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Abelson, Paul, 1878-1953. Paul Abelson. Series 1. Arbitration and mediation files, part b, 1913-1944.

Title: Paul Abelson. Series 1. Arbitration and mediation files, part b, 1913-1944.

Consists of documentation (decisions, correspondence, agreements, miscellaneous materials and clippings) relative to Abelson's arbitration and mediation cases. Include cases in the following industries: Files for the doll industry (1915-1953) include decisions for the International Union of Doll and Toy Workers (IUDTW) and Playthings and Novelty Workers of America (PNWA) on issues of dismissal, vacations, holidays, vacation pay, holiday pay, wage adjustments, reinstatement, reemployment, piece work, and work week. Major correspondents include S.W. Eckstein (executive secretary, Doll Association); Anthony Esposito (manager, IUDTW); Marc J. Erstern (executive secretary, Associated Doll Manufacturers of New York, Inc.); Harry Damino (manager, PNWA); Thomas L. Norton (arbitrator); E. Diana (chairman, Sick Benefit Fund, Toy and Novelty Workers of America); Joseph K. Reichbart (lawyer); and Anthony Mobilia, Salvatore J. Russo and Louis Isaacson (business agents, PNWA). Agreements involve IUDTW; Stuffed Toy Manufacturers' Association; PNWA; Toy and Novelty Workers of America; and Associated Doll Manufacturers of New York. Also publications and clippings. Files for the dress industry (1913-1939) include decisions involving various locals of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) on issues of reinstatement, contracting out, wage rates, dismissal and layoffs. Major correspondents include Leo Mannheimer (chairman, Committee on Immediate Action, Waist and Dress Industry); S. Polakoff (manager, Ladies' Dress and Waist Makers' Union); A. Millman (Bloom and Millman); Mrs. Henry Moskowitz (Dress and Waist Manufacturers' Association); J.L. Magnes (arbitrator); Abraham Baroff (general secretary and treasurer, ILGWU); S.L. Hoffman; Elias Lieberman (lawyer); and Henry Greenberg (manager, secretary, Children's Dress and House Dress Workers' Union). Agreements involve Children's Dress and House Dress Workers' Union; United Wholesale and Warehouse Employees of New York; District Council of Miscellaneous Trades of Greater New York; ILGWU; Embroidery Workers' Union; Joint Board of the Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Makers' Union; Waterproof Garment Workers' Union; Undergarment and Negligee Workers' Union; Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union; and Novelty Mirror Workers. Also transcripts of conference and arbitration proceedings between Dress and Waist Manufacturers' Association, Ladies Waist and Dressmakers' Union, and ILGWU (1913-1915). Files for the fur industry (1912-1944) include minutes of the Conference Committee of the Fur Industry (1912-1932); decisions of the Committee on Immediate Action on issues of wages, vacations, holidays, vacation pay, holiday pay, overtime, and dismissal. Major correspondents include J.L. Magnes (chairman, Conference Committee), David C. Mills (manager, Associated Fur Manufacturers, Inc.); Meyer London (lawyer for the Furriers' Union); Samuel N. Samuels (secretary, Conference Committee Representative, Fur Manufacturers); Samuel Korman; Isidore Cohen; Aaron School (assistant manager, Associated Fur Manufacturers, Inc.); Leo Mannheimer; A. Rosenthal (secretary, treasurer, Joint Board, Furriers' Union of Greater New York); Morris Kaufman; Adolph J. Engel (president, Associated Fur Manufactures, Inc.); Samuel Liebowitz (manager, Joint Board, Fur Cap and Trimming Makers' Union); A. Brownstein (manager); William Pike (labor manager, Associated Fur Manufacturers); Ben Gold (manager, Joint Board of Furriers' Union); J. George Greenberg (Labor Department); David J. Mapou (actuary, Fur Trimming Manufacturers' Association); Matthew Woll (American Federation of Labor); and Charles Stetsky (manager, Joint Council, Furriers' Union). Agreements involve Furriers' Union of Greater New York; Associated Fur Manufacturers, Inc.; Fur Manufacturers' Mutual Protective Association; International Fur Workers' Union of United States and Canada (locals); and Consolidated Rabbit Dressing Corporation. Also conference and meeting minutes.

ArchivalResource: Series 1, parts a, b, c and d: 34.6 linear ft.

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Tamiment Library. Tamiment Library manuscript files collection relating to individuals and organizations associated with radicalism, the labor movement, and progressive social action in the United States, 1950-2001 (bulk 1910-1965).

Title: Tamiment Library manuscript files collection relating to individuals and organizations associated with radicalism, the labor movement, and progressive social action in the United States, 1950-2001 (bulk 1910-1965).

This collection contains (through 2003) almost 400 files (some containing more than one folder), most pertaining to individuals, the remainder to organizations, events and topics. While most of the individuals were active in the United States, there are also files for a number of prominent European figures. Future additions to this collection, i.e., manuscript files received from 2004 onward, will be placed in an addendum, and this guide will be periodically updated to reflect these additions.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (16 boxes)

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Lewis Levitzki Lorwin international labor files, 1939-1966.

