Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John L. Lewis and 518 other delegates to a constitutional convention assembled in Pittsburgh to bury the three-year-old Committee for Industrial Organization.
Having been suspended by A. F. of L. after joining C. I. O., and having failed to reunite the warring houses, David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers of America last week quit C. I. O. President David Dubinsky felt that John L. Lewis had done Labor peace great...
Said John Lewis in Pittsburgh: "It was known to us long before the C. I. O. convention was called that the I. L. G. W. U. desired not to cross the Rubicon, all of which is their right and privilege and all of which affects the situation in no manner...
This warning was echoed later last week in Chicago when Mr. Arnold's Executive Assistant Wendell Berge addressed the American Finance Conference. This association of independent finance companies got the Government into its finance company suits by charging that 75% of new car financing had been grabbed through coercive...
PITTSBURGH--The Committee for Industrial Organization sent its "peace makers" into emergency session tonight shortly after an appeal for an end in labor's civil war from President Roosevelt was acclaimed wildly at the first CIO constitutional convention.