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American Labor Party. Minutes and proceedings, 1922-1924.

Title: Minutes and proceedings, 1922-1924.

This collection contains minutes of the Party's three conventions (1922-1923), Executive Committee minutes (1922-1924) and General Campaign Committee minutes (1922). Prominent persons active in the ALP include: Joseph D. Cannon, Edward F. Cassidy, Nathan Fine, Julius Gerber, Marie B. MacDonald, James Oneal, and A.I. Shiplacoff.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear in. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/478451629 View

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)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476085026 View

Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933. Morris Hillquit papers, 1886-1944 (inclusive), [microform].

Title: Morris Hillquit papers, 1886-1944 (inclusive), [microform].

The papers of Morris Hillquit, lawyer and longtime leader of the Socialist Party in the United States, contain material on the history of American Socialism; Hillquit's support of trade unions, particularly the garment workers of New York City; his political activities; and family life.

ArchivalResource: 10 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122513733 View

Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968. Norman Thomas papers, 1904-1967, bulk (1933-1967).

Title: Norman Thomas papers, 1904-1967, bulk (1933-1967).

Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, newspaper columns, press releases, and other papers relating to Thomas' career in national politics, his leadership of the Socialist Party and of the labor movement, and his association with various organizations.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 97 linear feet (193 boxes, 2 packages and 7 v.)Copies: 85 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122576081 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64755366 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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701482 View

Socialist Party of New York State. Records, 1906-1912.

Title: Records, 1906-1912.

The records consist of a letter book of John C. Chase, the New York State secretary, and a membership roll book. Correspondents include J. Mahlon Barnes, Upton Sinclair, William Mailly, Morris Hillquit, George R. Kirkpatrick, George H. Goebel, John Work, Algernon Lee, and Julius Gerber. The bulk of this correspondence pertains to routine party matters. Other materials in the letter book relate to the gubernatorial and congressional elections of 1906 and 1907, the Moyer-Haywood Conference of January 1907, and Lena Morrow Lewis's speaking tour in New York. The membership roll book contains the names and addresses of party members living in each New York State Assembly District from 1908 to 1912.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear in. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17269500 View