Papers [microform], 1906-1957.

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Papers [microform], 1906-1957.

Socialist Party leader and first secretary general of the U.S. Communist Party, of Cleveland, Ohio. Correspondence (1920-22) with Rachel Ragozin, written during Ruthenberg's prison term; and correspondence, interviews, notes, bibliographic data, clippings, drafts, final ms., and other papers, of Oakley C. Johnson, in connection with his biography of Ruthenberg, The Day Is Coming (1958.).

8 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

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