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McDonald, Duncan, 1873-1965. Papers, 1894-1961.

Title: Papers, 1894-1961.

Correspondence, financial records, unpublished writings and autobiography, minutes, newsclippings, documents and printed items relating to McDonald's career with the United Mine Workers of America, the operation of a book and art store, and McDonald's experiences and opinions on political subjects.

ArchivalResource: 1.66 linear ft. (4 boxes)

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Frankensteen, Richard T., 1907-. Richard Frankensteen papers, 1930-1964.

Title: Richard Frankensteen papers, 1930-1964.

Correspondence, clippings, memoranda, speeches, financial records, and other materials relating to Richard Frankensteen's activities as an organizer and Vice-president of the UAW. Includes material relating to: George Addes, Homer Martin, and Adolph Germer. Important subjects covered in the collection are: Detroit elections, UAW Organizing, Battle of the Overpass.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear ft. (11 boxes) + 4 scrapbooks and 2 tape recordings.

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ILGWU Communications Department Biography Files,

Title: ILGWU Communications Department Biography Files,

Biographical files on union members, union officers, and political and public figures.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet.

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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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Berman, Sol, 1918-. Collection of Sol Berman, 1940.

Title: Collection of Sol Berman, 1940.

The collection, in one file folder containing nine items, documents the process by which Air King Radio workers in Brooklyn, New York, vted, in May, 1940, to disaffiliate from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and to join the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America as Local 430. The collection also includes information on the lockout/strike which followed and the role played by Sol Berman in both developments.

ArchivalResource: .25 cubic ft. (9 items)

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World Federation of Trade Unions. Conference files, 1945-1973, bulk 1945-1956.

Title: Conference files, 1945-1973, bulk 1945-1956.

Records consist primarily of the minutes, proceedings and reports of WFTU officers and governance committees, produced and presented at WFTU conferences held in London (1945, 1949); Paris (1945, 1947, 1949); Moscow (1946, 1970); Trieste (1946); Prague (1947, 1958, 1963, 1967); Geneva (1948); Rome (1948); Peking (1949); Budapest (1950, 1969, 1972); Bucharest (1950, 1971); Berlin (1951, 1958); Vienna (1951-1953); Warsaw (1954, 1959); Sofia (1956, 1966); Nicosia (1966); Khartoum (1970); and Varna (1973). Also include some personal correspondence and WFTU materials collected by Adolf F. Germer (socialist; official and organizer of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and various coal and petroleum workers' unions) during his attendance as the CIO delegate to the WFTU conference (Prague, 1946), and his membership on the WFTU Committee on German Affairs (1947). Governance records (1945-1973) include minutes, resolutions and proceedings of the WFTU Executive Bureau, General Councils, and committees (1945-1973) and of joint meetings of the WFTU and International Trade Secretariats (1948); also financial statements of the WFTU (1945-1949). Reports and publications (1946-1973) consist mainly of unpublished reports and some pamphlets produced and presented at the annual sessions of the Executive Bureau and General Councils of the WFTU; also reports pertaining to special policies and activities of the WFTU. Materials pertaining to the WFTU's internal organization discuss or document the creation of WFTU international trade departments and negotiations between WFTU and International Trade Secretariats (1947-1948); establishment of WFTU departments on professionals, metal trades workers, miners, textile workers, and agricultural and forestry workers (1946-1964); charter of union rights (1954); and various revisions and amendments to the WFTU constitution (1948-1970). Also include documents regarding relations between the WFTU and the United Nations, International Labour Organisation, Congress of Industrial Organizations, American Federation of Labor, and Allied Commission (Berlin); and various conferences, including the Pan Asiatic Trade Union Conference, the Pan Africa Conference, and the World Trade Union Congress (1948-1973). Also, WFTU policy statements regarding union activity and socio-economic conditions in Spain, Iran, Egypt, South Africa, Greece, Occupied Germany and various colonial countries (1946); activities in Trieste, Tunisia, Iran, Japan, Austria, the international coal countries, Greece and Portugal (1947-1948); in Burma, Italy, Israel, and Japan (1949-1952); and in the European coal and steel community, Vietnam, colonial and newly independent countries, and Palestine (1953-1965). Additional reports (some of which were produced by WFTU officers Louis Saillant, Lʹeon Jouhaux, S. Rostovsky, Fernando Santi and R. Vivimari) regard WFTU policy on: professional workers, migrations, postwar reconstruction and grants-in-aid, equal work and equal wages for women workers, and union rights (1946-1948); racial discrimination, currency devaluations, the international labor movement, and the WFTU delegation to Israel (1949-1950); social security, struggles for political and union rights for international workers (1951-1952); atomic war and peace, women workers and young workers (1953-1958); and the European Economic Community and monopolies, protection of victims of anti-union repression, and general WFTU activities (1959-1966); also, international union relations, unions and scientific and technical progress, unity among unions, monetary crises, economic and social demands of workers in capitalist countries, and union education (1967-1973). Additional documents collected by Adolf F. Germer (CIO delegate to the WFTU) include various bulletins and press releases of the U.S. military government in Germany; pamphlets and reports pertaining to the trade union movement, social welfare, women workers, and political issues in Czechoslovakia (1945-1947); and press releases and publications of the FREIER DEUTSCHER GEWERKSCHAFTSBUND. Also, a file of correspondence between Germer and various WFTU leaders, American union leaders and politicians. Correspondents include Philip Murray (president, CIO); Louis Saillant (general secretary, WFTU); William Green (president, American Federation of Labor); Wayne Morse (U.S. senator) and Léon Blum (prime minister of France). The correspondence generally pertains to WFTU conferences, publications, development of international unionism, and relations between unions and the WFTU (1944-1947).

