1 box.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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41 boxes (40.25 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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See BobCat, NYU's online catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Index available in repository.

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The New York Central Trades and Labor Council (AFL) merged with the Industrial Union Council of Metropolitan New York (CIO) on February 19, 1959 to form the New York City Central Labor Council. Under the leadership of Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. who served as president from 1957 to 1986, the council established vocational and peer counseling through its Rehabilitation Council (1963), launched the first successful attempt to organize the city's cabbies through the Taxi Drivers' Organizing Committee (1964); set up advisory committees to better meet the concerns of minority workers in the Hispanic Labor Committee (1970) and the Black Trade Unionists Leadership Committee (1972); and furthered labor education by working for the founding of the "Labor College" - the Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies of Empire State College, State University of New York (1971). In 1992 the New York City Central Labor Council was composed of about 500 affiliates representing nearly one million members. COLLECTION SUMMARY: The collection consists of sound recordings of delegates and executive meetings of the New York City Central Labor Council, produced by the secretary to facilitate the preparation of minutes. Regular monthly meetings provide a forum for unions to consider local as well as nationally important issues. Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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6 boxes (6 linear feet).

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot). Pamphlets and newsletters concerning locals and organizing in the ACA from the 1950's and 1960's. Some of the materials also deal with McCarthy-ist attacks on the organization. Also contains some photos of individuals and groups (including board members of various locals) probably used by the ACA News.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet).

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73 boxes (73 linear feet). The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, District Council 1707 Records contain materials regarding their union activities with private, nonprofit employees from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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7 boxes (6.5 linear feet).

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1 box (0.25 linear feet). This very small collection contains some records of AFSCME, DC 37, Local 1306, which represented workers in the American Museum of Natural History. The collection contains correspondence, collective bargaining documents, grievences, and minutes of the local.

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18 boxes (18 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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9 boxes (8.5 linear feet).

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96 boxes (96 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This collection documents a unionizing drive for faculty at New York University in the 1970s. The collection contains issues of the Over Due Gazette - a newsletter about the union efforts, NYU Federation of United Professionals Newsletter, NYU Workers' Voice, and material relating to the United Federation of College Teachers (UFCT).

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13 boxes (13 linear feet).

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See BobCat, NYU's online catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Index available in repository.

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2 boxes (1 linear foot). Created in 1971, the United Action Caucus was a rank-and-file organization within the American Federation of Teachers. It took stands on various issues within the American educational system, supported progressive politics in general and campaigned for internal democracy within the American Federation of Teachers. The collection contains materials collected and circulated by the United Action Caucus particularly for AFT conventions and conferences. Document types include by-laws, flyers, newsletters, pamphlets and clippings. The documents span from 1981 to 1990.

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3 boxes.

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239 boxes (238.5 linear feet).

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167 boxes (167 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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3 boxes.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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3 boxes (1.5 linear feet).

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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1 box.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Israel Amter (1881-1954) was a founding member of the Communist Party, USA and an official in the party in the 1940s. Israel was born in Denver to Jewish immigrant parents. He joined the Socialist party in 1901 and in 1903, moved to Germany where he remained until 1914. There he edited the German Export Review, participated in the Social Democratic Party and studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory where he composed his never-performed opera "Winona" (1912). Sadie Van Veen was born in 1882 in New York City and moved to Denver in 1891. She met Israel in 1900 after hearing a piano concert of his and married him two years later. Sadie introduced Israel to Socialism and was an activist in her own right. This collection contains an autobiographical sketch of Israel and his wife Sadie, photocopies of an incomplete typescript manuscript about their lives and their involvement in the labor movement and the Communist Party, and poems by Sadie and Israel.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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4 boxes (3.25 linear feet). Correspondence and personal files of George Andrucki, retired Business Agent of Sheet Metal Workers, Local 28.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Bruno Aron was the head of the House Plan at the City University of New York. The House Plan was a cocurricular organization which involved CUNY students and staff in an effort to promote community involvement, socialization, and living in small groups which residential colleges often more easily enjoyed. The collection contains bulletins, correspondence, and flyers pertaining to the House Plan and social events it organized. The documents span from 1936 to 1940.

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1 box (.75 linear feet).

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6 boxes (5.5 linear feet).

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29 boxes (29 linear feet).

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27 boxes (27 linear feet). Asian CineVision was founded by grassroots media activists in New York's Chinatown to raise social and cultural awareness of the Asian American experience, both in the Asian American community and among the general public. The organization sought to address problems of media access for Asian Americans and also to present and publicize the work of Asian American artists. Beginning in 1978, it has sponsored the Asian American International Film Festival. It has also organized a cable television station and sponsored many publications. The collection consists of administrative files of Asian CineVision, background files on Asian American cinema, including a large collection of film catalogues, and videotape in various formats, much of it gathered in preparation for the International Film Festival.

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1 box. NYU undergraduate, Bichiluyen Nguyen, herself a Vietnamese immigrant, conducted these interviews as part of an internship in the history department in 1989. SUMMARY: The collection consists of interviews of garment workers from Vietnam, China, the Philippines, and California. Interviews were conducted mainly in English, but some were partially in the interviewee's native language. Transcripts or indexes exist in English for all of the interviews. Interviews are with ILGWU members and staff, and one interview is with a garment manufacturer. Topics covered include emigration to the U.S., working conditions, joining the ILGWU, and major strikes. Index available in repository.

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One photograph album containing 143 black and white and color photographs ranging in size from 1x2 to 8x10.

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20 boxes (20 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Materials include writings and correspondence concerning Soviet affairs in the 1930s and 1940s.

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8 boxes (8 linear feet).

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4 boxes (4 linear feet). Material relating to the Nike campaign, Indonesia.

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16 boxes (16 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Documents related to Poale Zion and Pocketbook Makers, Local 1.

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Neil Basen, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, conducted extensive research on leading U.S. socialist women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection contains a small portion of his correspondence with other scholars, descendents of several of these women, and clippings by and about these women, who are: May Beals, Viola Coche Dietz, Ida Crouch Hazlett, Luella Krehbiel, and Anna Maley.

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Index available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box.

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27 boxes (14 linear feet)

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22 boxes (22 linear feet).

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8 boxes (6.75 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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28 boxes (14 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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First draft and container list is available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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1 box.

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1 box (1 linear foot). This collection of papers pertains mainly to the Students for a Democratic Society, nationally and in Newark, NJ. The collection includes reports, publications, publicity fliers, correspondence from the 1960s, and also contains a small amount of material dealing with political action in New Jersey in general.

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1 box (.25 linear feet) Typescript of an unpublished paper by Herman W. Benson regarding the reform movement in the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangrs in the 1960s.

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10 boxes (10 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. The Berkshire Forum was founded in 1973 in Stephentown, New York, as a forum for discussion of social and political issues. The Forum was located on land owned by Herman and Betty Liveright, who headed the Forum until 1989. The Forum appears to have ceased to exist by 1991. The founders and most guests were independent Old Leftists. The collection contains files on the numerous workshops and other programs held at the Forum, files on tours sponsored by the Forum, and administrative files, including board minutes.

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Bernard and Jewel Bellush conducted these interviews as part of their research for their book UNION POWER AND NEW YORK: VICTOR GOTBAUM AND DISTRICT COUNCIL 37 (Praeger, 1984). District Council 37 was chartered by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in November 1944. At that time its membership was limited to small numbers in the City's departments of Hospitals, Parks, Finance, and Health. Its first goals were to increase membership and to engage management in serious collective bargaining talks. Between 1950-1955, city employees gained Social Security coverage, improved pensions, the 40 hour week for blue collar workers. The AFL-CIO merger in 1955 brought many changes to the District Council. The AFL's AFSCME eventually merged with the CIO's Government and Civic Employees. In 1958, Mayor Robert F. Wagner signed Executive Order 49 which gave collective bargaining rights to employee organizations representing a majority of employees in a bargaining unit. Around that time, a series of strikes in cultural institutions resulted in union recognition for employees at Youth House, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Bronx Zoo, and the Coney Island Aquarium. Local 372, School Lunch Employees won bargaining rights for 12,000 employees by 1965. Local 375, the Civil Service Technical Guild negotiated its first contract in 1963 on behalf of its 5,000 engineers and architects. By 1972, DC 37 had 100,000 members. The New York City Fiscal Crisis of the mid-1970's threatened city employees with massive layoffs. Unions came to the rescue with pledges to invest billions of dollars in the Municipal Assistance Corporation. SUMMARY: The collection consists of 49 interviews with union and city officials. Among the notables interviewed were: Jack Bigel, Barry Feinstein, Victor Gotbaum, Stanley Hill, Carol O'Cleiricain, Felix Rohatyn, Donna Shalala, Al Viani, and Jerry and Mildred Wurf. Topics include: organization of New York City employees, public employee collective bargaining, hospital organizing, the 1966 Welfare Strike, the Fiscal Crisis, and the Taylor Law. Inventory available in repository. RELATED MATERIAL: Bernard and Jewel Bellush Collection.

