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	Series: Series 8: Files of the Director of Research
U.S. Mss 117A/8A	Subseries: File A: General File Scope and Content Note: Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, clippings, reports, pamphlets, and other materials relative to economic, social, and political problems of interest to Florence Thorne as Director of Research of the AFL. Prominent in this file are materials bearing on World War II including Defense, Education, International Relations, and Post War Problems. Arrangement of the Materials: Alphabetical by subject.
Box 1	“A” Miscellaneous
Box 1	Agreements, Union
Box 1	Agriculture Department
Box 1	Air Pilots
Box 1	American Federationist
Box 1	American Institute of Accountants
Box 1	Antioch College
Box 1	Apprenticeship Training
Box 1	“B” Miscellaneous
Box 2	Borchardt, Selma
Box 2	“C” Miscellaneous
Box 2	Catholic Trade Unionists
Box 2	Closed Shop
Box 2	Collective Bargaining
Box 2	Communism
Box 2	Company Unions
Box 2	Compensation, Unemployment
Box 2	Compensation, Seaman's Unemployment
Box 2	Compulsory Arbitration
Box 2	Conference of National Organization
Box 2	Confidential
Box 2	Conservation
Box 2	Committee on Consumer Cooperatives
Box 2	Consumer's Price Index
Box 2	Cooke, Morris
	Cooperation with Government Agencies
Box 3	Bureau of Labor Statistics
Box 3	Child Bureau - Miss Florence Thorne
Box 3	Division of Labor Standards
Box 3	Committee on Education and Training
Box 3	Cooperatives
Box 3	Cost of Living
Box 3	“D” Miscellaneous, 1945-1951
	Defense
Box 4	Absenteeism
Box 4	Cooperating Committees
Box 4	Executive Order 1240 (Overtime Pay)
Box 4	Defense Committee, AFL, 1941
Box 4	Defense Training
Box 5	Defense Training, continued
Box 5	Education (Defense Training)
Box 5	Education, Emergency
Box 5	Educational Facilities in Defense
Box 5	Government Training Program
Box 5	Health and Housing
Box 6	Inflation
Box 6	Labor Defense Cities
Box 6	Labor Policy Advisory Committee
Box 6	Labor Relations and the War
Box 6	Labor Speakers Bureau
Box 6	Labor in World War II
Box 6	Letters sent out on Defense
Box 6	Mediation Board
Box 6	Migration
Box 6	National Committee of Appeal Selective Service (AFL)
Box 6	Colored Workers in Unions
Box 7	Negro Workers
Box 7	OPACS
Box 7	Price Control
Box 7	Small Business in Defense Program
Box 7	Taxation for Defense
Box 7	Wages
Box 7	WPA
Box 7	“E” Miscellaneous
Box 7	Economic Development, Committee for
Box 7	Economic Advisors, Council of
	Education
Box 7	Blue Sheets
Box 7	Citizens Federal Committee on Education, 1946-1951
Box 8	Committee on Education, 1949-1952
Box 8	Ford Foundation
Box 8	Industry and Labor Education Days
Box 9	Meetings, 1952
Box 9	Materials referred to
Box 9	Court Decision Affecting Federal Aid
Box 9	Distributive Education
Box 9	Educational Exchange
Box 9	Federal Aid, 1945-1950
Box 9	Federal Security Agency
Box 9	Joint Council on Economic Education
Box 9	Kentucky Department of Education
Box 9	Labor Schools
Box 9	Labor Great Books Program
Box 9	Physically Handicapped
Box 10	Scholarships Contests
Box 10	School Lunch Program
Box 10	Sub Committee on Adult and Union Education
Box 10	Sub Committee on Public Schools
Box 10	Sub Committee on Vocational Education, 1948-1951
Box 10	Sub Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation
Box 10	Trade Union Fellowships
Box 11	Workers Education (Cornell University)
Box 11	Workers Education Bureau
Box 11	Workers Educational Program
Box 11	Workers Schools
Box 11	Elder, Arthur
Box 11	Employment Committee
Box 11	Employment, Post War
Box 11	Encyclopedia Articles
	Executive Council
Box 11	, 1943 Convention
Box 12	Blue Sheets, 1944-1950 Scope and Content Note: These are essentially resolutions passed, with pertinent correspondence attached.