Title: Lewis Levitzki Lorwin international labor files, 1939-1966.

Consist chiefly of reports and agendas of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, correspondence, studies and reports regarding international relations, the world economy and trade unions throughout the world, especially in postwar Europe.

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Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Records, 1920-1953.

Title: Records, 1920-1953.

The records of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment in clude: minutes of board of directors meetings, correspondence with governmental officials and business leaders, contribution, publicity, legal, and research files, financial records, and questionnaires which document the campaign to repeal the prohibition amendment. Included are copies of investigations which explored the relationship between prohibition and organized crime, alcoholism, and disease. The collection contains drafts of proposed constitutional amendments, radio addresses and magazine articles. There are also copies of questionnaires that the Association circulated in order to assess public opinion on the prohibition issue. Studies of Canadian and European state licensed liquor systems show the range of alternatives that were being explored during the late 1920s. Records describe the relationship between the Association, the liquor and hotel industry, and organized labor.

ArchivalResource: 44 linear ft.

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Romualdi, Serafino, 1900-1967. Romualdi, Serafino. Papers, 1936-1967, bulk 1946-1966.

Title: Romualdi, Serafino. Papers, 1936-1967, bulk 1946-1966.

Consists chiefly of Romualdi's correspondence with political and labor figures from Latin America, North America and Italy. Consists primarily of correspondence between Romualdi as Latin American representative of the AFL-CIO and various Latin American, Italian and American labor and political figures. Romualdi's international interests and activities focused on the labor movements in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Italy, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Significant correspondents include Juan Acuña, Robert Alexander, Luigi Antonini, Max Ascoli, Charles Brinkerhoff, Sigfrido Ciccotti, David Dubinsky, Jose Figueres Ferrer, José Genit, William Green, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Hermes Horne, Arturo Jáuregui, Sol M. Levitas, Alexander Lipsett, Alexander McLellan, Augusto Malve, Richard M. Nixon, Benjamin Núñez, Giulio Pastore, Walter Reuther, Nelson Rockefeller, Pérez Salinas, David Sternback, Alberto Tarchiani, Ruben Villatoro, and Matthew Woll; also representatives of the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers (ORIT), the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, and the International Labour Office. Collection includes photos of Romualdi.

ArchivalResource: 8.4 linear ft.

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Romualdi, Serafino, 1900-1967. Series 1. Latin American correspondence, 1943-1966, bulk, 1950-1965.

Title: Series 1. Latin American correspondence, 1943-1966, bulk, 1950-1965.

