Philip Murray

CIO Expels United Electrical Workers and Farm Equipment Workers, Beginning Purge of Communist-Led Unions

1949-11-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) holds its eleventh annual convention in Cleveland and expels two member unions, the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) and the Farm Equipment Workers, for alleged “disloyalty to the CIO” and support for the …

Congress of Industrial Organizations Philip Murray Walter Reuther United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Farm Equipment Workers +1 more labor-suppression red-scare anti-communism union-busting mccarthyism +1 more

Congress of Industrial Organizations Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism

1935-11-09 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

On November 9, 1935, John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers met with leaders of eight unions—including Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and David Dubinsky of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union—to formally establish the Committee for Industrial Organization within the …

John L. Lewis United Mine Workers of America Sidney Hillman David Dubinsky Philip Murray labor-organizing democratic-resistance worker-power