Finnegan's general reference files

Finnegan's general reference files (covering the UE before 1950) are not extensive but contain several important sources concerning communism and the UE. There are excerpted transcripts of Carey's testimony, reprints of hearings, correspondence and clippings documenting the work of the special House Committee on Un-American Activities Investigating the UE (Dies Committee) in 1939, and the House Labor & Education Subcommittee (Kersten Committee) Investigation of Communist Infiltration Into Labor Unions and Industries in 1948. Two files pertaining to the UEMDA (1947) and its Dayton, Ohio Conference (1949) trace the political and organizational maneuvering of the Carey-Block forces at the local and district levels. Both document UEMDA efforts to defeat the UE's leadership in the months preceding the expulsion of the union from the CIO.