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Box 40

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

"Labor", 1946

 File — Box: 40, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Correspondence concerning labor legislation including labor union regulation and automotive workers for General Motors.

Dates: 1946

"Labor-prisoners of war", 1946

 File — Box: 40, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence requesting for the continued use of German prisoners for labor in the Southern States until the labor shortage ends.

Dates: 1946

"Labor-strike", 1946

 File — Box: 40, Folder: 3-8
Scope and Contents A large volume of correspondence concerning anti-strike legislation. In the wake of World War II the largest series of strikes in United States history occurred including oil, steel, automotive, coal, electric, meatpackers, and railroad workers. Senator Maybank was not opposed to strikes in private industry but he was against any form of strikes against the United States Government. He felt if individual groups or industry could strike against the government, then members of the armed...
Dates: 1946