Gibson, John W. Papers

1935-1954

Assistant Secretary of Labor, 1946-1950; Chairman, Displaced Persons Commission, 1950-1952

 

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FOLDER TITLE LIST

DAIRY WORKERS UNION AND MICHIGAN LABOR COMMISSION, 1935-1945

Box 1

  • C.I.O. Council before 1940
  • Constitutional revision file
  • Dairy industry - miscellaneous
  • Defense Council, general
  • Defense Council, Health and Welfare Committee
  • Defense Savings Committee
  • Deputy Commissioners
  • Examinations
  • Executive Office
  • Factory inspectors

Box 2

  • Gibson - Chairman of Committee to rewrite Workmen's Compensation Act
  • Gibson - personal [1 of 6]
  • Gibson - personal [2 of 6]
  • Gibson - personal [3 of 6]

Box 3

  • Gibson - personal [4 of 6]
  • Gibson - personal [5 of 6]
  • Gibson - personal [6 of 6]
  • Industrial Hygiene, 1941
  • Michigan Labor and Industry
  • Occupations injurious to minors

Box 4

  • Personnel applications
  • Political appointments
  • Political resolutions
  • State-wide safety conference
  • Union file - 1941 [1 of 2]
  • Union file - 1941 [2 of 2]
  • United Dairy Workers
  • Workers Service Project
  • Workmen's compensation
  • Works Progress Administration

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF LABOR, 1945-1950: Subject File

Box 5

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Cafeteria Workers
  • Coal file
  • Conciliation Service [1 of 2]
  • Conciliation Service [2 of 2]

Box 6

  • Conciliation Service
  • Employment statistics
  • General correspondence
  • Health for Victory
  • Hearings - Committee on Education and Labor
  • Department of the Interior

Box 7

  • Japanese trip
  • Labor Day
  • Labor laws and conditions
  • Labor Management Conference
  • Labor - new peace proposal
  • Letter from White House accepting resignation

Box 8

  • Personal correspondence [1 of 2]
  • Personal correspondence [2 of 2]
  • Personnel
  • Physically handicapped [1 of 2]
  • Physically handicapped [2 of 2]
  • Research and statistics relating to employment and unemployment, U.S. Department of Labor
  • Reorganization of the Department of Labor

Box 9

  • Safety engineering war training classes
  • Safety and Health Bill S.1271
  • Industrial Safety School
  • National Safety School
  • National Safety Conference
  • Speeches and background material
  • Taft-Hartley [1 of 2]
  • Taft-Hartley [2 of 2]
  • Travel vouchers [1 of 2]
  • Travel vouchers [2 of 2]
  • Vote of Senators on various bills
  • Workers Education Service

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF LABOR, 1945-1950: Chronological File

Box 10

  • Chronological file, 1947
  • Chronological file, 1948
  • Chronological file, 1949
  • Chronological file, 1950

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF LABOR, 1945-1950: Name File

Box 11

  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D

Box 12

  • E
  • Economic Development Committee
  • F
  • G
  • Gibson, Mr.

Box 13

  • Gibson, Mr., personal [1 of 2]
  • Gibson, Mr., personal [2 of 2]
  • I
  • J-K
  • Japanese Labor Program
  • L

Box 14

  • Letters of commendation
  • Little Cabinet meetings
  • M
  • Michigan Administration matters
  • Michigan C.I.O. matters
  • Michigan Democratic Club
  • Michigan matters (confidential)

Box 15

  • Michigan Unemployment Compensation Committee
  • N
  • O
  • P-Q
  • Political
  • Political convention

Box 16

  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U-V
  • W
  • XYZ

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF LABOR, 1945-1950: Labor Disputes File

Box 17

  • Agriculture, 1945-1946
  • Allis - Chalmers, 1945-1948 [1 of 3]
  • Allis - Chalmers, 1945-1948 [2 of 3]
  • Allis - Chalmers, 1945-1948 [3 of 3]
  • Applications for conciliation positions, 1945-1949 [1 of 2]
  • Applications for conciliation positions, 1945-1949 [2 of 2]
  • Conciliation Service, 1946

