Lillian Donalek papers, 1948-1999.

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Lillian Donalek papers, 1948-1999.

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Correspondence and miscellaneous materials relating to activities of Lillian Donalek and her husband John G. Donalek. Includes materials on the Slovak Workers Society (Slovensky robotnicky spolok), a fraternal and benefit society located at 2047 West Chicago Avenue; on Fred Fine, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs under Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, 1984-1985; many eulogies written by John G. and Lillian Donalek; newsletters and programs from 2 bowling leagues: International Workers Order (I.W.O.), 1948-1954, and SUNAM (Sunday Union of Nonsense Amusement and Mirth), 1953-1979. Includes 1949 program of Annual Fall Dance hosted by Club 933, Lodge 2233, of the IWO. Also present is a college History class paper written by Lillian Donalek in 1984 entitled, "Slovaks on the Near North Side of Chicago." Many of the eulogies relate to people who were active in local socialist, Communist, workers, civil rights, free thought, suffrage, anti-war, or other progressive movements. Many worked as tailors, machinists, packing house workers, or carpenters. In addition to Slovak Americans, eulogies related to Italian Americans, Swedish Americans, Ukrainian Americans, and African Americans.

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Slovak Workers Society.

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Fine, Fred M., 1914-2004.

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Donalek, John G., 1907-1995

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International Workers Order

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The International Workers Order (IWO), a Communist-affiliated, ethnically organized fraternal order, was founded in 1930 following a split from the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish labor fraternal order. Max Bedacht, the IWO general secretary from 1932-1946, also served on the Communist Party's Political Bureau. At its peak, shortly after World War II, the IWO had almost 200,000 members, including 50,000 in the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order. The IWO provided low-cost health and life insurance, medi...

Donalek, Lillian.

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Chicago (Ill.). Dept. of Cultural Affairs.

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