionization efforts among 19: 0309, 0426
Shipyard workers and ship building
employment discrimination
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1: 0492
Mobile, Alabama 1: 0001, 0358; 4 0616
NYC 1: 0492
North Carolina 15: 0388, 0546
Richmond, California 4: 0616
southern ports 1: 0001
Sparrows Point, Maryland 1: 0492
Tampa, Florida 11: 0275
segregated shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania
11: 013
Southern states
employment discrimination by firms relocating in
5: 0434; 11: 0037
Hill, Herbert on—labor survey by 20: 0771
integration of labor movement in 21: 0001
see also Hill, Herbert; Migration; individual states
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
19: 0309, 0426, 0540, 0621
Statistics
blacks in labor unions 15: 0036
racial composition of occupations in American
workforce 4: 0547
Steel industry
employment discrimination
Alabama 1: 0001
New York 1: 0115
Texas 13: 0312
interracial cooperation in strike at Bethlehem
Steel, Lackawana, New York 1: 0492
unionization of 15: 0036
Strikes
Alabama Drydock, Mobile, Ala. 1: 0001, 0358
Cleaners and Dyers, NYC 6: 0513
Dinger Sewing Machine Co., Philadelphia
16: 0001
dining car employees union 13: 0472
farm equipment workers, Ind. 11: 0860
Ford Motor Co. 3: 0764, 0876; 5: 0814
garment workers, Del. 11: 0733; 21: 0001
General Motors 6: 0001
Gimbel’s Department Stores, N.Y. 10: 0276
Hatters, Conn. 21: 0001
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Hearn’s department stores, N.Y. 12: 0482
North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kans.
3: 0207
Packard Motors, Mich. 10: 0363
poultry workers, Del. 11: 0733; 21: 0001
quarry workers, N.J. 6: 0555
retail stores, Newport News, Va. 13: 0683
Southern Cotton Oil Workers 5 0814
sugar refinery workers, La. 12: 0018
tobacco workers, S.C. 5: 0814
transit workers, Philadelphia 19: 0001, 0054
typographical union, N.Y. 10: 0276
Sugar refining industry
conference on employment problems in 4: 0202
National League to Protect Colored Workers in
the Cane Sugar Refining Industry 4: 0001
strike of Louisiana sugar refineries 12: 0018;
14: 0829
Teamsters Union
employment discrimination 10: 0202; 12: 0666
NAACP efforts to desegregate 15: 0673
racketeering indictment of Harold J. Gibbons
5: 0262
Telephone companies
employment discrimination at—Michigan Bell
7: 0036
employment discrimination in—Baltimore-
Washington 5: 0568
integration of 9: 0426
Tennessee
employment discrimination in brake shoe industry
13: 0286
employment discrimination in construction
industry 13: 0286
Tennessee Valley Authority
discrimination on construction projects 11: 0308
Texas
employment discrimination
building trades unions 13: 0312
labor unions 13: 0312
oil and chemical industry 13: 0054; 15: 0388;
21: 0001
steel industry 13: 0312
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Textile workers
employment discrimination in Danville, Virginia
4: 0616
union organizing drive among, in North Carolina
12: 0915
Tobacco workers
CIO organizing among 14: 0452
employment discrimination among 4: 0616
Reynolds Tobacco Co. nonrecognition of union
15: 0673
union jurisdiction dispute among 15: 0388
Training programs for blacks
15: 0774; 18: 0225; 21: 0001
Transport Workers Union of America
condemns Emmett Till lynching 5: 0568
United Auto Workers, CIO
antidiscrimination policies 3: 0001; 15: 0036,
0546; 16: 0451
Communist activity in 16: 0537, 0632
dissaffection among black workers with 16: 0632
financial contributions to NAACP 16: 0451
Ku Klux Klan activity in 10: 0363; 16: 0632
local 600—black involvement in internal politics
of 7: 0036
NAACP solicitation of financial contributions from
16: 0451
negotiations in General Motors strike 6: 0001
opposition to federal labor conscription bill
15: 0388
Political Action Committee 16: 0537
race discrimination by 7: 0036; 10: 0363;
11: 0431, 0860; 15: 0213
racial tensions in 13: 0152; 16: 0801
reprimand of racist local organizer 11: 0431
UAW-NAACP cooperation 14: 0452; 16: 0632,
0801; 20: 0001
UAW-NAACP integration of Port Huron, Mich.,
industrial plants 12: 0309
UAW-NAACP Interracial Committee 7: 0036
see also Congress of Industrial Organizations;
Reuther, Walter P.
