Title: UAW War Policy Collection Dates: 1941-46 (Predominantly, 1943-44) Size : 16.5 linear feet, 33 Manuscript Boxes |
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Scope & Contents
The papers of Victor Reuther, the Assistant Coordinator of the UAW War Policy Division, were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs on November 17, 1967 by the UAW.
The UAW War Policy Division grew out of the Defense Employment Committee, whose name was changed at the entry of the United States into World War II in 1941. Its main purpose was to coordinate all of the Union's war efforts and to represent the Union in its dealings with such governmental agencies as the War Manpower Commission, the War Production Board, the Office of Price Administration and the branches of the armed forces. George Addes, Richard Frankensteen, Richard Reisinger and Walter Reuther were members of the original Committee. With the change of name, Richard Leonard was added.
Employment stabilization Job transfers
Utilization of labor Job training programs
Protection of seniority Alien workers
Allied relief Fair employment
Postwar planning Veterans
Reconversion Housing
Education Counseling
Discrimination Child care
Rationing of goods Price and rent control
Shortage of critical materials
Gas and tire rationing for transportation
George Addes William H. Levitt
Claude Bland Paul V. McNutt
Kenneth Cole Ben Probe
Nelson Cruikshank Walter Reuther
John Edelman George Romney
Arthur Elder Dorothy K. Roosevelt
Clayton Fountain August Scholle
Catherine Gelles Maurice Sugar
David Henry R.J. Thomas
Lewis B. Hershey James Wishart
Sidney Hillman Leonard Woodcock
Mildred Jeffrey
UAW War Policy Womens Collection 640-uaw
Series I consists of alphabetically arranged subject files on a variety of topics for the years 1941 to 1943 and 1943 to 1946. At the end of each letter is a miscellaneous file. These files include correspondence, research reports, pamphlets, newspaper clippings and press releases. Within the folder, the material is arranged chronologically.
Series II consists of files on locals and the regions. Most of the local files are quite small, with the following exceptions: 12, 36, 50, 99, 174, 600, 652, 731, 774, and 958. The folders for each region follow the locals. [Box30]
Box 1
Absenteeism, correspondence
Absenteeism, clippings
Absenteeism, pamphlets
Aliens
Aliens, pamphlets
Aluminum Workers Union
Automobile curtailment
Miscellaneous "A"
Claude Bland (1941-1942) (2 folders)
Broadcasts (1942)
Miscellaneous "B" (1941-1942) (2 folders)
Camp Atterbury (1943)
CIO war relief
Box 2
Congress of Industrial Workers, National
CIO unions other than UAW
Communists, clippings
Conferences
Consultation Bureau (Jan.-Dec. 1943) (2 folders)
Consultation Bureau, pamphlets
Central Budget Committee, Council of Social Agencies
Consumers (Dec. 1941-1944) (3 folders)
Contracts (Oct. 1941-Jan. 1942)
Council of Social Agencies (1942-1943)
Miscellaneous "C" (Nov. 1941-1943) (2 folders)
Box 3
Day care, nurseries
Day care, clippings
Detroit Council for Youth Service (Sept. 1941-Jan. 1944) (2 folders)
Detroit Area Tool and Die Commission
Disaster Areas Certified (1941)
Defense profits (1941)
Dismissal wages
Displacement of automobile workers
Dodge Truck appeal
Miscellaneous "D" (Nov. 1941-1943) (2 folders)
Education Department
Miscellaneous "E" (Nov. 1941-1943) (2 folders)
Farm labor
Farm machinery and equipment
Miscellaneous "F" (Sept. 1941-1943) (2 folders)
