John Lyons Papers 1905-1960

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John Lyons Papers 1905-1960

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John Lyons (1881-1957), socialist and labor leader, was a co-founder of the Rand School, and the Executive Secretary of the National Association of Retail Tailors, Cleaners and Dyers (NART), a National Recovery Act labor-management trade association. The collection contains correspondence relating to NART and related organizations, collective labor agreements for New York City locals of the Laundry Workers International Union, the 1906 minutes of the Daily Call Fair Committee, which organized a fair, presumably to raise funds for the 1908 launching of the , a socialist daily newspaper, material on Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring Branch 400 E, correspondence and other materials relating to the Reunion of Old Timers, an association of veteran members of the labor movement, correspondence and notes from Lyons' radio program on WEVD, correspondence relating to public programs sponsored by the Tamiment Institute, correspondence with the Liberal Party of New York State and the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation, and newspaper clippings by Lyons or relating to his political interests. New York Call

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Daily Call Fair Committee.

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Laundry Workers' International Union

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Service Trade League of New York.

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Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring. Branch 400-E, New York (N.Y.).

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American Business Congress.

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WEVD (Radio station) New York, N.Y.

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National Association of Retail Tailors, Cleaners and Dyers.

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Tamiment Institute

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Tamiment Institute, founded in 1935, was the educational arm of Camp Tamiment that organized lectures and conferences. From the description of Records, 1926-1962. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 17269134 The Tamiment Institute was founded in 1935 as the educational arm of the People’s Educational Camp Society (PECS), which owned and operated Camp Tamiment, originally a resort for socialists. The Institute organized lectures, an annual conference (1930s-40s) that f...

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Lyons, John, 1881-1957.

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John Lyons (1881-1957), socialist and labor leader, was co-founder of the Rand School, director of the Social Democratic Radio Forum on station WEVD, the New York radio station that had been established by the Socialist Party, a Socialist Party candidate for the New York State Legislature several times during the 1920s, and manager of the Zetex Corporation, a branch of the American Car and Foundry Company. Lyons was executive secretary of Branch 400 of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, a Jewish...

Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation

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Independent Associated Service Industries.

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Cleaners and Dyers of New York.

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United States. National Recovery Administration

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Reunion of Old Timers

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The Reunion of Old Timers was founded in 1941 by veteran members of the labor struggle. The Reunion was established to honor distinguished individuals involved in the labor and socialist movements and to provide financial aid to members and institutions in need. Charles Grossman, a veteran socialist and labor leader, was the founding president of the Reunion. Grossman, a printer by trade had also managed the election campaign of Meyer London in 1920. Under Grossman's leadership, the...

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The Liberal Party of New York State was organized in New York City in 1944 by two prominent trade union leaders and former officials of the American Labor Party, David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and Alex Rose, president of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers Union. The most successful third party in America in the 20th century, the Liberal Party has sought to offer the liberal, progressive and independent voter in New York an alternative to t...