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23 boxes (23 linear feet).

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5 boxes.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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1 box. Transcript of interview with Albert Boni conducted by Alex Baskin on October 20, 1972.

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4 boxes. Collection consists of audiocassettes, containing approximately 500 tapes; date span ca. 1984 - ca. 1998. The cassettes contain interviews, speeches and talks, radio programs, etc. Unprocessed. No index or finding aid available.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Helena Born (1860-1901) was a labor organizer, anarchist, and writer. Within this collection, which dates from 1870 to 1902, there are letters, poetry, and essays, written by Miss Born; socialist literature; Born's Will; photographs; memorabilia; publications; speeches; correspondence; and a biography of Helena Born written by Helen Tufts

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6 boxes (6 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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13 boxes (13 linear feet).

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Public Programs (meetings, speeches, radio shows, etc.). c. 1956 - c. 1983. In February, 1995, the Tamiment Institute Library received the papers of George Breitman (1916-1986), a leading American Trotskyist and historian of Trotskyism, as well as an authority on, and editor and publisher of, the works of Malcolm X. Among the thirty cartons of papers were these audiocassettes. Breitman was, in 1937, a delegate to the founding convention of the Socialist Workers Party, the main US Trotskyist organization, still extant. Breitman played a leading role in the SWP's campaigns of the 1930s to organize the unemployed, was for many years editor of The Militant, the SWP weekly newspaper, and was editor of the SWP's Pathfinder Press. He wrote pamphlets, numerous newspaper articles, and edited collections of the writings of Leon Trotsky. He was one of the first Marxists to appreciate the work of Malcolm X, edited three books of his writings, and wrote The Last year of Malcolm X: the Evolution of a Revolutionary (1967). Breitman also was the unofficial historian of the SWP, an expert on the history of international Trotskyism. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: Series I. Malcolm X and other personalities, mainly consisting of 44 programs. For 39 of these, Malcolm X was the speaker, or one of several speakers, while the other 5 are on topics related to the Civil Rights/Black Power movements of the 1960s. Most of these date from after Malcolm X’s break with the Nation of Islam, 1964-1965. Included are speeches at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, appearances on various radio programs, appearances at the SWP’s Militant Labor Forum, and an interview from Cairo, Egypt. There are also 10 programs on contemporary and historical radical and socialist topics (the speakers are SWP notables), Series II, contains two programs, one on the Industrial Workers of the World, and one on the Fourth International. Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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47 boxes (46 linear feet). List of minutes available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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3 boxes (2 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. A collection of ca. 1300 index cards containing quotations gleaned from selected American newspapers, 1827 1837, relating to labor issues. The major subject headings under which the cards are arranged are: strikes, anti bank movement, imprisionment for debt, women in industry, the American system, typographical societies, dignity of labor, workingmen's publications, education, mechanics' associations, mechanics' institutes, and mechanics' conventions. One section is on workers and politics; classified by state, this section concen¬trates most on Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Mass¬achusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. Material from about fifty newspapers is found here, but with particular concentration on Niles Weekly Register. National Trades Union, Daily National Intelligencer, Delaware Gazette and American Watchman, Hartford Times, and New England Artisan. Although this collection contains no primary ma¬terial, scholars studying labor condiditions in Jacksonanian America will find it useful.

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These interviews were conducted by Jane LaTour in her capacity as archivist of the Burton Hall Papers, donated to the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives by Hall’s legal partner Wendy Sloan after his death in 1991. Burton Hall was born in South Orange, New Jersey in 1929. He graduated from Williams College in 1951 and Yale Law School in 1954. While in college and law school he was a member of the Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers Union in Camden, New Jersey, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Local 11, and the International Association of Machinists, Local 751, on the West Coast. He served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1957 and worked as a lawyer for a private firm and the Federal Aviation Agency before turning to labor law. Burton Hall set up his own practice in 1960 as a labor lawyer. Soon his practice was almost entirely comprised of rank-and-file members suing to protect their democratic rights within their unions. His office was located at 136 Liberty Street in Lower Manhattan. When the building was demolished to make way for the World Trade Center, he moved to 401 Broadway, Hall was one of the pioneer attorneys in developing the case law for the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, also known as the Landrum-Griffin Act. His precedent-setting cases involved protection of the rights guaranteed by law in that section of the Act known as the "Bill of Rights" of union members. Thus he represented rank-and-filers in numerous cases involving issues such as eligibility for running for union office, discipline against members for criticism of their leadership, and expulsion of union members for advocating radical political ideas. COLLECTION SUMMARY: The collection consists of interviews with rank and file insurgents, family members, representatives of union democracy organizations and others who worked with Burton Hall. The bulk of the interviews relate to Painters and Teamsters (Local 282) union reform efforts. Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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12 boxes (12 linear feet). Gregory A. Butler is a member of local union # 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America. He is also an activist in several left wing political groups. He has written two books, Disunited Brotherhood's ...race, racketeering and the fall of the New York construction unions and Lost Towers ...inside the World Trade Center cleanup. His background files primarily relate to union democracy struggles from the 1990s to 2004. Butler also runs the GANGBOX: Construction Workers News Service on the Yahoo groups and Google groups' networks and the GANGBOX blog at wordpress.com.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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8 boxes (3.75 linear feet)

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1 box (0.5 linear feet). Camp Midvale was a recreation camp built in the 1920s by The Nature Friends of America and owned by the Labor Lyceum (a progressive workers organization). The collection contains documents of FBI investigations into the actions of the camp, Nature Friends Incorporated, Labor Lyceum and other related organizations, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

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See BobCat, NYU's online catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Index available in repository.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, also known as Workers Childrens Camp, was a summer camp for children located in New Jersey. Established in 1934, the camp was distinct from other summer camps of the time in that it was co-educational and attracted an extremely diverse population. The collection consists mostly of printed circulars from the 1940's such as the Daily Wo-Chi-Can and the Wo-Ki-Mag, some of which document visits of figures such as Paul Robeson and Woody Guthrie. Songbooks and Benefit Concert programs are also included.

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17 boxes (17 linear feet).

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Freda Katz Casso worked on ladies' shoes and slippers in New York shops between 1932 and 1960, but was working in Chicago for several months in 1934 when a general strike of slipper workers was broken. Casso worked in AFL Boot and Shoe Workers Union Local 54 with a Rank and File Committee to take control of the union from mobsters. In 1937 the Rank and File moved the local into the CIO's United Shoe Workers and launched a city-wide organizing campaign. Casso served as the unpaid secretary of the local for many years as a member of the General Executive Board of Joint Council 13 from 1937 to 1952 and as shop chairwoman until her retirement. The United Shoe Workers of New York City eventually merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. The collection includes a 16-page memoir Casso wrote in 1992 which outlines themes in shoe worker union history including the roles of the Communist Party, the CIO and women; newspaper clippings and leaflets related to union election campaigns in 1948 and 1952; a Local 54 constitution and contract; the Annual Conference souvenir journal of the United Shoe Workers of America, CIO, 1937; and biographical material and an obituary for Julius Crane, shoe worker organizer. Date span: 1937-1952.