Greater Detroit and Wayne County CIO
Box 4
General Motors (Dec. 1940-Aug. 1943) (3 folders)
General Motors, appeals (1941-1942) (2 folders)
General Motors, grievances (Oct. 1941-Aprl. 1942) (2 folders)
General Motors, clippings
Miscellaneous "G" (Sept. 1941-1943)
Housing (Oct. 1941-1943) (3 folders)
Health, recreation, vacation, and nutrition
Miscellaneous "H" (Nov. 1941-Nov. 1943)
Incentive Pay Plan
In-plant feeding
Inter-American Center, Detroit
India
Inter-racial Committee
Miscellaneous "I"
Miscellaneous "J"
Miscellaneous "K"
Labor and industry
Labor-management
Labor's Non-Partisan League
Legal Department, UAW-CIO (1941-1942)
Literature requests
Local unions by regions (Nov. 1941)
Miscellaneous "L" (Dec. 1941-Dec. 1943) (2 folders)
Michigan CIO Council (Dec. 1941-1943) (2 folders)
Michigan Council of Defense (Oct. 1942-June 1943)
Michigan State Employment Service
Box 6
Michigan Unemployment Compensation Commission
Michigan Industrial Training Council
Migration (1941)
Minutes, National Labor Supply Policy Committee
Moral Rearmament
Miscellaneous "M" (Oct. 1941-1943) (2 folders)
Notes and speeches, VGR (1943) (2 folders)
NAACP
National Defense Mediation Board (1941)
Negroes and defense industry (1941-1943) (2 folders)
Box 7
National Youth Administration (1941-1943)
Newspaper clippings (1942-1943) (2 folders)
Eric Nicol (1941-1942)
Miscellaneous "N"
Office of Civilian Defense (1942-1943) (2 folders)
Office of Price Administration (May 1942-Jan. 1944) (4 folders)
Office of Price Administration, clippings
Office of Defense Transportation
Office of War Information
Box 8
Office for Emergency Management
Office of Production Management (1941)
OPM, Labor Division (1941-1942)
Edward Cushman (Oct. 1941-1942)
OPM, agreement interpretation (1941-1942)
OPM, Labor Relations Board (Nov. 1941-1942)
OPM, Labor Relations Branch (1941)
Overtime and doubletime
Eli Oliver (Oct. 1941-Aprl. 1942)
Miscellaneous "0"
Passenger car production (1941-1942)
Political action
Post-war planning, servicemen
Press releases, UAW-CIO (1942-1943) (2 folders)
Priority unemployment
Publicity Department (1942-1943)
Purchase requisitions
Miscellaneous "P" (1941-1943)
Box 9
Miscellaneous "Q"
Race riots, Detroit
Regional Labor Supply Committee
Regional Planning Committee (Aug. 1943-Dec. 1943) (2 folders)
Rent Council
Research Department material (1941-1943)
Resolutions
Miscellaneous "R"
Safety
Social security
Speaking engagements (1941-Aprl. 1943) (4 folders)
Speaking engagements (May 1943-Dec. 1943) (3 folders)
State, County and Municipal Workers of America
State Unemployment Security Agencies
State priorities
Steel Workers Union
Supply shortages (1942)
Strikes
Maurice Sugar
Surveys (1941)
Swing shift (1941-1942)
Miscellaneous "S" (Dec. 1941-Nov. 1943) (2 folders)
Tire rationing (1942)
Technical coordinators job sheets
Training within industry (1942-1943)
Transportation (Feb.-June 1942)
Box 11
Transportation (July 1943) (3 folders)
Transportation, clippings
Trade unions, foreign
Trucks (Sept. 1941-Jan. 1942)
Miscellaneous "T"
Unemployment compensation (1941-1943)
Union for Democratic Action
United Mine Workers, coal strike (1943)
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Employment Service Division (1941-1944)
U.S. Navy Labor Relations Office
Upgrading
Miscellaneous "U"
Box 12
Victory Council (Oct. 1943-Dec. 1943) (2 folders)
Vocational education, State Board of Control
Vocational Education Program for National Defense (1941-Oct. 1942) (3 folders)
