© 2002 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Recordings of speeches, debates, discussions, reports and analyses
aired on NBC radio.
Include the following: William Green addressing unemployment, employer
opposition to unions, the National Labor Relations Board, communism, the right
to organize, A.F. of L./CIO dual unionism, the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the European
War, crisis in the CIO, A.F. of L. support of President Roosevelt's defense
effort, opposition to the Burke-Wadsworth Military Conscription Bill, labor's
defense policy, the Presidential election, 1940, appeal to workers to register
with their state employment offices for defense work, and the Taft-Hartley
Act.
Also, John L. Lewis discusses the political and economic state of the
nation from the viewpoint of organized labor, the status of the CIO, the United
Steelworkers organizing drive against Bethlehem Steel, the United Auto Workers
drive in the aircraft industry, labor in defense, and the endorsement of
Wendell Willkie in the presidential election, 1940.
Also, Daniel J. Tobin discusses the endorsement of Roosevelt for
re-election, taxes, unemployment, national defense, attack on supporters of
Wendell Willkie for president (1936, 1940); Thomas J. Lyons discusses the
international crisis and its meaning for the New York State worker, and,
labor's responsibility in the present crisis (1940-1941); George Meany
discusses what the A.F. of L. means to the country, and the post-war economy --
prosperity or economic depression (1940-1944); Philip Murray discusses the
unemployment census and argues for full employment and guaranteed annual wages
for workers (n.d.).
Also, speeches by George Addes on the defense employment problem
(1941); by George Berry on industrial problems (1936); by Lewis K. Comstock and
Matthew Woll on cooperation between capital and labor (1938); a debate by Abram
Flaxer, Walter Reuther and others on the question of the expulsion of the
United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America from the CIO (1949); a
commentary by Frank Murphy on the settlement of the General Motors Strike of
1937 (1937); a discussion by Rolland Thomas and others on the strike situation,
charging that local communist leadership is behind wildcat strikes in North
America (1941); a speech by Robert Wagner in which he speaks against Willkie
and for the re-election of Roosevelt (1940); a rally speech by Henry Wallace in
which he speaks on foreign policy and the war in Europe (1941); a seminar on
national defense in which David Walsh was a participant (1940); speech by
Burton K. Wheeler on then current issues facing Americans (1936); speech by
John Winant defending the social security system against Republican criticism
(1936); speech by Matthew Woll on unemployment (1940); and a speech by Walter
Reuther, entitled, "Five hundred planes a day" (1940).
SUBJECTS
Names:
National Broadcasting Company,
inc.
Addes, George P.,
1910-
Berry, George Leonard,
1882-1948.
Flaxer, Abram.
Green, William,
1872-1952.
Lewis, John Llewellyn,
1880-1969.
Lyons, Thomas
J.
Meany, George,
1894-
Murphy, Frank,
1890-1949.
Murray, Philip,
1886-1952.
Reuther, Walter,
1907-1970.
Thomas, R. J.(Rolland
Jay), 1900-1967.
Tobin, Daniel J.(Daniel
Joseph), 1875-1955.
Wagner, Robert F.(Robert
Ferdinand), 1877-1953.
Wallace, Henry Agard,
1888-1965.
Walsh, David I.(David
Ignatius), 1872-1947.
Willkie, Wendell
L.(Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.
Winant, John Gilbert,
1889-1947.
Woll, Matthew,
1880-1956.
Bethlehem Steel
Corporation.
International Union,
United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)
United Electrical, Radio,
and Machine Workers of America.
United States.
United States.National
Labor Relations Board.
United Steelworkers of
America.
Subjects:
General Motors Corporation Sit-Down
Strike, 1936-1937.
Labor--United States--Political
activity.
Working class--United States--Political
activity.
Labor movement--United States--Political
activity.
Draft--United States.
Presidents--United
States--Election--1940.
Russo-German treaty, 1939.
Social security--United States.
Labor unions and communism--United
States.
Labor unions and foreign policy--United
States.
Unemployment--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Economic
aspects--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Economic
aspects--New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Speeches.