United Electrical Workers
antidiscrimination policies 4: 0202; 12: 0786
Communist orientation protested by local NAACP
leader 12: 0001
United Farm Equipment Workers, CIO
nondiscrimination policies 15: 0213
United Federal Workers of America
16: 0843
United Mine Workers of America
employment discrimination by 13: 0711
financial support for CIO 15: 0213
opposition to federal labor legislation 5: 0110
rift with CIO 15: 0213
United Nations
memorandum on race discrimination in American
labor unions 21: 0001
United Office and Professional Workers of
America, CIO
antidiscrimination policies 4: 0547; 7: 0036
investigation of discrimination in NYC 10: 0001
organization of black building maintenance
workers in NYC 10: 0276
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United Packinghouse Workers of America
antidiscrimination policies 17: 0001
dismissal of southern regional officer for
segregationist policies 17: 0001
integration efforts of 11: 0811
Louisiana sugar workers strike 12: 0018;
14: 0829; 17: 0001
NAACP membership drives in 17: 0001
United Railroad Workers of America
13: 0341
United Rubber Workers of America
cooperation with NAACP 17: 0127
financial contributions to NAACP 17: 0127
NAACP membership drives 17: 0127
United States Committee on Government
Contract Compliance
3: 0601, 0667
see also Federal Office of Government Contract
Compliance
United States Employment Service
discriminatory practices 1: 0077; 9: 0426
United States Foreign Service
employment discrimination 13: 0604
United States Navy
employment discrimination 2: 0143
integration of navy yards 9: 0767
United States Office of Production Management
laxity on race discrimination in defense industries
2: 0143
United States Postal Service
employment discrimination in 9: 0426; 13: 0545
threats to dismiss NAACP activists from 13: 0545
United Steelworkers of America
Civil Rights Committee 21: 0001
cooperation with NAACP—migrant labor 8: 0754;
9: 0126
criticism of NAACP nonpartisanship 17: 0179
financial contributions to NAACP 17: 0179
jurisdiction disputes with—Alabama Mine-Mill
union 11: 0480
jurisdiction disputes with—San Francisco
Boilermakers union 18: 0369
support for Civil Rights Mobilization 17: 0179
United Transport Service Employees
NAACP financial contribution to 17: 0295
organization of Maintenance-of-Way employees
on Florida East Coast Railroad 10: 0869;
15: 0036
representation of Red Caps 10: 0763; 17: 0295
Virginia
employment discrimination 4: 0616
Vocational attitudes
black foundry workers 4: 0757
War Manpower Commission
influence on FEPC criticized 4: 0547
NAACP protest refusal to hire black staff
21: 0249
neglect of racial discrimination in defense
industries 21: 0124, 0249
picketed by Detroit NAACP branch 7: 0036
Washington (state)
survey of racial policies of defense contractors
3: 0601
Washington State Board Against Discrimination
in Employment 13: 0703
Washington, D.C.
employment discrimination at Capitol Transit Co.
13: 0341
West Virginia
employment discrimination in coal mining
13: 0711
employment discrimination in public utilities
companies 13: 0711
White, Walter
defense of trade union tactics 4: 0757
reactions to article “It’s My Country, Too” 3: 0148;
4: 0307
visits to Detroit 5: 0814; 7: 0036
Woodworkers of America, International
representation among southern black timber
cutters 15: 0673

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