Box 12	Cuban Sugar Contracts
	Executive Council Reports
Box 12	1944-1950
Box 13	1952
Box 13	“F” Miscellaneous
Box 13	Farm Labor
Box 13	Featherbedding
Box 13	Federal Security Agency, Children's Bureau, 1946-1949
Box 13	Federationist Data
Box 13	Film Council, Hollywood
Box 13	Foreign Labor Movements
Box 13	Foreign Studies in Living Conditions (in the U.S.)
Box 13	Foreign Trade
Box 13	France, Clemens
Box 13	Free Enterprise (Woll Statement)
Box 14	Free Trade Union Committee
Box 14	Full Employment
Box 14	“G” Miscellaneous
Box 14	Garret, Garet
Box 14	Gibson, Mary
Box 14	Googe, George
	Government Advisory Committee
Box 14	Advisory Committee
Box 14	National Labor Advisory Council (American Arbitration Association)
Box 14	Committee on Employment
Box 14	Directory of State Representative Advisory Committee
Box 14	Federal Advisory Council for Employment Security
Box 14	Food - Labor Advisory Committee (War)
Box 14	Advisory Committee-Protection of Young Workers
Box 14	General Advisory Committee-Protection of Young Workers-Children's Bureau
Box 15	Minutes of Meetings
Box 15	Report of Organization and Utilization of Representative Advisory Committees
Box 15	Advisory Committee - Women's Bureau
Box 15	“H” Miscellaneous, 1945-1951
Box 15	Health Insurance
Box 15	Health Insurance Plan
Box 15	Hyeman, William
Box 15	Hoover Commission Report
Box 15	Hotel and Restaurant Employees
Box 15	H.R. 3199
Box 15	Housing
Box 15	Human Rights - Human Rights and Genocide Convention
Box 15	“I” Miscellaneous
	Insurance Agents Council, National Federation of International Affairs
Box 15	American Labor Conf.
Box 15	Bretton Woods Agreement
Box 15	Dumbarton Oaks
Box 15	Economic Cooperation Administration
Box 16	ECA , (1951)
Box 16	Mutual Security Agency
Box 16	Point Four
Box 16	Boris Shishkin (E.C.A.)
Box 16	Women's Group (E.C.A.)
	International Labor Relations
Box 16	Africa
Box 16	Argentina
Box 16	British Compulsory Labor
Box 16	China
Box 16	England
Box 16	Germany
Box 16	Greece
Box 16	Israel
	Committee on
Box 16	1945-1946
Box 17	1947-1952
Box 17	Miscellaneous Maps
Box 18	Foreign Labor and the War
Box 18	Foreign Unions
Box 18	Inter-American Federation of Labor
Box 18	International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1949-1952
Box 18	International Federation of Trade Unions
Box 18	International Free Trade Union
Box 18	ILO
Box 18	International Trade Organization
Box 18	International Trade Union Organization
Box 18	London Conference, 1949
Box 18	IRI Committee - Report , (1928)
Box 18	International Union - Financial
Box 18	Job Evaluation
Box 19	Japanese Labor Movement
Box 19	Mexico
Box 19	Poland
Box 19	Puerto Rico
Box 19	Russia
Box 19	Sweden
Box 19	Switzerland
Box 19	Irving Brown
Box 19	George Delaney
Box 19	Richard Deverall
Box 19	Frank P. Fend
Box 19	Joseph Kennan
Box 19	Hugh Killough
Box 19	Serafino Romauldi
Box 19	Henry Rutz
Box 19	“J” Miscellaneous
Box 19	Juvenile Delinquency
Box 19	“K” Miscellaneous
Box 20	“L”` Miscellaneous, 1949-1950
	Labor Advisory Board
Box 20	Material for history
Box 20	Comments on History
Box 20	New Material for History
Box 21	Minutes, August 30, 1933-June 6, 1935
Box 21	Labor Day - Special Articles, 1949
	Labor, Department of
Box 22	Conference on Industrial Safety
Box 22	General, 1947-1952
Box 22	Labor Extension Advisory Committee
Box 22	Labor Research Advisory Committee
Box 22	Child Labor and Youth Employment
Box 22	Children's Bureau, 1945-1946
Box 22	Labor Attaches
