XXIV. CONFERENCE AND MEETING FILES OF PRESIDENT JAMES B. CAREY, 1950-1965
Dates
- 1950-1965
Scope and Contents
Arranged chronologically by date of conference or meeting
The Conference and Meeting Files of IUE President James B. Carey constitute an artificial series documenting important IUE-sponsored conferences and meetings, and non-IUE special events attended by Carey and other IUE officers. Originally forming a component within the series, Speeches, Statements, and Addresses of James B. Carey, President's Office, these files contain substantive correspondence and memoranda, agenda and schedules, resolutions, research material, notes, and conference packets in addition to printed and typescript speeches comprising the former series. As such, the conference and meeting files form an independent series in their own right.
Various IUE-sponsored special issues conferences form the core the series. Among the most important were the IUE's Economic Policy Conferences held during the 1950's. These conferences, attended by officers, local union delegates, business agents, and conference board leaders, set the tone for future labor-management negotiations based on the exchange and dissemination of industry-wide employment and wage data, organization and strike information, and formulation of a comprehensive bargaining and economic program to guide the union's constituent conference boards within the major electrical chains (GE, Westinghouse, GM) and various industrial and occupational segments--Radio, TV and Parts, Professional, Technical and Salaried Workers, and Lamp Workers. There are also important special issues conference files devoted to the following subject areas: Civil Rights and Full Citizenship, Women, Employment Security, Staff Training. Supplementing these are several files covering Carey's attendance at GE stockholders meetings. As the IUE held stock in GE, Carey attended the annual shareholder's meetings to propagate the IUE's stance on various labor and economic issues. He attempted to engender negative publicity for the corporation and to influence other shareholders.
To a lesser extent, the remainder of the series documents Carey's participation and appearances at CIO and AFL-CIO conferences, special government conferences and meetings, civic and philanthropic functions, and ceremonial events (i.e., John Brophy Testimonial Dinner) that Carey attended as a representative labor-statesman.
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