Consist chiefly of Romualdi's correspondence with organizations and individuals in Latin American and Caribbean countries, as well as clippings, reports, etc. concerning these countries. Documents on Argentina (1946-1966) include correspondence with Matthew Woll (chairman, American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) International Labor Relations Committee), Robert J. Alexander, William Green (president, A.F. of L.) and Raúl Migone (Argentine delegate to the U.N.) regarding Argentine politics and labor movement, Peronist control of the General Confederation of Workers (Confederación General del Trabajo de la Republica Argentina, CGT), and reorganization of the labor movement after the downfall of Perón; letters from Migone regarding his retirement and the Frondizi inauguration; and David Sternback to George Meany on the International Trade Union Mission. Also, reports, articles and speeches of Romualdi regarding the strike against LA PRENSA newspaper, the downfall of Juan Domingo Perón, the A.F. of L. trip to Argentina; and reports by Robert Alexander on the Frondizi election (1958) and the reconstruction of the Argentine labor movement (1966), as well as related newspaper clippings. Bolivian documents (1944-1965) include correspondence chiefly of Jose Figueres Ferrer and George Meany on Bolivian trade-unions and A.F. of L. support. Also, reports on the labor movement and politics in Bolivia, U.S. tungsten contracts, aid to CATAVI victims, and the Organisación Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores (ORIT) and clippings. Brazilian materials (1946-1966) are predominantly the correspondence of David Dubinsky (A.F. of L.) on the visit of João Goulart (vice-president, Brazil) to the U.S., and correspondence of George Meany on the Brazilian labor movement and Confederación Interamericana de Trabajadores (CIT/ORIT) conferences. Also a report by Robert Alexander on Brazilian economics and clippings relating to Brazil. Documents which relate to Chile (1946-1966) include correspondence of Bernardo Ibanez (International Labour Office) on Latin American tours, on his political activities, on Chilean politics, and on exiled Dominicanos. Also letters of Alexander S. Lipsett and Charles Brinkerhoff (Anaconda Copper Co.) concerning Anaconda Copper labor surveys. Also included are reports and statements on the sentence of Ibanez; a report by Alexander on Chilean economics in which he denounces communism; and clippings. Costa Rican files (1947-1959) contain the correspondence of Matthew Woll, Luis Monge, and Benjamin Núñez (Confederation of Rerum Novarum) on Costa Rican politics, communism and the free trade-union movement; of Jose Figueres Ferrer (president, Costa Rica), and of Monge regarding reports and news releases on U.S. intervention in Costa Rican politics, and on the Figueres Ferrer government; also related clippings. Files on Cuba (1946-1960) contain the correspondence of Woll, Meany and Dubinsky on communist influence on the Cuban Confederation of Labor (CTC) and of Meany, Monge, and Walter Reuther on Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar's control of the Cuban labor movement. Also letters, chiefly of Eusebio Mujal, on the general political scene and politics in the CTC after Castro's revolution and reports and statements on Cuban politics, ORIT and CTC meetings and tours, and A.F. of L. relations with CTC. The file also contains clippings and related publications. Information on Guatemala (1947-1959) is comprised of the correspondence of Ruben Villatoro on his activities and A.F. of L. support of the Guatemalan labor movement; of Andrew McLellan and Arturo Jáuregui on general politics in Guatemala and Romualdi's visit; reports by McLellan and Romualdi on the labor movement in Guatemala; and memoranda on the United Fruit Company's involvement in the Guatemalan labor movement; also includes related clippings. Correspondence regarding Peru (1946-1963) is primarily by and about Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre concerning his political activities and influence upon the Peruvian labor movement; also includes the correspondence of Nelson A. Rockefeller and José Genit on Haya de la Torre's activities, and politics in Peru; and correspondence of Woll and Meany, as well as reports and speeches on labor and politics in Peru; also clippings. Uruguay materials (1943-1960) include correspondence of Meany, Juan Acuña, Hermes Horne and Jáuregui on ORIT, on the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), and on the Uruguayan labor movement; also contains related clippings. Documents regarding Venezuela (1943-1967) include correspondence chiefly by and about Romulo Betancourt and his political career and involvement in the Venezuelan labor movement; the letters of Monge, Robert Alexander and Augusto Malve on AFL-CIO involvement in the Venezuelan labor movement and Richard M. Nixon's Venezuelan trip; reports and statements of Romualdi to Woll on his visits to Venezuela; reports of Alexander and Perez Salinas on the Venezuelan labor movement and related clippings. Additionally, correspondence, reports, statements and clippings on Romualdi's trips, on the general political scene and on the labor movement in the Latin American and Caribbean countries of: Bahamas-Trinidad (1951-1958); British Guiana (Guyana) (1963); British Honduras (Belize); Colombia (1946-1959); Dominican Republic (1950-1958); Ecuador (1947-1962); Haiti (1949-1967); Honduras (1955-1966); Jamaica (1938, 1955); Mexico (1946-1961); Nicaragua (1954-1959); Puerto Rico (1950-1951); and El Salvador (1955-1966).

ArchivalResource: 2.8 linear ft.

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National Broadcasting Company, inc. National Broadcasting Company, inc. selected radio broadcasts, 1935-1950 [sound recording].

Title: National Broadcasting Company, inc. selected radio broadcasts, 1935-1950 [sound recording].

Recordings of speeches, debates, discussions, reports and analyses aired on NBC radio. Include the following: William Green addressing unemployment, employer opposition to unions, the National Labor Relations Board, communism, the right to organize, A.F. of L./CIO dual unionism, the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the European War, crisis in the CIO, A.F. of L. support of President Roosevelt's defense effort, opposition to the Burke-Wadsworth Military Conscription Bill, labor's defense policy, the Presidential election, 1940, appeal to workers to register with their state employment offices for defense work, and the Taft-Hartley Act. Also, John L. Lewis discusses the political and economic state of the nation from the viewpoint of organized labor, the status of the CIO, the United Steelworkers organizing drive against Bethlehem Steel, the United Auto Workers drive in the aircraft industry, labor in defense, and the endorsement of Wendell Willkie in the presidential election, 1940. Also, Daniel J. Tobin discusses the endorsement of Roosevelt for re-election, taxes, unemployment, national defense, attack on supporters of Wendell Willkie for president (1936, 1940); Thomas J. Lyons discusses the international crisis and its meaning for the New York State worker, and, labor's responsibility in the present crisis (1940-1941); George Meany discusses what the A.F. of L. means to the country, and the post-war economy -- prosperity or economic depression (1940-1944); Philip Murray discusses the unemployment census and argues for full employment and guaranteed annual wages for workers (n.d.). Also, speeches by George Addes on the defense employment problem (1941); by George Berry on industrial problems (1936); by Lewis K. Comstock and Matthew Woll on cooperation between capital and labor (1938); a debate by Abram Flaxer, Walter Reuther and others on the question of the expulsion of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America from the CIO (1949); a commentary by Frank Murphy on the settlement of the General Motors Strike of 1937 (1937); a discussion by Rolland Thomas and others on the strike situation, charging that local communist leadership is behind wildcat strikes in North America (1941); a speech by Robert Wagner in which he speaks against Willkie and for the re-election of Roosevelt (1940); a rally speech by Henry Wallace in which he speaks on foreign policy and the war in Europe (1941); a seminar on national defense in which David Walsh was a participant (1940); speech by Burton K. Wheeler on then current issues facing Americans (1936); speech by John Winant defending the social security system against Republican criticism (1936); speech by Matthew Woll on unemployment (1940); and a speech by Walter Reuther, entitled, "Five hundred planes a day" (1940).