Box 18

  • Conciliation Service, 1949
  • Correspondence re Conciliation Service, 1947
  • Arbitration, compulsory, 1949
  • Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 1946-1950
  • B 2 H Bill (Federal Industrial Relations Act S. 1171)
  • Bell Aircraft strike, 1949
  • Bendix Aviation, 1949
  • Brewery Workers, 1948
  • Campbell Soup Company, 1946
  • Campbell, Wyant and Cannon Foundry Company, 1946
  • Case (I.J.) Company, 1946-1948

Box 19

  • Case (I.J.)Company, 1946-1948
  • C.I.O., 1945-1950 [1 of 2]
  • C.I.O., 1945-1950 [2 of 2]
  • Excise Tax - labors stand, 1950
  • Executive orders 1945-1948
  • General Motors file, 1945

Box 20

  • Government Services, Inc., 1947-1948 [1 of 2]
  • Government Services, Inc., 1947-1948 [2 of 2]
  • Houdaille - Hershey Corporation, 1947
  • International Harvester, 1946
  • International Harvester fact finding report, 1946

Box 21

  • Labor letters and reports, 1945-1948
  • Labor relations and material, 1947
  • Maritime strike, Great Lakes, 1946
  • Meat seizure order, 1946
  • Michigan Study Commission, 1947
  • Michigan state legislation, 1948
  • Minimum wage material, 1949
  • Montgomery Ward and Company, 1945
  • Motor Products Corporation, 1950
  • A. Newmyer Associates, 1947
  • Non-Ferrous metals fact finding panel, 1946
  • Oil panel, fact finding panel and report, 1946

Box 22

  • Parke Davis file, 1950
  • Puget Sound Navigation Company, 1948
  • Taft-Hartley Law material
  • Telephone strike, 1947
  • Trailmobile company, 1950
  • Wages and Hours, 1946-1948
  • Women's Bureau Conference, 1948

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF LABOR, 1945-1950: Speeches by John W. Gibson (Chronological)

Box 23

  • Hampden Safety Council, January 27, 1947
  • "The Growth of Workers Education." Cleveland, Ohio, January 25, 1947
  • Convention of the St. Louis Joint Board, Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, C.I.O., March 25, 1947
  • Greater New York Safety Council, March 26, 1947
  • Fifth Annual Industrial Safety Forum, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 17, 1947
  • Labor and Nation article, 1947
  • United Wall Paper Company, August 7, 1947
  • Oil Workers International Union, Kansas City, Missouri, August 14, 1947
  • International Association of Public Employment Service, September 8, 1947
  • Industrial Supervisor's Conference, University of New Hampshire, September 13, 1947
  • Town Meeting of the Air, New York City, October 21, 1947
  • Society for the Advancement of Management, Boston, Massachusetts, December 4, 1947
  • N.A.A.C.P., Washington, D.C. Chapter, January 18, 1948
  • Social Action Institute, January 21, 1948

Box 24

  • Jewish Labor Committee, February 2, 1948
  • Middlebury, Vermont, April 24, 1948
  • Conference of Industrial Editors, June 10, 1948
  • The Constitutional Convention of the United Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers of America, July 22, 1948
  • Labor Day Address, September 16, 1948
  • Convention of International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal and Soft Drinks Workers of America, September 13, 1948
  • Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, Communion Breakfast, New York City, October 18, 1948
  • 11th Annual Convention of Wisconsin States Industrial Union Council C.I.O., December 18, 1948
  • Ali Ghan Shrine Country Club, Cumberland, Md., January 26, 1949
  • Louisiana State Industrial Union Council, February 19, 1949
  • 99th Birthday of Thomas G. Masaryk, March 7, 1949
  • St. Thomas Moore Guild, March 8, 1949
  • Employment Security for the Handicapped, a National Problem, Institute for the Employment of the Handicapped, April 9, 1949
  • Michigan State Industrial Union Council, C.I.O., May 24, 1949
  • Maryland Safety Conference, June 8, 1949
  • Ohio University Commencement, August 13, 1949
  • Vital issues in steel dispute must be settled to avert disastrous strikes in other industry, August 30, 1949
  • The Joint Labor Rally, Miami, September 5, 1949
  • Testimonial Dinner for W.P. Kennedy, October 6, 1949
  • Industrial Launderers' Association, October 21, 1949
  • Oklahoma State Industrial Union Council, C.I.O., January 21, 1950
  • Annual Convention Utility Workers Union of America, April 28, 1950
  • American Federation of Physically Handicapped, April 30, 1950
  • "A Labor Program against Intolerance"
  • Miscellaneous