Vocational Training for Defense Workers (Nov. 1941-Oct. 1943) (2 folders)
Miscellaneous "V"
War Department
War Department, Detroit (1942-1943)
Box 13
War Manpower Commission Plan, Detroit (Nov. 1942-Dec. 1943) (2 folders)
War Manpower Commission, Detroit Advisory Committee (Sept. 1942-Nov. 1943) (6 folders)
War Manpower Commission, Detroit, Minutes (Sept. 1942-Sept. 1943) (2 folders)
Box 14
War Manpower Commission, National (Nov. 1941-Sept. 1943) (4 folders)
War Manpower Commission, Regional (1942-1943) (2 folders)
War Manpower Commission, Regional case digests (1943)
War Manpower Commission, Selective Service (Sept. 1942-Dec. 1943 (2 folders)
War Manpower Commission, clippings
War Manpower Commission, Fair Employment Practices
War Manpower Commission, bulletins (1942)
War Manpower Comirission, bulletins (1943)
War Manpower Commission, clippings (Dec. 1942-Dec. 1943) (2 folders)
War Policy Conference (Jan. 13, 1943)
War Policy Division, bulletin
War Production Board (Feb. 1942-Aprl. 1943) (2 folders)
War Production Board, Automotive Division (Feb. 1942-Aug. 1942) (2 folders)
War Production Board, Detroit, Labor Morale Branch
War Production Board, Detroit, Labor Production Division (Mar 1942-Nov 1943)
(3 folders)
Box 16
War Production Board, National Labor Production Division (Jan. 1942-Oct. 1942)(2 folders)
War production, labor supply and training (Aug. 1941-1943) (2 folders)
War Production Drive Headquarters (1942-1943) (2 folders)
War Production Drive Headquarters, Labor-Management Committee
Washington Office (Feb. 1943-Dec. 1943) (2 folders)
Washington Committee reports (1941)
Wayne County Council of Defense
Willow Run
Women's Auxillaries, UAW-CIO
Workers Defense League
Work Projects Administration (1942)
Miscellaneous "W" (1941-1943)
Miscellaneous "XYZ"
Box 17
George Addes (Sept. 1941-1944) (3 folders)
Aliens
American Arbitration
Applications (1942-1945)
Miscellaneous "A"
Melvin, Bishop and Norman Matthews
Board of Education
Broadcasts
George Burt
Miscellaneous "B"
CIO, Detroit and Wayne County
CIO, Michigan
CIO, National
CIO, miscellaneous unions
CIO, war relief
Consumers
Conscription
Council of Social Agencies
Counseling System (Jan. 1944-Jan. 1945) (2 folders)
Arnold Coxhill
Cutbacks
Miscellaneous "C"
Box 18
Day care
Detroit Committee for the Study of the Organization of Peace (1943-1944)
Detroit Council for Youth Service
Draft deferment (July 1943-March 1944)
Miscellaneous "D"
Education Department (Nov. 1943-Nov. 1944)
Miscellaneous "E"
Fair employment practices
Richard T. Frankensteen (1942-1944)
Miscellaneous "F"
Martin Gerber
German-American Congress for Democracy and American Association for Democratic Germany
Guidance and Occupational Information Committee
Miscellaneous "G"
Miscellaneous "H"
India
Box 19
Interracial Committee
Miscellaneous "I"
Jewish Labor Committee
Miscellaneous "J"
Miscellaneous "K"
Leo Lamotte
Legal Department, UAW-CIO
Richard T. Leonard
Literature requests (Dec. 1943-Nov. 1944) (2 folders)
John Livingston
Miscellaneous "L"
William McAulay
Joseph Mattson
Medical research
Moral rearmament
National Planning Association (1943-Dec. 1944) (2 folders)
Newspaper clippings
Miscellaneous "N"
Office of Civilian Defense
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
Political action
Post-War Council (1943-1944) (2 folders)
Postwar planning (1942-Dec. 1944) (3 folders)
Postwar planning, clippings
Publicity Department
Box 21
Miscellaneous "P"
Miscellaneous "Q".