ArchivalResource: 30 sound tape reels.

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Labor Leader Biographies, 1873-2010

Title: Labor Leader Biographies, 1873-2010

This collection consists of biographical data on various individuals prominent in labor unions in the United States since 1910. Includes articles, clippings, pamphlets, vita, obituaries and manuscript notes, filed alphabetically by name of individual..

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

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Walling, William English, 1877-1936. William Walling papers [microform], 1871-1962.

Title: William Walling papers [microform], 1871-1962.

Microfilm copy of papers of the noted liberal author and lecturer on social and economic problems, and a founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, the Women's Trade Union League, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Correspondence, 1871-1962, deals primarily with family affairs, but occasional letters discuss the breakdown of Czarist rule in Russia and the development of revolutionary spirit in Poland and Russia (1905-1906), race riots in Springfield, Illinois (1909), the Socialist Party and its problems prior to and during World War I, and the Negro and trade unions (1929). Some references to American Federation of Labor policies and conventions are also scattered in the correspondence. The collection also contains typewritten copies of a few of Walling's articles and speeches on labor, the national economy, racial problems, and foreign relations, as well as newspaper clippings and miscellaneous materials pertaining to his career. Among the writers of letters to Walling are Albert J. Beveridge, Francis Biddle, Bruce Bliven, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Glenn Frank, John P. Frey, William Green, Hamilton Holt, W. L. Mackenzie King, Raymond Moley, Edward A. Ross, Upton Sinclair, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Matthew Woll. Copies of a few letters written by Walling to Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Eugene V. Debs, H. M. Hyndman, Theodore Roosevelt, and President Woodrow Wilson are also among the papers. In the family letters written by Mr. and Mrs. Walling (Anna Strunsky) there are some scattered, and usually very brief, allusions to Clarence Darrow, Samuel Gompers, Herbert Hoover, Jack London, Henrik Shipstead, Rose Stokes, and others with whom they had associations.

ArchivalResource: [ca. 1,000 items]

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Woll, Matthew, 1880-1956. Letter, 1932.

Title: Letter, 1932.

Letter, November 5, 1932, from Matthew Woll, acting president of the National Civic Federation, to a number of college professors, opposing recognition of the Soviet government of Russia by the United States and opposing a petition for recognition sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

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Tamiment Library Manuscript Files, 1749-1988 (bulk: 1910-1965)

Title: Tamiment Library Manuscript Files 1749-1988 (inclusive), 1910-1965 (bulk)

The Tamiment Library, founded in 1906 as the library of the Rand School of Social Science, is a special collection documenting the history of United States radicalism, labor, and progressive social action. It accumulated this artificial collection of brief manuscript files over the years. The files pertain largely to individuals, and also to organizations, events and topics, and contain correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, as well as a few items of printed ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear feet; in 7 record cartons, 1 manuscript box, and 1 oversized folder

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Guide to the American Labor Conference on International Affairs Records, 1939-1950

Title: Guide to the American Labor Conference on International Affairs Records, 1939-1950

The American Labor Conference on International Affairs (ALCIA) was organized in February 1943 by several labor leaders from the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the Railway Brotherhoods. The membership of ALCIA included American labor leaders, American and European scholars, and representatives of the European labor movement who lived in the United States. ALCIA studied political, economic, labor, and educational problems arising from World War II. It published reports, the quarterly "International Postwar Problems," the biweekly, "A.L.C. News Letter," and the monthly, "Modern Review." The ALCIA also participated in labor conferences. The records consist of correspondence, resolutions, constitutions and bylaws, reports, conference papers, press releases, speeches, minutes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, drafts of articles, and form letters. There is considerable information about American policy toward France and Charles DeGaulle, the postwar objectives of organized labor, the reconstruction of Germany, postwar European problems, and American policy toward Asia. Information about numerous conferences is included as well as drafts for articles, reports, and editorials. Note: Series 1-3 have been microfilmed (R-7124, reels 19-26) and patrons must use the microfilm copy of these series.

ArchivalResource: 17 Linear Feet in 34 manuscript boxes

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Workers' Education Bureau of America. Workers' Education Bureau of America records, 1921-1951.

Title: Workers' Education Bureau of America records, 1921-1951.