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF LABOR, 1945-1950: Speeches and Correspondence Concerning Speeches

Box 25

  • President's 1950 tour
  • Campaign - speech material
  • Speech material
  • Articles for Publication
  • Requests to speak refused

Box 26

  • Americans for Democratic Action, June 6, 1950
  • Ali Ghan Country Club, Allegheny County State Central Committee, January 26, 1949
  • A.B.C. program "On Trial", January 27, 1949 [1 of 2]
  • A.B.C. program "On Trial", January 27, 1949 [2 of 2]
  • American Federation of the Physically Handicapped, April 29, 1950
  • American Union of Telephone Workers, March 22, 1948
  • Association of Catholic Trade Unionist, October 17, 1948
  • Anniversary, 35th Department of Labor, March 4, 1948
  • Brewery, Flour, Cereal and Soft Drinks Workers of America, International Union of United, September 20, 1948
  • Bronx Rotary Club, December 14, 1948
  • C.I.O. Community Services Institute Panel, June 6, 1950
  • C.I.O. Convention, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 9, 1950
  • C.I.O. Labor Day Speech, September 4, 1950
  • C.I.O. Convention, November 18, 1948
  • C.I.O. Labor Day Celebration, September 1, 1947
  • C.I.O. Education Conference, United Automobile Workers, January 25, 1947
  • Chicago Industrial Union Council, March 8, 1947

Box 27

  • Chicago meeting, March 17, 1949
  • Czechoslovak National Council, March 7, 1949
  • European trip (1949)
  • Fordham Industrial Relations Council, May 7, 1949
  • Foreman's Club, August 6, 1947
  • Florida Labor Day Speech, September 5, 1949
  • F.D.R. - C.I.O. Summer Institute, July 23, 1948, and August 25, 1947
  • Glass, Ceramic and Silica Sand Workers of America, July 19, 1950
  • Hampden County Safety Council, January 21, 1947
  • Handicapped, employment of physically, April 9, 1949
  • Harrisburg, C.I.O. Education Conference February 24, 1950

Box 28

  • Hawaii trip, April 19-25, 1948
  • I.A.G.L.O., October 3, 1946
  • I.A.R.E. Services - Hurst Hall, American University, April 26, 1946 and September 8, 1947
  • Industrial Hygiene Foundation, November 16, 1949
  • Industrial Launderers' Association, October 21, 1949
  • Industrial Chiropractors Association Convention, August 26, 1950
  • International Foundry Wage and Hour Council, September 21, 1947
  • International Woodworkers of America Conference, September 10, 1946

Box 29

  • Jewish Labor Committee, February 1, 1948
  • Jewish Labor Committee, December 5, 1948
  • Joint C.I.O. and A.F. of L. Labor Day Speech, September 6, 1948
  • Kennedy, W.P. testimonial Dinner, October 5, 1949
  • Lansing Rotary Club, March 12, 1947
  • Lansing Safety Council, October 22, 1946
  • League of Women Voters, June 7, 1947
  • Louisiana Industrial Union Council, February 19, 1949
  • Maine State Industrial Union Council - June 1949 (cancelled because of auto accident)
  • Maryland Safety, Health Conference, June 8, 1949
  • Merchant Marine Institute, October 14, 1948
  • Miami Labor Day, 1949
  • Michigan State College, November 11, 1947
  • Michigan State College, May 24, 1949

Box 30

  • N.A.A.C.P., Washington, D.C. January 18, 1948
  • National Conference on Community School Camping September 26, 1949 (declined)
  • National Employment of the Physically Handicapped, August 10, 1950
  • Naval Reserve Speech, January 9, 1950
  • New Hampshire Industrial Supervisors Conference, September 13, 1947
  • New Jersey Safety Council, February 1, 1946
  • New York and Dallas trip, January-February 1950
  • New York Herald Tribune Forum, October 21, 1947
  • New York Safety Council