Box 22	Statistical Standards Division
Box 22	Secretary of Labor
Box 22	Women's Bureau, 1950-1952
Box 22	Workers Education
Box 23	Labor Extension Service, 1946-1950
Box 23	Labor's League for Political Education
Box 23	Labor Management Conference
Box 23	Legislation
Box 23	Library Association, American
Box 23	Library of Congress - Manuscript Division-AFL Files
Box 23	Lincoln
Box 23	“M”
Box 23	“M” Miscellaneous, 1945-1949
Box 24	“Mc” Miscellaneous
Box 24	Manpower
Box 24	Britain and Canada
Box 24	Maritime Labor Institute
Box 24	Meany, George
Box 24	Medical Care - Health
Box 24	Medical Committee
Box 24	Minority Groups
Box 24	Miscellaneous
Box 24	Monday Night Conferences
Box 25	Motion Picture Alliance
Box 25	Mutual Investment Fund
Box 25	“N”
Box 25	“N” Miscellaneous
Box 25	National Child Labor Committee
Box 25	National Citizens Commission for Public Schools
Box 25	National Fund for Medical Education
Box 25	National Industrial Conference Board
Box 26	National Labor Advisory Council
Box 26	National Planning Association
Box 26	National Resources Planning Board
Box 26	National Service Act
Box 26	National War Labor Board
Box 26	National Youth Administration
Box 26	NYA Advisory Group
Box 26	Negroes
Box 26	New England Council
Box 26	“O”
Box 26	“O” Miscellaneous
	Office Production Management
Box 27	Cooperation with
Box 27	Labor Policy Committee
Box 27	OWI
Box 27	Older Workers - Employment Problems
Box 27	“P”
Box 27	“P” Miscellaneous
Box 27	Padway
Box 27	Peace Plans
Box 28	Pension Plans
Box 28	Personnel Relations
Box 28	Physcician Forum
Box 28	Political
Box 28	Post War Bills
Box 28	Post War
Box 28	Central Labor Unions
Box 28	Contract Cancellations
Box 28	Correspondence
Box 28	Data
Box 29	Committee on Economic Development
Box 29	Employment
Box 29	Foreign Policy
Box 29	Forum, 1944
Box 29	Manpower
Box 29	Meeting, July 1943
Box 30	Post War Meeting, December 1943
Box 30	Meeting, February 1944
	Planning Committee
Box 30	Correspondence, l942-1944
Box 30	Letter to Central Labor Union, July 1943
Box 30	April 1944
Box 31	April 1944, continued
Box 31	Offers of cooperation
Box 31	Shipbuilding
Box 31	State Department
Box 31	Surplus Property
Box 31	Educational and Social Welfare
	Sub Committees
Box 31	Housing
Box 31	Rehabilitation and Vocational Training
Box 31	Self Help Consumers Producers Cooperative
Box 31	Social Security
Box 31	Textiles and Allied Producers
Box 31	Transportation
Box 31	Union Management Cooperative Plan
Box 31	United State Employment Service
Box 31	Wage Incentives
Box 31	Wages Committee
Box 32	Women in Industry
Box 32	Prisoners of War
Box 32	Professional Workers
Box 32	Proposed War Plans
Box 32	“R”
Box 32	“R” Miscellaneous
Box 32	Reconversion Statement (by Mr. Green)
Box 33	Recreation
Box 33	Relief
Box 33	Relief and Rehabilitation
Box 33	Requests (Literature)
Box 33	Research
Box 33	Research Assistance
Box 33	Research - Industrial Relations Research Association
Box 33	Research Workers
Box 34	Research Workers Available, 1942-1952
Box 34	Russian War Relief
Box 34	“S”
Box 34	“S” Miscellaneous
Box 34	Safety
Box 34	Safety Codes
Box 34	Security and Freedom
Box 34	Sesquicentennial Celebration
Box 34	Shop Steward
Box 34	Sickness
Box 34	Slaughter, Glen
Box 34	Small Loan Act
Box 34	Social Security, Committee on
Box 35	1944-1951
Box 36	1952
Box 36	Social Security - Miscellaneous
Box 36	Southern Organization Campaign
Box 36	State Department
Box 36	Stephens, Roderick
Box 36	Stinnes, Dr. Edmund H.
