A&P Stores, 22
A&T College, 544
Abbysinian Baptist Church, 415
Able, I. W., n 47
Acheson, Dean G., n 218
Acme Rubber Co., 75
Adams, Steward, 189
Addam, C. M., 188
Addams, Stord, 188
Addes, George F., 360
“Admiral of the Queen’s Navee,” 131
Aeronautical Mechanics Union, 442
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, n 42
African National Congress, 608
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), 171, 172, 205, 206
Agricultural and Cannery Workers, 118
Airline Pilots Association, 396, 472
Alabama Drydock & Shipbuilding Co., 279
Alabama State Federation of Labor, 425, n 61
Alabama State Industrial Union Council, n 61
Albertson, Bill, 116
Albina Machinist Works, 442
Alien Registration Act, n 202
Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Co., 381
Allegheny Steel Co., 100
Allen, Amanthy, 175
Allen, Bishop Richard, n 79
Allen Industries’ Leland Plant, 537
Allen, Richard, 151
Allied Printing Trades Council, 581
Allis-Chalmers Corp., 273
Alston, C. Columbus, 117, 118, 122, 124, 126, 259
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, 7, 41, 45, 47, 49, 86, 89, 103, 146, n 28
Amalgamated Association of Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers, 62, 72
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees, 90, 309, 418
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 7, 78, 79, 85, 88, 99, 117, 118, 145, 222, 354, 498, 503, n 3, n 96, n 182
Amalgamated Lithographers, 531
American Aircraft Corporation, 216
American Bakeries, 96
American Car Foundry, 90
American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 95
American Civil Liberties Union, 284
American Clergymen’s Committee, n 42
American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, 576, 577
American Defense League of New York, 425
American Federation of Labor, 139
American Federation of Labor Boilermakers “Auxiliary,” 419
American Federation of Musicians, 72
American Federation of Railroad Workers, 472
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, 79, 157
American Federation of Teachers, 7, 71, 118, 121, 428, 436
American Finishing Company, 94
American First Party, 363, n 101
American Flint Glass Workers Union, 472
American Friends of the Chinese People, 152
American Friends Service Committee, 307
American Labor Party, 151, 376, 397, n 14, n 16, n 159, n 204
American League Against War and Fascism, 152, 153
American Liberty League, 104, 143, 147, 151, n 59
American Missionary College, 12
American Negro Labor Congress, 395, n 74
American Newspaper Guild, 7
American President Lines, 129
American Shipbuilding Company, 274
American Tobacco Company, 118, 120
American Train Dispatchers’ Association, 472
American Wire Weavers’ Association, 472
American Woodmen, 43
American Youth Congress, 31, 32, 164
Anderson, W. G., 65
Andrews, Elmer F., 28
Anti-Discrimination Committee, 372
anti-lynching bill, 160, 161, 166
Antonini, Luigi, 410
Arcadia, the S.S., 133
Armour Meatpacking Company, 88, 547
Armstrong Association, 46, 70, 223, 224, 225
Armstrong, Henry, 330
Army Nurse Corps, 245
Asbestos Workers, Heat and Frost Insulators, 472
Associated Automobile Workers, 364
Associated Press, 174
Association of American Railroads, 333
Association of Colored Railway Employees, 525
Association of Colored Railway Trainmen and Locomotive Firemen, 525, 541, 542, 543
Association of Educational and Recreational Workers’, 71
Association of Machinists, 394
Association of Works Progress Relief Agencies, 79
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, 522, 533
Atlanta University, n 16, n 105
Atomic Energy Commission, 586
Attucks, Crispus, 264, 475, n 106, n 178
Austin, Columbus, 66
Austin, David, 65
Austin, J. C., 47
Automotive Industrial Workers Association, 364
Auto Workers Union, n 28
Auxiliary Unions, 473, 483, 484, 485, 486
Axis, 40, 238, 255, 262, 281, 312, 343, 368, 369, 371, 384, 457, 459
Baker, E. W., 277
Baker, Jr., James E., 413
Baker, Jr., James H., 134, 135
Baker, Josephine, 556
Baldanzie, George, n 3
Baldwin Locomotive Works, 224
Baldwin, William H., 277, n 114
Ball, Jim, 178
Baltimore Afro-American, 42
Baltimore Brass and Copper Company, 69
Bancroft, Richard, 354
Banks, William, 72
Banner, Warren, 277
Barco, Newcomb, 6
Bard, Ralph, 279
Bargemen’s Union, 130
Baron, Murray, 410
Bartenders’ International League of America, 439, 440
Bartlett-Hayward Plant, 250
Bass, Simon, 178
Battle of the Bulge, 523
Baven, Malaku E., 153
Bay Cities Metal Trades Council, 469
Bearse Manufacturing Company, 273
Beaumont, Texas Riot, the, 371
Becker, William Dee, 345
Beddow, Noel R., 104, 109, 110, n 57
Bedell, Mary S., 493
Bell Aircraft Corporation, 228
Bellson, Ford, 128
Bellums, C. L., 272
Bendix Aviation Corporation, 224
Benjamin, George, 421
Bennett, Gwendolyn, 159
Bessemer (Ala.) Voters League, 561
Bethlehem Steel Company, 51, 53, 68, 99
Better Birmingham Committee, 104
Biddle, Francis B., 312, 313, 315, 340, 362, 367, n 128
Bigelow, J. G., 418
Big-Four Brotherhoods, 521, 522
Biggs, Lodie, 134
Bilbo, Senator (Theodore G.), 503, n 106
Binghamton Inter-Racial Commission, 412
Birmingham Stove and Range Company, 95
Birmingham Water Works Board, 553
Birmingham World, 97
Biscuit, Martin, 96
Bivins, James, 330
Black, Hugo L., 151, 541, n 78
Black League, Henry Ford’s, 15, 84, 237, 363
Black Worker, 6
Blagden, Willie Sue, 177
Blair, Algernon, 399
Bloom, Frank, 421
Bluefield (W. Va.) State Teachers College, 81
Boeing Aircraft Corporation, 272, 359, 442
Bomby, Ray, 146
Bonds, Herman, 84
Bonosky, Phillip, 111
Bookuff, George W., 7
Boswell, James, n 12
Botin, Paul, 583
Bourbons, the, 117, 118, 164, 285
Bowman, B. H., 417
Boy Scouts of America, 373
Boyd, Frank, 526
Boyle, Tony, n 77
Bradley, William, 85
Brandeis, Louis, n 218
Brandt, Ray, 205
Brewery Workers’ Union, 515
Bricklayers, Masons and Plasters International Union, 441, 453, n 172
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, 517
Bridges, Harry A. R., 592, 600, n 214
Brigg Company, 82
Brinkman, B., 199
British-American Tobacco Company, 117, 118, 122
British Labour Party, 36
Brookwood Labor College, 61, n 48
Brophy, John, 160, 161, 272, 273, 277, 293, 375, 393, n 89
Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Welders, and Helpers of America, 274, 291–302, 422, 442, 443, 461, 462, 469, 472, 473, 476, 507, 510, 512, n 163.
Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers, 472, 479, 480, 507, 510, 512
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 443, 444, 452, 461
Brotherhood of Dining Car Employees, 395, 396
Brotherhood of the Footboard, 522
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 7, 396, 472, 520, 521, 522
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 533, 542, 543
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, 414, 472
Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America, 79, 130, 398, 442, 445, 446
Brotherhood of Railroad Freight Handlers, Clerks and Teamsters, 65
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 472, 520, 521
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, 414, 472, 505, 506, 507, 509, 510, 512, 513, 515, 516, n 183
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes, 393, 396, 414, 454, 455, 461, 472, 504, 510, n 184
Brotherhood of Red Caps, 62, 226, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 351, 376, 474, 488, 520, n 33
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 6, 7, 28, 41, 47, 91, 92, 134, 135, 140, 150, 154, 157, 159, 160, 214, 253, 277, 284, 393, 394, 395, 411, 413, 415, 417, 422, 423, 427–41, 446, 448, 452–60, 463, 465–67, 483–89, 504–06, 509–16, 526–28, 580, 585, 613, n 111
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, 118, 122
Brown, Charles, 354
Brown, Dr. Charlotte Hawkins, 160
Brown, Earl, 362
Brown, Fanny, 61
Brown, Harvey, 444, 464, n 110
Brown, Homer, 58
Brown, Hugh, 65
Brown, John, 150, 152, 556, 561, n 70
Brown, Lloyd L., 115
Brown, Sterling A., 159, 562, n 86
Brown, William, 89
Browne, Harvey W., 272
Brownell, Jr., Herbert, 587, n 209
Bryson, Hugh, 600
Bucannon, Dewey, 72
Bugas, John, 366
Bugniazet, G. M., 465, 478, 510, n 179
Buick Foundries, 85
Building and Common Laborers, 531
Building and Construction Laborers #576, 89
Building Service Employes International Union, 73, 78, 91, 410, 581
Building Trades Council, 86, 399, 400, 411
Building Trades Laborers’ Union, 129
Bunch, George, 201
Burch, Jack, 547
Bureau of Employment Security, 227, 266
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 590
Burkhardt Manufacturing Company, 91
Burrell, Rose, 354
Burton, Charles Wesley, 47, 140, 151, 158
Butler, J. R., 173, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 187
Butler, Silas, 181
Blitman, David, 71
Bykowski, Edward, 503
Cadillac Motor Company, 83
Cafeteria Employees Union, 79, 134, 415
California Shipbuilding Corporation, 291
Campbell, Peter, 89
Capital Club, 227
Capital Transit Company, 279, 281, 282, 418
Caraway, Hattie, 173
Cardinal Gibbons Institute, 7
Careathers, Ben, 43, 44, 47, 48, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, n 40
Caren, Helen, 439
Carey, James B., 276, 349, 350, 352, 354, 355, 356, 501, 580, 599, n 220
Carnegie, Andrew, n 56
Carnegie Steel, 53
Carney, Frank P., 316, 321, 322
Carrington and Michaux Company, 120, 121
Carter Carburetor Company, 261, 262
Carter, W. Richard, 354
Casey, J., 146
Casey, Pete, 4
Catholic Inter-Collegiate Inter-Racial Council of Philadelphia, 322
Cayton, Horace R., 35, n 31, n 138
Cayton, Reveals, 129, 130, 229, 230, 600, n 100
Cement Finishers Union, 442
Central Committee for the Communist Party, 159
Central Defense Committee, 178
Central Labor Council of Greater New York, 165
Central Labor Councils, 447
Central States Life Insurance Company, 199
Central Trades Labor Council, 529, 530
Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York, 159
Century Biscuit Company, 87
Century Electrical Company, 92
Chalmers, Rev. Allan Knight, 423, 424
Chamber of Commerce, 539
Chamberlain, John, 367
Charleston Navy Yard, 220
Charlton, Mrs. Louise, 104
Chase, Jack, 330
Cherveny, 571
Chester, Bill, 600
Chester Tube and Pipe Company, 73
Chevrolet Auto Plant, 83, 84, 85
Chevrolet Gear and Axle, 576
Chicago Conference for Negro Rights, 534
Chicago Council of Religious and Racial Equality, 250
Chicago Defender, 9
Chicago Federation of Labor, 139
Chicago Negro Congress, 159
Chicago Tribune, 178
Childs, Mark, 205
China Lobby, 611
Ching, Cyrus, 230
Christian Frontiers, 264
Christian, Marcus B., 171
Christian Unity Baptists, 363
Chrysler Corporation, 82, 83, 338, 361, 364, 408
Chrysler Tank Arsenal, 362
Church, John J., 399
Churchill, Prime Minister Winston, 385
Cicero Riots, the, 548
Cigar Makers’ International, 396
Citizens Civic Affairs Committee, 415
Civil Liberties Bureau, 32, 161
Civil Liberties Union, n 191
Civil Rights Congress, 570, 571, 579, 599
Civil Service Commission, 286, 591
Clark, Harvey, 558
Clark, Henry, 85
Clark, Walter, 45
Clarke, S. H., 541
Clayton, J. E., 179, 180, 186, 187, n 93
Cleaning and Dying Workers’ Industrial Union, 71, 85, 90
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, n 180
Club Obrero Espanol, 160
Cobourn, Frank M., 319, 320, 321
Coe, Lin, 355
Coke, H. D., 97
Collins, John, 306
Colorado Labor Advocate, 515
Colored Labor’s Organization of South Africa, 519
Colored Marine Benevolent Association, 129
Colored Trainmen of America, 525
Columbia University, 81, n 19, n 54, n 102
Colvin, Charles, 146
Combustion Engineering Company, 49
Commercial Appeal (Memphis), 192
Commercial Iron Works, 442
Commercial Telegraphers Union, 472, 482, 485, 488
Commission of Church and Industry, 407
Commission on Interracial Cooperation, n 112
Commission on Interracial Relations, 407
Committee for Employment, 20
Committee of One Million, 363
Committee on Adjustment, 509
Committee on Aid to Ethiopia, 135
Committee on Civil Rights, n 102, n 204
Committee on Government Contract Compliance, 493, 494, 496
Committee on Problems of Negro Labor, 393
Committee on Racial Discrimination, 352, 355
Committee on Negro Americans in National Defense Industries, 214
Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination, 350, 372, 388, 501
Commons, John R., n 155
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation, n 115
Commonwealth College, 181, 182, 184
Communism, 444, 527, 528, 539, 577, 598, 601
Communist Party, 13, 15, 16, 27, 48, 114, 116, 135, 145, 153, 171, 181, 183, 255, 265, 566, 570–80, 583, n 6, n 41, n 87, n 134, n 202, n 204, n 211, n 214
Communist Party of Missouri, 256
Communists, 61, 104, 115, 144, 148, 160, 167, 216, 254, 364, 449, 586, 587, 592
Confederated Unions of America, 520
Conference of Employers, Labor and Negro Representatives, 255
Congress of Industrial Organizations, see table of contents
Congress of Trade Unions of Sudan, 596
Connally, Thomas T., n 93, 106
Consolidated Dressed Beef Company, 72
Consolidated Steel Corporation, 291
Continental Company, 95
Continental Gin Company, 95
Contract Compliance Committee, 612
Conyers, John, 361
Cooney, Eugene, 7
Cooper, Kathryn, 545
Cooper’s International Union, 93, 122
Coordinating Committee for Employment of New York City, 396
Copeland, Fred, 202
Cothran, Louise, 135
Cotton, Stanley, 59
Cotton, Y. C., 188
Coulter, C. C., 466
Coughlin, Father Charles, 237, 363, n 101
Council on African Affairs, 571, 604, n 200
County Conservation Association, 188
Covington, J. P., 335
Cowans, Russ J., 408
Cowherd, Mr., 109
Cox, Edward E., 14, 94, n 8, n 106
Cramp Shipbuilding Company, 224
Credit Salesmen and Outside Collectors Local, 70
Crisis, The, 42, 178, 191, 196, 212, 413, 526, n 5
Crockett, Jr., George W., 564
Cross, J., 85
Crosser-Dill Act, n 151
Crosswaith, Frank, 7, 76, 77, 78, 79, 134, 145, 157, 253, 284, 410, 538, 540, 580, n 3
Crusaders, 547
Curran, Joseph E., 128, 134, 136, 138, 221, 538, 545, n 63
Curry, Ed, 85
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 218
Daily Worker, the, 151, 153, 177, 571, 576, 579
Dalrymple, William, n 61
Damisch, Max J., 63
Daniel, Franz, 7
Daniel, Victor H., 7
Dapremont, Louis B., 274
D’Arboussier, Gabriele, 596
David, Allen, 202
Davis, Jr., Ben J., 8, 14, 41, 134, 144, 151, 157, 572, n 5
Davis, Curtis, 83
Davis, Jerome, 7
