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Bert Cochran Papers, Bulk, 1935-1955, 1935-1978, (Bulk 1935-1955)

Title: Bert Cochran Papers Bulk, 1935-1955 1935-1978, (Bulk 1935-1955)

Bert Cochran (1916-1984) was a Trotskyist active in the Communist League of America (1934), the American Workers Party (1935-37), in the Appeal Group within the Socialist Party, and in the automobile industry (1930s-40s), first in Cleveland within the Mechanics Educational Society of America, then in Detroit as head of the Socialist Workers Party Auto Fraction and as an activist within the United Automobile Workers of America. He left/was expelled from the SWP in 1954 for his leading role in the “Cochran-Clarke” faction, then helped found the magazine (1954-1959), and subsequently wrote seven books that covered labor and economics, and current domestic and international affairs. The collection contains correspondence, minutes, and reports relating to his labor and political activities, typescripts of speeches on various topics, and an (incomplete) untitled manuscript, a Marxist history of warfare and society. The American Socialist

ArchivalResource: 2.25 linear feet; (5 boxes)

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Sachs, David A. Trotskyism and the Minneapolis teamsters movement, by David A. Sachs.

Title: Trotskyism and the Minneapolis teamsters movement, by David A. Sachs. 1962.

ArchivalResource: ii, 86 l. 28 cm.

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Socialist Workers Party records, 1914-1980

Title: Socialist Workers Party records, 1914-1980.

Campaign literature, scrapbooks, form letters, bulletins, issues of party newspapers, pamphlets, and other materials generated or collected by the Socialist Workers Party, which was organized formally in 1938 to represent the Trotskyite branch of the American Communist Party. Most of the materials emanated from Socialist Workers party headquarters in New York City, although there are also items from Communist groups abroad and a small file (1962-1964) created by the Minnesota branch.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 cubic feet (7 boxes) and 1 microfilm reel.

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Dunne, Vincent R. (Vincent Raymond), 1889-1970,. Oral history interview with Vincent Raymond Dunne, 1969 April 27.

Title: Oral history interview with Vincent Raymond Dunne, 1969 April 27.

Dunne discusses his early work experiences and his involvement with the IWW and the Communist Party in the 1920s, philosophical differences between the Trotskyites and the Communists, the Socialist Workers Party, the 1934 Truckers' Strike in Minneapolis, and organizing radical labor groups.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings : 2 sound cassettes (60 min. each)Transcript : 45 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Day, Vince A. (Vincent Alpheus), 1885-1945. Vince A. Day papers, 1906-1945.

Title: Vince A. Day papers, 1906-1945.

Correspondence, speeches, clippings, printed materials, scrapbooks, and other papers of Day, who was private secretary to Minnesota governor Floyd B. Olson (1931-1935) and a Minneapolis municipal and Hennepin County district court judge (1935-1945).

ArchivalResource: 2.5 cu. ft. (4 boxes, incl. 4 v., and 29 oversize items)

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Socialist Workers Party records, 1914-1980

Title: Socialist Workers Party records, 1914-1980.

Campaign literature, scrapbooks, form letters, bulletins, issues of party newspapers, pamphlets, and other materials generated or collected by the Socialist Workers Party, which was organized formally in 1938 to represent the Trotskyite branch of the American Communist Party. Most of the materials emanated from Socialist Workers party headquarters in New York City, although there are also items from Communist groups abroad and a small file (1962-1964) created by the Minnesota branch.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 cubic feet (7 boxes) and 1 microfilm reel.

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Clippings on Vincent Raymond Dunne, 1966, 1969.

Title: Clippings on Vincent Raymond Dunne, 1966, 1969.

Photocopies of Minneapolis Star newspaper clippings detailing Vincent R. Dunne's activities as the 1930s founder and organizer of the Socialist Workers Party, especially regarding his role in the 1934 Minneapolis truck strike and relationship with other 1930s Minnesota politicians and leaders.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Cochran, Bert, 1913-1984. Papers, 1935-[ca. 1978] (bulk 1935-1955).

Title: Papers, 1935-[ca. 1978] (bulk 1935-1955).

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and minutes, reports, and other internal documents, principally from the Socialist Workers Party, and from the United Automobile Workers union. In addition to Cochran (often as E. R. Frank, or as "Burt" Cochran), notable correspondents and authors include George F. Addes, James Burnham, James Cannon, George Clarke, Farrell Dobbs, Vincent R. Dunne, Jules Geller, Rose Karsner, Homer Martin, Felix Morrow, A.J. Muste, Max Shachtman, Arne Swabeck, and Natalia Trotsky. There are also letters from SWP and UAW activists.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)

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Walker, Charles R. (Charles Rumford), 1893-1974. Charles R. Walker papers, 1924-1937.