Box 36	Strikes, Statements re:
Box 36	Sturgis, Alice
Box 36	“T”
Box 36	“T” Miscellaneous
Box 36	Tariff
Box 36	Taxation - Blue Sheets, 1951
	Taxation, Committee on
Box 36	1940-1942
Box 37	1943-1949
Box 38	1950-1952
Box 38	Taxation, Post War
Box 38	Tax Program
Box 38	Tax: Proposed 22nd Amendment, 1944
Box 38	Teachers, American Federation of
Box 38	Teachers - Educational Reconstruction
Box 38	Time Studies
Box 38	Toland Memorial
Box 38	Trade, International
Box 39	Trade Union Definition
Box 39	Twentieth Century Fund
Box 39	“U”
Box 39	“U” Miscellaneous
Box 39	Union Management Cooperation
	United Nations
Box 39	Children's Fund
Box 39	Dumbarton Oaks
Box 39	Sub-commission on Economic Development
Box 39	Economic and Employment Commission
Box 39	Committee on Employment and Economic Security
Box 39	Economic and Social Security
Box 39	Food and Agricultural Organization
Box 39	Free Trade Union Committee
Box 39	International Refugee
Box 39	International Trade Organization
Box 39	Toni Sender
Box 40	Toni Sender, 1948-1949
Box 40	Slave Labor
Box 40	UNESCO
Box 40	UNRRA
Box 40	Woll Address to NAM
Box 40	Sub-commission Status of Women
Box 40	“V”
Box 41	Veterans, Committee on
	Veterans
Box 41	Demobilized Servicemen - Unemployment Allowances
Box 41	Education and Retraining
Box 41	Full Employment Bill
Box 41	Questionnaire
Box 41	Seniority
Box 41	Separation Centers
Box 41	Unemployment Compensation
Box 42	“W”
Box 42	“W” Miscellaneous, 1947-1950
Box 42	Wage Plan, Annual
Box 42	Wage Resolution, Basic Minimum
Box 42	War Controls
	War Production
Box 42	Industrial Health and Safety Committee
Box 42	Labor Management
Box 42	War Production Board
Box 43	War Production Board, continued
Box 43	Pulp and Paper Industry
Box 43	Welfare State
Box 43	Woll, Albert
Box 43	Woll, Mathew, 1941-1952
	Women
Box 44	Equal Pay
Box 44	Inter-American Commission of Women
Box 44	Conference on Employment of Women
Box 44	National Committee on status of
Box 44	“XYZ”
U.S. Mss 117A/8B	Subseries: File B: Social Security File, 1934-1943 Scope and Content Note: Correspondence, reports, legislative information, and other material bearing on the problems of Social Security. Arrangement of the Materials: By numbered subjects.	⇧
Box 1	#1. Committee on Economic Security, 1931-1935
Box 1	#2. Committee on Economic Security, 1934-1935
Box 1	#3. Daily Press Digest - Weekly Summaries, clippings
Box 1	#4. Studies - General
Box 1	#5. Social Security Act, 1935
Box 2	#6. Amendments to Act, 1939
Box 2	#7. Amendments to Act, 1939, Hearings before the House Ways and Means Committee
Box 2	#8. Amendments to Act, 1939, Hearings before the Senate Finance Committee
Box 3	#9. Amendments to Act, 1939, Comments and Analysis, AFL
Box 3	#10. Amendments to Act, 1939, Comments and Analysis, other than AFL
Box 3	#11. Legislation, 1940 - General
Box 3	#11a. Legislation, Emergency aid to injured civilians
Box 3	#12. Amendments to Act, Coverage-S. 4269 and H.R. 10384
Box 3	#12a. S. 1269
Box 3	#12b. State and Municipal Employees
Box 4	#13. Amendments to Act, 1940, H.R. 7762
Box 4	#14. Amendments to Act, 1940, H.R. 7762 Correspondence
Box 4	#15. Amendments to Act, 1940, H.R. 7762 Correspondence
Box 4	#16. Coverage: H.R. 7935: Agricultural Workers; Insurance Agents
Box 4	#17. Coverage: H.R. 9798: Seamen; Union officers; Misc.
Box 4	#18. Amendments to Act, 1941 - General
Box 5	#19. Amendments to Act, 1941, Wagner Bill
Box 5	#20. Bulletins, Social Security Board
Box 5	#21. Bulletins, Social Security Board
Box 5	#22. W.P.A.