Davis, John P., 42, 43, 44, 47, 102, 139, 140, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 156, 157, 158, 165, 166, 279, 338, 413, 415
Davis, John W., n 59
Davis, Nelson, 535, 583, 584, 602
Dawson, Louise, 88
D-Day, 115
Declaration of Independence, 39, 156, 263
DeFrantz, F. E., 88
Delaware River Bridge Line, 306, 327
Dellums, C. J., 417
Delta Shipbuilding Corporation, 274, 275
Democratic Party, 141, 142, 147, 163, 400, n 120, n 203, n 229
Department of Railway Employees, 461
Department Store Employes Union #1250, 81
Desepte, W. G., 466
Detchman, John, 45
Detroit America First, 363
Detroit Common Council, n 185
Detroit Council of Churches, 237
Detroit Federation of Labor, n 185
Detroit Steel Products Company, 82
Detroit Street Railway Company, 365
Detroit Union League, 364
Devere Copper Works, 69
Dewey, Thomas, n 209
Diallo, Abdoulaye, 596
Dickerson, Earl B., 228, n 99, n 111
Dickerson, Mahlon, 545
Differding, Jean, 289
Dilbert Bros., Incorporated, 415, 416
Dillard University, 530, n 112
DiMaggio, Joe, 592
Dining Car and Railroad Food Workers Union, 335, 396, 411, 413, 415, 525
Distillery Workers, 531
Distributive, Processing and Office Workers, 532, 600
Dixon, Paul D., 274
Dodge Motor Company, 83
Dodge Steel Company, 224
Dollar Lines, 129
Dollarhyde, Julia and Daisy, 288
Dolsen, James, 116
Domestic Service Workers’ Union, 354
Donald, William, 62
Donawa, Arnold, 134
Double V Campaign, n 137
Douglas, William O., 542
Douglass, Frederick, 140, 144, 150, 152, 159, 343, 561, 563, n 70
Dowling, William E., 362, 367, 368
Downey, Ben, 409
Dravo Shipyards, 115
Dubinsky, David, 78, 599, n 220
DuBois, W. E. B., 22, 23, 113, 560, 562, 579, 604, n 21
Duffy, Frank, n 164
Dumas, Alexander, n 176
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, 562, 563, n 198
Dupriest, James, 202
Dutchman, John, 100
Earl, Alvin, 202
East, Clay (Mrs.), 193
Eastern Steamship Line, 132, 133
Easton Rolling Mills, 69
Edison Gas and Electric Company, 20
Edmonds, George, 90
Edmunds, George, n 52
Edward G. Budd Company, 223, 224
Edwards, George, 367
Edwards, Marshall, 408
Edwards, Thyra, 134
Effinger, Virgil F., 363
Ehoue, M. Felix, 374
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 583, 585, 586, 609, 611, n 167, n 205, n 206, n 209, n 224, n 227
Electric Storage Battery Company, 224
Ellender, Allen J., n 106
Elia, Frank, 415
Elkins, Daniel, 72
Elliott, Samuel, 72
Emancipation Proclamation, 278
Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief, 6, 7
Emerson Electric Company, 91
Equal Rights Congress, 147
Etheridge, Mark, 276, 278, 458, n 111
Evans, E. Lewis, 117
Evans, Hiram W., 15
Executive Order 8802, 273, 277, 278, 280, 365, 418, 466
Executive Order 9346, 279, 284, 285, 294, 296, 297, 299, 301, 319, 320, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327
Export Leaf Tobacco Company, 117, 118, 122, 123, 125
Fair Employment Practices Committee, 116, 228, 252, 256, 257, 259, 260, 263, 265, 272–92, 299, 300, 301, 304–10, 314, 315, 316, 317, 319, 330, 331, 335, 346, 348–55, 365, 371, 375, 377, 378, 385, 417, 418, 421, 457, 458, 466, 477, 486, 493, 500–04, 518, 521, 522, 524, 527, 535, 559, 562, 584, 585, 590, 591, 605, 609, n 111, n 113, n 121
Fair Labor Standards Act, 554, n 78
Faith, Joel, 146
Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers Union, 546, 547
Farmer-Labor Party, 15, 145, 177, n 9
Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union, 172, 182
Farm Security Administration, 196, 206, 207, 208, 243, n 112
Farrell Steel Plant, 382
fascism, 26, 27, 138, 140, 141, 142, 151, 153, 263, 371, 410, 428, 444, 445, 459, 463, 464, 475, 502, 519, 527, 574, 599
Fascists, 238, 252, 254, 311, 313, 316, 368, 384, 398, 466, 474, 547, 593, 595, 597, 607, 611
Fauset, Crystal Bird, 151, n 80
F.B.I. (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 194, 309, 339, n 90
Federal Anti-Lynching Legislation, 50, 105, 150, 151, 162
Federal Civil Rights Act, 525
Federal Labor Union, 451
Federal Public Housing Authority, 243
Federal Teachers’ Union, 146
Federal Works Agency, 502
Federated Musicians Local, 214
Federation of Rural Letter Carriers, 472
Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, 159
Fell, Charles E., 104
Fenton, Frank, 272
Ferguson-Oman Company, 443
Fifteenth Amendment, 252, 439, 440, 571–79 passim
Fire Fighters’ International Association, 425
Firemen and Oilers Union, 93, 507, 510
Firestone Tire Plant, 94
Firestones, the, 601
Fisher, William, 203
Fishery Workers’ Organizing Committee, 67
Fitzpatrick, John, 139, 406, 407, n 156
Fleming, Philip B., 502
Flore, Edward, 439
Fontecchio, Nicholas, 61
Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers, 421, n 222
Forbes, Alex, 129
Ford Brotherhood Union, 82
Ford, Edsel, 339
Ford, Henry, 9, 15, 74, 88, 336, 337, 338, n 10, n 131
Ford, James W., 43, 44, 47, 48, 135, 145, 151, 413, 519, n 39
Ford Motor Company, 36, 82, 83, 84, 335, 337, 339, 340, 348, 358, 359, 360, 364, 441, 487, 451, 452, 565, 576, 583, 584, 607, n 51, n 131, n 133, n 190
Forty-Ninth State Movement, 148
Foster, A. L., 61
Foster, William Z., 42, 44, 114, 547, 582, n 38
Four Freedoms, 381, 385, 595, n 146
Fourteenth Amendment, 154, 155, 252, 439, 440, 475, n 82
Fowler, C. W., 164
Fowler, Eleanor, 233
Fowler, Newell, 178
Fowler, W. M., 442
Francis, Ola Bell, 61
Francis, Sarah T., 249
Frankfurter, Felix, 542, n 191
Franklin, Joe, 478
Franklin Open Hearth, 53
Frederickson, Paul, 442
Free French Movement, 374
Freed, Mildred, 193
Freedom, 533, 534, 537, 600, 602, 603, 607
Freight Handlers, Express and Employees, 226, 396, 474
Frey, John P., 28, 426, 432, 433, 435, 437, 441, 443, 446, 448, 449, 455, 456, 458, 459, 464, 465, 467, 481, n 25, n 37
Funn, Dorothy, 346
Fur and Leather Workers’ Union, 160, 259, 260, 264, 546, 562, 588, n 87
Furriers’ Joint Board, n 87
Furuseth, Andrew, n 64
Futrell, J. Marion, 173
Gallo, John, 583
Gambia Labor Union, 519
Garland, D. G., 389
Garvey, Marcus, 147, n 73, n 76
Garvin, Vicki, 532
Gary, Elbert H., n 56
Gaskins, Lillian, 134, 159, n 167
Gaulden, William, 79, 157, 159, 415
General Longshore Workers Union, 529, 531
General Motors Corporation, 336, 338, 364, 508, 607, 608
General Oil Company, 73
General Steel Casting Corporation, 224
General Truck Drivers and Chauffeurs Union, 530, 531
Geneva Maritime Conference, 130
George, Charles, 81
George, Walter F., n 167
George Washington University, n 90
Georgia Railroad, 523
Getty, James, 306
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck, n 65
Gill, Jesse, 95
Girdler, Tom M., 109, n 10, n 30
Gittens, Winifred, 77
Glass, Carter, n 106
Glenn, Francis, 361
Glover, Susie T., 250
Gold Coast Carpenters Association, 519
Gold Coast Drivers Association of Accra, 519
Goldberg, Arthur J., 532, 550, 615, n 195
Golden, Clint, 111
Golden Gate Commandery Hall, 600
Gompers, Samuel, 478
Good Neighbor Policy, 433
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 106
Gorman, Rena, 331
Government Homestead Project, 205
Government Services Incorporated, 516
Gow, Jim, 181
Graham, Frank P., 238, 280, 281, n 102
Granberry, Ollie, 442
Grand Old Party, 141
Grandison, Francis, 117, 118, 120, 121, 124
Grange, Dave, 133
Granger, Lester, 42, 46, 134, 135, 146, 165, 253, 393, 420, n 41
Grangers, the, 605
Granite City Casting Company, 90
Grant, W. G., 602
Gray Iron Foundry, 85
Grayson Lumber Company, 96
Greater Detroit Negro Labor Council, 581
Greater New York Co-ordinating Committee for Employment, 20
Greater New York Federation of the National Negro Congress, 134, 135, 413
Green, Casper H., 74
Green, Jacob, 220
Green, William, 8, 14, 35, 107, 272, 277, 389, 410, 411, 417, 420, 423, 427, 428, 433, 436, 437, 441, 442, 446, 449, 450, 454, 455, 458, 464, 465, 467, 474, 475, 479, 481, 482, 483, 486, 489, 499, 504, 510, 512, 514, 515, 516, 526, 527, 528, 563, 580, 599, 613, 614. See also notes 4, 35, 37, 111, 220, 229.