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4 boxes (4 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Edwin Cerney was a tenured employee of the Stockton (NY) School District whose services were terminated after he refused to sign a required Levering Act loyalty oath in 1951. Materials in this collection document the Hudson Shore Labor School and Cerney's compensation claim in a loyalty oath case.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Raymond Challiss was a writer and banjo virtuoso. The collection consists largely of correspondence with figures such as Norman Thomas, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair and Theodore Debs. Material relating to Challiss’ musical career is also included.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Frank Chandler (1903- 992) was a trade union and community activist. His original name was Frank Tschinder. Frank worked as a punch press operator in New Jersey before joining the army in 1942. He left the army with an honorable discharge in 1945. This collection contains documents related to his service in the United States military, an application for citizenship, birth certificate, passport, and death certificate.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Norah Chase, a long-time PSC activist and an associate professor at Kingsborough Community College in English, donated the materials. This collection contains copies of Unity News, pamphlets, flyers, correspondence, and meeting minutes related to the 2000 PSC Elections.

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16 boxes (26 linear feet)

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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1 box.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet) The Chinese-American Labor and Immigration Collection was given to the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives in the late 1980s, probably by the Asian Labor Resource Center. The collection consists of subject files; which include clippings, printed material and correspondence; relating to immigration, labor, women's issues, Asian student organizations, and health services. A small number of files contain minutes and other administrative materials from the Asian Labor Resource Center, including materials relating to the First and Second Asian Labor Conferences at Cornell University (1988-1989).

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10 boxes (10 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box. In 1983, the Civil Service Technical Guild Local 375 under the leadership of President Louis Albano approached the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives for assistance in documenting its history for its upcoming fiftieth anniversary celebration. Under the direction of historian Rachel Bernstein, the collection of oral history interviews and archival materials was undertaken which formed the basis of "Building a City, Building a Union: a history of the Civil Service Technical Guild Local 375" which she wrote under commission of the union. Local 375 was founded in 1937 by municipal engineers to fight the La Guardia administration's attempts to replace civil servants with private consultants, a practice subject to the abuses of political patronage. The Guild's most successful initiatives were on the legislative front. An affiliate of the Civil Service Forum, the Guild joined the CIO Government and Civic Employee's Organizing Committee in 1950. After the merger of the AFL and CIO, it affiliated with District Council 37, AFSCME. At the time of the 50th anniversary, it represented close to 5,000 engineers, architects, city planners, chemists, and other white collar technical workers employed by the City of New York. SUMMARY: The collection is comprised of 35 life history interviews with union veterans and city officials. Topics include the organization and development of Local 375, the Civil Service Forum and other white collar professional unionizing efforts including the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and Technicians, and the Government and Civic Employee's Organizing Committee, CIO; the Buckley Law; the Fiscal Crisis; and union efforts to reform city contracting practices.

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1 box (0.3 linear feet). This small collection contains photocopied material from a scrapbook containing clippings on local and national radical activity. The majority of the clippings come from The Cleveland Plains Dealer and The Socialist News of Cleveland with a few clippings from other papers local to the Cleveland area. The clippings span from 1915-1919 with a small amount of clippings from the mid-1920s. The original scrapbook, of unkown provenance, was in fragile and fading condition and was disbound and recopied.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). The Coalition for Education of School District 1 in New York City was an organization of parents and teachers in the district concerned with various education and school employment issues in the district. The collection contains correspondence, flyers, newsletters, and other documents produced by the Coalition particularly in reference to school board elections, racial issues, and boycotts. There are some photographs. Material is in several languages including English, Spanish, and Chinese.

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5 boxes (5 linear feet).

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3 boxes (3 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Includes the October 27, 1951 issue of Collier's Magazine which featured a full-issue hypothetical imagining of a war between the United States and the Soviet Union and an eventual U.N. occupation of the USSR. Also in the collection are clippings of critical reactions to the Collier's piece from various publications including the New York Times and The Nation.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Includes notebooks, contracts, correspondence, and other documents concerning the CTU's negotiations with Western Union in the late 1940s.

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2 boxes (1 linear foot). The Committee for Democratic Election Laws was formed in 1971 to coordinate non-partisan court challenges to discriminatory election laws across the country. It challenged a number of statutes such as Pennsylvania’s restrictions on minority party candidates, Florida’s ten cent filing fees, loyalty oaths in Illinois, and age requirements for candidates and voters. The collection consists of court documents, including transcripts, motions and appeals, as well as brochures and other publicity material.

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35 boxes (35 linear feet).

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72 boxes (72 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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25 boxes (25 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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First draft and container list is available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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Inventory available in repository. For information, contact Nonprint Curator: erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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See BobCat, NYU's online catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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First draft and container list for processed portion of the collection is available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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4 boxes (4.5 linear feet).

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438 boxes (438 linear feet). Please see the Research Guide to Communist Party USA Collections in the Tamiment Library for details on this collection. The Archive requires a 24 hours notice prior to viewing records. For addititional information, please contact Tamiment Archivist Peter Filardo at peter.filardo@nyu.edu.

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2 boxes (.75 linear feet). The Communist Workers Party was founded in 1969 as the Workers' Viewpoint Organization before forming itself into the Communist Workers Party in October 1979. This collection contains bulletins, working papers, memos, meeting notices, position papers, and papers from the third party congress. Date span: 1980-1986.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Established in 1973, the Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) was designed to provide short-term positions for unemployed artists. In New York, the program was funded by the New York City Department of Employment under the CETA Title VI. The CETA Artists Organization was composed of CETA artists in New York City who fought for job security, the continuation and expansion of CETA artist projects, and workers rights. This collection contains newspaper articles, correspondence, papers from the Department of Cultural Affairs, position papers, speeches, posters and flyers, papers from the Cultural Council Foundation, and papers from the Department of Employment.

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5 boxes (4.5 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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15 boxes (15 linear feet).

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3 boxes (1.25 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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10 boxes (9.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. 8 boxes were added to the collection in November 2006.

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14 boxes (13.5 linear feet).

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26 boxes (26 linear feet).

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3 boxes (3 linear foot). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Sean Cronin is best known among labor historians as the author of Young Connolly (1978) and Frank Ryan: The Search for the Republic (1980). Included is a copy of Cronin's book Frank Ryan: The Search for the Republic. Materials include a variety of pamphlets, including No Pasaran! which is a pamphlet of the story of the Irish volunteers who served with the International Brigades in defending the Spanish Republic against International Fascism (1936-1938). Other materials relate to Irish patriot James Connolly (1868-1916) who was once the head of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union and played a key role in the Easter Rising a rebellion to free Ireland from domination by England. There is also material relating to Gerald O'Reilly, a veteran of the Irish Republican Army and Transport Workers Union organizer. Related materials include the Transport Workers Union of America Records, and the Gerald O'Reilly Papers.

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23 boxes (23 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Contains pamphlets, writings and reports pertaining to the research interestes of Charles Davis. Included are a number of United States Agriculture Department reports, pamphlets and other materials on Pittsburgh's urban planning, and research project material on women workers in Brazil. The materials span from the 1920's to the 1940's.

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1 box. Includes two photograph albums that have been disassembled and one intact photograph album (largely black and white prints for all three), one disassembled scrapbook, and ninety loose black and white photographs ranging in size from 11x14 to 2x3 inches.

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12 boxes (12 linear feet).

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151 boxes (151 linear feet). Guides for the Michael Harrington Correspondence, 1966-1973; Selected Early Records of DSA (formerly DSOC and NAM), 1973-1982; and Michael Harrington DSA Correspondence, 1972-1988 are available in the repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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1 box (0.5 linear feet). This collection contains the papers of Frank J. Donner, author of The Un-Americans, an account of HUAC's abuse of power and its opposition. The papers contain collected clippings, editorials, and reports on the hearings, hearing transcripts, related flyers and newsletters and correspondence with Donner.

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Historian Peter Drucker donated these tapes to the Tamiment Library after the publication of his biography of Max Shachtman, Max Shachtman and His Left: A Socialist’s Odyssey through the American Century (1994). SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: The interviews, conducted in 1989, include Shachtman associates Herman Benson, Hal Draper, Joel Geier, Emanuel Geltman, and Abraham (Al) Glotzer. Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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1 box. Twenty-three black and white or sepia photographs.

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1 box.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Robert F. Eckersdorff was president of the IBPAT, Local 490 (Paperhangers). This collection contains papers documenting his role as president of the union and the history of the union itself. Documents include correspondence with congressmen, The Paperhanger (newsletter of Local 490), a history of the paperhangers union, newspaper clippings, election leaflets, writings of Eckersdorff for the union, and photographs. Date span: 1895-1988.

