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Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the AFL-CIO Social Security Department. Topics include social security and health insurance legislation and the planning of training events on insurance topics in the Atlanta area.

Consists of correspondence, attendance lists, event schedules, reports, and other documents associated with the 1965 and 1966 Southern Union Staff Institutes of the National Institute of Labor Education (NILE).

Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Barney Weeks, President of the AFL-CIO Alabama Labor Council. Major topics include educational activities organized by the Alabama Labor Council, information on Kehrer's speaking engagements in Alabama, and requests to Kehrer for information on Civil Rights topics.

Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with J. Bill Becker, Director of the Arkansas State AFL-CIO. Topics include requests to Kehrer for information on Civil Rights issues.

Consists of a report on charges that the AFL-CIO Colorado Labor Council violated AFL-CIO bylaws by endorsing George McGovern for President in 1972, as well as the decision by AFL-CIO President George Meany to suspend the Colorado Labor Council and its staff.

Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the Florida AFL-CIO. Major topics include Kehrer's participation in the annual Florida Labor School.

Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the Georgia State AFL-CIO. Topics include proposed changes to Georgia laws on worker compensation and sales tax, communication between Georgia labor leaders and U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge, and criticism of Georgia State AFL-CIO President J.O. Moore.

Consists of reports and articles related to the activity of the Georgia State AFL-CIO. Major topics include criticism of Georgia State AFL-CIO leadership for unwillingness to support the national AFL-CIO's endorsement of Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 presidential election.

Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the Georgia State AFL-CIO. Major topics include strategic planning for the 1970 midterm elections and a dispute within the Georgia State AFL-CIO over the voting process to be used at its 1970 meeting.

Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the Georgia State AFL-CIO. Topics include early planning for the development of the Labor Studies Program at Georgia State University and legislation to allow collective bargaining by public employees in Georgia.

Consists of correspondence and documents related to grievance procedures and collective bargaining for public employees in Georgia.

Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with staff of the AFL-CIO Atlanta Labor Council. Major topics include the organization and finances of the Atlanta Labor Council and its affiliate union locals, participation of Atlanta Labor Council staff and affiliate local members in conferences and events, and joint planning with the Georgia State AFL-CIO for a Voter Information Project (VIP) prior to the 1980 Presidential election.

Consists of correspondence and documents related to an initiative of the Atlanta Labor Council to register African-American and Hispanic voters in Dekalb county.

Consists of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Sam Ezelle, President of the Kentucky State AFL-CIO, and Ray Crider, Director of the Kentucky State AFL-CIO COPE. Topics include Kehrer's participation in a 1965 Civil Rights conference in Louisville, Kentucky.

Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Victor Bussie, President of the Louisiana AFL-CIO. Topics include the progress of a 1965 apprenticeship program in Bogalusa, Louisiana and training opportunities for Louisiana union activists. Also includes a letter from Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO President A.P. Stoddard to NAACP New Orleans Branch President Horace C. Bynum, responding to Bynum's criticism of low union turnout to a May 1965 meeting on racial issues in New Orleans.

Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Claude Ramsay, President of the Mississippi AFL-CIO. Topics include the 1967 assassination of Mississippi NAACP activist and union member Wharlest Jackson, 1969 union elections at the Diamond National Corporation plant in Natchez, Mississippi, and the and the involvement of the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department in labor negotiations at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Consists primarily of correspondence of E.T. Kehrer with Claude Ramsay, President of the Mississippi AFL-CIO. Topics include organizing efforts among pulpwood and poultry workers, corporate mismanagement and labor disputes at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Ramsay's reports on Mississippi state politics.