AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, memoranda, circulars, pamphlets, financial records, and other papers of the Huntington District Labor Council, United Steelworkers Local 1652, and some other local unions. The collection also contains CIO-PAC material, including educational and campaign material.

Overview Assorted AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) pamphlets and other materials distributed by the AFL Dept. of Education in Charleston, West Virginia, between 1949 and 1956. Most of the pamphlets are dated prior to the 1955 merger of the AFL and CIO and pertain chiefly to the work of the American Federation of Labor. Pamphlets provide information about the history of the AFL, labor organizations, the benefits of unions, and the AFL's Committee on...