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1 box (1 linear foot). May Mandelbaum Edel was an anthropologist who carried out field work in Africa and was an educator of high school students. The documents in the collection include clippings, correspondence, notes, flyers, pamphlets and speeches. Some of the documents concern Edel's professional work as an anthropologist, but the majority of the materials concern her work as a peace activist and as a member of the teacher's union, particularly in cases of academic freedom at Brooklyn College. Some of the documents also have to do with the work of May's husband, Abraham Edel, an American philosopher and ethicist with whom May collaborated on some publications. The documents which pertain to Abraham also have to do with work with the New York College Teachers Union, but also include materials on anti-semitism at the City College of New York, the Rapp-Courdet Committee, and public statements by Morris Schappes on academic freedom. A later donation includes 3 letters from 1957 between May Edel and Charles Greene on academic freedom vs. an anti-communism ruling in Great Neck Adult School. Overall the documents span from 1929 to the 1950s.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This collection contains a 142-leaf typescript of "The Suppressed Fact of the Rosenberg Case," by Erwin Edelman. This critique of the government's case against the Rosenbergs focuses on the problematic notion of the "atomic secret." This manuscript was originally in the papers of Earl and Sylvia Price (TAM 175).

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1 box (0.25 linear feet). Small collection of flyers and correspondence concerning organizations Marc Edelman was involved in, particularly the NY Civil Liberties Union and Reelpolitik (a Columbia University film collective). Also included is one file containing correspondence regarding a student riot at the High School of Music and Art and an issue of Washington Free Press dealing with SDS action against the Pentagon.

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9 boxes (8.5 linear feet). FBI File obtained by Ellen Schrecker.

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1 box (1 linear foot). The Gerhart Eisler Scrapbook is a one flat box collection containing pages from a scrapbook kept by Eisler of newspaper clippings. The clippings pertain to radical and leftist figures and organizations, particularly in reference to persecution from HUAC, and span from 1946 to 1947.

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9 boxes (3.75 linear feet). The collection contains election campaign handbooks from the Republican, Progressive, Socialist and Communist parties dating from 1900 to roughly 1950.

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Movie script.

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16 boxes (16 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu

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1 box (1 linear foot). Dorothy Epstein (1913-2006) was an activist and organizer. She worked at the Department of Welfare where she organized the first sit-down strike and later became the first female local president in AFSCME DC 37. She was also involved in the Russian War Relief, American Labor Party, and Hunter College. This collection contains the following: labor and political pamphlets (1920-1950); ILGWU souvenir apron; political buttons (Spanish Civil War - Present); photo and ephemera scrapbook of the American Jewish Labor Council (1940s); photo and ephemera scrapbook, American Labor Party (1940s); correspondence from William Levner; National Citizens PAC and NY CIO Council organizing manual, flyers, and reports, souvenir programs; Bronx Council, Emma Lazarus Clubs (1960s -1970s); United Public Workers membership cards and reports (early 1940s); misc. letters, certificates, and other material relating to Epstein's mother, Sophie Epstein; and an "Angela Davis Must Be Free!" record.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Ernest Erber was a leader in the Young People’s Socialist League. The collection contains correspondence with figures such as Maurice Isserman, Nance MacDonald, James T. Farrell, Gordon Haskell and Herbert Reid. The collection also includes manuscripts and course materials relating to the Workers Party and the Young People’s Socialist League and accounts of U.S. socialist involvement in the Spanish Civil War.

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Four items separated from the Frederic Ewen Papers (Tamiment 227).

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1 box.

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12 boxes (12 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot). The Federation of Shorthand Reporters consists of members who do stenographic reporting for law firms in New York City. The collection includes: contracts, papers from the ad hoc computer committee, strike files (1968, 1980, and 1986, grievances, District Council 1707 (Federation of Shorthand Reporters used to be affiliated), newspaper articles, arbitration documents, and membership lists. Date span: 1968-1986.

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3 boxes (.75 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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17 boxes (16.5 linear feet).

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4 boxes (3.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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8 boxes (4 linear feet). Elinor Ferry (1916-1992), journalist, labor organizer, and socialist. Ferry became a sports writer for the Hearst newspaper chain at the age of 16 and shortly after helped organize the Newspaper Guild. From there, she became an assistant to Michael Quill, head of the Transport Workers Union. In the 1950s, Ferry documented the activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy, and worked to aid those who refused to testify on Fifth Amendment grounds before Congressional committees investigating Communism. Ferry was also active in the Independent Socialist Party (ISP), which attempted to unite former Communists with other socialists, from 1958-1960. In the 1960s Ferry worked on an unpublished book-length manuscript on Whittaker Chambers and his role in the Alger Hiss case. At one time Ferry was married to George Kirstein, publisher of The Nation. This collection contains clippings, a typescript, correspondence and ephemera. The collection documents Ferry's involvement in the IPS and with the First Amendment Defendants. The bulk of the collection consists of Ferry's files on Senator McCarthy, consisting primarily of clippings from the year 1952-1954. Other files contain her Whittaker Chambers typescript, research notes and correspondence.

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One 8x10 b&w portrait of photographer John Albok, shot by Conrad Firestein ca. 1982.

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23 boxes (23 linear feet)

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Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for details.

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See BobCat, NYU's online catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Index available in repository.

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34 boxes (33.5 linear feet).

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6 boxes (6 linear feet).

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2 boxes.

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Contains 24 numbered cassette tapes of Phil Foner lectures. Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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19 boxes (19 linear feet).

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4 boxes (4 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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24 boxes (24 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. Frank was a journalist for the New York World Telegram, 1944-1955, who covered labor, and the Communist Party USA. Contains correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, research materials, including material on the Alger Hiss and Rosenberg cases.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Philip and Regina Frankfeld were members of the Communist Party who were convicted under the Smith Act of trying to overthrow the government by force and violence. Philip, the chairman of the Communist Party in Maryland, was sentenced to five years and his wife Regina two years in prison. This collection contains writings by Philip and Regina about their time spent in prison and letters from prison. Also included are documents from a campaign to raise money (they were fined as part of their sentence), Communist Party pamphlets, and an oral history by Regina.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. FRENCH ANARCHIST AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION, 1874 1928. This is a collection of 25 A.L.S. (all but 4 in French) by European anarchists, mostly French: Fernand Brouez, Gabriel De La Salle, Henry Dupont, Sebastien Faure, Jean Grave, Pierre Kropotkin, Enrico Malatesta, Charles Malato, Louise Michel, David Nicole, Emile Pouget, Felix Pyat, Elis4e Reclus, Henry Seymour, Wilhelm Spohr, Laurent Tailhade, and S. Yanovsky.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Harry Gannes (1901-1941), at one time served (during the Popular Front era, c1935-c1939) as the foreign editor of the Daily Worker, the newspaper of the Communist Party, USA. Contains “From the Cradle to the Factory,” by Harry Gannes, an undated (c1930s), unpublished typescript, 43 leaves, about child labor in the United States.

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RESTRICTED COLLECTION: Interviews are open only with the permission of interviewers. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information. Jane Latour taped eight of these interviews in the summer of 1990 while working as director of the Association for Union Democracy's Women's Project. The interviews were collected with the intention of producing a pamphlet to encourage women in non-traditional jobs to engage in union activity. Francine Mocchio, while a faculty member at the Harry Van Arsdale Center for Labor Studies, Empire State College, conducted interviews primarily with women employed as electricians, members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3, for a research project on gender relations in the building trades. COLLECTION SUMMARY: Interviews with women employed in non-traditional jobs discuss their strategies for on-the-job survival and their roles as activists within their unions. Occupations include women employed in the building and construction trades, transport (air and subway) and communications. Union involvement included serving as shop stewards, health and safety representatives, running for union office and organizing rank and file caucuses, teaching in apprentice programs and organizing women's committees. Discussions include routes of entry in the "non-traditional" sector of female employment, activism, organizing tactics and achievements, and advice for others. A major focus of the interviews was to illustrate how women in non-traditional jobs can overcome obstacles on the job and within their unions in order to participate in the affairs of their respective unions. Inventory available in repository.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This collection contains papers related to Utility Workers of America, Local 1-2. Documents include a history of the employee relations at Con Edison, legal papers from Consolidated Edison Company of New York v. National Labor Relations Board (1937), copy of the union's charter, and newspaper clippings. Date span: 1937-1966.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Dan Georgakas is an anarchist, coauthor of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying and coeditor of The Encyclopedia of the American Left. He is a long time member of the Cineaste editorial board, and also teaches part time at New York University and Queens College. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts and subject files

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Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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4 boxes.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Sophie Gerson was a Communist activist who participated in the Gastonia, North Carolina Textile Strike of 1929. The Library also holds the papers of her husband, Simon W. Gerson (Tamiment 330), who for many years ran the election campaigns of the Communist Party USA.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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1 box.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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4 boxes (3.25 linear feet).

