Records of the Harvard Teachers Union

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Records of the Harvard Teachers Union

1935-1948

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The Records of the Harvard Teachers' Union include general information, publications, copies of its constitution, meeting minutes, bulletins, correspondence and papers, and reports. The collection also includes a statement on the Teachers' Oath Law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, replies to a questionnaire on placement services, and a statement by the Cambridge Union of University Teachers on the dismissal of Harvard Economics instructors J. Raymond Walsh and Dr. Alan R. Sweezy.

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Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7676629

Harvard University Archives.

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