ArchivalResource: 10.5 linear ft.2 microfilm reels : negative.

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Germer, Adolph. Papers, 1898-1966.

Title: Papers, 1898-1966.

Correspondence (1901-1958), diaries (1931-1958), speeches, reports and other union records, and printed matter of a labor organizer and leader and Socialist Party leader, concerning the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA); the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); and activity with the United Rubber Workers (URW), the United Auto Workers (UAW), and the International Woodworkers (IWA). Active in the Socialist Party from 1900 to 1932, Germer served as national secretary, 1916-1918. Correspondents include Harry Bridges, John Brophy, Eugene V. Debs, Emma Goldman, William Green, Frank Hayes, Allan S. Haywood, William D. Haywood, Sidney Hillman, Morris Hillquit, Alexander Howat, John L. Lewis, Marx Lewis, Wayne Morse, Philip Murray, James O'Neal, Walter P. Reuther, Ernest Untermann, Frank P. Ziedler, and many others concerning labor and socialist concerns.

ArchivalResource: 10.4 c.f. (26 archives boxes and 1 package) and1 reel of microfilm (35mm); plusadditions of 22 photographs and8 pieces of ephemera.

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Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926. Papers, 1884-1955.

Title: Papers, 1884-1955.

The papers contain correspondence, manuscripts of writings, scrapbooks, printed material, photographs and miscellaneous papers. Included are letters from Theodore Debs to Joseph E. Cohen, many about his brother, jEugene; notes about Joseph E. Cohen, written by Debs while in prison; papers of Seymour Stedman relating to Debs' imprisonment for opposition to U.S. involvement in World War I; letters to James Oneal and letters to Karl Kautsky, Algernon Lee and Abraham Tuvim.

ArchivalResource: 1.6 linear ft. (4 boxes)

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Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (University of Michigan-Wayne State University).Unionism in the Automobile Industry Project, 1959-1963

Title: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (University of Michigan-Wayne State University).Unionism in the Automobile Industry Project 1959-1963

Transcripts of interviews conducted with Michigan labor leaders by staff of University of Michigan and Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.

ArchivalResource: 130 transcripts and indices (in 4 boxes)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851743?rgn=main;view=text View

Adolph Germer. Papers, 1945-1947.

Title: Adolph Germer. Papers, 1945-1947.

This collection consists of the papers Adolph Germer collected on his trip to the W.F.T.U. meeting and his membersip of the W.F.T.U. Committee for German Affairs.

ArchivalResource:

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Communications Dept. ILGWU. Communications Department biography file photographs.

Title: ILGWU. Communications Department biography file photographs.

This collection consists of photographs transferred from the Communications Department's biographical files on union members, union officers, and political and public figures.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot.

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International Woodworkers of America. Records, 1936-1987.

Title: Records, 1936-1987.

Collection documents the workings of the International union, most heavily between 1959 and 1987, and includes minutes, proceedings, convention records, correspondence, expired contracts, financial and legal records, speeches, historical writings, issues of the International Woodworker and other labor newspapers, and audio-visual materials.