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3 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Benjamin Glassberg was born in Poland in 1889 and moved to the United State when he was five years old. He taught high school history in the New York public schools from 1912-1919. In 1913, he became active in the Teachers' League which was the forerunner of the Teachers' Union. He was one of five charter members of Local 5, Teachers Union, American Federation of Teachers. In 1919, he became acting director of the labor research department of the Rand School of Social Science and was co-editor of the American Labor Yearbook published by the school. In 1927, he moved to Wisconsin to become the executive director of the Federated Jewish Charities of Milwaukee. During this time, he was very active in the Wisconsin Conference of Social Work and helped to write child welfare legislation. From 1932-1943, he was appointed superintendent of the Department of Outdoor Relief. For five months in 1934, he left to work for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. In 1943, he left Milwaukee and joined the Public Housing Administration. With the exception of a brief period during 1943 and 1944 when he served as a displaced persons officer in Europe with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, he worked on housing issues until his death in 1953. Jeanette Glassberg was involved in the women's suffrage movement in Washington D.C. where she grew up and attended George Washington University. After moving to Milwaukee, she helped create the first nursery school in Wisconsin. After Benjamin died, she moved to northern Virginia where she worked for the Department of Public Welfare and other social agencies. This collection contains letters from Benjamin to Jeanette from 1944-1945, newspaper clippings related to his work, articles by Benjamin, a copy of his unpublished PhD thesis, and school report cards. The third box contains Jeanette's papers which include articles, clippings, report cards, and other memorabilia. Photographs have not been separated from the collection.

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In 1996, Joe Glazer donated to the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives a collection of tapes and records from among the more than two dozen he produced over the course of more than 50 years as "labor’s troubadour." His voice and guitar have been heard at scores of picket lines, union halls, and union and political rallies from the merger convention of the AFL-CIO in 1955 to the Solidarity Day demonstration in 1980. He has revived dozens of labor songs as well as composing some which have become traditional including "The Mill was Made of Marble," "Automation," and "Too Old to Work, Too Young to Die." He is a founder of the Labor Heritage Foundation, a national organization which promotes labor music, drama and culture and for the past twenty years, has organized an annual "Labor Arts Exchange" at the George Meany Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: The collection includes Glazer’s tapes of folksongs of the American dream and immigration, songs of the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies), as well as other topical collections on the environment ("Garbage") and President Ronald Reagan ("Jellybean Blues). Index available in repository.

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6 boxes (6 linear feet).

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6 boxes (6 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Two typescript versions of a play about Cacchione, undated, but written sometime after his death. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Papers pertaining to Morris Golden's political work particularly with the American Labor Party and United Federal Workers of America in the 1940's. Includes minutes, correspondence, and pamphlets.

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66 boxes (66 linear feet).

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4 boxes (4 linear feet).

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2 boxes (1.25 linear feet). The papers of Bernard Goodman document Goodman's activism in tenant rights and his involvement in the Seafarers International Union of North America. Goodman (1910-2003) was a merchant seaman in his early twenties before he became involved in NYC tenant issues at the end of the 1960s. In the early 1970s he mounted a campaign as the candidate of the newly organized Tenants Party for the Congressional seat held by Ed Koch. He did work on behalf of tenants for the Legal Aid Society and as a volunteer at the Chelsea Action Center, a housing action group. This collection contains papers related to 206-212 East 17th Street (court documents, correspondence, press, hearings before the House Development Association), letters to the editor, papers from the Lower Manhattan East Tenants Association, material on the Tenants Party, tenants' movement rent strike of 1976, SIU maritime strike of 1946, and various other social justice and tenant organizations. The collection also includes documents and flyers from the 5th Avenue Peace Parade Committee and other groups addressing the issue of peace and Vietnam. Date span: 1946-1982.

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9 boxes (8.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. The collection contains letters, poem, short stories, plays, reports, books and rnorabilia. His writings in the reformatory are extensively represented. There is a diary, letters and writings done during his service in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and many books and pamphlets on Spain and the Spanish Civil War. The material from World War II consists of information about soldiers that he talked to for army news releases, personal correspondence and writings. Also included are a lengthy poem in tribute to Paul Robeson from the 1950s; a few story ideas; copies of his columns in the Daily World and a collection of obituaries about Gordon.

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2 boxes (.75 linear feet). Separated from the American Committee for Cultural Freedom Records, this two box collection contains typed and handwritten articles, papers, and notes written by Joseph Gordon as well as correspondence. The articles, written in English, German, and Czech, mostly concern German, Russian, and Eastern European matters and especially anti-semitism. Some articles have an anti-communist bent, particularly those written for the U.S. International Information Administration of the State Department.

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19 boxes (19 linear feet). Papers related to Social Service Employees Union, Local 371. No finding aid available.

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2 boxes (.75 linear feet). Jay Gorney (1896 -1990) was an American theater and film song writer. Gorney was born in Bialystock, Russia and came to the United States in 1906. He worked his way through his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Michigan as a pianist. His studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he enlisted in the Navy. After Law school, Gorney moved to New York City where he began his song writing career on Tin Pan Alley and contributed numerous songs to musicals by the Shubert Brothers. His most famous song is "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" Gorney was called before the House of Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 and was blacklisted from theater afterwards. Box 1 contains biographical materials, passport application procedure, FBI file (obtained under FOIA), transcripts from the hearing before the Committee on Un-American Activities, FOIA requests, World War II correspondence, newspaper clippings, Committee for the Protection of Children clippings, papers related to the Screen Writers Guild, School for Writers, Bella Abzug campaign for Senate, and materials from his visit to the USSR. Box 2 contains songs written by Gorney.

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16 boxes (16 linear feet)

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First draft and container list available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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Nine binders of reference photocopies of original drawings 1 through 512 of the Laura Gray Cartoons Collection. Researchers must use these before looking at the originals. Those who want to look at the originals should contact the Nonprint Curator at erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). This collection contains the manuscript of the unpublished anthology, "Behind Bars: The Prison Experiences of War Resisters," edited by David F. Greenberg and Beverly D. Houghton. The anthology contains essays by resisters to the Vietnam War regarding their experiences in various prisons and jails. The table of contents for Behind Bars: Preface; The Federal Prison System; County Jails; Women; Military Prisons; Noncooperation with Prison; Couples; The Allenwood Celebration; Prison: the Long-Term Effect; How I Learned What Prison Was. The collection also includes material from the New American Movement (NAM) newspapers, internal discussion bulletins, and others.

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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5 boxes (5 linear feet). Material relating to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and other theatrical unions.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot). Jill Hamberg was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society in Boston, MA who later became prominent in the Newark Community Union Project. The collection contains clippings, correspondence, leaflets and conference proceedings related to Hamberg's work in Boston and Newark.

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10 boxes (10 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box.

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Collection contains recordings of Harrington's lectures at Queens College, audio notes on interviews with political leaders, various public speeches, and other assorted personal recordings. Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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1 box (1 linear foot). John Harte was a carpenter and member of Local 608, New York City District Council of Carpenters. The papers document Local 608 activity and other campaigns for union democracy and include newspaper clippings, contracts, constitutions, National Labor Elations Board decisions and correspondence.

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2 boxes (1 linear foot). The Harvard Graduate Students and Teaching Fellows Union was formed by 156 teaching fellows on March 13, 1972 in response to a change in the financial aid programs available to graduate students. The Union remained in existence through the 1972-1973 school year but no agreement was ever reached between the Union and the University. This collection contains correspondence, membership lists, union statements, leaflets, newspaper clippings, posters and song lyrics. There is also material from teaching assistant unions at other campuses. The collection covers the years 1967-1974, with the bulk of the material covering union activity from 1972.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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12 boxes (12 linear feet).

