Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Lee Pressman, 1958Biographical NoteLawyer
Scope and ContentsEducation, Harvard; assistant general counsel Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Resettlement Administration; general counsel Works Progress Administration, 1935-1936: general counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1936; sit down strikes; General Motors Detroit strike, 1936, U.S. Steel, 1936, Chrysler strike, Fansteel strike, 1938; power struggle and leadership in the United Automobile Workers; Communist influence on Congress of Industrial Organizations; cases before National Labor Relations Board; portal to portal; anti-trust act, Clayton Act; power struggle in Congress of Industrial Organizations: 1940 Congress of Industrial Organizations convention, John L. Lewis' speech supporting Wendell Willkie; World Trade Union movement; Congress of Industrial Organizations struggle for recognition and competition with American Federation of Labor; impressions of John L. Lewis, Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman, Walter Reuther, James B. Carey and others
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