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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).

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Inter-University Labor Education Committee. Series 2, Subseries 4. Correspondence on regional conferences, 1955-1957.

Title: Series 2, Subseries 4. Correspondence on regional conferences, 1955-1957.

Consists of correspondence of Joseph Mire (executive secretary) with the executives and staff of various labor unions and non-labor organizations regarding the Inter-University Labor Education Committee (IULEC) conferences held in Atlanta, California, Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Oklahoma. Correspondents include George Mitchell, (executive director, Southern Regional Council, Inc.); Rufus E. Clement (president, Atlanta University); Stanton E. Smith (president, Tennessee State Federation of Labor); B.R. Brazeal (dean, Morehouse College); John Mates (assistant to president, United Mine Workers of America); John Conners (director of education, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations); Clark Kerr (chancellor, Univ. of California at Berkeley), John Hutchison (coordinator of labor programs), and Arthur Carstens (assistant director of labor programs) of the University of California; John L. Lewis (president, United Mine Workers of America); George Higgins (director, National Catholic Welfare Conference); Clinton Golden (executive director, Harvard University Trade Union Program); B.A. Whitney (director, Education and Research, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen); Stanton E. Smith (president, Tennessee Federation of Labor); E.J. Soop (director of Extension Service, University of Michigan); and Guy Berry (associate director, Department of Adult Education, University of Arkansas). The correspondence regards the study of needs of workers in the field of education, advanced liberal education, cooperative workers' education programs conducted by labor and non-labor groups, and arrangements for and participants in the various conferences.

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Morse, Carlton E., 1901-. Oral history interview by Eugene D. Carlisle and related correspondence and reference material, 1936-1981.

Title: Oral history interview by Eugene D. Carlisle and related correspondence and reference material, 1936-1981.

Forty oral history interviews (tapes and transcripts) conducted between 1970 and 1975, legal releases, correspondence and related materials. The collection also contains address and cast lists for ONE MAN'S FAMILY, original scripts for August 16 and 19, 1936, and program ephemera. There are newsclippings "Random reflections, " written by Morse, 1972-1974, photographs of Morse and his family, and a video "Good old days of radio, " narrated by Steve Allen, n.d.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

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Inter-University Labor Education Committee. Series 2, Subseries 2. Correspondence of labor members of the Board of Directors, 1953-1957.

Title: Series 2, Subseries 2. Correspondence of labor members of the Board of Directors, 1953-1957.

Consists of correspondence of Joseph Mire (executive secretary) with John Conners (director of education, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) and George Guernsey (director of education, Congress of Industrial Organizations) and the directors of education of various labor unions regarding meetings, budgets, workers' education, grant proposals, and extension of the grant from the Ford Foundation Fund for Adult Education.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft.

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National Institute of Labor Education. Series 3. Inter-organizational files, 1957-1971.

Title: Series 3. Inter-organizational files, 1957-1971.