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Diana Raznovich is an Argentinean playwright and cartoonist who has produced numerous performances and installations and has worked with New York University's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, a consortium of institutions, artists, scholars, and activists dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly construed as performance) and social and political life in the Americas. The collection contains scripts, essays, drafts, and reviews relevant to Raznovich's work. In particular are the drafts and artwork for her book Defiant Acts. There are some slides and photos of performances of Raznovich's work as well as some 3.5" floppy disks with more writings on them. The oversize box contains large drafts of drawings for an untitled book on domestic violence as well as other works.

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17boxes (16.5 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Frank Herbst was a union leader who worked for the State, County and Municipal Workers Union Local 1 as a manager and business agent in the 1940's and 1950's. Under Herbst the Local achieved gains in wages, working conditions, staff promotions and grievance procedures. Herbst was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee as Local 1 came under McCarthyite criticism and Herbst eventually had to leave the union in 1952 in order to enable the union to maintain official recognition and continue its representaiton of the workers. The local eventually merged with Teamsters Local 237. The collection contains Herbst's HUAC testimony, statements and fliers from Teamsters Local 237, and photocopies of a clippings scrapbook Herbst kept through the 1940's. Also included are biographical materials and statements concerning the Pillar of Labor tribute to Herbst.

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209 boxes.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Camp Higley Hill was a summer camp run and staffed by the Communist Party of America. The collection includes correspondence and publications made by the camp regarding the activities there.

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3 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Morris Hillquit was a socialist leader, lawyer, author and prominent theoretician of the Socialist Pary. He ran twice for mayor of New York City and five times for the House of Representatives, always unsuccessfully. The papers contain correspondence; manuscripts of addresses, particularly relating to Hillquit's political campaigns; campaign literature; printed material; clippings, photographs and other papers. Also included are letters by James Oneal discussing Hillquit's representation of United States oil companies in a suit with the USSR; the manuscript of an unpublished book by Hillquit's daughter, Nina; address (1912) at a local New York socialist meeting and a debate with Bertrand Russell, "Is the British Labor Government Revolutionary?"

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48 boxes (48 linear feet).

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See BobCat, NYU's online catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Index available in repository.

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2 boxes. Approximately 65 photographic prints. The majority of the family photographs are black and white. The collection also contains color prints documenting the reception, held at the Tamiment Library, celebrating the launch of the Alger Hiss website, five mounted screenshots of the website, approximately 130 color and black and white slides, and a few loose items including a set of postcards from Carrington House of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. One rolled photograph was separated for preservation.

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8 boxes (8 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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1 box (0.25 linear feet). Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902 - July 12, 1989) was a prominent philosopher who championed pragmatism. Originally a supporter of Marxism, Hook became a prominent anti-Communist in the late 1940s and 1950s, founding organizations such as the CIA-funded the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). The collection consists of clippings related to Hook’s writing and thought, class lectures, correspondence, and court documents pertaining to Feinberg Law cases against professors in the City University of New York system.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Walter Hooke was vice president and national personnel manager of the United Parcel Service from 1965-1978 and held a variety of labor relations positions throughout his life. He taught courses in human relations and labor relations later in his life. Hooke was politically active on a number of issues which are reflected in the many letters to Congress and letters to the editor included in this collection. Other documents include newspaper clippings re: Cesar Chavez's death, a transcript of an oral interview conducted in 1986, and correspondence to Debra Bernhardt. Date span: 1961-2000. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Papers pertaining to Daniel Horowitz, a Communist organizer and writer who was associated with the Daily Worker and the Brotherhood of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters, Local 2. The collection includes biographical information, laser prints of photos, clippings, and manuscript pages.

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65 boxes (65 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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5 boxes (3 linear feet). These are business records and background subject files for Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki's labor cartooning partnership--the core of which is their subscription service of monthly packets of labor cartoons. There are some records that pertain to them singly (mostly to Mike Konopacki) also. These materials were donated along with cartoons, sketches, and art, but were separated for reasons of intellectual organization and administrative convenience. Collection is divided into the following series and subseries: Series I - Correspondence; Series II--Subscriber information; 1) Mailing Lists; 2) Cancellations; 3) Ledgers, Book orders; Series III - Promotional materials; Series IV - Background files. See related primary collection, Graphics 17, which contains cartoons, sketches, and other art.

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25 boxes. 1075 cartoons by Gary Huck (mainly originals, with some photocopies); approx. 599 cartoons (mainly originals, with some photocopies) by Mike Konopacki, approx. 1138 sketches for cartoons on tracing paper; twenty-three years of monthly packages of labor cartoons (photocopies). for Huck/Konopacki subscription service, from 1983-2003 and 2005-2006 (with the exception of 1983 and 1984, all years are complete, with 12 monthly packets for each year) .

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1 box.

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2 boxes (1 linear foot). James J. Hulley (1907-1994) was an artist and activist in the Commercial Artists and Designers Union (CADU) in New York City. This collection documents the history of the CADU, Hulley's involvement in the Fleischer Shop Committee, the Fleischer and Famous Studio strike of 1937, and his involvement as chairman of an Artists Cooperative in the 1930s and this collection contains minutes from meetings in the 1930s. This collection contains materials relating to CADU including minutes, position papers, newspaper clippings, constitutions, and newsletters.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). These are the records of the Cornell University Adjunct Faculty Federation (NYSUT), of which Hunter was president. No finding aid available.

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83 boxes (83 linear feet) Impact Visuals was a New York City-based cooperative photo agency dedicated to social documentary photography. Founded by Michael Kaufman, Impact Visuals operated for 15 years until shutting down in 2001.

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1 box.

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5 boxes (2.5 linear feet). The International Workers of the World (IWW) was established in Chicago in 1905 and sought to unionize industrial workers. This collection consists of a number of pamphlets and periodicals published by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The pamphlets are arranged alphabetically. There is also a small amount of organizational material from the Centralia Publicity Committee and the General Defense Committee and a collection of songbooks. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Russian emigre, socialist. Original MSS (largely in Russian), clippings, photographs. Following expulsion from Russia for radical activities (1884) and immigration to U.S. (1891), associated with Socialist Labor Party, later helped found Socialist Party of America. Chairman, Russian Immigrants Aid Committee. Writings include discussions of his opposition to Lenin and Trotsky, the failure of Social Democratic Party in Russia, Social Democratic Society of New York, Karl Kautsky, Raphael Abramovitch. Includes obituaries (in English, Russian, German, Yiddish) of wife, Anna Ingerman, M.D., active socialist.

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1 box (1 linear foot). IATSE, Local 52 (Motion Picture and Sound Mechanics) records include membership directory, Local 52 newsletters, 50th anniversary program, Executive Board minutes (1966-1990), budget meeting minutes, general membership meeting minutes, and by-laws.

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23 boxes (23 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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20 boxes (20 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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3 boxes (2 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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50 boxes (50 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This collection consists of loose correspondence, circulars and receipts that were removed from minutes books from 1898, 1906, and 1907.

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13 boxes (4 linear feet).

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Minute book, Italian Local.

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12 boxes (12 linear feet)

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82 boxes (83 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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4 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This collection is of a membership ledger for one of the shops within the International Typographical Union. The ledger contains names of members, the date they joined and left the union, what department or position the member had, and other remarks. The ledger spans from 1873 to 1962.

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47 boxes (47 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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9 boxes (9 linear feet).

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6 boxes (5.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box.

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3 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Bertrand Russell, along with Jean Paul Sarte and Vladimir Dedijer were founders and organizers of the International War Crimes Tribunals held in 1967. This collection contains materials from the first and second sessions of the Tribunal and the Tribunal on Repression in Brazil, Chile and Latin America. These two sessions of the International War Crime Tribunal focused on the events of the Vietnam War. Papers include handouts and reports from various breakout sessions at the tribunals, materials relating to the organization of the tribunals, press releases and press clippings.

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4 boxes (2.5inear feet).

