Papers, 1929-1932 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1929-1932 (inclusive).

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Correspondence and clippings pertain to Lamont's efforts in 1930 to raise money among Harvard University alumni to pay back wages to the scrubwomen in the University library whom President Lowell fired rather than pay them the minimum wage. The Consumers' League of Massachusetts, which took an active interest in this matter, is one of the correspondents.

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Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943

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Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995

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John Reed (1887-1920) was an American journalist and revolutionary. He graduated from Harvard College in 1910, joined the staff of The Masses in 1913, was a war correspondent in Mexico and Europe for Metropolitan Magazine, publicist for the Russian Revolution, and head of the American Communist Labor Party. From the guide to the Corliss Lamont papers concerning John Reed, 1910-1967., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reed (1887-1920) was an Amer...

Consumers' League of Massachusetts.

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