Greenbaum, Edward S., 308
Greer, Lem, 129
Gregory, Yvonne, 562
Griffin Manufactures, 177
Gross, Murray, 7
Guide Publishing Company, n 122
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, 542
Gutelius, Dan B., 55
Haas, Monsignor Francis Joseph, 279, 280, 281, n 116, n 121
Hall, Faneuil, 475
Hall, Gus, 112
Hall, Nellie, 30
Hall, Rev. W. M., 95
Hall, Rob F., 419
Hamilton County Communist Party, 559
Hamilton, Jimmie, 200
Hardin, George, 351
Hardin, Walter T., 30, 31, 84, 86, n 28
Harding, Warren G., n 94
Harlem Artists Guild, 159
Harlem Citizens Committee to Aid the Striking Seamen, 134
Harlem Grocery Store Owners Asosciation, 78
Harlem Job Committee, 396
Harlem Labor Center, 77, 78, 79, 409
Harlem Labor Committee, 145
Harlem Y.M.C.A., 135, 253, 413
Harnischfeger Company, 273
Harper’s Ferry Raid, n 70
Harriman Strike, 449
Harris, Abram L., 22, 25, 26, 27, n 19, n 23
Harris, G. A., 399
Harrison, Jack, 83
Harrison, George L., 393
Harrison, George M., 510, n 184
Harrison, Viola, 561
Harvard University, 446, 448, n 22, n 50, n 54, n 80, n 85, n 105, n 128
Harvester Tractor Works, 534
Harwood, Harris, 153
Hawkins, Octavia, 559
Hawks, John 378
Hayes, Lee, 181
Haynes, Elizabeth Ross, 20
Haynes, S. A., 130
Haynes, Robert, 200
Hearst, William Randolph, 16, 143, n 10
Hellman, Frank, 71
Henderson, Donald, 421
Hendricks, C. E., 520
Henry J. Kaiser Shipbuilding Yards, 462
Henry, Patrick, 160, 264, n 106
Herling, Jack, 174
Herndon, Angelo, 143, 152, 159, 255, n 72
Hesketh, Robert B., 439
Hicks, W. A., 102
Higgens Shipbuilding Company, 529
High Ice Cream Company, 22
Hill, Charles, 602
Hill, Herman, 419
Hill, J. B., 361
Hill, Rev. Charles, 276
Hill, Robert, 201
Hill, T. Arnold, 47, 48, 81, 135, 413, n 44
Hill, William, 47
Hillman, Sidney, 211, 212, 412, 498, n 96
Himes, Jr., Joseph S., 217
Hines, Lewis G., 580
Hirohito, 245, 251, 468, 470, n 177
Hitler, Adolph, 15, 37, 38, 39, 40, 153, 237, 238, 245, 251, 281, 304, 342, 354, 368, 378, 431, 434, 443, 459, 463, 468, 470, 485, 597, 601, n 72, n 174
Hoey, Clyde, 518
Holmes, Curtis, 74
Holt, Bill, 112
Home Service Division of the Red Cross, 247
Homestead Strike of 1892, 99
Hood, Everette, 178
Hood, William R., 535, 555, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 568, 575–79, 582, 602, 603
Hoover, Herbert, 34, 35, n 173
Hoover, John Edgar, 35, 164, n 90
Hopkins, Wayne L., 46
Hoskins, John, 335
Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ International Alliance, 90, 396, 428, 431, 439, 440, 488
House Committee on Labor, n 120
House Committee on Education and Labor, 283, 522, n 120
Household Employes Union, 62
Houston and Texas Central Railway System, 523
Houston, Bill, 54
Houston, Charles H., 542, n 187, n 193
Houston Chronicle Printing Office, 186
Howard, Carl B., 55
Howard, Charles P., 590
Howard, M. C., 442
Howard, Milton, 139
Howard, William, 54
Howard University, 19, 22, 25, 81, 139, 147, 151, 253, n 19, n 22, n 80, n 85, n 86, n 105
Howell, Hunter, 101
H. W. Smith Foundry, 97
Hudson, Cecil, 330
Husak, Eric, 306
Hudson Motor Car Company, 365
Hudson Naval Academy, 365
Huggins, Jr., Joseph, 76
Huggins, Sr., Joseph, 76
Hughes, James Langston, 587, n 198
Hundley, W. J., 65
Hunt, Louis, 74
Iceland, 165
Imes, Rev. William Lloyd, 153, 253
Imperial Tobacco Company, 118
Independent Colored Longshoremen’s Association, 405
Independent Federation of Pullman Workers, 505
Independent White Longshoremen’s Association, 405
Indianapolis Glove Company, 88
Industrial Relations Department of the National Urban League, 218
Industrial Union Council, 229
Industrial Union Councils, 273
Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, 81
Industrial Workers of the World, n 28
Industry Council Plan, 40
Ingersoll, Minneola, 103
Inland Steel, 99
International Association of Granite Cutters, 472
International Association of Machinists, 7, 222, 272, 442, 444, 461, 471, 512, n 37, n 110
International Association of Railway Employees, 525, 542
International Bakery and Confectionary Workers Union, 85
International Barbers Union, 79
International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, 414
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 414, 472, 507, n 179
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America, 73, 530, 531, n 161
International Committee on African Affairs, 151, 152
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 580
International Federation of Trade Unions, 519
International Harvester Company, 487, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 582
International Hod Carriers and Building Laborers Union, 72, 76, 77, 87, 89, 92, 93, 214, 222, 225, 399, 428, 452, 455
International Hotel Workers’ Alliance and Bartenders’ League, 458
International Labor Defense, 20, 142, 151, n 16
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, 7, 62, 76, 77, 78, 93, 94, 118, 134, 145, 159, 214, 222, 397, 410, 452, 458, 581, 592, n 67, n 204
International Longshoremen’s Association, n 165, n 214
International Longshoremen’s Union, 64, 91, 93, 127, 129, 225, 397, 401, 402, 403, 406, 428, 600, 601, n 214
International Railway Company, 317
International Retail Clerks Protective Association, 415, 416
International Seamen’s Union, 128, 130, 133, 136, 377, n 63
International Tobacco Workers Union, 117
International Union, 344, 345, 348, 360, 361, 388, 440, 463, 464, 473, 474, 476, 477, 483, 484, 485, 488, 489, 583
International Union of Auto Workers, 535
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, 5, 6, 354, 559, 561, n 139, n 196, n 197
International Union of Operating Engineers, 7
International Union of United Bakery Workers and Beer, 531
International Union of United Public Workers, 565
International Workers of the World, n 6
Interracial Committee of UAW, 351
Interstate Commerce Commission, 531
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 333, 334, 507
I. N. Vaughn Factory, 121
Iron City, 115
Isaacs, Stanley, 20
Isbrandtsen Company, 545
Ishkooda Mine, 6
Iushewitz, Mr., 540
Ivy, Rosalie, 249
Jack, Beau, 330
Jackson, Augusta V., 119
Jackson Brewing Company, 231
Jackson, Charles, 188, 189, 190, 191
Jackson, Jr., Dr. James E., 117, 118, 122, 124, 126
Jackson, Robert H., 542, n 191
Jamaica Labor Party, 519
Jefferies, Mayor, 362, 365, 366, 367
Jenkins, Manuel, 202
Jernagins, Rev. William, 151
Jewish Labor Committee, 615, n 159
jim crow, 8, 14, 35, 36, 37, 43, 55, 56, 100, 115, 130, 143, 144, 158, 229, 251, 252, 253, 257, 259, 264, 276, 280, 282, 300, 341, 342, 365, 373, 389, 393, 396, 409, 411, 414, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 429, 454, 456, 479, 484, 506, 522, 525, 544, 550, 557, 562, 574, 581, 585, 590, 592, 594, 597, 598, 600, 607, 608, 610
Johnson, Bill, 535
Johnson C. Smith College, 544
Johnson, Ed, 112
Johnson, George, 543
Johnson, Henry, 10, 28, 43, 44, 47, 60, 61, 139, n 6
Johnson, James Weldon, 18, n 11, n 16
Johnson, Joe, 600
Johnson, Josephine, 205
Johnson, Lyndon B., n 93
Johnson, Manning, 79, 134, 415
Johnson, Mordecai W., 19
Johnson, Moses, 75
Johnson, Raleigh, 321
Johnson, Townsend, 71
Johnson, William, 55
Johnston, A. G., 94
Johnstone, Jenny Elizabeth, 102
Joint Committee on National Recovery, 147, 393
Joint Negro and White Fair Employment Committee, 255
Joint Strike Committee, 130
Jolin, O. J., 199
Jones, Clarence, 83
Jones, Harry, 220
Jones-Laughlin Steel Mill, n 40
Jones, R. F., 444
Jones, Walter, n 61
Jones, William N., 42, 46, n 41
Joseph Bancroft and Sons, 75
Joyce, Willie, 330
Judge, Jim, 524
Jungle, The (Upton Sinclair), 132
Kaiser Corporation, 231, 292, 293, 296, 297, 299
Kaiser, Edgar F., 296
Kaiser Shipyards, 289, 291, 419
Kansas City Quartermaster Depot, 216
Kansas City Urban League, 214
Kaufmann, A. P., 345
Kearney, N. J., 81
Kelley, George, 417
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 433, n 169
Kelly, Thomas, 75
Kennecott Copper, 607
Kennedy, Thomas, 150, 151, 152, n 77
Kester, Howard A., 7, 171, 174, 175, 178, n 3
Keystone Coat and Apron Company, 224
Kilian, Mike, 181
King, A. C., 55
King, John, 408
Kirk, Paul Silas, 83
Kiser, Charles, 86
Kiska, Moses, 366
Knight, Felix, 504, 505, 506, 508, 510, 513, 514, 515, 516, n 183
Knights of Labor, 394
Knowland, William F., n 226
Know Nothing Party, 445, 463, n 175
Koenig, Louis, 439
Korean War, 545
Koveleski, Emanuel, 439
Ku Klux Klan, 14, 15, 52, 60, 143, 151, 164, 172, 237, 264, 289, 291, 340, 343, 348, 363, 364, 368, 371, 384, 385, 413, 443, 463, 560, 561, 563, 592, 598, n 103