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This group of interviews was donated to the Tamiment Library by historian Maurice Isserman following the publication of "If I Had a Hammer. . .The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left" (Basic Books, Inc.: New York, 1987). Isserman conducted the interviews between 1983 and 1986. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: Isserman sought the roots of 1960s radicalism in the American Communist Party, the various groups led by Max Shachtman, the journal Dissent, and the Committee for Non-Violent Action. He conducted interviews with intellectuals and political partisans active in the 1950s and the 1960s, among them, Stanley Aronowitz, David Dellinger, Ralph DiGia, Hal Draper, Harry and Vera Fleischman, Manny Geltman, Todd Gitlin, Abraham (Al) Glotzer, Gordon Haskell, Richard Healy, Michael Walzer, Irving Howe, Julius and Phyllis Jacobson, David McReynolds, Debbie Meier, Juanita and Wally Nelson, Ronald Radosh, and Andre Schiffrin. Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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5 boxes (4 linear feet).

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See BobCat, NYU's online catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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Approximately 400 audiocassettes and 10 transcripts, many undated, of lectures on various communist/marxist/political/topical subjects, most from the 1960s-1980s. Unprocessed, no finding aid.

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31 boxes (31 linear feet).

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1 box.

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22 boxes (22 linear feet).

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2 boxes (1 linear foot). This collection contains materials relating to various leftist movements collected by Jenkins. Most of the collection is leaflets and information collected by Jenkins, who was a part-time student, hospital worker and self-described revolutionary living in Wisconsin in the early 1970s when most of this material was collected. This collection includes correspondence, leaflets, and journals relating to the Socialist Workers Party, Revolutionary Marxist Group, Communist Party, International Socialists, National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), Revolutionary Union, Workers League, Revolutionary Socialist League, Students for Democratic Society, the Health Policy Advisory Center (Health/PAC) and various other organizations.

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7 boxes (7 linear feet).

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Interviews were conducted by Gail Malmgreen, NYU students Aimee Kaplan and Nancy Schmarak, and JLC staff member Arieh Lebowitz. The Jewish Labor Committee was established by a coalition of Jewish unions and fraternal organizations in New York City in February 1934, with the purpose of rescuing and providing material aid to victims of Nazi persecution. The Committee included affiliates of the United Hebrew Trades, the needle trades unions, the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish Daily Forward Association, and other Jewish labor organizations representing nearly 500,000 members. Working with the AFL, the CIO and a number of mainstream Jewish organizations, the JLC engaged many forms of anti-Nazi activity, including a boycott of German goods, mass meetings, demonstrations, propaganda and active support for anti-fascist forces, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in Europe. In 1940, a special emergency visa program which was engineered by the JLC and William Green of the AFL, helped more than a thousand socialists, trade unionists, and intellectuals whose lives were threatened by the Nazis, to find refuge in the U.S. During the war the JLC worked both through official channels and through the anti-Nazi Underground to channel aid to its friends in Europe, even in Nazi-devastated Poland. After the war, the JLC assisted concentration-camp survivors and other displaced persons in every way possible. It helped to locate relatives, feed, clothe and resettle refugees and find them new homes and employment. In the 1950s, with the support of the British, French, and German labor movements, the JLC played a significant role in negotiating reparations claims against Germany. In the 1960s, the JLC aggressively addressed the issues of civil rights in the U.S. and human rights for Soviet Jewry and supported the grape and wine boycotts called by the United Farm Workers. It remains active as a liaison between the American labor movement and the organized Jewish community, and continues its educational work on anti-Semitism, Holocaust studies, and Jewish culture. SUMMARY: The collection contains nineteen interviews. Among the interviewees are Dussia Minkoff, who discusses her life history and the life and career of her late husband, Isaiah Minkoff, who served as JLC Executive Secretary, 1936-1941, and Eleanor Shachner, long-time chair of the JLC Women's Division. Emanuel Muravchik, who served as the JLC's Executive Secretary from the late 1960's through the early 1980's, discusses his family and political background and the position of the JLC on Middle Eastern issues. A series of 12 videotaped interviews with historians and JLC veterans were conducted in connection with the Wagner Archives JLC video documentary project. This series includes interviews with Benjamin Gebiner, Joseph Mlotek, Vladka Meed, Gus Tyler, Motl Zelmanowicz and historians Jack Jacobs and Kenneth Waltzer. The documentary, entitled "They Were Not Silent: the American Jewish Labor Movement and the Holocaust", previewed in 1998. Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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331 boxes (331 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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5 boxes (5 linear feet).

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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4 boxes (2.5 linear feet). Ben Josephson served in various administrative capacities at Camp Tamiment in Pennsylvania from 1941-1968. He was active in the Socialist Party and the labor movement. He was associated with the Rand School and was instrumental in the establishment of the Tamiment Library at NYU. Josephson gave support to the New Leader and Labor History and was elected President of People's Educational Camp Society in 1976. The collection contains personal letters, photos, an oral history transcript, a 50th birthday book of letters from friends, greeting cards, descriptive pamphlets and a small collection of personal papers donated to Tamiment after his death. The letters illustrate the character of Josephson's close contact with his many friends, and also his administrative duties as Director of Camp Tamiment. The date range for this collection: 1931-1977.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). David Karsner was an author and journalist for The New York Call who covered the 1918 trial of Eugene Debs for violation of the Espionage Act. Impressed by Karsner’s articles, Debs commissioned him to write his memoir, Debs; His Authorized Life and Letters from Woodstock Prison to Atlanta (1919). The collection consists of clippings related to Deb’s trial, correspondence from figures such as William “Big Bill” Haywood (then incarcerated at Leavenworth, Kansas), photographs and a transcript of Debs’ and his defendants’ statements before sentence was passed.

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Interviews conducted by Daniel Katz for his dissertation, A Union of Many Cultures: Yiddish Socialism and Interracial Organizing in the International Ladies' Garment Union, 1913-1941. (Rutgers University, 2003). Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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1 box (1 linear foot)

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1 box (1 linear foot). This one box collection contains correspondence, pamphlets, flyers, printouts of on-line newsletters and some videotapes and DVD's relating to Harry Kelber's work as a labor journalist, labor historian, and advocate of union democracy.

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1 box (.25 feet). This collection contains the records and produced materials of the Workshop of Graphic Arts which worked with various leftist organizations in the 1940s and 1950s in producing visual materials for outreach and publicity. The collection includes internal papers, by-laws, incorporation, correspondence, and prospectus of the Workshop as well as many graphically adorned leaflets and fliers on a range of issues including peace, the Wallace campaign of 1948, China, and the Mundt-Nixon bill. The collection also includes letterhead work for various leftist organizations.

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Historian Robin D.G. Kelley donated to the Tamiment Library the interviews he used in the preparation of his book Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression (University of North Caroline Press, 1990) after its publication in 1990. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: Conducted by Kelley between 1986 and 1988, the interviews include Dr. James Jackson, Hosea Hudson, H.D. Coke, Marge Franz, Laurent Frontz, Rob Hall, Esther Cooper Jackson, Alice Burke (Jarvis), Nannie Washburn, Charles Echols, and Mack Robinson. Index available in repository.

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6 boxes (3 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. The Kentucky Miners Defense was formed to help free miners and local mine union officials convicted of murdering three sheriff’s deputies in Evart, Harlan County, Kentucky during the miners’ strike of May 1931. The committee was headed by Herbert Mahler, a former official of the Industrial Workers of the World. The collection contains court transcripts, statements and other documents relating to the miners’ cases, as well as news releases, United States Senate subcommittee hearing reports, and excerpts from the Daily Worker.

