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Detroit Conference Largest in History
Program of NAACP national conference in Detroit included speech by Homer Martin, UAW, and debate on adoption of resolution endorsing CIO.
Progress of the Negro Worker in the C.I.O.
Summarizes economic benefits resulting from industrial unionism.
UAW-CIO Plants with No-Discrimination Clauses, September 24, 1945
Lists each plant, number of local union represented, and type of clause
UAW-CIO Policy on Racial Discrimination
Warns Local's members who violate non-discrimination policies there will be no protection against ensuing discipline
Emergency Conference on the Fifth Column in Detroit's Plants, Friday, June 26, 1942. Sponsored by UAW-CIO Interracial Committee, Urban League, Civil Rights Federation, NAACP, National Negro Congress,
Invites attendance at conference to halt further "wildcat strikes organized against the employmeny of Negro workers on war production."
To All Negro Ford Workers
Urges CIO vote at upcoming Ford representation elections. Carries statements by five black Ford workers: Shelton Tappes, Walter B. Morgan, Veal Clough, Tanner T. Perry, and Al Johnson
Detroit's Negro Housing Problem
VF-Discrimination in Housing, 1940s
To All Ford Workers, Negro and White
Two State Senators urge a vote for CIO in upcoming Ford elections called by NLRB.
Statement to the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee in Support of an Effective Fderal FEPC, S. 692, Presented for the CIO and UAW
Includes examples and statistics on discrimination from Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission files; narrates UAW efforts to achieve equality.
Labor's Giant Step, 20 Years of the CIO
Contains occasional reference to Negroes' role in the development of CIO and its affiliates, particularly the UAW.