Reconversion (Dec. 1943-Dec. 1944) (2 folders)
Regional Planning Committee (Jan. 1944-Dec. 1944) (2 folders)
Research Department
Victor G. Reuther, biography
Walter Reuther (Nov. 1942-Jan. 1945) (2 folders)
Miscellaneous "R"
Safety
Safran Printing Company
Selective Service (Sept. 1943-July 1944) (2 folders)
Selective Service reemployment interpretation (Apr 1944-Dec 1944) (2 folders)
Selective Service reemployment section (Jun 1944-Dec 1944) (2 folders)
Box 22
Seniority in Detroit
Socialism
Speaking engagements (Jan. 1944-Dec. 1944) (3 folders)
Speeches
Stay-at-home vacations
Carl Swanson
Miscellaneous "S"
R.J. Thomas (1942-1944)
Transportation
UAW Convention (1943-1944) (3 folders)
UAW Constitution and Amendments
Box 23
Unemployment compensation
U.S. Department of Labor
Miscellaneous "U"
Vacations
Veterans Bureau (Feb. 1944-Dec. 1944) (2 folders)
Veterans Conference (Aprl. 6-7, 1944-Aug. 1944) (3 folders)
Veterans Conference, publicity
Veterans Conference, delegates
Veterans Conference, proceedings (2 folders)
Veterans Conference, report to Executive Board
Veterans Conference, S. 1767
Box 24
Veterans Conference, sample kit
Veterans Conference, credentials; Regions 1, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 2, 2A, 2B, 3, 4-6, 8-9A (4 folders)
Veterans Conference, questionnaires; Regions 1, 1A, 1B, 1C-7, 8-9A
(2 folders)
Veterans Department publications (Feb. 1944-Dec. 1944) (2 folders)
Veterans, American Legion
Veterans, Contact People Serving in Armed Forces (Jan 1944-Dec 1944)
(2 folders)
Veterans, disabled American
Veterans, servicemen
Veterans of foreign wars
Veterans Reemployment Clearing House Committee
Veterans Rehabilitation and Reemployment Committee
Victory Council (Jan 1944-Dec 1944) (2 folders)
Vocational education, State Board of Control
Vocational Training for Defense Workers (1941-1945)
Miscellaneous "V"
War Activities Committee
War Department, Detroit
War Department, New York and Washington
War Labor Board
War Manpower Commission (Dec. 1943-Dec. 1944) (3 folders)
Box 26
War Manpower Commission (Sept. 1944-Dec. 1944)
War Manpower Commission, Detroit minutes, appeals (Oct-10 Nov 1943)
War Manpower Commission, Detroit minutes, appeals (11 Nov 1943-Jan. 1945)
War Manpower Commission, employment stabilization manual
War Manpower Commission, labor supply, Wayne County (1942-1944)
War Manpower Commission, priority reports
War Manpower Commission, regional
War Manpower Commission, regional minutes, Cleveland (Feb. 1943-Sept. 1944) (2 folders)
War Manpower Commission, uses operating instructions (1943-1944)
Manpower Utilization Bureau
Box 27
War Manpower Commission, national (Oct 1943-Jan 1945) (2 folders)
War Manpower Commission, National Service Act
War Policy Division (Aprl. 1942-Jan. 1945) (3 folders)
War policy, Executive Board
War policy, minorities (May 1944-Feb. 1945) (2 folders)
War policy, Women's Bureau (Oct. 1942-Jan. 1945) (2 folders)
War policy, Women's Bureau, Fort Knox trip (2 folders)
War policy, Women's Bureau, Fort Knox trip
Box 28
War Policy manual (Jan. 1944-Dec. 1944) (2 folders)
War Production Board, Labor Advisory (Jan. 1944-Dec. 1944) (2 folders)
War Production Board, Labor Production (Jan. 1943-Dec. 1944)
War Production Board, Washington
War Production Drive, Headquarters
Washington Office, UAW-CIO
Workers Defense League
Miscellaneous "W"
Box 29
Local Union 1-99
LocalUnion 102-235
Box 31
Local Union 236-651
Box 32
Local Union 652-900
Box 33
Local Union 901-998
Region 1-9A