Title: Charles R. Walker papers, 1924-1937.

Research and interview notes, chapter drafts, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other printed materials compiled or created by Walker for his book American City: a Rank-and-File History (1937), which deals with the economic, political, and social conditions in Minneapolis culminating in the truck drivers' strike of July, 1934.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 cu. ft. (1 box).

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Draper, Theodore, 1912-2006. Theodore Draper research files, 1919-1970.

Title: Theodore Draper research files, 1919-1970.

The collection consists of the research files of Theodore Draper from 1919 to 1970. The collection is comprised mostly of subject files and recorded interviews Draper collected during the course of his research on the history of American Communism, primarily those collected for the projected third volume, never completed, covering the period since 1930. The materials in this collection document the history of the American Communist Party, 1930-1945, and, to a lesser extent, American Communism from 1919-1929, as well as the persons (primarily Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1930-1945) who were active in party affairs, particularly for the later period. The collection includes correspondence and writings of party figures, including Max Bedacht, Herbert Benjamin, Alexander Bittelman, Earl Browder, James Cannon, Eugene Dennis, and Vincent R. Dunne; taped interviews with Josephine Truslow Adams, Browder, Cannon, Manuel Gomez, and Joseph Starobin; summaries, notes and/or transcripts of interviews with Bedacht, Robert Bendiner, Benjamin, John Brophy, Browder, Esther Corey, Frank Crosswaith, Samuel Darcy, W.A. Domingo, John Frey, William Goldsmith, Robert F. Hall, J.B.S. Hardman, Granville Hicks, Sidney Hook, Ludwig E. Katterfeld, Jay Lovestone, Lewis Merrill, Richard J. Moore, Reid Robinson, Joel A. Rogers, James Rorty, Nat Ross, Jacob Spolansky, Bertram Wolfe, and Charles S. Zimmerman; internal party documents (originals and photocopies), including minutes of Central Executive Committee meetings; pamphlets; party and other radical periodicals; microfilm; and sound recordings.

ArchivalResource: 45 linear ft. : (63 boxes, 122 MF, and 1 OP)

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Horn, Charles L. (Charles Lilley), 1888-. Charles L. Horn papers, 1937-1984 (bulk 1942-1945).

Title: Charles L. Horn papers, 1937-1984 (bulk 1942-1945).

One or more disassembled scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (1941-1947) kept by Federal Cartridge Corporation president Charles Lilley Horn (1888-1978) documenting the construction and operation of the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant at New Brighton, Minnesota during World War II, as well as correspondence with and newspaper clippings about Twin Cities union leaders Grant J. Vincent and Miles B. Dunne.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 cubic feet (1 box).

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Grace Carlson papers., 1929-1986.

Title: Grace Carlson papers. 1929-1986.

Biographical information, correspondence, newspaper clippings, speech transcripts, lecture notes, photographs, and miscellaneous materials relating largely to Carlson's activities in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) (1939-1949) and as a professor of psychology at St. Mary's Junior College, Minneapolis (1954-1986). Carlson resigned from the party in the early 1950s, and retired from St. Mary's in 1979, but remained on its faculty as a volunteer.

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Charles R. Walker papers., 1924-1937.

Title: Charles R. Walker papers. 1924-1937.

Research and interview notes, chapter drafts, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other printed materials compiled or created by Walker for his book American City: a Rank-and-File History (1937), which deals with the economic, political, and social conditions in Minneapolis culminating in the truck drivers' strike of July 1934.

ArchivalResource:

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Dunne, Vincent R. (Vincent Raymond), 1889-1970. Papers [microform], 1929-1970.

Title: Papers [microform], 1929-1970.

Brief papers of Dunne, a Socialist Workers Party leader who rose to prominence during the Minneapolis Teamster Strike in 1934. Included are biographical clippings; an obituary; and correspondence (1941-1969) collected by the SWP that Dunne exchanged with party leaders such as James P. Cannon, Farrell Dobbs, and Morris Stein. Topics treated in the correspondence include conditions in Minneapolis (1958-1959) and other SWP branches, public relations tours made by Dunne, and biographical information about his brother William Dunne who was also a radical activist.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

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Carlson, Grace, 1906-. Grace Carlson papers, 1929-1986.

Title: Grace Carlson papers, 1929-1986.

Biographical information, correspondence, newspaper clippings, speech transcripts, lecture notes, photographs, and miscellaneous materials relating largely to Carlson's activities in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) (1939-1949) and as a professor of psychology at St. Mary's Junior College, Minneapolis (1954-1986). Carlson resigned from the party in the early 1950s, and retired from St. Mary's in 1979, but remained on its faculty as a volunteer.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 cu. ft. (2 boxes and 1 unboxed item).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122560165 View