The CIO Political Action Committee (CIO PAC) was established in July 1943 to support Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1944 presidential campaign. After the 1944 election, the CIO maintained PAC as its permanent political action apparatus until the CIO merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. CIO PAC, funded by member contributions, provided financial assistance to CIO-endorsed candidates and supported pro-labor legislation. Amalgamated Clothing Workers president Sidney Hillman directed CIO PAC from 1943 until his death in 1946. When Jack Kroll took over in 1955, CIO PAC merged with Labor’s League for Political Education and a year later became the newly formed AFL-CIO’s Committee on Political Education.
The CIO PAC collection consists of correspondence with state CIO PAC offices and numerous pamphlets and reports on election campaigns and issues of concern to organized labor.
