Author: Jensen, Vernon H.
Title: Nonferrous Metals Industry Unionism, 1932-1954 : A Story of Leadership Controversy
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University, (1954). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xv,328 pp. Series: Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations, 5.. Rubbed. Spine faded. Name inked on half-title. Good. ¶ A history of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, successor to Western Federation of Miners, and its expulsion from the CIO for Communist Party ties of its left-led leadership. Contents: Early Union Developments: Revival of Mine Mill; Status & Health 1934; Jurisdiction & Industrial Unionism; Unseating of Tom Brown; Organizational Developments; Emerging Alignments: The Defense Period; Calling the Roll; Die-Casting Merger; The "Pittsburgh Purge"; "Unity" Wartime Style; The Struggle Control: Seven to Five; Increasing Dissension; Crucial Convention; Secession; "Ther Fight for the Union"; Non-Communist Affadavit Secession; Relations with CIO & Other Unions; Expulsion from the CIO; Post Expulsion Rivalry; In Conclusion; Appendices.

Keywords: American Labor History, Mine Mill Smelter, Mining Unions, United States, Nonferrous Metals, Political Politics, Communist, Communism, Industrial Union