Kungsholm, the S.S., 220
Labor Auxiliary of Redcaps, n 33
Labor Council of Kansas City, 214
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosing Act, n 185
Labor Party, 140
Labor’s Non-Partisans League, 7, 161, 165, 165, 167, 397
La Follette, Jr., Robert M., 160, n 88
La Forge Cooperative Farm, 196, 201, 205, 206, 207
LaGuardia, Fiorello, 151, n 81
La Marque, George, 535
Lambert, J., 132
Land, Emory S., 279
Land, H. G., 189
Lane, Chris, 439
Lane Cotton Mills, 529
Langston, Joe, 102
Lanham Act, 502
Lapham, Robert D., 230
Lapin, Adam, 46
Larry, H. R., 417
Larus and Bros., Inc., 421
Lasser, David, 7
Lather’s International Union, Wood, Wire and Metal, 396
Laundry Workers Join Board Amalgamated International Workers of America, 531
Lautier, Louis, 542
Laws, Clarence A., 231
Laws, Clarence L., 274
Laws, Pearl, 563
Lawson, Belford Vance, 21
Lawson, John Howard, 599
Lawson, Samuel, 83
Lee, Alfred McClung, 366, n 142
Lee, Moses, 354
Lee, Robert C., 221
Lehman, Herbert H., 368, 586, n 143
Lehr, J. C., 340
Leland Unit, 537
Lend-Lease for American Allies, n 146
Lenoff, Joseph, 398
Levinson, Edward, 7
Levison, Ralph J., 530
Lewis, John L., 8, 14, 15, 17, 31, 32, 49, 54, 78, 99, 112, 122, 139, 143, 149, 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 164, 165, 167, 330, 352, 408, 449, 557, 563. See also, notes 3, 4, 34, 52, 77, 89, 135
Lewis, Mollie V., 102
Life Insurance Association of America, 518
Liggett and Myers, 120
Ligons, John, 178
Lincoln, Abraham, 150, 152, 356, 385, 589
Link Belt Company, 88
Lippman, Walter, n 75
Little, Herbert, 197, 198, 203, 204, 205
Livingstone College, n 42
Locke, Alain Leroy, 23, 159, n 22
Locke, Ed, 583
Loftis, Frank, 408
Long Island Railroad, 232, n 114
Longshoremen’s Realty Organization, 402
Lorain Steel Company, 52
Loring, Lev, 400
Louisiana State University, n 58
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 542
Lubowitz, Count Von, 425
Lucas, Rev. R. H. W., 364
Lund, Wendell, 419
MacGowan, Charles J., 294, 475, 483, 510, 512, n 163
Machinists Union, 422
Mackrell, Walter, 59
MacMahon, Douglas, 313
Malone, James H., 309
Marcantonio, Vito, 20, 134, 151, 590, 602, n 16
March on Washington Movement, 251–62 passim, 265, 277, 278, 284, 388
Marconian Ethiopian Association of Paris, France, 159
Marine Federation, 129
Maritime Federation of the Pacific, 229
Marks, G. J., 441
Marquez, Cecil, 134
Marshall and Field Company, 547
Marshall, George C., 276, 300, 596, 597, 598, n 219
Marshall, Thurgood, 300
Martel, Frank X., 139
Martin, Louis Emanuel, 337, n 133
Martin, Warren Homer, n 5, n 30
Martin, Willie, 202
Martinsville Seven, 534, 557, 598
Max, Alan, 28
McCanley, Cornelius, 201
McCarran-Walter Act, 586, n 207
McCarthy, Joseph R., n 60, n 206, n 226
McCarthyism, 586
McClendon, James J., 335, n 131
McCollum and Robinson Incorporated, 400
McCollum and Robinson Mop Factory, 94
McCommer, Joseph H., 72
McCormick, Robert, 547
McCrary, W. F., 442
McCray, George, 60
McDaniel, Rev. A. H., 386
McDonald, David J., n 47
McDonald, Leonidas, 86
McDuff National Detective Agency, 6
McGee, Billy, 201
McGee, Willie, 534
McGhee, Willie, 557, 560, 598, 599, 600
McGrath, James H., n 203
McIntyre, Marvin, 276
McKinney, E. B., 178, 179, 184, 185, 186
McKinney, Ernest Rice, 54
McLaughlin, Clayton, 545
McNamara, Patrick V., n 185
McNeil, John, 158
McNutt, Paul V., 259, 260, 273, 275, 276, 277, 279, 284, 288, 289, 290, 347, 356, 367
McWain Pipe Shop, 95
Mason-Dixon Line, 160
Mason, Hodges, 84
“Master Agreement,” 291, 292, 296, 297, 298
Mathews, Z. K., 608
Mathis, J. C. 200
Mau Mau, 607
Mawhinney, George M., 306
Mayberry, George, 187, 188, 189
Meany, George, 615, n 29, n 229
Mechanics Educational Society of America, 364
Medical Society of the County of New York, 246
Meier, August, n 51
Mellon, Andrew, n 62
“Memorial-Day-Massacre, 15, 16, 103
Memphis Trade and Labor Council, 93
Messing, Nat, 439
Metal Manufacturers’ Association, 224
Metal Trades Council, 145, 146, 481
Metal Trades Department (AFL), 441, 443
Michigan Malleable Iron Foundry, 408
Michigan Steel Casting Company, 83
Michigan Steel Foundry, 83
Michigan Worker, the, 578
Mid-Century Conference for Peace, 578
Middleton, Nat, 520
Miller, Harry, 306
Miller, James W., 7
Miller, Kelly, 113
Millinder, Lucky, n 224
Millner, George W., 64
Mimms, Charles, 76
Mingo, Frank, 547
Minneapolis Urban League, n 19
Mirksy, Jacob, 409
Miscellaneous Workers’ Union, 130, 476
Missouri Compromise, 280, n 117
Missouri Pacific Railroad, 523, n 184
Missouri Roadside Demonstration of 1939, 193–208 passim
Missouri Rolling Mill, 90
Mitch, William A., 106, 108, 109, n 61
Mitchell, Arthur W., n 54
Mitchell, Clarence M., 516, n 186
Mitchell, George E., 35
Mitchell, George S., n 31, n 138
Mitchell, H. L., 7, 172, 173, 178, 179, 183, 186, 187, 196, 197, n 3, n 91, n 93
Mobile Riot, the, 371
Moffett, Guy, 591
Monroe, James, n 70
Montgomery, Bob, 330
Montgomery, Olen, 158
Monthly Labor Review, the, 517
Monney, Tom, 423
Moore, B. Everett, 219
Moore, Carolyn Davenport, 329, 330
Moore, Howard, 202
Moore, J. R., 379
Moore-McCormick Lines, 220, 221
Moore, Rev. J. W., 203
Morgan, Joe, 584
Morgan, John P., n 62
Mormacport, the S.S., 220
Morro Castle Disaster, 131, n 64
Morse, Wayne L., 230, 281, n 119
Morton, Thomas B., 118
Motion Picture Projectors’ Union, 92
Muhs, J. G., 231
Mulzac, Hugh, 538
Murphy, Frank, 368
Murphy, George, 600
Murray Body Company, 84
Murray, Philip, 40, 42, 43, 46, 49, 106, 111, 112, 272, 273, 339, 343, 344, 349–56 passim, 382, 389, 458, 500, 501, 563, 599, 613. See also, notes 34, 40, 47, 111, 220
Mussolini, Benito, 143, 153, 433, 468, 470, n 72, n 170
Muster, Morris, 347
Myers, Fred, 313
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 8, 18, 20, 23, 28, 32, 68, 89, 135, 142, 148, 150, 151, 154, 155, 166, 189, 253, 258, 276, 277, 278, 284, 301, 305, 307, 321, 322, 330, 331, 335, 336, 338, 359, 367, 368, 374, 393, 397, 412, 415, 442, 443, 451, 487, 536, 545, 561, 562, 566, 585, 586, 610. See also, notes 5, 34, 50, 85, 131, 143, 186, 187, 197, 204
National Association of Negroes in American Industry, 232
National Broadcasting Company, 164
National Committee of the Communist Party, 28
National Committee of the International Labor Defense, 160
National Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination, 371, 374
National Conference of Negro Organization, 48
National Conference of Social Work, n 153
National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, n 204
National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States, n 42
National Defense Advisory Committee, 213
National Defense Commission, 213
National Defense Committee of Kansas City, 217
National Defense Mediation Board, n 184
National Emergency Council, 208
National Equal Rights League, n 74
National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, 276, 300
National Hunger March, 115
National Labor Conference for Negro Rights, 593, 594
National Labor Relations Act, 50, 73, 292, 296, 297, 369
National Labor Relations Board, 70, 50, 88, 287, 292, 297, 337, 338, 339, 364, 369, 377, 397, 420, 421, 431, 465, 469, 471, 508, 514, n 128
National Lawyers Guild, 276, n 99
National Malleable and Steel Casting Company, 62, 88
National Maritime Union, 65, 67, 127, 128, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 220, 221, 228, 276, 277, 313, 351, 353, 354, 377, 378, 387, 389, 498, 499, 538, 544, 545, n 63, n 69
National Mediation Board, 507, 508, 509, 511, 513
National Metal Trades Association, 240
National Movement for the Establishment of a Forty-Ninth State, n 76
National Negro Bar Association, 42
National Negro Congress, 32, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 110, 139–69 passim, 277, 338, 396, 398, 415, 568, 569, 570, n 6, n 68
National Negro Labor Council, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 574, 580, 581, 585, 586, 587, 607, 609, 610
National Negro Medical Association, 42
National Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots, 472
National Planning Association, 551
National Production Council, 501
National Teachers’ Federation, 458
National Railroad Adjustment Board, 509, 521, 526
National Railroad Labor Board, 512
National Recovery Act, 364, 405
National Recovery Administration, n 57, n 116
National Resources Committee, 33, 247
National Resources Planning Board, 370
