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Scope and Contents: 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...
 File — Box: 24

Scope and Contents: The UE Historical Files contain important correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, minutes, and resolutions covering the early period of unionization in the electrical, electronics, and radio industries during the 1930s and the New Deal era. The subseries traces the formation of the Committee for Industrial Organization and documents the struggle of isolated AFL federal locals loosely affiliated under the National Radio and Allied Trades Council (NRATC) to forge a national industrial union of...