CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: HOUSING COMMITTEE, LEO GOODMAN. Papers, (Predominantly )

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1 CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS: HOUSING COMMITTEE, LEO GOODMAN Papers, (Predominantly ) Accession Number 689 The papers of the Congress of Industrial Organizations: Housing Committee were placed in the Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs in June of Most of the records in this collection comprise the office files of Leo Goodman, who was director of the CIO Housing Committee from 1948 to Although most of these records pertain to housing, some relate to natural resources and power, as Mr. Goodman was also secretary of the CIO Committee on Power, Atomic Energy and Resources Development. Most of the records in this collection fall within the dates There are about twelve items dated , and there are a few records dated January and February, Other records pertaining to the CIO can be found in the CIO Secretary- Treasurer Collection, in the CIO Washington Office Collection, and in the files of the CIO President's Office in the Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs. Important subjects covered in the collection are: Foreign operations administration - program for demonstration of lowcost housing projects in foreign countries, 1954 Housing conditions and problems in foreign countries, Housing production for defense workers, McCarthy, Joseph, Flanders motion to censure, 1954 Lumber industry - regulation legislation with respect to conservation and housing, Public power and natural resources legislation, Smith, Margaret Chase, endorsements for the U.S. Senate in 1940 and 1948

2 -2- Contents 11 manuscript boxes Series I, Boxes Noti-CIO Organizations Many of the organizations listed in this series are concerned with housing or public power, Series II, Boxes U.S. Government Agencies Most of the documentation of this series concerns housing problems, Series III, Box 6 - Office File List of miscellaneous topics and organizations, including unions and legislation, Series IV, Boxes Foreign Housing Research files on housing problems and conditions in foreign countries; mostly published material, Series V, Boxes U.S. Senate Research files on United States senators; mostly published material,

3 -3- Series I Boxes 1-4 Non-CIO Organizations Correspondence, reports, newsletters, bulletins, press releases, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets. These files are arranged alphabetically by name of organization. Box American Association of Social Workers, American Federation of the Physically Handicapped, American Friends Service Committee, American Labor Education Service, American Municipal Association, American Public Power Association, American Travel Association, Americans for Democratic Action, Bureau of National Affairs, Citizens for TVA, Columbia Broadcasting System, Committee for the Nation's Health, Cooperative Forum, Council for Social Action, Council of State Governments, Democratic Digest, Democratic National Committee, Box Democratic National Committee, Electric Consumers Information Committee, Freedom House, Frontier, Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, Histadurt, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, International Confederation of Real Estate Agents, International Federation for Housing and Town Planning, International Labor Organization, Box International Labor Organization, Inter-Union Institute,

4 -4- Box 3 (cont.) 4. Jewish Labor Committee, Joint Council on Economic Education, Korean Affairs Institute, Labor Press Associates, League for Industrial Democracy, League of Women Voters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Association for Resource Development, National Civil Liberties Clearing House, National Committee for an Effective Congress, National Conference on Family Life, National Conference of Union Labor Veterans, National Council of Negro Women, National Farmers Union, National Hells Canyon Association, National Issues Committee, National Planning Association, National Reclamation Association, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, National Social Welfare Assembly, National Women's Trade Union League, National Workshop on World Economic and Social Development, Northeast Electric Consumers Conference, Box 4 1. Northwest Public Power Association, Pan American Union, Public Administration Clearing House, Public Affairs Committee, Public Affairs Institute, Religion and Labor Foundation, Resources for the Future, Revere Copper and Brass Company, Spokesman for Children, Southern School for Workers, Trade Union Savings and Loan Associations, Twentieth Century Fund, Unemployment Benefit Advisors, United Nations Housing Committee, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington Association for Workers Education, Windsor Jewish Community Council, Woman's Foundation, Woman's City Club of New York, 1948

