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Congress of Industrial Organizations

Opposition of people to the CIO

Our group, disagreed with how those in opposition treated the CIO and what they did and said about it. It is not right for the employers to take advantage of how the CIO made sure people had jobs and abusing them because they know that the people need money.

Do you agree with how people opposed the CIO?

  • Agree? Why?
  • Disagree? Why?
  • Many employers opposed the idea of the CIO representing all workers in major mass production industries.
  • ¨Employers murdered, gassed, beat, and intimidated their workers to [dishearten] the CIO's unionizing efforts. ¨

The New Deal Project

How it has changed

When the CIO was ratified /What happened through the years

The employers murdered, gassed, beat, and intimidated their workers

WW2 pulled the AFL and the CIO closer together ( they supported gov. Efforts to mobilize industry for military production)

CIO formed a joint committee to deal with federal labor policies ( this committee facilitated the formal merger of the two organizations in December 1955)

The CIO was ratified in 1935

THe CIO was advocated an industrial unionism whereby workers would be organized according to the nature of their products.

Ex: Steelworkers and building trades would have their own union

It is not in existence to today because in 1938 the eight unions left the AFL

The AFL collaborated with local unions and state and federal legislators to brand the CIO a communist organization

What branch of Government oversaw it regulation?

Federal Legislators to brand the CIO a communist organization

Who founded it?

Partner Programs

  • The CIO began within the American Federation of Labor
  • Differences began to appear
  • the AFL divided into craft unions (separated by required skills)
  • CIO wanted to separate according to industrial unionism (by indistry)
  • CIO had an open door policy to African Americans and other groups rejected by the AFL

John L. Lewis (1880-1969)

Formed the organization in 1935

Who was it suppose to benefit?

It was an organization of the trade unions that represented all the workers in the major mass-production industries

It benefits the workers.

Which crisis from the Great Depression did the program intend to fix?

To where some of the workers still had their jobs during the Great Depression

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