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Ruuttila, Julia, 1907-1991. Julia Ruuttila photographic collection [graphic], circa 1897-1979.

Title: Julia Ruuttila photographic collection [graphic], circa 1897-1979.

33 black and white photographs, ca. 1897-1979, of Julia Ruuttila, various labor protests and family members, friends and associates, including: Mike McDonald, John Bergwell Goodman, William Lloyd Gee, Oscar Ruuttila, Ella B. Padau, Judith Stranahan, Lois Stranahan, Jesse Stranahan, Shane McDonald, Johnny Parks, Veva Phillips, Mary, Betty and John Fougerouse, Harry Bridges, Forrest Taylor, Frances J. Murnane, Ramon Tancido,

ArchivalResource: .02 cubic feet (33 photographs in 2 folders)

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Carl Aldo Marzani Papers, Bulk, 1935-1975, [1890]-1994, (Bulk 1935-1975)

Title: Carl Aldo Marzani Papers Bulk, 1935-1975 [1890]-1994, (Bulk 1935-1975)

Carl Marzani (1912-1994)was an Italian-American immigrant radical and briefly a Communist Party, USA organizer on New York City's Lower East Side. He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and briefly thereafter in the State Department. He was also a political documentary filmmaker, the author of six books and numerous articles, and as an editor and publisher, first translated and published portions of the work of the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci. Marzani served almost three years in prison, from 1947-1950, for concealing his prewar Party membership while he was employed by the government. He lived and worked in New York City most of his life. This collection of papers includes his correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera. NOTE: This collection is housed offsite and advance notice is required for use.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear feet; (38 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_154/tam_154.html View

Ronald Magden papers, circa 1879-2003

Title: Ronald Magden papers circa 1879-2003

Historian, teacher, author, Tacoma, Washington

ArchivalResource: 28.27 cubic feet; 34 boxes

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv25738 View

Records Relating to Harry Bridges, 1920-1965

Title: Records Relating to Harry Bridges, 1920-1965

This series concerns all aspects of the Bridges case, including investigators' reports, witness statements, communications between the central and district offices (of the US Department of Justice), investigation requests and results transmitted between San Francisco and other district offices, correspondence with members of Congress and the public, and administrative and legal matters.

ArchivalResource: 76 linear feet

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/296490 View

George Morris Papers, 1960s-1980s

Title: George Morris Papers 1960s-1980s

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear feet; (2 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_200/tam_200.html View

Bridges, Harry, 1901-. Harry Bridges (1901- ) records 1938-1945 [microform]

Title: Harry Bridges (1901- ) records 1938-1945 [microform]

Harry Bridges was born Alfred Byrant Renton Bridges, in Melbourne, Australia, and immigrated to the United States in 1920. He was active in the International Longshoremen's Association and in 1937 led the West Coast members out of the American Federation of Labor to form the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union in the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Bridges' militancy, especially during World War II, led to unsuccessful attempts by the United States government between 1937 and 1955 to deport him as a communist. The collection consists of materials related to the deportation hearings, and contains briefs, statements, memoranda, arguments, petitions, opinions of the court, and printed materials about the case. In English. Inventory available.

ArchivalResource: 2 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/732890812 View

Bridges, Harry, 1901-1990. Deportation hearing transcripts and records, 1939-1943.

Title: Deportation hearing transcripts and records, 1939-1943.

Transcripts of the first and second deportation hearings of Harry Bridges. Bridges, a San Francisco labor leader and Australian citizen who entered the United States in 1920, underwent two failed deportation attempts between 1938 and 1945 for his alleged affiliation with the Communist Party. The collection also includes briefs, hearing opinions and appeal, and the court opinion regarding Bridges' petition for writ of habeas corpus.

ArchivalResource: 4 paige boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61889298 View

Carl Aldo Marzani Papers [1890]-1994, (bulk 1935-1975).

Title: Carl Aldo Marzani Papers [1890]-1994, (bulk 1935-1975).

Carl Marzani (1912-1994)was an Italian-American immigrant radical and briefly a Communist Party, USA organizer on New York City's Lower East Side. He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and briefly thereafter in the State Department. He was also a political documentary filmmaker, the author of six books and numerous articles, and as an editor and publisher, first translated and published portions of the work of the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci. Marzani served almost ... The papers principally contain personal, political, and business correspondence and writings, and are organized into seven series: I. Biographical: Childhood & Youth; II. Trial/Prison Papers; III. Correspondence; IV. Writings; V. Political Activities; VI. Publishing: Cameron Associates, Marzani & Munsell; VII. Addendum. Eighteen audiocassette interviews, conducted in Italy in Italian for Marzani's book The Promise of Eurocommunism, have been been separated to the Library's Oral History collections, ...

