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The American Federation of Labor (AFL) failed to meet the needs of the unorganized workers in the mass-production industries in the early 1930s. The fundamental problem was that the AFL did not want to let unskilled workers into the organization, which was dominated by craft unions. The stubbornness of the AFL led United Mine Workers (UMW) leader John L. Lewis to split from the AFL and found the CIO. Lewis created the CIO with the explicit purpose of organizing the mass-productions industries.
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