National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, 129, 130, 229, 530, 531, 600, 601, n 100
National Urban League, 48, 62, 81, 82, 89, 92, 134, 135, 148, 215, 223, 225, 253, 322, 393, 413, 420, 531, 613. See also, notes 33, 114, 153, 229
National Workers League, 363
National Youth Administration, 135, 197, 198, 204, 208, 369, n 184
nazi, 254, 263, 280, 340, 343, 371, 379, 499
Needles Trade High School, 546
Needle Trades Industrial Union 30, n 87
Negro Conference of Negro Organizations, 46
Negro Digest, the, 389
Negro Forum Council, 67
Negro Labor Assembly, 9
Negro Labor Committee, 7, 76, 77, 79, 92, 145, 146, 157, 409, 410, 538, 539, 540, 580
Negro Labor Victory Committee, 346, 347
Negro Railway Labor Executives Committee, 525, 526
Negro Stewardess Nurses, 435
Negro Welfare Association, 62, 63
Nehi Bottling Company, 96
Nehru, Jawaharlal, n 223
Neutrality Act, 137
New Deal, 28, 35, 103, 105, 119, 136, 141, 147, 167, 273, 278, 289, 378. See also, notes 59, 96, 101, 104, 112, 115, 191
Newman, Cecil E., 250
New Negro Alliance, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, n 17
New Negro Alliance of Washington, D.C., 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 396
New Orleans Metal Trades Council, 275
New Orleans Steamship Association, 402, 404
New Orleans Urban League, 230, 231, 274
Newton, Charles J., 89
Newton Packing Company, 408
New York Board of Transportation, 317
New York Chapter of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 503
New York Council of the National Negro Congress, 20
New York District of the CIO State, County and Municipal Workers, 346
New York Omnibus Corporation, 317
New York State Temporary Commission Against Discrimination, n 208
New York Telephone Company, 20
New York University, n 16, n 55
New York Urban League, 246, 277
Nichols, Charlie, 600
Nigerian Democratic Workers’ Association, 519
Nixon, Isaiah, 598
Noble, Oscar, 85, 348, 357, n 140
Non-Partisan Voters League, 13
Nordberg Manufacturing Company, 273
Norfolk and Western Railroad, 520, 521, 541
Norfolk Journal and Guide, the, 542, 543
Norfolk Navy Yard, 220
Norris-LaGuardia Act, 21, 405, n 18
Norris, Rev. J. Frank, 363
North American Aviation Corporation, 215
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, n 167, n 205, n 218
Northern Southern Railway, 542
Northrup, Herbert R., 300, 378, 471, 488, n 124
Nott, George, 71
Novelle, George, 130
Nunally, Alvin, 172
Obelton, Robert, 87
O’Donnell, John, 306
Office of Civilian Defense, 369
Office of Defense Transportation, 307
Office of Labor Production, 245
Office of Price Administration, 502, 517
Office of Production Management, 211, 212, 213, 214, 236, 284, n 96
Office of War Information, 233, 245
Ohio State University, n 153
Oliver Plough Company, 534
Oliver, William H., 586
Old Age and Survivors Insurance Program (OASI), 496
Opportunity, 171
Order of Railroad Conductors, 472
Order of Railroad Telegraphers, 414, 472
Order of Sleeping Car Conductors, 396, 414
Ordnance Branch-Automotive General Maintenance Shop, 246
Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, 291, 292, 293, 297, 299, 442
O’Reilly, Harry, 412
Omits, Arthur, 181
Otis Steel Company, 62
Owens, Charles, 290
Pacific Coast Metal Trades Council, 297
Pacific Steamship Company, 129
Packard Motor Car Company, 357, 365
Packinghouse Organizing Committee, 29, n 6
Packinghouse Workers of America, 36, 62, 354, 518
Page, Myra, 175
Paint and Varnish Makers’ Union, 145
Painters’ District Council, 146, 215, 415, 445
Palm, Samuel, 55
Palmer Memorial Institute of North Carolina, 160
Park, Robert, n 138
Parker, John J., 533
Parker v. University of Delaware, n 50
Parrish, Richard, 253
Pate, Thomas, 94
Patrick, Luther, n 58
Patten, Herman, 288
Pattern Makers’ League of North America, 510
Patterson, F. D., 151
Patterson, Haywood, 598
Patterson, T. T., 417
Patterson, William L., 153, 560
Patterson, William T., 538
Peacock, Sr., D. C., 290
Pearl Harbor, 281
Pegler, Westbrook, 335
Pelkofa, John, 510
Penn Iron and Steel, 381
Pennsylvania Iron and Steel Company, 101
Pennsylvania Railroad, 232, 507, 512
Pennsylvania State Employes Association, 73
Peoples Drug Store Company, 22, n 17
Pepper, Claude D., n 104
Pepper Poll Tax Bill, 252, n 104
Perkins, Francis, n 132
Perlman, Philip (General), 531
Persily, Joseph D., 87
Pete, Sylvester, 403
Phelps-Stokes Foundation, n 204
Philadelphia Gas Works, 71
Philadelphia Metropolitan Council for Equal Job Opportunity, 307
Philadelphia Navy Yard, 224, 240, 310
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Employees Union, 318, 319, 321, 322, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 330
Philadelphia Regional Transportation Company, 72, 303, 304, 305, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 320, 321, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 330, 331, n 125, n 127
Philadelphia Regional Transportation Employees Union, 305, 309
Philadelphia Regional War Labor Board, 309
Philadelphia Signal Depot, 308
Philipps Canning Company, 69
Phillips, Cyril, 135
Phillips, Murray, 199
Pickens, William, 135, n 24, n 68
Piel Brothers Starch Company, 87
Pierce, H. W., 442
Pilgram Baptist Church, 47
Pilot, the, 137
Pittsburgh Railways Company, 113
Point Four Program, 594, 596, 597, n 218
Poole, Charles, 363
Political Action Committee, 498, 499
Pollard, Jr., Fritz, 602, n 221
Polling, Daniel A., 400
Pontiac Motor Company, n 139
Portland Metal Trades Council, 297
Post War Problems Committee, 467, 486
Potofsky, Jacob S., 503, n 182
Potter, Charles E., n 199
Powell, Jr., Adam Clayton, 20, 42, 134, 157, 277, 415, 522, n 36
Powell, Sr., Adam Clayton, n 15
Prairie View Agricultural College, n 93
Price, Victoria, n 7
Proffer, Elon, 201
President’s Council of Economic Advisors, n 184
President’s National Emergency Council, 29
Pressed Steel Building, 338
Pressman, Lee, 587, 588, n 211
Progressive Negro Steel Workers of America, 343
Progressive Party, 565, 572, 590, 592, 602, n 9, n 212
Prosser, Gabriel, n 70
Public Health Service, 245
Pullman Company, 7, 395, 416, 417, 436, 479, 505, 507, 508, 511, 512, 513, 524
Pullman, George, n 94
Pullman Yard and Terminal Employees, 504
Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, 510, 514
Purdue University, n 58
Pure Food and Meat Inspection Acts of 1906, 132
Puritan Rubber Company, 74
Pushkin, Alexander, n 176
Quarry Workers’ International Union, 7
Quartermaster’s Depot, 224
Quigg, Louise, 306
Quill, Michael J., 20, 313, 615, n 14
Quinn, Robert, 275
Radio Corporation of America, n 111
Ragland, John M., 55
Railroad Administration, 395
Railroad Workers’ Union of Sierra Leone, 519
Railroad Yardmasters of America, 472
Railway Brotherhoods, 266
Railway Employees Department, 414, 504, 506, 507, 510
Railway Labor Act, 333, 395, 414, 471, 507, 508, 509, 513, 525, 542, n 151
Railway Labor Executive Association, 522
Railway Mail Association, 472
Railway Retirement Act, 335, 424
Railway Workers’ Union of Jamaica, West Indies, 519
Rand School of Social Science, 81
Randolph, A. Philip, 7, 20, 28, 36, 41, 46, 47, 48, 135, 140, 145, 146, 150, 151, 152, 154, 156, 157, 158, 160, 165, 166, 251, 256, 259, 277, 278, 284, 352, 393, 394, 395, 411, 413, 416, 417, 418, 422–515 passim, 580, 585, 599, 613, n 2, n 149, n 200
Ransom, Edith, 77
Ray, Dr. A. H., 386
Ray, Reuben, 602
Ray, Thomas, 293, 295, 296, 468, 485
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, n 213
Red Cross, 195
Redd, Jasper, 386
Reed, Nanny, 47
Reed, William A., 581
Re-employment and Training Program, 289
Reese, Jesse, 60
R. G. Reynolds Employees’ Association, 386
R. G. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 120, 386, n 222
Relax, William J., 533
Remington Small Arms Plant, 216
Rench, Dwight, 442
Republicans, 144, 166, 167, 173, 283, 287, 288, 589, 592, 609
Republican Party, 141, 142, 147, 400, n 226
Republican Steel Corporation, 51, 53, 55, 56, 59, 62, 99, 106, n 10
Retail Clerks International Protective Association, 466
Retail, Dairy, Grocery and Fruit Employees Union, 78
Retirement Pension Act, 143
Reuther, Walter P., 276, 353, 377, 388, 517, 535, 549, 550, 581, 583, 584, 602, 613, 614, 615, n 29, n 140, n 190
Revels, Hiram, n 138
Reynolds, Joseph, 563
Rice, Pat, 602
Richardson, C., 129
Richmond, Milton, 67
Richmond Planet, the, n 49
Rieves, Emil, n 220
Ring, Daniel S., 297
Robeson, Paul, 139, 139, 340, 341, 451, 487, 538, 560, 561, 563, 587, 590, 591, 593, 603, 604, 605, n 32