ArchivalResource: 557 lin. ft. (382 boxes)

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Germer, Adolph. Adolph Germer, Papers, 1945-1947.

Title: Adolph Germer, Papers, 1945-1947.

This collection consists of the papers he collected on his trip to the W.F.T.U. meeting and his membersip of the W.F.T.U. Committee for German Affairs.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

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Tuttle, Frank, 1885-. Oral history interview with Frank Tuttle. 1959.

Title: Oral history interview with Frank Tuttle. 1959.

In 1959, the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University conducted oral history interviews with Michigan labor leaders who played a key role in the development of unionism in the automobile industry. Major subjects covered were: UAW organizing efforts, sit-down strikes of the 1930's, and policies of the Union during World War II.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 25 leaves ; 29 cm.

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Germer, Adolph, 1881-. Oral history interview with Adolph Germer, 1960.

Title: Oral history interview with Adolph Germer, 1960.

In 1959, the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University conducted oral history interviews with Michigan labor leaders who played a key role in the development of unionism in the automobile industry. Major subjects covered were: UAW organizing efforts, sit-down strikes of the 1930's, and policies of the Union during World War II.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 29 leaves ; 29 cm.

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Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933. Morris Hillquit papers, 1886-1948. [microform].

Title: Morris Hillquit papers, 1886-1948. [microform].

Includes materials pertaining to the following broad subjects: socialist unity, growth and conflict, 1900-1913; the war years, 1914-1919; Bolshevism and red-baiting, 1918-1921; fusion politics, 1922-1924; reconstruction and decline of the Socialist Party, 1925-1933; and trade unionism, 1909-1933. Individual correspondents of note include Friedrich Adler (1910-1933); Victor L. Berger (1903-1926); Julius Henry Cohen (1914-1915); Eugene V. Debs (1903-1925); Charles Dobbs (1903-1916); Julius Gerber (1920-1934); Adolph F. Germer (1917-1929); Maxim Gorki (1906-1928); Job Harriman (1900-1925); Camille Huysmans (1905-1917); Harry W. Laidler (1919-1933); Algernon Lee (1904-1933); James Oneal (1923-1934); Clarence O. Senior (1929-1934); Norman Thomas (1922-1934); and Bertha Hale White (1924-1925). Organizational correspondents which figure largely in the collection include the American Labor Party (1923-1924); Conference for Progressive Political Action (1922-1925); International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (1909-1933); International Socialist Bureau (1905-1915); JEWISH DAILY FORWARD (1926-1933); Labour and Socialist International (1923-1933); League for Industrial Democracy (1922-1933); National Farmer-Labor-Progressive Convention (1924); NEW LEADER (1923-1933); NEW YORK CALL (1912-1923); Rand School of Social Science (1907-1933); Socialist Party of America (1914-1933); and Socialist Party of New York City (1931-1933). Among the subjects covered in this collection are conflicts within the socialist movement (1900-1913), including ideological differences within the Socialist Party of America and disputes on the issues of state autonomy, trade unionism, and relations with the Socialist Labor Party. Also discussed in this period are the establishment of the Rand School of Social Science, Party propaganda activities, Hillquit's campaigns for a seat in Congress, his friendship with Maxim Gorki, his attendance at International Socialist Congresses and his service as international secretary of the American Socialist party. Also documented are Hillquit's anti-war activities (1914-1918) and his involvement with fellow socialists tried under the Espionage Act of 1917; Bolshevism and red-baiting (1918-1921) and the effects of the Russian Revolution on American socialists, deepening divisions within the Socialist Party, activities of the Lusk Committee, including attempts to revoke the charter of the Rand School, Hillquit's legal defense of five New York State Assemblymen ousted from office because of their Socialist Party membership, attempts to obtain amnesty for Eugene V. Debs and others imprisoned for anti-war activities, and Socialist Party relations with the Labour and Socialist International. Papers for the years 1922-1924 discuss "fusion politics", cooperation with organized labor and the organization of the Conference for Progressive Political Action and endorsement of the presidential candidacy of Robert M. La Follette. As well as correspondence, reports, and executive committee minutes of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, correspondents include the Farmer-Labor Party, the Committee of Forty-Eight, the American Labor Party, the Joint Committee for Independent Labor Political Action, and the Committee For a National Farmer-Labor-Progressive Convention. Bertha Hale White, the Party's national secretary, figures prominently in the correspondence dealing with fusion politics. After 1924, the collection is largely concerned with internal Party affairs. Correspondence with Bertha Hale White, George C. Kirkpatrick, and Eugene V. Debs discuss the Party's economic difficulties. Also included are minutes of the National Executive Committee, reports of the national secretaries and correspondence with Julius Gerber, James Oneal and Nathan Fine discussing activities of the New York local. Trade union materials (1909-1933) document Hillquit's involvement with the New York City Shirtwaist Makers' Strike (1909-1910), the Protocol of Peace negotiations, activities as counsel for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Hillquit's defense of union leaders charged with murder in connection with the 1910 Cloakmakers' Strike, his service on a nonpartisan Council of Conciliation to negotiate a settlement in the cloakmaking industry (1915), and his involvement in the ILGWU's internal struggles with communist factions and the New York Joint Board of Cloak Makers' Unions.

