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<p>The West Virginia State Industrial Union Council's files are arranged alphabetically by subject for each year. The alphabetical arrangement is as follows:</p><p>A Miscellany <lb/>
Aluminum Workers<lb/>
Auto Workers<lb/>
B Miscellany<lb/>
Bakery Workers<lb/>
Barbers<lb/>
Bittner, Van Amberg<lb/>
Brick and Clay Workers<lb/>
C Miscellany<lb/>
Cannery Workers<lb/>
Chemical Workers<lb/>
Clothing Workers<lb/>
Communications Workers<lb/>
Compensation<lb/>
Congress of Industrial Organizations<lb/>
Constitutions<lb/>
Construction Workers<lb/>
Convention<lb/>
Crippled Children<lb/>
D Miscellany<lb/>
E Miscellany<lb/>
Electrical Workers<lb/>
Executive Board<lb/>
F Miscellany<lb/>
Federation Investigation<lb/>
Federal Workers<lb/>
Form Letters<lb/>
Fur and Leather Workers<lb/>
Furniture Workers<lb/>
G Miscellany<lb/>
Glass Workers<lb/>
Governor<lb/>
H Miscellany<lb/>
Homestead Workers<lb/>
Hosiery Workers<lb/>
Hotel and Restaurant Workers<lb/>
I Miscellany<lb/>
Industrial Union Councils<lb/>
Inland Boatmen's Union<lb/>
Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers<lb/>
J Miscellany<lb/>
K Miscellany<lb/>
L Miscellany<lb/>
Labor Papers<lb/>
Labor's Non-Partisan League<lb/>
Ladies Auxiliaries<lb/>
Laundry Workers<lb/>
Legislative Committee<lb/>
M Miscellany<lb/>
Marine Cooks and Stewards<lb/>
Marine Engineers<lb/>
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers<lb/>
Mine Workers<lb/>
N Miscellany<lb/>
National Labor Relations Board<lb/>
Newspaper Guild<lb/>
O Miscellany<lb/>
Office and Professional Workers<lb/>
Officers Reports<lb/>
Oil Workers<lb/>
P Miscellany<lb/>
Packinghouse Workers<lb/>
Public Assistance Council<lb/>
Q Miscellany<lb/>
Quarry Workers<lb/>
R Miscellany<lb/>
Retail and Wholesale Workers<lb/>
Rubber Workers<lb/>
S Miscellany<lb/>
Shoe Workers<lb/>
Social Security<lb/>
State, County &amp; Municipal Workers<lb/>
State Industrial Councils<lb/>
Steel Workers Organizing Committee<lb/>
T Miscellany<lb/>
Teachers<lb/>
Textile Workers<lb/>
Transport Workers<lb/>
Typographical Union<lb/>
U Miscellany<lb/>
Unemployment Compensation<lb/>
Union Label<lb/>
U. S. Department of Labor<lb/>
Utility Workers<lb/>
V Miscellany<lb/>
Vice Presidents<lb/>
W Miscellany<lb/>
Wage Hour Law<lb/>
Water Works Employees<lb/>
Woodworkers Union<lb/>
Works Projects Administration<lb/>
XYZ Miscellany<lb/>
Yearbook</p><p>The order will vary somewhat from year to year depending upon name changes for affiliated unions, blank folders, etc.</p><p>
<emph render="bold">Box List:</emph></p><p>Box 1; A-E; 1940<lb/>
Box 2; F-I; 1940<lb/>
Box 3; J-O; 1940<lb/>
Box 4; O-U; 1940<lb/>
Box 5; V-Z; 1940<lb/>
Box 6; A-C; 1941<lb/>
Box 7; D-K; 1941<lb/>
Box 8; L-O; 1941<lb/>
Box 9; P-T; 1941<lb/>
Box 10; U-Z; 1941<lb/>
Boxes 11 to 15; A-Z; 1941-1942<lb/>
Boxes 16 to 20; A-Z; 1942-1943<lb/>
Boxes 21 to 25; A-Z; 1943-1944<lb/>
Boxes 26 to 30; A-Z; 1944-1945<lb/>
Boxes 30 to 33; A-Z; 1945-1946<lb/>
Boxes 34 to 37; A-Z; 1946-1947<lb/>
Boxes 38 to 41; A-Z; 1947-1948<lb/>
Boxes 42 to 46; A-Z; 1948-1950<lb/>
Boxes 46 to 50; A-Z; 1950-1951</p>  </arrangement>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia State Industrial Union Council, CIO, Archives, A&amp;M 1380, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>The West Virginia State Industrial Union Council was formed in 1937 as the state labor federation for local unions affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In 1958, the WVIUC merged with the State Federation of Labor to form the West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Included in these two accessions are the correspondence, legal papers, reports, and printed materials of the Industrial Union Council's president's office, between 1940 and 1951. </p><p>Subjects include the trade unions and councils allied with the Industrial Union Council; IUC state conventions; the activities of the CIO Political Action Committee at the state and national levels; congressional and presidential elections, 1940-1950; state and national labor legislation, particularly the anti-poll tax bill, fair employment practices legislation, and the Taft-Hartley Act; organizing activities including the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, and the CIO Southern Drive Committee; national defense and wartime agencies such as the War Production Board, War Labor Board, Wage Stabilization Board, Office of Price Administration, and the War Manpower Commission; New Deal projects including the Works Progress Administration, and the Red House Homestead project at Eleanor (Red House); labor mediation and arbitration; the National Labor Relations Board; West Virginia Cooperative Labor Legislative Council; Labor's Non-Partisan League; organizational disputes between the AFL and the CIO, particularly in the communications and chemical industries; Interracial Council; crippled children's work; and the National CIO Community Services Committee. Correspondents include Cleveland Bailey, Van A. Bittner, Chester Bowles, James B. Carey, Jonathan Daniels, D. Boone Dawson, Andrew Edmiston, Raymond J. Funkhouser, Sidney H. Hillman, George W. Johnson, Louis Johnson, Elizabeth Kee, John Kee, Harley Kilgore, James M. Landis, David J. MacDonald, Clarence W. Meadows, Philip Murray, M.M. Neely, Okey J. Patteson, Jennings Randolph, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joe L. Smith, and Harley O. Staggers.</p><p>The collection formerly labeled A&amp;M 1449 has been added to this collection.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="ingest">Labor organization - Interracial Council.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Labor organization - Labor's Non-Partisan League.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80080438" source="lcsh">United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Union names.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization.</subject>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148273" source="lcsh">World War, 1939-1945</subject>
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    <corpname source="local_LC">Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Wage Stabilization Board</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80081625" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013063289" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Community Services Committee</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022254" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">United States. National Labor Relations Board</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Red House Resettlement Project</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87857807" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.)</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85304801" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82047663" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">United States. War Manpower Commission</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50060401" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">United States. War Production Board</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">West Virginia. State Industrial Union Council, CIO</corpname>
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    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011005531" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50042855" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90024976" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Carey, James B.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Daniels, Jonathan.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Dawson, D. Boone.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Edmiston, Andrew.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Funkhouser, Raymond J.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91003443" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Johnson, George W.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Johnson, Louis.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010163592" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Kee, Maude Elizabeth, 1895-1975</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009001150" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Kee, John, 1874-1951</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81014059" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Landis, James M.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">MacDonald, David J.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Meadows, Clarence W.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86025930" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Murray, Philip, 1886-1952</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96001536" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Patteson, Okey L.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83045964" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79144645" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Smith, Joe L.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86866276" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Staggers, Harley O.</persname>
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