Box 31

  • Ohio C.I.O. Council, September 12, 1947
  • Ohio Safety Congress, April 17, 1946
  • Ohio University Speech, August 13, 1949
  • Oil Workers Convention, August 14, 1947
  • Oklahoma speech, January 21, 1950
  • Penn Yan, New York, August 30, 1949
  • Pennsylvania Education Conference, February 24, 1950
  • Philadelphia Safety Council, June 4, 1946
  • Providence Rhode Island Forum, January 21, 1948 (cancelled)
  • Reviewing Stand - radio, March 9, 1947
  • Rotary Club, October 8, 1947
  • Stephen Roth testimonial, January 22, 1950
  • St. Louis, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, March 23, 1947
  • St. Thomas Moore Guild, March 8, 1949
  • Seton Hall College, December 3, 1947

Box 32

  • Social Action Institute, (cancelled), January 21, 1948
  • Social Order Forum, May 9, 1949
  • Society for the Advancement of Management, December 4, 1947
  • Steelworkers, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1948
  • St. Paul Industrial Safety Forum, April 17, 1947
  • Tennessee C.I.O. Council
  • Textile Workers speech, Lawrence, Massachusetts, May 14, 1949
  • Toledo Joint Council, September 28, 1946
  • United Gas, Coke, and Chemical Workers, July 22, 1948
  • United Railroad Workers, March 10, 1949
  • University of Michigan Panel, June 29, 1950
  • Utah State Industrial Union Council, C.I.O., May 24, 1950
  • Utility Workers of America New York City, New York, April 28, 1950
  • Utility Workers of America, October 15, 1948
  • Wage and Hour Regional Conference, December 5, 1946

Box 33

  • Wayne University, December 19, 1947
  • Wisconsin State Industrial Convention, December 18, 1948
  • Worker's Education, March 20, 1949
  • Workshop for Women Voters, September 30, 1948
  • Young Democrats State Convention, Flint, Michigan, October 28, 1949
  • Y.W.C.A. Chicago speech, March 2, 1950

DISPLACED PERSONS COMMISSION: Subject File

Box 34

  • Budget - 1952
  • Confidential files - overseas
  • Confidential files - list inimical organizations
  • Defense mobilization manpower policy
  • Delegation of Authority
  • Displaced Persons Commission
  • Displaced Persons Commission - charts
  • Displaced Persons Commission - miscellaneous
  • Displaced Persons Commission - staff, U.S. and overseas
  • Europe meetings and notes
  • Europe miscellaneous file
  • Europe meeting - briefing report - Austria
  • Europe meeting - briefing report - British zone

Box 35

  • Europe meeting - briefing report - French zone
  • Europe meeting - briefing report - Italy
  • Europe meeting - briefing report - Ludwisburg
  • Europe meeting - briefing report - Munich
  • Europe meeting - operations report - Bremen
  • Expellee program
  • Fisher, Robert - overseas budget report
  • Ford Foundation
  • Inimical organization
  • Inimical lists
  • Legislation - extension of the act
  • Legislation - proposals of volunteer agencies
  • Legislature - majority statements - change in Sec. 12
  • Legislature - H.R. 7376

Box 36

  • Middelmann, W.G. - Bonn Government report
  • Migration [1 of 2]
  • Migration [2 of 2]

Box 37

  • Migration
  • Orphans program
  • Orphans program, Italian
  • Security
  • Telephone conversation - Europe
  • Tri-partite meetings (I.N.S.C.P.C. and State Dept.)
  • Volunteer agencies - Europe and the United States
  • White House meetings

DISPLACED PERSONS COMMISSION: Meetings and Minutes

Box 38

  • Advisory committee meetings
  • Displaced Persons Commission meetings
  • Displaced Persons staff meetings
  • Displaced Persons technical committee meetings
  • Interpreter releases, 1950

Box 39

  • Interpreter releases, 1951
  • Interpreter releases, 1952

Box 40

  • Displaced Persons Commission meetings [1 of 2]
  • Displaced Persons Commission meetings [2 of 2]
  • Displaced Persons Commission final report [1 of 2]
  • Displaced Persons Commission final report [2 of 2]
  • Displaced Persons Commission, galley proof final report