ArchivalResource: 10 microfilm reels.

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Korngold, Ralph, 1882-1964. Ralph Korngold papers, 1867-1994, bulk 1909-1964.

Title: Ralph Korngold papers, 1867-1994, bulk 1909-1964.

Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and personal items relating to the life and work of Socialist journalist and historical biographer Ralph Korngold.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft. (11 boxes)

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United Packinghouse, Food, and Allied Workers. Records, 1937-1982.

Title: Records, 1937-1982.

Records of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee (1937-1943) and the United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers (1943-1968), organized first as a CIO affiliate, the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA). Included is correspondence, by-laws, convention proceedings, executive board minutes, organizers' reports, contracts and negotiation records, grievance files, speeches, arbitration records, research files, and publications. The records document internal union affairs; issues relating to national politics, civil rights, women's rights, and workplace discrimination; labor legislation; relations of the international with local unions; relations with employers and government bodies such as the National Labor Relations Board; national strikes; master contracts; and merger in 1968 with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Specific files within the collection concern the Sugar Division, representing workers in the sugar industry in the U.S. and Puerto Rico; organizing activities in canning companies; farm-labor relations; the Armour Automation Fund Committee which addressed the problem of displaced workers; and 1959 investigations of the union by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Prominent correspondents include George Aguilera, Theodore G. Bilbo, Herbert Biberman, Anne and Carl Braden, James B. Carey, UPWA president Ralph Helstein, Secretary-Treasurer Lewis J. Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, Adolph Germer, Arthur J. Goldberg, Myles Horton, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lyndon B. Johnson, Estes Kefauver, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., John L. Lewis, Henry Cabot Lodge, Eugene J. McCarthy, Richard M. Nixon, William Proxmire, Walter P. Reuther, Eleanor Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, Adlai E. Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, Orson Welles, Edwin E. Witte, and Arnold S. Zander. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1937-1968, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1938-1982 and are described below. Some additional UPWA records are mixed in with unprocessed Amalgamated Meat Cutters records and United Food and Commercial Workers records. They need to be added to this collection when processed.

ArchivalResource: 288.4 c.f. (546 archives boxes, 70 record center boxes),41 tape recordings,20 disc recordings, and3 films; and1 videorecording; plusadditions of 122.1 c.f.,34 tape recordings,30 photographs, and3 films.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173699899 View

International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 57 (Fort Wayne, Ind.). UAW Local 57 records, 1933-1980.

Title: UAW Local 57 records, 1933-1980.

Minutes, correspondence, publications, clippings, scrapbooks and other materials relating to UAW Local 57.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. (8 boxes) + 2 scrapbooks and 2 cassettes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32321171 View

Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933. Papers, 1886-1944.

Title: Papers, 1886-1944.

Papers of Morris Hillquit, a New York attorney and internationally known socialist leader, theoretician, and author, including correspondence, 1895-1943; writings by Hillquit; a manuscript of an unpublished biography of Hillquit and biographical sketches of international socialist leaders, written by Nina E. Hillquit; photographs of Hillquit and his family; broadsides and circulars; and press releases and clippings. The correspondence contains information on the factional disputes and struggles for leadership within the Socialist Party of America in the early years of the twentieth century; the International Socialist Congresses held between 1904 and 1922; the establishment of the Rand School of Social Science in 1905; the activities, history, and philosophy of the Industrial Workers of the World, founded in 1905; trade unionism, 1909-1933; divergent socialist attitudes toward World War I; Bolshevism and red-baiting, 1918-1921; the formation of the Conference for Progressive Political Action which endorsed Robert M. La Follette for president in 1924; and reconstruction and decline of the Socialist Party, 1925-1933.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes),10 reels of microfilm (35mm), and17 photographs (1 folder); plusadditions of 1.0 c.f.

