Report Outline
New Effort to Returns C.I.O and A.F.L.
C.I.O.-A.F.L. Split and Its Aftermath
Prospects for C.I.O.-A.F.L Consolidation
New Effort to Returns C.I.O and A.F.L.
Ratification of a “no-raid” agreement with the Congress of Industrial Organizations was the most significant action affecting the future of the American labor movement taken at the 1953 convention of the American Federation of Labor. If accepted by the C.I.O. at its annual convention in November, the agreement will come into force next January 1 and remain in effect until the end of 1955. Meanwhile, negotiations for “organic unity” will be conducted by top leaders of both organizations and, if present hopes are realized, the A.F.L. and C.I.O. will be reunited after two decades of separation.
The A.F.L. now has 111 national or international affiliates and the C.I.O. has 48. Aggregate membership of the two organizations is somewhere between 15 million and 16 million, of which the A.F.L. share is about 10 million. Organizing campaigns would be expected to swell the total figure to 18 million or 20 million two years hence. For the leaders of organized labor, the size of the proposed amalgamation is a potent argument in its favor.
About 75 of the country's labor unions are independents, not affiliated with either the A.F.L. or C.I.O. They have a combined membership in the neighborhood of two million. The most important of the independents are the railway brotherhoods and the United Mine Workers, headed by John L. Lewis. Lewis, who has been in and out of both the A.F.L. and the C.I.O., is a warm advocate of labor unity. In a Labor Day statement, Sept. 7, he expressed the hope that “a year hence” the American labor movement would be united and working as one for the economic and social welfare of the people. But there is much suspicion of his motives among other leaders of organized labor and serious doubt whether his influence on future unity negotiations will be constructive. |
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Sep. 02, 2005 |
Labor Unions' Future  |
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Jun. 28, 1996 |
Labor Movement's Future |
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Jun. 14, 1985 |
Organized Labor in the 1980s |
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Nov. 06, 1981 |
Labor Under Siege |
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Mar. 24, 1978 |
Labor's Southern Strategy |
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Aug. 20, 1976 |
Labor's Options |
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Oct. 27, 1971 |
Organized Labor After the Freeze |
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Oct. 19, 1966 |
Labor Strife and the Public Interest |
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Jan. 30, 1963 |
Strike Action and the Law |
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Sep. 20, 1961 |
Conflicts in Organized Labor |
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Aug. 04, 1960 |
Labor, Management, and the National Interest |
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Dec. 16, 1959 |
Future of Free Collective Bargaining |
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Nov. 04, 1959 |
Featherbedding and Union Work Rules |
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Feb. 18, 1959 |
Public Intervention in Labor Disputes |
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Jul. 09, 1958 |
Suits Against Labor Unions |
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Nov. 13, 1957 |
Right-To-Work Laws |
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Oct. 31, 1956 |
Union Organizing |
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May 01, 1954 |
State Powers in Labor Relations |
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Oct. 02, 1953 |
Toward Labor Unity |
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Apr. 11, 1953 |
Industry-Wide Bargaining and Industry-Wide Strikes |
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Sep. 03, 1952 |
Labor and Politics |
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Mar. 25, 1950 |
Labor Injunctions |
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Jan. 25, 1950 |
Trade Unions and Productivity |
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Sep. 26, 1949 |
Fact-Finding Boards in Labor Disputes |
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Mar. 05, 1949 |
Closed Shop |
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Dec. 01, 1948 |
Revision of the Taft-Hartley Act |
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Jan. 01, 1947 |
Labor Unions, the Public and the Law |
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Oct. 09, 1946 |
Revision of the Wagner Act |
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Sep. 25, 1946 |
Labor Productivity |
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May 29, 1946 |
Labor Organization in the South |
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Jan. 30, 1946 |
Compulsory Settlement of Labor Disputes |
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May 18, 1945 |
Labor Policy After the War |
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Mar. 29, 1945 |
Union Maintenance |
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Feb. 02, 1945 |
Labor Relations in Coal Mining |
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Oct. 12, 1944 |
No-Strike Pledge |
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Sep. 16, 1944 |
Political Action by Organized Labor |
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May 30, 1944 |
Unionization of Foremen |
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Apr. 01, 1944 |
Dismissal Pay |
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Apr. 29, 1943 |
Labor in Government |
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Apr. 09, 1943 |
Public Regulation of Trade Unions |
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Nov. 19, 1941 |
Labor Policies of the Roosevelt Administration |
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Oct. 23, 1941 |
Closed Shop Issue in Labor Relations |
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Mar. 29, 1941 |
Labor as Partner in Production |
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Feb. 12, 1941 |
Labor and the Defense Program |
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Feb. 23, 1940 |
Labor in Politics |
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Jan. 17, 1939 |
Settlement of Disputes Between Labor Unions |
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Jul. 01, 1938 |
Three Years of National Labor Relations Act |
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Nov. 12, 1937 |
State Regulation of Labor Relations |
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Jul. 10, 1937 |
Restrictions on the Right to Strike |
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Apr. 28, 1937 |
The Labor Market and the Unemployed |
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Mar. 26, 1937 |
Control of the Sit-Down Strike |
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Mar. 13, 1937 |
Collective Bargaining in the Soft-Coal Industry |
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Jan. 22, 1937 |
Responsibility of Labor Unions |
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Nov. 11, 1936 |
Industrial Unionism and the A.F. of L. |
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Jul. 30, 1936 |
Federal Intervention in Labor Disputes |
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Jul. 14, 1936 |
Labor Relations in the Steel Industry |
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Apr. 17, 1934 |
Company Unions and Collective Bargaining |
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Feb. 07, 1934 |
Settlement of Labor Disputes |
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Sep. 12, 1933 |
Trade Unionism Under the Recovery Program |
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Feb. 17, 1932 |
Wage Concessions by Trade Unions |
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Oct. 01, 1929 |
Status of the American Labor Movement |
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Jul. 20, 1929 |
Trade Unionism in the South |
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Aug. 31, 1928 |
Organized Labor in National Politics |
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Feb. 04, 1928 |
The Use of Injunctions in Labor Disputes |
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Sep. 09, 1927 |
Organized Labor and the Works Council Movement |
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Oct. 12, 1923 |
The A.F. of L. and the “New Radicalism” |
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