DISPLACED PERSONS COMMISSION: Speech File

Box 41

  • Miscellaneous releases and speech material
  • American Aid Societies - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 30, 1952
  • American Aid Societies meeting Chicago, December 9, 1951
  • Atlantic City, May 15, 1951
  • German ethnic program
  • Resettlement Conference - Chicago-January 16-20, 1952
  • German-American Conference - Chicago - January 23-25, 1951
  • Foreign editor's conference, January 25, 1951

Box 42

  • 500th German expellee, October 17, 1951
  • German expellee meeting, May 17, 1951
  • German Workingman's Association and State D.P.C. Luncheon, Boston, Massachusetts January 26, 1952
  • Hungarian Centennial - New York City, New York, December 8, 1951
  • Immigrants Protective League, May 29, 1952
  • International Institute, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, February 27, 1952
  • Jewish Labor Committee, New York City, New York February 4, 1951
  • Mark Evans Show, CBS, T.V., Washington, D.C., June 25, 1952
  • Michigan State Industrial Union Council, June 4, 1951
  • NBC, T.V. - battle report program, January 6, 1952
  • Philadelphia chapter of Catholic Verein, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1951
  • Publicity file of the Displaced Persons Commission, 1950-1951
  • Radio scripts, 1951-1952
  • Rubber Sole and Heel Institute - Elastic Calloid Research Group (Bob Winters) Boston, Massachusetts, March 6, 1952
  • St. Clement's Men's Club, Farlington, Virginia, March 28, 1951
  • Section 12 Conference, Chicago, January 24, 1951
  • United Friends of Yugoslavia, Aug. 19, 1951
  • United Jewish Appeal December 16, 1951
  • United Service for New Americans, January 21, 1951
  • U.S. for New Americans, drive for Dr. Chamberlin, New York, January 19, 1952
  • Utility Workers Union, Legislation Institute, June 16, 1952
  • Meeting of Michigan Displaced Persons Commission, May 23, 1951
  • West Coast trip, April 29, 1951, to May 9, 1951

DISPLACED PERSONS COMMISSION: Alphabetical File, 1950-1952

Box 43

  • A
  • Austin Distributing Co.
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • Democratic National Committee
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • House, notes on
  • I - J
  • K - L
  • M
  • Michigan Economic Development Company

Box 44

  • Mc
  • N - O
  • P - Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • Tax receipts, Virginia, 1950-1951
  • Tibbetts Distributing Company [1 of 2]
  • Tibbetts Distributing Company [2 of 2]
  • Travel vouchers, 1952
  • Travel vouchers, 1952-1951
  • U - V
  • W
  • XYZ

CONSULTANT FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF LAUNDERERS AND PRESIDENT OF THE PREMIUM DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, 1952-1954

Box 45

  • Committee Procedure (new)
  • Democratic National Committee
  • Form 57
  • Mr. John Gibson - biographical sketch
  • Mr. John Gibson - personal correspondence, 1952
  • Mr. John Gibson - personal correspondence, 1953

Box 46

  • Mr. John Gibson - personal correspondence, 1954
  • Mr. John Gibson - stock transfer certificates
  • Industrial Hygiene - American Institute of Industrial Hygiene
  • Illinois convention, November December 15, 1952
  • Institute Publicity and Public Relations programs and ideas
  • I.L.O. bulletins and information
  • Journal of International Affairs
  • Miller Brewing Company
  • Obituaries
  • Physically Handicapped - hearing on federal agency for
  • President's Conference on Industrial Safety
  • President's Conference on Occupational Safety

Box 47

  • Refugee Relief Act of 1953
  • Safety Maintenance and Production
  • Safety Program
  • Sales Executive Club
  • Speech - Annual Conference on Industrial Health
  • Speech - Greater New York Safety Council (cancelled)
  • Speech - Dairyman's Credit Union
  • Speech - miscellaneous drafts and notes
  • Virginia politics
  • Lists of material removed from this file and turned over to the HSTL book collection or the audio-visual collection

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL

Box 48

  • Miscellaneous
  • Receipt books and date books
  • Address books
  • Various blank forms
  • Charts and maps

Box 49

  • Printed Materials

Box 50

  • Printed Materials

Box 51

  • Printed Materials
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