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Eugene V. Debs Papers, 1886-1966

Title: Eugene V. Debs Papers 1886-1966

Eugene V. Debs was president of the American Railway Union, an advocate of industrial unionism and a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and a five-time candidate for president of the United States on the Socialist Party ticket. The collection, comprised of material donated to the Tamiment Library by several individuals, contains correspondence, examples of Debs' published speeches and writings, newspaper clippings, graphics, ephemera and material relating to the Eugene V. Debs Foundation. Included is a selection of material collected by Debs' attorney, Samuel Castleton, relating to Debs' imprisonment for opposition to U.S. involvement in World War I. Among the correspondents are: James Oneal, Algernon Lee, Edwin Markham and Seymour Stedman.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet; (5 boxes)

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New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities. Suspected radical propaganda file, [ca. 1890-1919].

Title: Suspected radical propaganda file, [ca. 1890-1919].

This series consists of an important collection of propaganda materials gathered by the committee during its investigation of radical individuals and organizations in the years following World War I. The series contains approximately 1,500 printed items, including 1,200 English and foreign language pamphlets. This collection is a significant resource for examining the development of socialist thought and action during the early part of the century.

ArchivalResource: 10.9 cu. ft.Copies: 31 microfilm reels; 35mm.

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Thomas, R. J. (Rolland Jay), 1900-1967,. Oral history interview with R.J. THomas, 1963.

Title: Oral history interview with R.J. THomas, 1963.

In 1959, the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University conducted oral history interviews with Michigan labor leaders who played a key role in the development of unionism in the automobile industry. Major subjects covered were: UAW organizing efforts, sit-down strikes of the 1930's, and policies of the Union during World War II.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 36 leaves ; 29 cm.

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DeShetler, Irwin L., 1906-. Irwin L. DeShelter papers, 1933-1971.

Title: Irwin L. DeShelter papers, 1933-1971.

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, reports, memoranda, notes, financial materials, membership lists, convention proceedings, office files, and other materials relating to Irwin DeShetler's activities as president of the Window Glass Cutters League of Toledo and as Assistant Regional Director of Region 22, AFL-CIO. Includes material relating to: Walter Reuther, Cesar Chavez, Adolph Germer, James B. Carey and Wyndham Mortimer. Important subjects covered in the collection are: AFL-CIO, AFL and CIO merger, Farm Workers Organizing, Trade-unions and politics.

ArchivalResource: 56.5 linear ft. (113 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32321066 View

Berger, Victor L., 1860-1929. Papers, 1862-1980.

Title: Papers, 1862-1980.

Papers, mainly 1895 to 1929, of a prominent Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Socialist Party leader and politician, newspaper editor, German-American community leader, and the first Socialist Party member in Congress, and of his wife Meta, longtime member (and first woman president) of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, and prominent in the Socialist Party and in women's rights, education, and peace issues. Included is correspondence, Congressional files and mailings, scrapbooks, speeches and writings, Social Democratic Party and Social-Democratic Publishing Company records, papers of their daughters, and other papers. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

ArchivalResource: 14.6 c.f. (33 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 4 card boxes) and56 reels of microfilm (35mm); plusadditions of 2 tape recordings,663 photographs,138 negatives, and11 drawings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173700818 View

World Federation of Trade Unions. Reports and Minutes, 1945-1949.

Title: World Federation of Trade Unions. Reports and Minutes, 1945-1949.

Minutes, proceedings and reports of WFTU officers and governance committees, produced and presented at WFTU conferences.

ArchivalResource:

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Files on the Committee for Industrial Organizations, 1935-1941, bulk 1935-1936. [microform].

Title: Files on the Committee for Industrial Organizations, 1935-1941, bulk 1935-1936. [microform].

Consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, statements, and manuscripts relating to the early history of the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and to certain aspects of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, its successor. Specifically, this collection includes minutes of CIO meetings (1935-1936) covering the following subjects and issues: the formation of the Committee for Industrial Organization; the need to organize workers in mass-production industries on an industrial basis; the naming of John Brophy as director of the CIO office in Washington, D.C.; relations with the American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.); the suggested need for modernization of A.F. of L. organizing policies to take into consideration modern industrial conditions; the Radio and Allied Trades National Labor Council rejection of the A.F. of L. Executive Council granting jurisdictional rights over radio workers to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (1936); the state of organizing efforts in steel, auto, and rubber industries; the 1936 strike against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio by the United Rubber Workers of America; invitations to bakery workers, brewery workers, hotel and restaurant workers, flat glass workers, and brick and clay workers to join the CIO. Other issues discussed in these minutes include central labor bodies and state labor organizations on industrial unionism; acceptance of the United Rubber Workers and the United Automobile Workers of America into the CIO; the condition of steel workers in processing and fabricating sectors of the industry; CIO organizers in auto, steel, and rubber industries; the efforts by the A.F. of L. to prevent CIO successfully organizing; the acceptance of the American Newspaper Guild into the CIO; refusal of the A.F. of L. Executive Council to accept CIO unions at the 1936 A.F. of L. convention at Tampa, Fla.; A.F. of L. President William Green's threats to suspend CIO unions from the A.F. of L. for allegedly fomenting dual unionism and John L. Lewis's response; and the settlement of the Camden, N.J. Radio Corporation of America Strike (1936). Also includes reports to the CIO by CIO Director John Brophy (1935-1936) covering the following subjects and issues: the educational activities of the CIO; requests for assistance from auto workers, rubber workers, steelworkers, radio and electrical workers, aluminum workers, and utility workers (1935); the state of organizing efforts in auto, steel, rubber and radio industries (1936); dissension within the United Auto Workers between A.F. of L. representative Francis Dillon and Homer Martin (1936); charges by Dillon that the CIO was attempting to split the A.F. of L. to satisfy a grudge of John L. Lewis; a demand by the International Association of Machinists for transfer of machinists in the auto industry; the 1936 United Rubber Workers' Strike at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio; growth of various local Committees for Industrial Organization, including those in Columbus, Ohio and Minneapolis, Minn.; and the question of soliciting support from central labor unions and state bodies. Other subjects include the role of CIO representatives Adolph Germer and Powers Hapgood in "follow-up" work in Akron after the Goodyear Strike (1936); plans for an organizing drive in the auto industry after the United Automobile Workers convention (1936); formation of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) (1936); William Green's revocation of charters of locals for having participated in the UE founding convention; the role of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers in steel organizing; the finances of the CIO; requests for assistance from maritime workers on the east and west coasts (1936); request for assistance from St. Louis retail workers, formerly members of the Retail Clerks International Protective Association, in response to anti-union activities of the Kroger Company and raiding by A.F. of L. craft unions. Other subjects include the settlement of the San Francisco shipyard strike (1936); A.F. of L. Executive Council demands that the CIO disband (1936); United Rubber Workers organizing in Gadsden, Ala.; anti-union activities in the Alabama industries of textiles, steel, iron, mining and coal; United Rubber Workers organizing in Detroit; referral to the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers of a request for assistance in organizing in the cement industry; fear of craft segregation in the cement industry; strife between the St. Louis Building Trades Council and the Quarry Workers International Union of North America; and request for aid by the Brotherhood of Brewery Workers in their struggle against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America (1936). Includes, as well, correspondence from Charles P. Howard to William Green (1935) relating to the "paramount" importance of organizing unorganized workers; correspondence regarding the rights of minorities within the A.F. of L.; and discussions about the jurisdictional rights of extant unions and the question of dual unionism. Other correspondence includes that of Howard and John L. Lewis (1936) regarding suspension of CIO unions from the A.F. of L.; and of William J. Carney, regional director, CIO, to Sidney Hillman (1939) on factionalism within the United Automobile Workers and attempts by the Homer Martin faction to split the CIO. Additionally, includes numerous statements and replies to the A.F. of L. Executive Council by the CIO (1935-1936) relating to the following issues: charges by the A.F. of L. Executive Council that the CIO was fostering dual unionism; the necessity of organizing steelworkers along industrial lines; a request from the CIO to the A.F. of L. Executive Council to grant the Radio and Allied Trades National Labor Council a charter on an industrial basis (1936); and the necessity to hold an auto workers' convention (1936). Finally, includes a manuscript entitled "John L. Lewis and the C.I.O., July 11, 1941" (no author) dealing with the following issues: differences between Sidney Hillman, Jacob Potofsky and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) and John L. Lewis regarding Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Office of Production Management (OPM), the reality of a national emergency, and Lewis's support of Wendell Willkie in the 1940 presidential election; Lewis's animosity toward Franklin Roosevelt; Lewis's opinions about "Hitlerism" and the Tories in Britain; the May anti-strike bill; communists in the CIO; support by Potofsky and the ACWA for an anti-communist resolution at the 1940 CIO convention; Philip Murray on communists in the CIO; and allegations against Sidney Hillman, in his official capacity as a member of the OPM and the A.F. of L. Building Trades Department, relating to his activities regarding government contracts.

