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Oral history transcript, Edgar L. Ball, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • union people--the CIO people, not the AFL people, but the CIO people who were at the convention--in his room I think it was, at the hotel, and made this proposal to them. Then Lyndon came into that meeting and spoke in favor, asked them to go along
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Holleman was a labor official at the time-- S: He was president of the AFofL-CIO, I believe; and Fred Schmidt was another one of the labor leaders; and of course Creekmore Fath was one of those people, too, that were somewhat suspicious of this new-- B
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • Committee, not supporting either the AFL-CIO bill or the Teamster's bill or the Eisenhower bill. The Teamsters and the Machinists very much opposed my re-election in any year after that. K: Because you had organized his--I don't know if organized
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh E. Rowe--I --3 job was in and around the mines. the CIO was born. He got nowhere, so that's when That's when I worked at the United Mine Workers, and it was a very exciting time. John L. Lewis, with the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers
Oral history transcript, James W. Smith, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they did to what we in the CIO unions thought was a more appropriate politics of the 1950s. G: Well now, how did Rayburn become involved with the DAC? Did you go to him or did he go to you? S: Well, Sam Rayburn took charge of the [Adlai] Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • about this Travis County delegation. You remember the AFL had endorsed Coke Stevenson and I said, well, Jake, Harry Ackerman, who is secretary of the State AFL, is pretty well in charge of that delegation. You know he was for Stevenson. Of course, I
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in finding that middle ground was very painful to us who were fighting for issues. That's why the confrontation got worse between the liberals and Johnson. For example, it's hard to recollect this, but the lobbyist for the CIO, one of the most radical
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , at least in the beginning, the AF of L and the CIO were separate 0 rganizations. Green would not permit the AF of L men to sit down with the CIO (then) woman on Social Security unless a third party brought them. together. I became that third party. So
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Yes, very curious,yes. That was Johnson at his political best or worst, depending on how you look at it. I mean, he was determined to win. B: Did you ever figure out how he got the CIO support? M: Well, he had always been considered more
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There was the AFL version, the [John F.] Shelley substitute, which was window dressing. It was nothing but labor trying to sneak by without making any reforms. was then and is now, in my book, a gutless wonder. instead of leads. George Meany He presides