Consist chiefly of correspondence of Joseph Mire with the faculty of universities and executives and staff of foundations, international labor agencies, unions, and federal government agencies regarding proposals, planning and implementation of various National Institute of Labor Education (NILE) projects in workers' education. University correspondence includes correspondence of John Glynn (acting director, University of Connecticut Labor Education Center) Alice H. Cook, Lois S. Gray, Maurice F. Neufeld (professors) and David G. Moore (dean) of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Samuel H. Mitchell (director of union research and education projects, University of Illinois); Walter H. Uphoff (director of labor education programs, University of Minnesota); Fred K. Hoehler (associate director) and Hy Kornbluh (director of Labor Education Services) of the University of Michigan Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations); Andrew J. Wann (director of Labor Education and Research Services, Ohio State University); Leonard Breen (associate professor of sociology, Purdue University); and Wayne A.R. Leys (dean of Graduate Division), Frank McCallister (director of Labor Education Division), and Agnes Douty (assistant director of labor education), Roosevelt University.). Also includes Irvine L.H. Kerrison (acting director) and Herbert A. Levine (associate extension specialist) at Rutgers University Institute of Management and Labor Relations; Robert Farley (director of Extramural Studies, University of the West Indies); James L. Stern (professor of economics), and Anthony Luchek and Jack Barbash (professors of economics and labor education) at the University of Wisconsin. Other correspondents include various faculty and administrators at the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles, Colorado University, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, the University of Iowa, the University of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania State University. The correspondence concerns international workers' education; union leadership; grant proposals; residential study institutes for workers' education; comparative labor movements; reorganization of NILE; unions and public interest; preretirement education; mental health projects; automation and urbanization; the teaching of ethics and moral standards; adult education; civil rights; undergraduate curricula in workers' education and labor studies; developing education services with the labor movement in a metropolitan industrial center; women's education; the Youth Employment Program; blue collar worker participation in adult education; union research and education projects; and technological change and human values. Ford Foundation files pertain to the relationships and activities of NILE and the Ford Foundation Fund for Adult Education (FAE). These include proposals for grants and financial assistance; copies of NILE publications; financial statements; news releases and reports of FAE and NILE; and memoranda and correspondence of Mire with Robert J. Blakeley (vice president), C. Scott Fletcher (president) and Neil Chamberlain (director) of FAE concerning proposals and reports of NILE projects in worker participation in local and state government affairs; community participation; training for union leadership; a clearinghouse on workers' education; code of ethics and moral standards; urbanization; residential study institutes; evaluation and development of labor's interest in foreign affairs; and long-term non-residential study institutes in trade-union leadership. Correspondence with foundations, workers' education and research organizations includes that of the following individuals: Eleanor Coit (executive director, American Labor Education Service); Malcolm S. Knowles (executive director, Adult Education Association); Florence Anderson (secretary, Carnegie Foundation); Paul Jacobs (staff administrator, Fund for the Republic); Vernon Eagle (executive director, New World Foundation); and the administrators and staff of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults; the Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty; the Community Welfare Council; the Continuing Committee on Urban Life; the Danforth Foundation; the Field Foundation; the Friederich Ebert Foundation; the Fundamental Education Readership; the Hill Family Foundation; the Rockefeller Foundation; the Self-Help Upper Ohio Foundation; the Stern Foundation; and the World Affairs Center. Correspondence concerns conferences in workers' education; applications and proposals regarding grants for workers' education projects; residential workers' education study institutes; Fulbright scholarships; international workers' education programs; automation and adult education; NILE publications; civil rights; civil liberties; urbanization and labor; scholarships; inter-group relations; financial assistance to foreign students; the Youth Employment Program; and the Southern Staff Training Institute. Correspondence from international labor agencies includes that of Kenneth Holland (president, Institute of International Education); Walter Galenson (professor, University of California, Institute of Industrial Relations); Serafino Romualdi (executive director, American Institute for Free Labor Development); Ralph H. Bergmann (chief of Automation Unit, International Labor Office); Peter Strong (director, American Scandinavian Foundation); Hans Gottfurcht (assistant general secretary, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions); and executives and staff of the International Federation of Workers' Educational Associations; the Afro-American Labor Center; the Canadian Labour Congress; the Austrian Training Program; the Foreign Policy Association; and the Pan American Union. The correspondence concerns the establishment of a central organization for the promotion of workers' education; programs in international workers' education; technological change and automation; occupational training of African students; participation of NILE in various conferences in international workers' education; international workers and trade-union exchange programs; training programs for Latin American trade-unionists; a proposal for operational research evaluation and development of labor's understanding and participation in international affairs; education for public responsibility; and adult education programs. Union correspondents include executives of the AFL-CIO: Lawrence M. Rogin (director of education); Russell Allen (director of education, Industrial Union Department); George Meany (president); John W. Conners (director of education); and Jack Barbash (director of research and education). Correspondence regards joint NILE-AFL-CIO programs and activities; vocational training for the Peace Corps; Fulbright scholarships; grant proposals; the exchange of international labor leaders; automation and workers' education; union-sponsored programs in basic adult education; farm workers' education; a field project in mental health; industrial health; AFL-CIO summer schools for workers; equal opportunity in higher education; and cooperation between unions and universities. Also includes correspondence between Mire and the staff of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 189, the United Steelworkers of America, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the International Association of Machinists and the United Automobile Workers concerning international labor education, labor's public responsibility, and the summer internship program for labor leaders. U.S. government agency files include correspondence and memoranda exchanged between Mire and the staff of various federal government agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Peace Corps, the International Cooperation Administration, and the Agency for International Development. The correspondence discusses scientific activities of non-profit institutions; a summer institute for improving the teaching of labor economics in colleges; experimental union-sponsored youth service programs; proposals for research in international workers' education projects; residential study institutes; the international trade-union education program; and the exchange of international scholars and trade-union leaders.

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National Institute of Labor Education. National Institute of Labor Education. Series 1. Administrative files and governance records, 1957-1971.

Title: National Institute of Labor Education. Series 1. Administrative files and governance records, 1957-1971.

Consist of minutes of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors (1957-1971); copies of National Institute of Labor Education (NILE) bylaws and articles of incorporation; reports of Joseph Mire (executive director) to the Board of Directors (1960-1964); financial reports (1965-1968); news releases on the promotion of NILE programs; drafts and copies of NILE promotional brochure; photographs of participants at NILE conferences; routine office financial records and memoranda, and reports of Mire regarding grants and routine organizational business.

ArchivalResource: 20.5 linear ft.

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