USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lewis. President of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) from 1920 until 1960 and founding president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), John Llewellyn Lewis was the dominant voice shaping the labor movement in the 1930s.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. Originally created in 1935 as a committee within the American Federation of Labor (AFL) by John L.

Detailed explanation-3: -That November, Lewis, Hillman, and Dubinsky, together with nine other like-minded union leaders, formed the Committee on Industrial Organization (CIO) within the AFL, to fight for the organization of mass-production workers on an industrial (rather than craft) basis.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), established in the mid-1930s, organized large numbers of Black workers into labour unions for the first time. By 1940 there were more than 200, 000 African Americans in the CIO, many of them officers of union locals.

Detailed explanation-5: -Known simply as the American Federation of Labor (AFL) at its founding in 1886, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was added in 1955 to represent the coming together of two different sectors of the labor movement. … in 1935, a split occurred in the labor movement over how unions should be organized.