Guide to Collections

This guide provides a comprehensive list of AFL-CIO collections that are open and available for research. Use ctrl+F to search for keywords within the guide.

For more information, see Record Group 34 in the guide.

The University of Maryland has many major publications of the CIO, AFL, and AFL-CIO, including:

• CIO News
• A.F. of L. Reporter
• AFL-CIO News
• American Federationist  (see index below)
• Labor's Heritage Journal (see index below)
• The Carpenter's Magazine

Labor's Heritage Journal:

• Index to Labor’s Heritage, 1989-2000 (A-L)
• Index to Labor's Heritage, 1989-2000 (L-Z)
• Index to Collections Reported to Labor’s Heritage (1989-2000)

American Federationist: 

• American Federationist Indexes (1915-1981)
• American Federationist Index of Pictures

CIO News:

• Index to Women, Garment Workers, Clerical Workers, and Minorities (1937-1955)

AFL-CIO Publications available in the HathiTrust Digital Library: 

• AFL News-Reporter
• AFL-CIO Consitution 
• American Federationist
• CIO Constitutional Proceedings 
• Economic Outlook
• List of Affiliated Organizations
• The National Economy
• Proceedings of the AFL
• Proceedings of the AFL-CIO

CIO News

A publication produced by the CIO.  Volumes 1-18 (1937-1955) are available; each volume can be searched separately by keyword.

AFL-CIO News

A publication produced by the AFL-CIO.  Volumes 1-41 (1956-1996) are available; each volume can be searched separately by keyword.

The Carpenter's Magazine

A publication produced by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of American of newsworthy events within the union.

The titles of available veritcal files are indexed in spreadsheets (see below).

Contact us for more information on accessing these vertical files.