Robinson, Jackie, 592, 593, n 216
Robinson, Joe, 173
Robinson, Joseph T., n 92
Robinson, Reid, n 139
Robinson, “Sugar” Ray, 330, n 129
Robinson, W. W., 400
Rockefeller, John D., n 62
Rocket Manufacturing Company, 551
Rodgers, Ward H., 173
Romeo Foundry, 86
Rooney, George, 72
Rooney, John E., 453
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 196, 482, 485
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 15, 34, 157, 195, 205, 206, 220, 221, 251, 255, 259, 272, 273, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 283, 288, 308, 313, 331, 336, 345, 346, 362, 366, 367, 369, 371, 381, 385, 386, 433, 439, 457, 458, 466, 559, 588, 589. See also, notes 59, 78, 92, 101, 108, 115, 128, 146, 161, 181, 191, 192, 212, 218
Roosevelt, Theodore, 368
Rosenwald Fund, n 112
Ross, Malcolm, 291, 293, n 121
Rowman, Thelma, 535
Rudwick, Elliott, n 51
Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, 472
Rush, Rev. Benjamin, 237
Russell, Bill, 415
Ryan, James F., 309
Ryan, Joseph P., 127, 403, 428, n 169
Rye, Eleanor, 61
Sacker, Harry, 307
Sackett, G. A., 466
Safe Bus Company, 386
Salassie, Hailie, 433
Samuels, Evelyn, 249
San Francisco Railway Company, 541
Sanitary Grocery Company, 396
Saunders, Clarence, 535
Scanlon-Dawson-LaFollette Bills, 283, 286
Schiefflin, William J., 423, 424
Schneider, Hyman, 85
Schuyler, George S., 51, 64, 70, 76, 82, 87, 92, n 46
Schwab, Charles M., n 56
Scott, George N., 441
Scott, Neil, 355
Scott, Willie, 198
Scottsboro Boys, 41, 51, 143, 158, 255, 423, 424, 425, 426, 437, 598, n 7
Scottsboro Defense Committee, 158
Scullins Steel Company, 90
Seafarer’s International Union, 377
Sears, John F., 309
Sears Roebuck, 574
Security and Exchange Commission, 191
Selassie, Emperor Haile, 153, n 170
Senior, Clarence, 410
Shaw University, n 68
Shearer, Paul, 388
Shed, Henry, 84
Sheet Metal Workers International Association, 396, 414, 472, 507, 510, n 185
Sheffield, Horace, 348, 349, 361, 388
Sheffield Steel Company, 90
Shek, Chiang Kai, 611
Shepard, George, 75
Shepherd, Rev. Marshall, 152
Sheppard, Captain, 204, 205, 207
Shields, Swanson C., 30
Shipbuilders of America, 354
Ship Carpenters, Caulkers, and Joiners of America, 531
Shirley, Mr., 87
Shishkin, Boris, 277, 293, n 113
Shoemaker, Joseph, 410
Shorter, Charles A., 221
Shorter, James, 72
Shuford, Bill, 535
Simms, James, 442
Simpson, Leonard, 354
Simpson Manufacturing Company, 273
Simpson, Roxie, 535
Sinclair, Upton, n 66
Slater, Pat, 129
Small, Horace, 347
Smith, Abe, 524
Smith Act, n 202
Smith, Alfred E., 445, 463, 475, n 59, n 92, n 173
Smith, C. H., 172
Smith Committee, 377, 378, 522
Smith-Connelly Act, 369, 576, 579
Smith, “Cotton Ed,” 401, 430, 431
Smith, Donald, 264
Smith, Edward, 93
Smith, Ellison D., n 106
Smith, Evelyn, 193
Smith, Ferdinand C., 135, 228, 351, 353, 354, 387, 389, 498, 537, 560, n 69
Smith, Gerald E., 371
Smith, Gerald K., 237, 363, 384, 385, n 101
Smith, Matt, 520
Smith, Morris, 176
Smith, Dr. W. E., 74
Snipe, George, 78
Snipes, Maceo, 598
Snowden, George, 530
Snyder, Joe, 202
Social Security Act, n 71
Socialists, 61, 144, 151, 153, 167, 409, 410
Socialist Party, 13, 114, 153, 171, 277, 284, 410
Socony Vacuum, 607
Soft Drink Workers Union, 79
Southall, Sara, 293
Southern Aid Society, 126
Southern Asosciation of Colored Railway Trainmen and Firemen, 525
Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 29, 104
Southern Cotton Association, n 106
Southern Negro Youth Conference, 66, 117, 121, 152
Southern Tenant Farmers Union, 7, 171, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 194, 185, 186, 187, 188, 192, 205, 207, 397, n 91, n 93
Southern War Labor Conference, 419
Soviet Union, 138, 153, 160, 165
Sparkman, Clifford G., 581
Spence, Lucille, 135
Spingarn, Arthur B., 32
Spring Products Manufacturing Company, 347
St. James Presbyterian Church (Harlem), 134
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 208
St. Louis Industrial Union Council, 345
St. Louis Post Dispatch, 205, 208
St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad, 523
St. Louis-San Francisco and Texas Railway Company, 542
St. Louis Urban League, 399
Stacey Committee, 285
Standard Oil Company, 589, 607
Standard Sanitary Company, 69
Stark, Louis, 530
Starlight Baptist Church, 561, n 197
Starnes, Joe, n 106
State, County and Municipal Workers of America, 415
State Public Health Commissioner, 207
State University of Iowa, n 94
Steamship Association, 403, 405
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee, 7, 17, 38, 42, 43, 49, 53, 58, 59, 61, 68, 69, 81, 86, 87, 88, 90, 94, 102, 105, 106, 110, 111, 112, 166, 341, 344. See also, notes 6, 10, 34, 47, 52, 57, 61, 211
Steele, George, 70
Steel and Tunstall Cases, 525, n 188
Steinman, John H., 274
Stevenson, Adlai E., n 205
Steward, P. G., 113
Stewart-Warner Corporation, 273
Stockham Pipe and Fittings Company, 95
Stokes, Anson Phelps, 214
Storage and Issue Agency, 308
Strachan, Alan, 7
Straton, John Roach, 363
Strikers’ Emergency Relief Committee, 174
Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, 587
Subversive Activities Control Board, 587, 610
Suitcase, Bag and Portfolio Workers Union, 410
Sullivan, Charles, 272
Sullivan, David, 581
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour, n 65
Summers, Edward, 81
Sumner, Charles, n 178
Sumner, Hatton W., n 106
Sun Oil Company, 73
Sun Shipbuilding Company, 73
Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 231
Swanston, Rev. E. E., 52
Sweatt vs. Painter, 531
Sweeden, Odis, 177
Sweetland, Monroe, 375
Swick, N. B., 96
Switchmen’s Union of North America, 92, 414, 472
Switzer Cummings Company, 88
Taft-Hartley Act, 586, 591, 592, 595, 604, 609, n 119, n 181
Talmadge, Eugene, 227, n 98, n 103, n 106
Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation, 411, 442, 443
Tangen, Eddie, 601
Tanner, W. M., 203
Tappes, Shelton, 339, 351, n 134
Tate, U. Simpson, 151
Taventer, Bert, 92
Teachers Union of New York City, 346
Teamsters’ Union, 417
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, 5, 6, 94, 561
Tennessee Valley Authority, n 128
Textile Workers Organizing Committee, 91, n 96
Textile Workers Union of America, 531, n 220
Thal, Ed, 86
Tharpe, Rosetta, n 224
Thibodeaux, Al, 600
Thirteenth Amendment, 155, 439, 440, n 82
Thomas, Albert, n 168
Thomas, Clint, 101
Thomas, John, 330
Thomas, Norman, 6, 7, 151, 152, 153, 173, 174, 175, 179, 409, 410, n 52
Thomas, R. J., 237, 340, 348, 360, 367, 377, 388
Thomas, Rev. S. G., 386
Thomas, William, 191
Thomasville Chair Company, 543, 544
Thompson, Ernest, 533, 559, 562
Thompson, Louise, 152
Thompson, Turkey, 330
Tile Setters and Terrazo Helpers Union, 226
Tillman, Benjamin, n 154
Tillman, Robert, 93
Timken Roller Bearing Company, 56
Timken Roller Plant, 375
Tinzy, Henderson, 189
Tisdale, Lee, 60
Title and Guarantee Building, 92
Tobacco Association of the United States, 123
Tobacco By-Products Company, 121
Tobacco Stemmers and Workers Industrial Union, 68, 118, 120, 121, 126
Tobacco Workers International, 122, 421
Tobacco Workers of America, 68
Tobacco Workers Organizing Committee, 118, 124
Tobias, Channing H., 581, n 204
Tolan Committee, 266
Toledo, Ohio Industrial Council, 159
Tolivar, A. M., 231
Totten, Ashley L., 134, 135, 395, 415, 417, 513, n 67
Townsend, Francis Everett, n 71
Townsend, Willard S., 38, 335, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 387, 389, 498, 501, 591, 599, 613, 614, n 33, n 220
Trade Union Committee, 459
Trade Unions Council, 603
Trade Union Unity League, 364, n 141
Trainmen, Conductors, Firemen and Switchmen Mutual Aid Association, 523
Transport Service Employees, 389, 498
Transport Workers’ Union of America, 72, 303, 305, 307, 309, 310, 312, 313, 315, 317, 355, 531, 615, n 14, n 126
Travis, Maurice E., 559, n 196
Treadway, Blaine, 186
Tri-State Negro Labor Council, 562
Trotsky, Leon, n 201
Truman Administration, 595, 596
Truman, Harry S., 493, 521, 559, 563, 590, 591, 595, 598, 609. See also, notes 102, 108, 181, 203, 204, 212, 213, 218
Truman Plan, 601
Trumbo, Dalton, 599
Truth, Sojourner, 140, 152, 159, 340, 341, 556, 561, n 70
Tubman, Harriet, 140, 159, 561, n 70
Tulane University, n 106
Tunstall, Tom, 542
Twain, Mark, 480
Twenty-Fourth Amendment, n 26
Twist Brothers, 175
Typographical Union, 515
un-American Activities, 564, 566, 567, 570, 571, 572, 575, 577
un-American Activities Committee, 581, 592, 593, 598, n 60, n 199, n 211