Box 5	#23. Wage and Employment Record Booklet - AFL
Box 5	#24. Mailing List
Box 6	#25. Bibliography
Box 6	#26. Correspondence, General
Box 6	#27. Correspondence, Social Security Board
Box 6	#28. Foreign
Box 6	#29. Crank Schemes
Box 6	#31. American Federation of Labor, Social Security, Committee
Box 6	#32. H.R. 7534 (Eliot Bill)
U.S. Mss 117A/8C	Subseries: File C: Old Age Insurance File, 1939-1942 Scope and Content Note: Correspondence, reports, and other materials bearing on the subject of Old Age Insurance. Arrangement of the Materials: By numbered subjects.	⇧
Box 1	#1. Legislation, Federal and State
Box 1	#2. State Experience with Old Age Insurance
Box 1	#3. AFL Memoranda and Circular Letters
Box 1	#4. Studies, Social Security Board
Box 1	#5. Old Age Insurance Plans
Box 1	#6. Old Age Benefits
Box 1	#7. Correspondence
Box 1	#8. Statistics
U.S. Mss 117A/8D	Subseries: File D: Unemployment Compensation File, 1935-1940 Scope and Content Note: Correspondence, studies, reports, and other material concerned with Unemployment Compensation. Arrangement of the Materials: By numbered subjects.	⇧
Box 1	#1. Principles, General
Box 1	#2. Standards, Federal and State
Box 1	#3. Advisory Councils, State and Federal
Box 1	#4. Appeals, Appeal Procedure, State and Interstate
Box 1	#5. Appeals, Decisions
Box 1	#6. Appeals, Decisions - Labor Disputes
Box 1	#7. Benefits, Adequacy
Box 2	#8. Benefits, Formulas
	Merit Rating
Box 2	#9. AFL Memoranda
Box 2	#10. Miscellaneous Studies
Box 2	#11. Correspondence
	#12. States
Box 2	Alabama - Massachusetts
Box 3	Michigan - Wyoming
Box 4	#14. Comparison of State Laws
Box 4	#15. Directory of State Officers Administering Unemployment Compensation Laws
Box 4	#16. Unemployment Compensation Legislation - AFL Memoranda
Box 5	#17 a,b,c. Interstate Conference Employment Security Agencies
	#18. States
Box 5	Alabama - Arizona
Box 6	Arkansas - Illinois
Box 7	Indiana - New Jersey
Box 8	New Mexico - Pennsylvania
Box 9	Rhode Island - Wyoming
Box 9	#19. Employment and Defense
Box 10	#20. Unemployment - General Studies
Box 10	#21. Unemployment - Partial
Box 10	#22. Seasonal Unemployment
Box 10	#23. Foreign
Box 10	#24. Department of Labor Survey
Box 10	#25. General Memoranda, AFL
U.S. Mss 117A/8E	Subseries: File E: Health File, 1935-1943 Scope and Content Note: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other materials concerned with the problem of health. Arrangement of the Materials: By numbered subjects.	⇧
Box 1	#1. National Health Survey Reports, 1935-1936
Box 2	#2. Interdepartmental Committee I, National Health Conference, 1938
Box 2	#3. Interdepartmental Committee II, Publications
Box 2	#4. Memoranda - AFL
Box 2	#5. Studies and Notes - General and Miscellaneous
Box 3	#6. Hospitalization and Health Insurance Plans
	Federal Health Program
Box 4	#7. Proposals and Discussions
Box 4	#8. S. 1620 (Wagner Health Bill)
Box 4	#9. S. 1620, Hearing before Senate Committee
Box 4	#10. Bills other than S. 1620
Box 4	#11. Disability Insurance
Box 4	#12. Correspondence
Box 4	#13. Workman's Compensation for Occupational Diseases
Box 4	#14. Health, Social Security
U.S. Mss 117A/8F	Subseries: File F: General File, 1939-1943 Scope and Content Note: Correspondence, reports, and other materials dealing largely with the problems of labor in the defense effort and with post-war problems. Arrangement of the Materials: By numbered subjects.	⇧
Box 1	#1. Trades, Building
Box 1	#2. Trades, Farm Labor
Box 1	#3. Pulp and Paper, 1940
Box 1	#4. Pulp and Paper-, 1941 Revision
Box 1	#5. Orders for Materials
Box 1	#6. Miscellaneous
Box 2	#7. Dismissal Compensation
Box 2	#8. Defense Committee - AFL
Box 2	#9. National Defense
Box 2	#10. Post-War Planning
Box 2	#11. Employment Service
Box 2	#12. Vandenburg Amendment - H.R. 7378
Box 2	#13. War Labor Standards