The Congress of Industrial Organizations 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 commi
The CIO's second headquarters was an office on the third floor of this building, the United Mine Workers' headquarters, at 900 15th Street NW, Washington, DC.
Front page of the first issue of The C.I.O. News featuring New York City Councilman-elect Mike Quill, published December 7, 1937
718 Jackson Place NW, Washington, D.C., the fourth and final headquarters for the Congress of Industrial Organizations. As of 2008, the building is owned by the federal government and houses small units attached to the Executive Office of the President.
CIO leaders listen to President Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech before pledging support to the war effort, December 12, 1941 Left to right: Austin Hogan, TWU; Michael Quill, TWU; Ben Gold, IFLWU; Joseph Curran, NMU; Harry Bridges, ILWU, Morris Muster, UFWA
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Benjamin Gold was a Russian-born Jewish American labor leader and Communist Party member who was president of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union from 1937 to 1955.
Gold c. 1946
A group of fur workers active in the 1912 strike. Fourteen year-old Ben Gold is second from the left in the front row.
Gold in the hospital after being assaulted by "reactionaries" in the Furriers' Union c. December 1923
Portrait by Hugo Gellert, 1927