Industrial Organizations – Political Action Committee or CIO-PAC (1943–1955). What distinguished the CIO-PAC from previous political groups (including the AFL's...

Committee (CIO-PAC), headed by Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and a long-time vice president of the CIO. He tried...

emerged from the labor movement of 1943. The first PAC was the CIO-PAC, formed in July 1943 under CIO president Philip Murray and headed by Sidney Hillman...

permanent political action committee (PAC) within the CIO, the CIO-PAC, the first-ever PAC in the United States. The CIO's political efforts were only marginally...

Hillman, affiliated throughout with either the AFL or CIO or merged AFL–CIO. He also was head of the CIO-PAC (1946–1955), and was close to U.S. Presidents Franklin...

While the CIO's national leadership decried communism; some of the local CIO-PAC branches were dominated by Communist Party members. The CIO-PAC, which had...

Industrial Organizations (CIO). In his memoir, Abt claimed that leaders of the Communist Party of the USA had inspired the idea of the CIO-PAC: In 1943, Gene Dennis...

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led to formation of the CIO-PAC in July 1943. In 1948 he led the crackdown on local labor councils and state bodies within the CIO that had endorsed American...

1948 Progressive Party). In July 1943, Philip Murray of the CIO led formation of the CIO-PAC, of which Hillman was the first head. In Roosevelt's last election...

(2003–present) Labor unions Arizona AFL-CIO National Education Association Organizations Congressional Hispanic Caucus BOLD PAC EMILY's List Latino Victory Fund...

America (post-primary) Texas Medical Association PAC Labor unions National Education Association Texas AFL-CIO Texas American Federation of Teachers United...

Right to Life Victory PAC NRA Political Victory Fund Jamie Skudlarek (D) Organizations 314 Action The Fairness Campaign Kentucky AFL-CIO Kentucky Sierra Club...

dollar. CIO president Philip Murray and Pressman both supported the increase. In July 1943, the CIO formed a political action committee, the "CIO-PAC," chaired...

that, while FBI agents had always asked permission to check records of CIO-PAC contributions, these records were already available from the Secretary...

of the Congress of Industrial Organizations Political Action Committee (CIO-PAC), Jack Kroll and A.F. Whitney. Despite Truman's aides' aggressive pressure...

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada...

background as the union's secretary-treasurer. He was appointed to the CIO-PAC, the CIO's political action committee. He spent most of his time visiting local...

Taft asserted that Truman had chosen to follow the economic views of the CIO-PAC and left the Democratic Party split and his legislative recommendations...

Pecora and Senator Lehman (D-NY) gave radio addresses on behalf of the CIO-PAC during prime (10:30-11:15 P.M.). In the campaign, he ran on the Democratic...

Parenthood Action Fund Reproductive Freedom for All Labor unions Iowa AFL-CIO (post-primary) United Auto Workers (post-primary) Nicholas Gluba, Lone Tree...

Precinct Organization J Street PAC Labor unions AFSCME Council 31 Chicago Federation of Labor IBEW Local 134 Illinois AFL-CIO International Brotherhood of...

Communist front group. In September 1946, ICCASP joined the CIO-PAC, the National Citizens PAC (NCPAC), the NAACP, the Railroad Brothers, the National Farmers...

Political Action Committee (NC-PAC), an arm of the Congress of Industrial Organizations - Political Action Committee (or CIO-PAC). Anita McCormick Blaine was...

the American labor movement, by 1944 Tobin was working closely with the CIO PAC. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, William Green...

"Nixon for Congress/Put the needle in the P.A.C." Voorhis's supposed involvement with and endorsement by the CIO-PAC, which was believed to be a Communist...

Senator Herbert H. Lehman (D-NY) gave radio addresses on behalf of the CIO-PAC during prime (10:30–11:15 p.m.). In 1937, Pecora was a founding member...

Population Connection Action Fund Sierra Club Vote Mama Labor unions Michigan AFL-CIO Michigan Education Association National Education Association Paul Hudson...

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president of the American Polish Labor Council (APLC), appended to the CIO PAC to support Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1944 presidential campaign. In 1909...