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear feet (38 boxes)

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Maritime Workers / National Maritime Union Research Files of Bruce Nelson, 1931-2011

Title: Maritime Workers / National Maritime Union Research Files of Bruce Nelson 1931-2011

Historian Bruce Nelson is the author of (1990). This collection contains files on prominent radical sailors who were members of the National Maritime Union, and files on several maritime labor events and on related organizations. The files include Nelson's correspondence with these sailors, detailed summaries (or, in the case of Joseph Stack, transcripts) of oral histories, printed ephemera and internal National Maritime Union documents, in particular from the post-World War II period of internal struggle between the union's Communist and anti-Communist factions. Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear feet; (2 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_585/tam_585.html View

Harry Bridges miscellany, 1936-1948.

Title: Harry Bridges miscellany, 1936-1948.

Miscellaneous materials relating to Harry Bridges.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122452163 View

Guide to the Records of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1935-1980

Title: Guide to the Records of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1935-1980

The records of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB) span the years 1935-1980. The ACPFB, which was established by the Communist Party, was active regarding immigration legislation, individual immigration litigation, and public education on these issues. The bulk of the material deals with the ACPFB's activities in the 1950's; the collection includes correspondence of the ACPFB's general counsel, Ira Gollobin.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear Feet in one manuscript box.

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_086/tam_086.html View

Standard, William L. National Maritime Union, general counsel's files, 1937-1949.

Title: National Maritime Union, general counsel's files, 1937-1949.

Consists of William L. Standard's files as general counsel for the National Maritime Union (N.M.U.). These document public policy toward the N.M.U. during World War II; the status of the merchant marine under the U.S. War Shipping Administration; the politics of Joseph E. Curran (president, N.M.U.); collective negotiations between the N.M.U. and various railroads and shipping companies; and work stoppages conducted by the N.M.U. Legislative files include drafts of bills, memoranda, letters and reports regarding the National Maritime Union's lobbying activities and its position on federal legislation of interest to its members. The bulk of these records concerns maritime legislation enacted during or immediately after World War II and includes documentation on proposed amendments to War Shipping Administration regulations (1943); on the Merchant Seamen's War Service Act (1945); on suspension of provisions of the Public Vessels Act of 1925; on seamen's rehabilitation legislation (1948); on proposed amendments to the Merchant Marine Act; on amendments to the National Service Life Insurance Act (1940); and on amendments to the Railway Labor Act (1946-1947). This legislation and other bills documented in these files sought to expedite the activities of merchant seamen during the war, to minimize work stoppages, to compensate families of deceased seamen, to provide vocational rehabilitation for those disabled as a result of war-related injuries, to provide for the naturalization of foreign seamen who served on American owned vessels, and to protect the merchant marine from wartime sabotage. The union was also interested in such legislation as the Taft-Hartley amendments to the National Labor Relations Act (1947-1948) and anti-organized labor legislation that began appearing in some states after the war. National War Labor Board case files include statements, letters, decisions, and proposals for cases brought before the Board. These consist of the N.M.U. vs. the American Merchant Marine Institute on issues of working conditions, wages, and hours of work; vs. the American Communications Association, Pacific District Marine Local; vs. Pacific American Shipowners Association and American Export Lines et al regarding petitions for reconsideration of dispute settlement; vs. the general agents of the War Shipping Administration of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts; vs. the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Steamship Operators as agents for the War Shipping Administration and the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company on issues of jurisdiction and wages; vs. the Pittsburgh Supply Company on issues of union security, wages and union activity; and vs. Ford Motor Company on collective negotiations and wages (1942-1945). The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) case files on N.M.U. representation elections include correspondence, petitions for certification, authorization cards and supporting documentation on certification elections brought before the Board. The elections were held for employees of the following: Cities Service Oil Company; American Trading and Production Corporation; War Emergency Tankers Inc.; Ponchelet Marine Steamship Company; Great Lakes General; Marathon Tanker Corporation; Agivilines Pursers; Grace Lines; Consolidated Steamship Company; Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and Great Lakes companies; Pittsburgh Steamship Company; General Petroleum Corporation; Richfield Oil Corporation; Hanna Company; Sun Oil Company; Great Lakes Conference; Midland Steam Ship Line Inc.; American Staff Officers Association; Newley Steamship Company; and Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company (1942-1947). War Shipping Administration case files consist of agreements, letters and petitions regarding cases of the N.M.U. before the War Shipping Administration on the issues of wages and the allocation of personnel on the steamships Copley and Wheeler (1946). Arbitration case files include awards, decisions, memoranda, and statements pertaining to cases involving various arbitrators. The cases include the N.M.U. vs. the following: the Bethlehem Transportation Company on the issue of overtime pay; the Atlantic Gulf Coast Committee for companies and agents on the issue of impasses in collective negotiations; the Isthmian Steamship Company on the issue of overtime wages; and the Ford Motor Company and Nicholson Transit Company on the issues of wages, hiring, seniority, discrimination, grievance procedure, and holidays (1942-1947). Files on collective negotiations include materials pertaining to bargaining conducted between the N.M.U. and various railroads and shipping companies. The documents consist of copies of collective agreements, letters, and statements of proposals of the parties. Negotiations were conducted between the N.M.U. and the Panama Railroad Company; the car ferries of the Detroit River; the Wabash and the Grand Trunk Western Railroad Companies; the Ann Arbor Railroad Company; the Pere Marquette Railway Company; car ferries companies of the Great Lakes; the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company; the Richfield Oil Corporation; the Bethlehem Transportation Company; the Standard Oil Company of Texas; Inland Waterways; the Pan American Refining Corporation; and the Polarus Steamship Company (1940-1947). Also include materials pertaining to the mediation proceedings held by the National Mediation Board to resolve an impasse in collective negotiations between the N.M.U. and the Reading Railroad tug boat operators (1946-1948). Files on legal cases argued on behalf of the N.M.U. before the U.S. District and Supreme Courts and various military courts include correspondence, notes and various legal documents. These files include a libel case between the N.M.U. and various newspapers because of a published report alleging N.M.U. members refused to unload military supplies; a case against an N.M.U. member in which "militant union activity" was alleged to be impeding the war effort; the court martial of an N.M.U. member; and documents regarding the settlement of strikes against various Great Lakes transportation companies by the N.M.U. (1942-1947). Standard maintained general files on N.M.U. activities and issues, largely during the war years. These include data on the national reorganization of the union in 1939; on pension and benefit claims and regulations; on the relationship of the N.M.U. to the Women's Auxiliary of the American Merchant Marine Institute, Inc.; and on sedition trials of N.M.U. members. Of particular interest in these files are documents relating to alleged racial discrimination in employment on the Atlantic Coast Line Company; the position of Joseph E. Curran (president, N.M.U.) regarding a Supreme Court case concerning communist affidavits (1948); documents relating to FBI investigations of the N.M.U. and the CIO (1943-1947); and a civil suit brought against Harry Bridges, Philip Murray and Joseph Curran for alleged suppression of free enterprise. Also in the collection are two scrapbooks of news clippings and articles regarding various strikes and elections, non-union workers, salaries, collective agreements, court decisions, safety, hazards, accidents, disasters, factional disputes in maritime unions, communism in unions, and copies of N.M.U. news bulletins (1943-1947).