ArchivalResource: 1 partial microfilm reel : negative.

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Martin, Warren Homer, 1902-1968,. Oral history interview with Homer Martin, 1959.

Title: Oral history interview with Homer Martin, 1959.

In 1959, the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University conducted oral history interviews with Michigan labor leaders who played a key role in the development of unionism in the automobile industry. Major subjects covered were: UAW organizing efforts, sit-down strikes of the 1930's, and policies of the Union during World War II.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 59 leaves ; 29 cm.

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Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (University of Michigan-Wayne State University). Unionism in the Automobile Industry Project. Unionism in the Automobile Industry Project interviews, 1959-1963.

Title: Unionism in the Automobile Industry Project interviews, 1959-1963.

Concerns activities of the U.A.W., its organizing efforts, sit-down strikes of the 1930's, and policies of the Union during World War II. Include interviews with: George F. Addes, Louis H. Adkins, John W. Anderson, Kenneth F. Bannon, John Bartee, Charles K. Beckman, Jack A. Beni, Raymond H. Berndt, Mrs. Dorothy H. Bishop, Merlin D. Bishop, Stanley W. Brams, Norman W. Bully, George Burt, Ed Carey, Arthur R. Case, James M. Cleveland, Richard Coleman, Charles T. Conway, Jack T. Conway, Alexander Cook, James G. Couser, Harold A. Cranefield, Lawrence S. Davidow, Len DeCaux, Nick Digaetano, Joseph B. Ditzel, James F. Doherty, Tracy M. Doll, Dominic Dornetto, John Eldon, Frank Fagen, Jess Ferrazza, Joseph Ferris, Bert Foster, Everett Francis, Richard T. Frankensteen, Elmer Freitag, Mort Furay, Daniel M. Gallagher, Nat Ganley, Catherine Gelles, William L. Genske, Adolph F. Germer, Josephine Gomon, Murvel Grant, Pat Greathouse, Stanley J. Gregory, Carl Haessler, Fred V. Haggard, Edward Hall, Matthew B. Hammond, Richard E. Harris, Joseph Hattley, Arthur Hughes, William Humphreys, Jack R. Hurst, R. C. Ingram, Forrest L. Innes, Martin Jensen, Clayton E. Johnson, Lester Johnson, Robert Kanter, Harvey Kitzman, Tom Klasey, Leonard E. Klue, Theodore LaDuke, Russell Leach, Ed Lee, Al Leggat, Elizabeth McCracken, John K. McDaniel, John McGill, Frank Manfred, Michael J. Manning, Frank Marquart, Norman R. Matthews, Joseph Mattson, Russell J. Merrill, George Merrelli, Lewis H. Michener. Include interviews with: Paul E. Miley, Andrew Montgomery, Ken Morris, Wyndham Mortimer, Stanley Nowak, James Oddie, Clayton O'Donohue, Cyril O'Halloran, William H. Oliver, Patrick J. O'Malley, Joseph F. Pagano, F. R. Palmer, John Panzner, William Payne, Orrin H. Peppler, Joseph Piconke, Leon Pody, Adam Poplawksi, Gene Prato, Edward Purdy, Walter H. Quillico, Philip Raymond, May Reuther, Victor G. Reuther, Herbert H. Richardson, John F. Ringwald, Arthur E. Rohan, James A. Roland, Harry Ross, Paul Russo, Samuel Sage, Frank J. Sahorkse, Walter Schilling, Leo D. Shaffer, Bud Simons, Samuel D. Smith, Harry Southwell, Roy H. Speth, William Stevenson, Carl A. Swanson, Shelton Tappes, I. Paul Taylor, R. J. Thomas, Hugh Thompson, Frank B. Tuttle, Art Vega, Ray Vess, Frank Wallemann, Jack Wilse, Leonard Woodcock, Charles E. Yaeger, Elmer Yenney, Lawrence Yost, and John A. Zaremba.

ArchivalResource: 130 v. in 4 boxes.

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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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