Underground Railroad, 556, 561
Underwood, Houston, 53
Unemployed Councils, 115
Union Pacific Railroad, 11, 434, 435, 436, 437
Union Pacific Railway Company, 11
Union Theological Seminary, 608
Unit Stove Company, 95
United Agricultural and Cannery Workers, 87, 97
United Aid for Peoples of African Descent, 153
United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, n 185
United Association of Plumbers and Steam Fitters, n 229
United Automobile Workers, 7, 8, 9, 38, 71, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 99, 237, 337, 338, 339, 340, 347, 348, 353, 359, 360, 364, 373, 376, 388, 408, 534, 535, 537, 549, 559, 561, 562, 578, 582, 583, 584, 585, 608, 609, 613. See also, notes 5, 28, 29, 131, 133, 134, 140, 190
United Bakery Workers, 87
United Bedding and Glider Workers’ Union, 71
United Brotherhood of Carpenters, n 35
United Dairy Workers, 86
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), 91, 237, 294, 422, 461, 465, 485, 509, 510, 511, 533, 534, 559, 562
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America, 547, 548, 549
United Federal Workers of America, 354
United Food Workers’ Independent Union, 71
United Furniture Workers, 347, 543
United Garment Workers Union, n 96
United Grain Workers, 87
United Hebrew Trades, 410, n 159
United Hotel and Restaurant Workers, 70
United Ice and Fuel Workers Union, 87
United Laundry Workers Union, 79, 81
United Maritime Workers, 353
United Mine Workers of America, 31, 33, 48, 50, 52, 55, 58, 63, 71, 78, 86, 88, 97, 99, 108, 122, 139, 145, 151, 152, 393, 397, 514, 515, 518, 554. See also, notes 34, 47, 52, 61, 77, 89, 130, 135
United Municipal Employes, 87
United Nations, 251, 459, 460, 462, 463, 581, 586, 612
United Negro and Allied Veterans of America, 567
United Packinghouse Workers, 550, 585
United Public Workers of America, 536, 537, 591
United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees, 70, 260
United Soft Drink and Bottling Workers, 97
United States Committee on Fair Employment Practices, n 116
United States Employment Service, 265, 285, 289, 326, 269
United States Navy Yards, 220
United States Office of Education, 213
United States Rubber Company, 365
United States Shipping Board, 404
United States Steel Corporation, n 56
United Steelworkers of America, 108, 341, 343, 344, 353, 354, 379, 379, 380, 382, 383, 384, 530, 531, 611, n 47, n 195, n 196, n 211
United Sugar Workers, 354
United Stone and Allied Products Work-Workers of America, n 3
United Tailors’ Association, 72
United Textile Workers of America, 7, n 3
United Transport Service Employees of America, 38, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 349, 350, 351, 353, 354, 372, 374, 387, 581, 613
United Wholesale, Warehouse Workers, 531
Universal Negro Improvement Association, n 73
University of Alabama, n 58
University of Arkansas, n 92
University of Chicago, n 99, n 102
University of Delaware, n 50
University of Georgia, n 103
University of Illinois, n 99
University of Kansas, n 85
University of Michigan, n 106
University of North Carolina, 238, 280, n 102
University of Oregon, n 119
University of Pittsburgh, n 19
University of Texas, n 106
University of Toronto, n 33
University of Wisconsin, n 88, n 119, n 155
Upper Harlem Council of the Progressive Women’s Council, 135
Urban League, 258, 357, 451, 487, 610
U.S. Gypsum Company, 547
U.S. Labor Relations Board, 386
U.S. Maritime Commission, 221, 279, 290
U.S. Officers Club, 574
U.S. Supreme Court, 541
U.S. Veterans’ Administration, 565
Vanderbilt University, n 106
Vaughn, Theodore, 59
Veneer Box and Barrel Workers Union, 12
Vesey, Denmark, 140, 561, n 70
Vines, Junius, 65
Vinson, Frederick M., 542, n 180, n 192
Virginia Bridge Company, 95
Virginia Bridge and Iron Works, 94
Viscose Company, 74
“Voice of America,” 594, n 217
Voices of Labor, 114
Waddy, Joseph C., 542, 543, n 193
Wadley Poultry Company, 87
Wage and Hours Bill, 397
Wage and Hours Law, 118
Wagner Act, 15, 39, 55, 97, 117, 358, 421, 517, 518
Wagner-Costigan Anti-Lynching Bill, 143
Wagner Electric Company, 91
Wagner-Gavagan Anti-Lunching Bill, 155
Wagner Labor Disputes Bill, 143, 424
Wagner Labor Relations Act, 82, 397, 414
Wagner-LaGuardia Labor Law, 539
Wagner, Robert F., 347, n 136, n 143
Waiters’ and Waitresses’ Union, 408
Waldorf Astoria, 518
Walker, Rev. Alonzo, 94
Walker, Arnold, 92
Walker, James, 537
Walker, Layman, 584
Walker, Majorie, 289
Wall, Baker, 83
Wall Street-Liberty League, 159
Waller, Odell, 263
Walls, Bishop W. J., 47, 48, 61
Walter, Noah, 79, 80, 81, 354, 409
War Agencies Bill, 287
War Food Administration, 245
War Labor Board, 230, 238, 280, 281, 307, 308, 309, 310, n 29, n 191
War Labor Disputes Act, 310, 312, 314
War Manpower Board, 22, 231, 233, 242, 259, 260, 266, 273, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 281, 284, 286, 287, 288, 290, 304, 307, 310, 328, 350, 365, 502, n 140
War Mobilization and Reconversion, 269
War Production Board, 228, 245, 347, 419, 501, n 96
War Relief Committee, 372, 373, 374
War Shipping Administration, 377, 378
Ward Baking Company, 85
Warehousemen’s Union, 129
Warms, William, n 64
Warren Urban League, 55
Washington Agreement, 523
Washington, Booker T., 22, 24, 367, 431, 538, n 20, n 114
Washington, D.C. Navy Yard, 239
Washington, George M., 62
Washington Post Dispatch, 205
Waters, Alex, 129
Watson, Rev. H. W., 74
Watts, Nellie, 602
Watts, Will, 109
Wayne County (Detroit) Central Labor Council, 139
Weaver, Robert C., 213, 220, 273, n 220
Webster, James, 81
Webster, Milton P., 272, 277, 293, 394, 395, 417, 427, 429, 430, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 440, 448, 455, 457, 458, 459, 460, 465, 474, 475, 486, 488, 509, 512, 526, n 111, n 150
Webster, Thomas A., 214
Weed, H. H., 262
Weinstock, Louis, 398, 399, 576
Weir’s National Steel Company, 99
Weissman, Irving, 116
Welles, Sumner, 262
Wesley, Charles H., 151, 394, n 80
Westbrooks, Richard R., 526
Western Pipe and Steel Company, 419
West Virginia State College, n 19
Wharton, Arthur O., n 37
Wheatley, Phillis, n 198
Wheeler, Burton K., n 88
Wheeling Steel Corporation, n 190
White, Maude, 146
White, Slugger, 330
White, Walter, 20, 151, 253, 276, 284, 308, 336, 338, 412, n 5, n 16, n 131, n 204
Whitfield, Mrs., 196
Whitfield, Owen H., 194, 195, 196
Whitted, Robert, 441
Wholesale, Retail and Department Store Employees, 517
Widman, Jr., Michael F., 360
Wilberforce University, n 80
Wilcox, Thomas, 408
Wilkins, Dave, 199
Wilkins, Roy, 8, 413, 415, n 5
Williamette Iron and Steel Company, 442
Williams, Aubrey, 197, 203, 205, 206, 208
Williams, Bester, 542
Williams, Rev. Claude, 177, 181, 182, 183, 184
Williams, E. C., 602
Williams, Ethel Maxwell, 250
Williams, Francis, 403
Williams, Katherine, 62
Williams, Sidney, 92
Willkie, Wendell L., 277, 368, n 115
Wilson and Bennett Company, 60
Wilson, Boyd L., 351, 354, 378
Wilson, Doris, 249
Wilson, Jackie, 330
Wilson, Jesse, 83
Wilson Meatpacking Company, 547
Wilson, Nye, 289
Wilson, Oscar, 354
Wilson, Woodrow, n 106
Winchell, Walter, 147, 523, 556, n 75
Wisekettle Company, 69
Witherspoon, Commissioner, 366, 367
Wolfe Creek Ordnance Plant, 444
Woll, Mathew, 28, 433, 437, 449, 450, 464, 467, 486, n 25, n 35
Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, 249
Wood, John S., 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 575, 592, n 199
Wood, Leonard, n 94
Woodson, Carter, 113
Woodward Iron Company, 95
Workers’ Alliance of America, 7, 43
Workers Bureau of the National Urban League, 42
Workers Council of the Urban League, 46
Workers Defense League, 284
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 151, 163, 201-04, 216, 217, 255, 289, 290, n 6, 116
Workmen’s Circle, 616
World Federation of Trade Unions, 596
World Partisans for Peace, 599
World Trade Union, 519
Worth, George, 200
Wright, Ada, 158
Wright, Andy, 158
Wright, Chalky, 330
Wyatt, Donald W., 70
Wyllis, Zuvandee, 220
Yale University, n 80
Yancey, John L., 335, 351, 353, 354
Yergan, Max, 135, 151, 152, 277, n 68
Young, Coleman A., 559, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 572, 573, 574, 575, 577
Young, John, 306
Young, Lawrence, 92
Young, Sr., Plummer B., 293, n 122
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, 51, 53, 59, 60, 88, 99
Zangrando, Robert L., n 45
Zausner, Philip, 398
Zemurray, Samuel, 293
Zimmerman, Charles S., 581, 616, n 204
Zimmerman, Sascha, 410
Zinberg, Len, 3
Zukerman, Jacob T., 616