ArchivalResource: 21 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64755392 View

Guide to the Reference Center for Marxist Studies Pamphlet Collection, 1900-2004

Title: Guide to the Reference Center for Marxist Studies Pamphlet Collection, 1900-2004

The Reference Center for Marxist Studies (RCMS) was a radical library housed in the headquarters of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) in New York City. The Center was founded in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Its pamphlet collection consists of more than 10,000 pamphlets and includes nearly every pamphlet published by the CPUSA. It also includes pamphlets published by hundreds of organizations affiliated with or of interest to the CPUSA, and English language pamphlets published in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries. The pamphlets cover over 800 subject areas including: Communist Party activities throughout its history, anticommunism and the struggle against McCarthyism, the civil rights, labor and peace movements, the Spanish Civil War, anti-colonial and national liberation movements, and various Communist countries.

ArchivalResource: 48 Linear Feet (128 boxes)

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Harry Renton Bridges Papers, 1938-1955

Title: Harry Renton Bridges Papers, 1938-1955

ArchivalResource:

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Labor Collection, 1872-1988

Title: Labor Collection, 1872-1988

Topical collection assembled at the Oregon Historical Society that provides episodic documentation of labor unions and other related organizations, including industry, pro-union, and anti-union groups, and government agencies. The collection consists primarily of published material and ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear feet (6 document cases, 2 oversize flat boxes, 1 custom box, 10 oversize folders, 2 reels microfilm)

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv61919 View

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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Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1881-1950. Papers, 1914-1950.

Title: Papers, 1914-1950.

Papers include correspondence (1914-1950), writings by Dana on conscientious objection, civil liberties and other political concerns, subject files, pamphlets, clippings and photographs; information on The Masses trial (1918), the Citizens Victory Committee for Harry Bridges (1942-1943), the Civil Rights Congress (1946-1949), and the League for Democratic Control. Among the correspondents are Brent D. Allinson, Emily Greene Balch, Roger N. Baldwin, Hilda Browning, Robert W. Dunn, Crystal Eastman, Louis P. Lochner, Scott Nearing, Lella Faye Secor, Rebecca Shelley, Rennie Smith, and Norman Thomas.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19046107 View

McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957. Miscellaneous papers, 1929-1954.

Title: Miscellaneous papers, 1929-1954.

Miscellany including (1) a copy of a 1949 letter from Senator McCarthy to Richard Perrin, Milwaukee Housing Authority, concerning public housing and slum clearance, with a cover letter; (2) telegrams of greeting and other items related to a 1951 testimonial dinner in Milwaukee for Senator McCarthy; (3) a speech and a copy of excerpts from a meeting, October 11, 1951, in which Harry Bridges and other labor leaders were said to have participated; (4) photographs of McCarthy's scholastic records, 1929-1930; and (5) a German political cartoon and translation of a German article, 1954, on the charges between McCarthy and the Army.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145785630 View