Nov. 7, 2005
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The CIO and Industrial Union Organizing

I. A Revolution Coming?

II. The Congress of Industrial Organizations and Industrial Unionism

    A. John L. Lewis throws a punch     United Mine Workers history website                                  

    B. Organizing America's Mass Production Industries
        brief biography and sound clip from Walter Reuther, United Autoworkers Leader

We'll see a section from a History Channel documentary about the "Memorial Day Massacre" at the Republic Steel mill in Chicago, May 30, 1937.  A website on the event is at http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/memorial.htm

     C. Revolutionary change or a "moral capitalism"?

III. Black and White Workers: Unity and Division

    A. The CIO, Radicals and Race
    B. White Workers and Racism from Below

                   
John L. Lewis                                           Autoworkers leader Walter Reuther at the
1951                                                           "Battle of the Overpass" 1937
 

Harry Bridges
West Coast Longshore Leader
link to the "Harry Bridges Project"