Section 1. History: Records consist mainly of correspondence, memoranda, and reports pertaining to the routine administration and activities of the Workers' Education Bureau of America. Organizational records include financial statements and auditors' reports (1922-1947); bibliographies; reading lists; clippings; and certificates of incorportation and certification. Also, memoranda, letters and reports pertaining to the Labor Book Fund; workers' education programs in various states; the Federal Emergency Relief Administration-WEB jointly sponsored West Coast School of Unemployed Workers (1934); the WEB-A.F. of L. dispute with Brookwood Labor School (1929); financial matters; the establishment of a labor correspondence school, the International Labor News Service for Worker Education, the Pittsburgh Labor College, and the A.F. of L. Education Department. Consist of governance and financial documents, reports, correspondence, memoranda and notes pertaining to radio programs, courses and programs to promote workers' education, adult and vocational schools and educational programs (1921-1951). Section 1. History: Records consist mainly of correspondence, memoranda, and reports pertaining to the routine administration and activities of the Workers' Education Bureau of America. Organizational records include financial statements and auditors' reports (1922-1947); bibliographies; reading lists; clippings; and certificates of incorportation and certification. Also, memoranda, letters and reports pertaining to the Labor Book Fund; workers' education programs in various states; the Federal Emergency Relief Adminstration-WEB jointly sponsored West Coast School of Unemployed Workers (1934); the WEB-A.F. of L. dispute with Brookwood Labor School (1929); financial matters; the establishment of a labor correspondence school, the International Labor News Service for Worker Education, the Pittsburgh Labor College, and the A.F. of L. Education Department. Includes correspondence chiefly of Spencer Miller and John D. Conners with Samuel Gompers and William Green (presidents, A.F. of L.) and Matthew Woll (vice president, A.F. of L.); the American Association of Adult Education; William Haber (professor, Michigan State College); William J. Bowen (president, Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' International Union of America); Victor A. Olander (secretary-treasurer, Illinois State Federation of Labor); and Fannia M. Cohn (secretary, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union) pertaining to the Workers' Education Bureau Press Inc., workers' education, A.F. of L.-WEB relations and joint programs, and leadership training. Section 2. Organizational activities: Records consist of memoranda, reports, correspondence and miscellaneous documents pertaining to WEB relations with the A.F. of L.; various workers' education programs conducted by unions, academia, and government agencies; and the founding and development of WEB. Include documents pertaining to the establishment of the Labor Book Fund (1922-1928). Also, reports, memoranda and notes pertaining to vocational, adult, and workers' education programs in various states (1935-1939); A.F. of L-WEB joint conferences on labor and public education; Rutgers University-New Jersey Federation of Labor-WEB joint conferences on international labor relations (1946-1947); and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) workers' education radio broadcasts (1939). Additionally, correspondence of Spencer Miller with Harry Russell (director, WEB, New England Region) on regional conferences and programs (1925-1928); of Sterling Fisher (director of educational radio talks, CBS) on research and radio broadcasts (1939); and of William Green on workers' education programs in academia (1935). Also, correspondence of John D. Conners with Harold Taylor (president, Sarah Lawrence College) on Fulbright Scholarships, and worker and student exchange programs with Ruskind College, Oxford Univ., and with Matthew Woll on WEB and A.F. of L. cooperative projects and workers' education programs. Also, correspondence of Woll (in the capacity of labor chairman, National Advisory Council on Radio in Education) with William Green and President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding WEB radio broadcasts (1932). Section 3. Publications and research documents: Consist of reading lists and bibliographies; published and unpublished pamphlets and reports; notes, memoranda, and manuscript drafts of reports on research projects; and news releases and bulletins of WEB and various cooperating agencies. Include materials by Samuel Gompers, Edward C. Lindeman, Theresa Wolfson, John D. Conners, Mark Starr, Fannia Cohn, Nelson H. Cruikshank, and Arthur Elder pertaining to workers' education; public speaking; child labor; leadership training; collective bargaining; voluntary unionism; the history of the A.F. of L.; labor plays; social security; unemployment; workmen's compensation; labor and the economy; labor history; unions and the community; the construction industry; and the international labor relations programs conducted by the American Council of Education and the American Friends Service Committee. Section 4. Miscellaneous correspondence and reports: Consist chiefly of published and unpublished reports; routine correspondence of Spencer Miller and John D. Conners; and notes and memoranda. Materials regard workers' education and the atomic age, international labor problems, leadership training, radio programs, technology and unemployment, regional workers' education programs, teacher training, and unemployment (1921-1951).

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

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International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America. Records, 1904-1952.

Title: Records, 1904-1952.

Correspondence files of the I.B.T. executive office covering the years 1904-1952, with the major portion of the material originating in the 1940s. Correspondence is with general executive board members, general organizers, local unions, joint councils, conferences, and trade divisions; the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations; other international unions and labor organizations; government agencies; and the general public. Included with the correspondence are reports, minutes, clippings, transcripts of government hearing and decisions, legal briefs, and copies of local union by-laws. The material details the union's initial struggles for existence and unity, its jurisdictional disputes, strikes, its growth in membership and influence, changes in organizing and bargaining techniques and in the trucking and transportation industries, and the increasing strength and political involvement of the labor movement in general.