5 -5- Series II Boxes 4-5 U.S. Government Agencies Correspondence, reports, press releases, and newsletters. There is some documentation in this series on a program for low-cost housing projects in foreign countries. These files are arranged alphabetically by name of agency. Box 4 (cont.) Defense Production Administration, Foreign Operations Administration, Housing Expediter Office, Box Housing Expediter Office, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Labor Department, Series III Box 6 Office File Correspondence, reports, press releases, testimony, and newspaper clippings. These files are arranged alphabetically. The documentation pertaining to the lumber industry and to the endorsements of Margaret Chase Smith is in this series. Box 6 1. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, AFL-CIO Unity Committee, American Radio Association (CIO Union) Correspondence, D.C. Sales Tax, Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee, Housing Legislation, Lumber Industry, Moral Rearmament, Oil Workers Union, Rent Control,

6 -6- Box 6 (cont.) 22. Satellite Vehicle Proposal, Smith, Margaret Chase, Endorsement for Senate, 1940 and Steel Industry, Temesvary, Imre, Textile Workers Union, Titanium Production Developments, United Shoe Workers, United Steel Workers, 1952 Series IV Boxes 7-9 Foreign Housing Press releases, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets. There is some correspondence and few other non-published records. These files are arranged alphabetically by name of country. Box 7 1. Austria, , correspondence and other records 2. Austria, Belgium, , correspondence 4. Bolivia, n.d., unpublished report 5-6. Burma, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, 1951, correspondence and other records 13. Denmark, France, , correspondence and other records France, Box Germany, , correspondence and other records Germany, Great Britain, Greece, , correspondence and other records 17. India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, 1955, correspondence and other records 22. Japan, 1955

7 -7- Box 8 (cont.) 24. Netherlands, , correspondence and other records 25. Netherlands, Box 9 1. New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland 12. Venezuela, 1946 Series V Boxes 9-11 U.S. Senate Bills, press releases, newsletters, and newspaper clippings. There are a few items of correspondence. These files are arranged alphabetically by surname of senator. The documentation concerning the Flanders motion to censure Joseph McCarthy is in this series. Box 9 (cont.) 13. Aiksen, George, Barrett, Frank, Beall, J. Glenn, Bender, George, Bennett, Wallace F., Bible, Alan, Bowring, Eve, Bricker, John W., Bridges, Styles, Burke, Thomas, n.d. 23. Bush, Prescott, Butler, John, Byrd, Harry, Cain, Harry, Capehart, Homer E., Carlson, Frank, Case, Francis, Clements, Earl, Curtis, Carl, Dirksen, Everett, Douglas, Paul, 1955

8 -8- Box 9 (cont.) 35. Duff, James H., Dworshak, Henry, Ellender, Allen, Flanders, Ralph, Frear, J. Allen, Fulbright, J. William, Goldwater, Barry, n.d. 42. Gore, Albert, , correspondence 43. Graham, Frank, 1949 Box Hayden, Carl, Hennings, Thomas, , correspondence 3-6. Hennings, Thomas, Hickenlooper, Bourke, Hill, Lister, Humphrey, Hubert, Ives, Irving, Jackson, Henry, Jenner, William, Johnson, Lyndon, Johnston, Olin, Kefauver, Estes, 1953, correspondence 17. Kefauver, Estes, Kennedy, John, 1951, congressman, correspondence 19. Kennedy, John, , congressman 20. Kerr, Robert, Kilgore, Harley, Kuchel, Thomas, Langer, William, Lehman, Herbert, 1955, correspondence Lehman, Herbert, Magnuson, Warren, Malone, Edward, Maybank, Burnett, Box McCarthy, Joseph-Flanders motion, 1954, correspondence and other records 2-4. McCarthy, Joseph, McClellan, John, McFarland, Ernest, McNamara, Patrick, Millikin, Eugene, Moody, Blair, Monroney, Mike, Morse, Wayne, 1955

9 -9- Box 11 (cont.) 12. Mundt, Karl, Murray, James, Myers, Francis J., Neuberger, Richard, Nixon, Richard, n.d. 17. Payne, Frederick, Pepper, Claude, Robertson, A. Willis, Russell, Richard, Saltonstall, Leverett, Schoeppel, Andrew, Smathers, George, Smith, H. Alexander, mith, Margaret Chase, Sparkman, John, Stennis, John, Symington, Stuart, Taft, Robert, Thomas, Elbert, Thye, Edward, Tobey, Charles, Vandenberg, Arthur, n.d. 37. Wagner, Robert, Watkins, Arthur, Wiley, Alexander, Williams, John, 1955