L to R: Kenneth Kelley, Callahan, S. Camelio,
Gov. John Volpe, and William Belanger Unfortunately, the minutes of meetings held after January 1958 have been lost -- or were never kept -- and the details of precisely how these issues were resolved are now impossible to determine. What is clear is that shortly after Belanger and Camelio met with the CIO Merger Committee on August 12, 1958, they announced that the first combined convention of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO would be held in Boston on December 6, exactly one year after the first deadline had passed.

Second Mass. AFL-CIO Convention, 1959 A copy of the merger agreement outlines the terms of the new organization, and makes it clear that the CIO won out on several substantive points. Most importantly, the president was unpaid and came from the CIO, as did one executive vice president (Belanger and Camelio, respectively), while the AFL received the other executive vice-president, along with a paid Secretary-Treasurer (Callahan and Kelley, respectively). The CIO also prevailed in setting the number of departments (four, including a Committee on Political Education, Education and Research, Legislative, and Publications and Public Relations) and in securing a five cents per capita tax.