ArchivalResource: 92.6 c.f. (234 archives boxes) and87 reels of microfilm (35mm)

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records, 1914-1980, 1920-1950 (bulk)

Title: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America records

Correspondence, clippings, minutes, organizing leaflets, photographs, speeches, phonographs, scrapbooks, and organizational records documenting the founding, growth, history and development of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; the activities of its officers and other leading officials; its organizing activities; and its administration.

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Lorwin, Lewis Levitzki, 1883-1970. Lewis Levitzki Lorwin files on international labor, 1939-1966.

Title: Lewis Levitzki Lorwin files on international labor, 1939-1966.

Consist chiefly of reports and agenda of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, correspondence, studies and reports regarding international relations, the world economy and trade unions throughout the world, especially in postwar Europe. Consist chiefly of reports and agenda of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) held in Brussels and New York, 1949-1962, which deal with nuclear warfare and universal disarmament, World Refugee Year (1959), foreign investments in economically underdeveloped countries, atomic energy, expansion of international trade, married women in employment, foreign assistance to developing countries, fair labor standards in international trade, the European coal and steel community, international migration problems, ICFTU boycott of South Africa, forced labor, workweek, Hungarian people's fight for freedom, the Middle East, and the United Nations. Also materials on Aden, Africa, Algeria, Aruba, Berlin, Brazil, Congo, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Finland, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Lebanon, Netherlands Antilles, Nyasaland, Oceania, Okinawa, Pakistan, Paraguay, Portugal (and the Portuguese colonies), Rhodesia, Spain, Surinam, Thailand, Tibet, Tunisia, Uganda, Venezuela, and West Irian (Dutch New Guinea). Also copies of letters (l947) from Matthew Woll (vice-president of the American Federation of Labor) to George C. Marshall (secretary of state) regarding the situation in Germany which shut the A.F.of L. off from the French and Russian zones; to Robert P. Patterson (secretary of war) regarding the A.F. of L. protest of the visit of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) mission to Japan and Korea (with Patterson's reply); to Premier Paul Ramadier regarding the French military government in Germany refusing A.F. of L. representative entry permit into French zones and refusal to accept mail. Studies and reports concern A.F. of L. union structure (1939), communism in Eastern and Southeastern Europe (1947), trade union government (1961), labor-management relations (1960), trade union issues (1947), labor philosophy (1959), neo-institutionalism and economic change (1965), labor racketeering (1965), wage price guidelines (1966), reconstruction of the international union movement (1949), World Trade Union Conference (1944), coal economy throughout the world (1947), and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) (1948). Also scattered holograph notes.

ArchivalResource: 1.7 linear ft.

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Jacob Potofsky correspondence, 1930-1946, 1930-1940 (bulk).

Title: Jacob Potofsky correspondence, 1930-1946, 1930-1940 (bulk).

Correspondence documenting Jacob Potofsky's activities while serving in several capacities for the ACWA, including assistan president and assistant general secretary-treasurer. Correspondence documenting Jacob Potofsky's activities while serving in several capacities for the ACWA, including assistant president and assistant general secretary-treasurer. Individuals represented in the collection include: Mary Anderson; Alben Barkley; August Bellanca; Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca; Sidney Hillman; David Dubinsky; Fiorello LaGuardia; John L. Lewis; Tom Mooney; Joseph Schlossberg; Rose Schneiderman; Robert F. Wagner; and Matthew Woll. Major organizations represented include: the AFL; the American Labor Party; Brookwood Labor College; Consumers Union; the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; the Jewish Daily Forward; the Jewish Labor Committee; Labor's Non-Partisan League; the National Consumers' League; the National Labor Relations Board; the National Recovery Administration; the Rand School of Social Science; the U.S. Dept. of Labor; the United Textile Workers of America; the Works Progress Administration; and various subordinate units of the ACWA.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

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Workers' Education Bureau of America records, 1921-1951.

Title: Workers' Education Bureau of America records, 1921-1951.

Consist of governance and financial documents, reports, correspondence, memoranda and notes pertaining to radio programs, courses and programs to promote workers' education, adult and vocational schools and educational programs (1921-1951).

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Sidney Hillman papers, 1930-1946 (bulk 1935-1945)

