Wilbert Salmi papers, 1936.

Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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United States. Works Projects Administration.

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Salmi, Wilbert.

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Member of the Workers Alliance of America in the 1930s. From the description of Wilbert Salmi papers, 1936. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32320930 Wilbert Salmi, his brother Willard and his father Walter were members of the Toivala Local of the Workers Alliance of America, "a national, non-partisan organization of unemployed and relief workers" (from Wilbert Salmi Collection, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State Univ...

Workers Alliance of America

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The Workers Alliance of America (WAA) was formed in 1935-1936 as a merger of predominantly socialist and communist-led unemployment councils, unemployment leagues and independent state organizations throughout the United States. At the head of the Workers Alliance was David Lasser, the organization's National President and Herbert Benjamin, its Secretary-Treasurer. Lasser, a registered Socialist, had graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as editor of Technocracy Review ...