Charlotte Todes Stern Papers 1925-1956

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Charlotte Todes Stern Papers 1925-1956

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Charlotte Stern was born Massachusettes in 1897 the daughter of Russian emigrees. She graduated from Radcliffe College and worked as a social worker in East Boston, 1918-23. She worked for the Workers Health Bureau where she traveled the country speaking at local union meetings and state AFL meetings to advocate the implementation of health and safety measures for workers. She became Secretary of the local International Labor Defense in Washington State whose primary agenda was to gain the release of the Centralia prisoners under the banner of the Centralia Liberation Committee. She was also an organizer for the Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Local 560B, the Education Director for the United Office and Professional Workers of America and for Local 6, Hotel and Club Employees Union and was on the Executive Board of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee. Accused of being a communist front, Stern and most of Refugee Committee's national officers served jail terms. The papers include: organizational records of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, Workers' Health Bureau, Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Union, Local 560, AFL and Hotel and Club Employees Union 6, AFL; clippings; trial briefs; and photographs.

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