Title: Sidney Hillman papers

Papers documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's president during the Depression, New Deal, and war years, as well as his work with the NRA, the National Defense Advisory Commission, and the War Production Board. Sidney Hillman and the ACWA played crucial roles in founding the CIO. Hillman's correspondence with Walter Reuther and George Addes of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and Emil Rieve of the Textile Workers' Organizing Committee reflects that effort. The Roosevelt era brought both increased visibility and power to Hillman and the union. In 1933, Hillman was chosen to serve on the National Recovery Administration's Labor Advisory Board. The materials from this NRA period describe the Roosevelt administration's attempts to draw up codes of fair competition to determine production quotas and fix wages and hours in order to bring about economic recovery. The NRA records also contain Hillman's correspondence with government officials as well as leaders of labor unions and of private firms. There are also some reports and raw data used by the NRA in developing its codes. In 1940, as U.S. involvement in World War II became increasingly likely, Roosevelt organized the National Defense Advisory Commission (NDAC) to coordinate economic mobilization for the war. Hillman was named to the Commission; later he was tapped to be associate director of the War Production Board. The NDAC materials in this collection document Hillman's experiences and include correspondence with William Knudsen. There are also some reports and directives prepared by the War Production Board. Other notable topics include: aid to free labor organizations in Europe during World War II; anti-fascist efforts by U.S.labor organizations; civil rights; the clothing trade in the U.S. and Canada; economic conditions during the depression, particularly in the U.S. garment industry; international labor activities; Jewish workers in Palestine; labor organizing in the U.S. and Canada; relations with other unions; the Spanish Civil War, including labor aid to and participation in the Republican cause; union involvement in politics and government in the U.S.; the role of women and minorities in the labor movement; and worker education. Notable individuals represented in the collection include: Mary Anderson; John B. Andrews; August Bellanca; Dorothy Bellanca; George Berry; S.M. Blinken; Louis Brandeis; Harry Bridges; John Brophy; Max Danish; Clarence Darrow; Gladys Dickason; David Dubinsky; Lillian Hellman; Charles J. Hendley; Arturo Giovannitti; Henry Green; William Green; J.B.S. Hardman; Bessie Hillman; Horace Kallen; Paul Kellogg; Philip La Follette; Robert La Follette; Fiorello LaGuardia; Herbert H. Lehman; John L. Lewis; Sinclair Lewis; Jay Lovestone; Homer Martin; Lucy Mason; Tom Mooney; Reinhold Niebuhr; Frances Perkins; Charles Poletti; Lee Pressman; Walter Reuther; Emil Rieve; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Rose Schneiderman; Upton Sinclair; Harry Truman; B.C. Vladeck; Robert F. Wagner; Henry Wallace; Walter White; and Matthew Woll. Additional organizations of significance represented include: local unions and joint boards of the ACWA; the American Civil Liberties Union; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; American League Against War and Fascism; the AFL; the CIO; the Fur and Leather Workers' Union; Hart, Schaffner, and Marx; Hickey Freeman and Company; the Jewish Daily Forward; the Journeymen Tailors Union; Labor's Non-Partisan League; the NAACP; the NRA; the Socialist Party (U.S.); the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee; the Textile Workers Organizing Committee; the Textile Workers Union of America; the UAW; the U.S. Department of Labor and its Women's Bureau; the Urban League; the Women's Trade Union League; and the Workmen's Circle.

ArchivalResource: 23 linear ft.

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Woll, Matthew, 1880--1956. Matthew Woll, Papers, 1914-1956.

Title: Matthew Woll, Papers, 1914-1956.

This collection consists of newspaper clippings about the activities of Matthew Woll from 1914 until his death in 1956.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

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National Broadcasting Company, Inc. Selected radio broadcasts, 1935-1950.

Title: National Broadcasting Company, Inc. Selected radio broadcasts, 1935-1950.

Recordings of speeches, debates, discussions, reports and analyses aired on NBC radio.

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Walling, William English, 1877-1936. Papers, 1863-1962.

Title: Papers, 1863-1962.

Papers of the noted liberal author and lecturer on social and economic problems, and a founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, the Women's Trade Union League, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Correspondence, 1871-1962, deals primarily with family affairs, but occasional letters discuss the breakdown of Czarist rule in Russia and the development of revolutionary spirit in Poland and Russia (1905-1906), race riots in Springfield, Illinois (1909), the Socialist Party and its problems prior to and during World War I, and the Negro and trade unions (1929). Some references to American Federation of Labor policies and conventions are also scattered in the correspondence. The collection also contains typewritten copies of a few of Walling's articles and speeches on labor, the national economy, racial problems, and foreign relations, as well as newspaper clippings and miscellaneous materials pertaining to his career.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and.3 reels of microfilm (35 mm.); plus.additions of 0.2 c.f.

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Serafino Romualdi papers, 1936-1967 [bulk 1946-1966].

Title: Serafino Romualdi papers, 1936-1967 [bulk 1946-1966].

