X. IUE ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN FILES OF PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT, LES FINNEGAN, 1950-1955

Arranged alphabetically by region and state. A few general files covering various IUE organizational activities for the inclusive period are filed at the beginning of the series.

This artificial series was created from miscellaneous organizational material that once formed part of Finnegan's general reference files. It consists mainly of IUE campaign literature (leaflets, circular letters, pamphlets, and broadsides) and publicity material (radio and TV scripts, press clippings, ads) used in various local and regional organizing drives. Accompanying correspondence, memoranda, and notes generated by Finnegan, Ray Hansen (Publicity Director), IUE Field Representatives, and CIO regional organizers provide contextual information regarding the strategic role that publicity played in the union's planning of organizing campaigns, as well as local conditions on the eve of organizing drives.

IUE organizing campaigns within the GE chain are given extensive coverage, although a few Westinghouse plants are also represented within the series. In addition to IUE material, many files contain anti-union publicity leaflets, circular letters, newspaper ads, and employee newsletters that were issued and distributed by GE's management. GE also enlisted the support of local groups (i.e., the Rome, Georgia Citizens Committee) to assist in anti-union campaign. IUE Field Representatives forwarded such material to Hansen and Finnegan for inclusion within their respective organization files. This series complements organization publicity material contained within the IUE Publicity Department and the Organizing Campaign and Research Files of Rodger Coyne contained with the Secretary-Treasurer's Office subgroup.