Consists of Romualdi's correspondence with organizations and individuals in Latin American and Caribbean countries, as well as clippings, reports, etc. concerning these countries; correspondence concerning Italian labor and politics and Italian emigration to Latin America; correspondence of Jay Lovestone, George Meany, Robert Alexander, Matthew Woll, Benjamin Stephansky, Arturo J´auregui, and Nelson A. Rockefeller regarding U.S. involvement in Latin America's politics and labor movement; correspondence relating to the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), Vice-President Richard M. Nixon's Latin American trip (1958), and a speech by Meany entitled "Inter-American Trade Unionism"; correspondence with officers of international labor organizations; clippings and manuscripts, newspaper and trade-union articles written by and about Romualdi; correspondence regarding Romualdi's post-retirement activities as a labor consultant for U.S. enterprises, the publication of his memoirs, , and lecture work; manuscripts of Romualdi's lectures (published and unpublished) on inter-American labor-management relations and politics, AFL-CIO activities, and trade-union history; manuscript copies and drafts of Romualdi's memoirs, published as by Funk and Wagnalls, 1967; correspondence of Richard M. Nixon on Latin American labor relations; itineraries and clippings concerning Nixon's Latin American tours; correspondence of Jay Lovestone, Richard J. Alexander and J´auregui on Free Trade Union Committee (1951-1954); letters regarding AFL-CIO tours to Latin America (1950, 1956, and 1958); and condolence letters to Mimi Romualdi on Romualdi's death (1967) and several portraits and photographs of Romualdi. Presidents and Peons Presidents and Peons

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Walling, William English, 1877-1936. Papers [microform], 1871-1962.

Title: Papers [microform], 1871-1962.

Microfilm copy of papers of the noted liberal author and lecturer on social and economic problems, and a founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, the Women's Trade Union League, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Correspondence, 1871-1962, deals primarily with family affairs, but occasional letters discuss the breakdown of Czarist rule in Russia and the development of revolutionary spirit in Poland and Russia (1905-1906), race riots in Springfield, Illinois (1909), the Socialist Party and its problems prior to and during World War I, and the Negro and trade unions (1929). Some references to American Federation of Labor policies and conventions are also scattered in the correspondence. The collection also contains typewritten copies of a few of Walling's articles and speeches on labor, the national economy, racial problems, and foreign relations, as well as newspaper clippings and miscellaneous materials pertaining to his career. Among the writers of letters to Walling are Albert J. Beveridge, Francis Biddle, Bruce Bliven, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Glenn Frank, John P. Frey, William Green, Hamilton Holt, W.L. Mackenzie King, Raymond Moley, Edward A. Ross, Upton Sinclair, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Matthew Woll. Copies of a few letters written by Walling to Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, Eugene V. Debs, H.M. Hyndman, Theodore Roosevelt, and President Woodrow Wilson are also among the papers. In the family letters written by Mr. and Mrs. Walling (Anna Strunsky) there are some scattered, and usually very brief, allusions to Clarence Darrow, Samuel Gompers, Herbert Hoover, Jack London, Henrik Shipstead, Rose Stokes, and others with whom they had associations.

ArchivalResource: 3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

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Guide to the American Labor Conference on International Affairs Records, 1939-1950

Title: Guide to the American Labor Conference on International Affairs Records, 1939-1950

The American Labor Conference on International Affairs (ALCIA) was organized in February 1943 by several labor leaders from the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the Railway Brotherhoods. The membership of ALCIA included American labor leaders, American and European scholars, and representatives of the European labor movement who lived in the United States. ALCIA studied political, economic, labor, and educational problems arising from World War II. It published reports, the quarterly "International Postwar Problems," the biweekly, "A.L.C. News Letter," and the monthly, "Modern Review." The ALCIA also participated in labor conferences. The records consist of correspondence, resolutions, constitutions and bylaws, reports, conference papers, press releases, speeches, minutes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, drafts of articles, and form letters. There is considerable information about American policy toward France and Charles DeGaulle, the postwar objectives of organized labor, the reconstruction of Germany, postwar European problems, and American policy toward Asia. Information about numerous conferences is included as well as drafts for articles, reports, and editorials. Note: Series 1-3 have been microfilmed (R-7124, reels 19-26) and patrons must use the microfilm copy of these series.

ArchivalResource: 17 Linear Feet in 34 manuscript boxes

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Witte, Edwin E. (Edwin Emil), 1887-1960. Edwin E. Witte papers, 1903-1970.

Title: Edwin E. Witte papers, 1903-1970.

Primarily professional papers of Edwin E. Witte, a University of Wisconsin economist, specialist in labor legislation, and the chief author of the Social Security Act of 1935; including correspondence, research files, articles, speeches, lecture notes, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, and audio recordings.

ArchivalResource: 124.7 c.f. (276 archives boxes, 15 flat boxes, 6 card file boxes, and 1 volume) and2 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plusadditions of 4.3 c.f.38 photographs, and14 disc recordings.

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Inter-University Labor Education Committee. Series 2, Subseries 8. Correspondence with labor organizations, 1951-1957.

Title: Series 2, Subseries 8. Correspondence with labor organizations, 1951-1957.

Consists chiefly of correspondence of Alexander A. Liveright and Joseph Mire (executive secretaries) with officers and staff of the American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.), Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), the AFL-CIO, State Federations of Labor, and various labor unions.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear ft.

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Labor Leader Biographies, 1873-2010

Title: Labor Leader Biographies, 1873-2010

This collection consists of biographical data on various individuals prominent in labor unions in the United States since 1910. Includes articles, clippings, pamphlets, vita, obituaries and manuscript notes, filed alphabetically by name of individual..

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

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