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12 boxes (12 linear feet). Isaku Kida was the business manager, and later, president of the Hokubei Shimpo (renamed The New York Nichibei in 1945). The paper documented the life of New York’s postwar Japanese American community, serving not only as a place to obtain community news but also as an important outlet for Asian American writers. A range of progressive causes from civil rights to women’s and gay rights found expression within its pages. Emi Kida (1908-2001) was born in Gifu prefecture, and immigrated to New York in 1958 to join her husband. Through the work she performed in helping to run the Hokubei Shimpo (reporting in the field, manually setting the type of the Japanese language section, editing, keeping the books, organizing mailings), Emi became intimately familiar with the city’s cultural and political life. The majority of the collection (approx. 4 boxes) consists of copies of Hokubei Shimpo - The New York Nichibei. Also included are Emi Kida’s newspaper clippings. Most of this material is in Japanese. Emi’s correspondence, official documents relating to the Hokubei-Shimpo such as tax returns and articles of incorporations, and Christmas cards make up another portion of the collection. Included also are Emi’s daybooks, written in Japanese and kept faithfully since her arrival in New York in 1958 (to her death in 2002). Notes, ticket stubs, dried flowers, leaves, and other ephemera can be found interspersed within the daybooks' pages. The Kidas' collection of Japanese language books of New York and American subject matter are included, as are photographs and awards.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Carol Weiss King (1895-1952) was an immigration lawyer and founding member of the National Lawyers Guild. She defended many immigrants in deportation proceedings as well as labor organizers and socialists.

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17 boxes (17 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This collection contains the personal papers of Gertrude W. Klein, including correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings chronicling her career. Gertrude Klein (1983-1986) was one of the first women elected to the City Council of New York. An American Labor Party candidate from the Bronx, she was one of three women elected to the Council in 1941 and was re-elected in 1943. In 1946 Klein became the director of community service for Sachs Quality Stores, Inc., a position she held until the early 1950s. Klein was also active in the labor movement as educational director and an organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. She was the daughter of Joseph A. Weil, a Socialist writer.

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2 boxes. One 8x10 b/w photograph. Second from the left: NYC Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia; center: Gertrude Weil Klein; second from right: Jacob Potofsky of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. [Gertrude W. Klein was a New York City Socialist Party candidate for New York state assembly from Kings County 4th District, 1919, a candidate for New York state senate 9th District, 1922, and an American Labor Party candidate for New York state assembly from Bronx County 8th District, 1940.]

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11 boxes (11 linear feet).

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Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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2 boxes. Approximately 1200 b/w photographic prints (1031 3x5, 72 5x7, 144 8x10, and 15 oversized), 50 total b/w negatives, and one scrapbook (containing clippings, photographic prints and photocopies) stored in two boxes. The images and scrapbook document the Peekskill riots: e.g., the two Paul Robeson concerts in August and September of 1949 to benefit the Civil Rights Congress and the anti-Communist/anti-radical riots by civilians that took place in reaction to the concerts (preventing the first one from actually taking place). Includes images of a protective cordon around the second concert, images of Robeson at a distance, leaving the concert, destruction of the park, cars, buses, and books, and mob violence. Most images have no captions or identifications. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Tuli Kupferberg (September 28, 1923 - ) is a poet, author, cartoonist, anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs. In 1958 he founded the magazine Birth which, despite running for only three issues, published many notable authors from the Beat Generation such as Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, LeRoi Jones and Ted Joans. The collection consists of cartoons, graphics, posters, songs and other documents relating to Labor and the Left, collected and authored by Kupferberg.

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29 boxes (28.5 linear feet).

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This series consists of produced sound recordings of labor or left music, donated to the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. COLLECTION SUMMARY: Included are user copies of sound recordings that are part of the Archives' holdings as well as cassettes produced by labor musicians and occasional public events staged by the Archives around themes of labor music. RELATED MATERIALS: See also Tamiment-Wagner Disc Collections (NS-D) listings of recorded sound. Index available in repository. Contact dd424@nyu.edu for information.

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12 boxes (12 feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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35 boxes (18 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Socialist activist, writer; Executive Director, League for Industrial Democracy, 1920 1957. Helped found Intercollegiate Socialist Society (1905). as student member of Board of Directors. . Later pursued "industrial democracy through LID, writings, and projects such as Craig, Reed and Emerson experiment (1928 1932) in which social ownership and democratic, control were applied to a shoe manufacturing concern in Brockton, Mass. Divided duties in LID with Norman Thomas, concentrating on research, writing, and organization while Thomas took public leadership role. Aimed at creating independent labor party to achieve political power, influencing Socialist Party decision to use American Labor Party as political vehicle in New York State. During 1930's supported Thomas and Militants while attempting to ameliorate SP factional differences. A perennial SP candidate for state and local offices, Laidler was elected to New York City Council from Brooklyn on American Labor Party ticket (1939). His one term (1940 1941) is covered here with papers on his championing of such causes as: decent housing for low income groups, cheap electric and telephone service, less crowded schools, a revised tax structure, greater relief benefits, an end to racial discrimination, much improved transit facilities, and guaranteed collective bargaining. Correspondence (1906 1970) relates to founding of ISS, experiments in industrial democracy, League activities such as lecture tours, union organization, southern labor chautauquas, work with the unemployed, and LID relations with SP and ALP. Thomas correspondence frequently concerns LID ALP relations. Manuscripts include published and unpublished items covering broad range of subjects and including plans for the socialization of every aspect of society, criticism of the New Deal, and the struggle within the LID triggered by HWL's retirement. In addition, there are 4 boxes of material on the Socialist Party (1919 1970), one on the ALP, and three on HWL's various campaigns for office (1927 1941). Also files on National Bureau of Economic Research (1927 1928, 1951 1970) and National Housing Conference (1962 1969), both of which he served actively.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Gertrude Lane was secretary treasurer of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 6. This collection contains correspondence (1950-1957), photographs, and material relating to the NYC Hotel Trades Council.

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16 boxes (16 linear feet).

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First draft and partial container list available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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16 boxes (16 linear feet). Tenant movement research files.

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2 boxes.

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62 boxes (52.75 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Founded in 1905 as the Intercollegiate Socialist Society by democratic socialist intellectuals to bring "education for the new social order" to the nation's campuses. Name changed in 1920 to broaden appeal and better reflect aims of social ownership and democratic control of industry. Socialist direction assured in 1922 when Norman Thomas joined Harry W. Laidler as Co Director. L.I.D. campaigned throughout 1920's and 1930's for public power development through the Committee on Coal and Giant Power, a spin off group established in conjunction with American Civil Liberties Union and chaired by H. S. Rauschenbush. League also sought to preserve civil liberties through the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief (chaired by John Herling) which aided strikers across the nation with direct relief, organization, and the formation of defense committees for persecuted activists; led defense of Athos Terzani, Italian antifascist framed for murder by Khaki Shirt leader, Art Smith, which resulted in Smith's own indictment for perjury. During depression L.I.D. sought to alleviate plight of unemployed by campaigning for national unemployment insurance, organizing unions of the unemployed by campaigning for national unemployment insurance, opening "recreation huts" (which resembled settlement houses), and publishing The Unemployed, a magazine to bring the socialist vision to the jobless. During Socialist Party schisms of 1930's, Thomas used League position to secure leadership of Militant faction to battle Old Guard. During World War II L.I.D. supported nation's war effort while defending social advances of 1930's. Post war posture was anti communist; Laidler's retirement as Director in 1957 led to succession of Sidney Hertzberg, who aimed to make L.I.D. forum for liberal study. Later leader, Michael Harrington, sought to build constituency of labor, intellectuals, and Black civil rights activists. Papers include minutes of meetings of Board of Directors, 1920-1970; correspondence relating to the Committee on Coal and Giant Power and the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief; membership lists; schedules of lecture tours; information relating to Karl Borders' work with unemployed out of Chicago office; fund requests; transcripts of annual conferences; correspondence relating to strike efforts throughout the country during 1930's; press clippings; material on the defense of Athos Terzane; a full critique of the New Deal; a scrapbook of photos from southern laborrxhautauquas; and, a collection of labor songs.

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5 boxes (5 linear feet).

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1 box.

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9 boxes (9 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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7 boxes (7 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). WWII letters.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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I box (1 linear foot). Papers include Michael Letwin's personal academic writings, correspondence, and a variety of documents concerning the International Socialist Organization, the Riverside Church Disarmament Program, and the Morningside Heights Housing Corporation.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Hyman Levine served as the Political Action Director of Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association in 1978. He also served on the Safety Committee of Simpson Metal at Morgan Station Post Office. He was a member of the Sheet Metal Workers Sick and Benevolent Association, which was founded in 1906-1907 as a mutual benefit association for Jewish members of the trade. The Benevolent Association, with two other social clubs, the Get-Together Club and the Kitchen Equipment Club, organized as an alternative to the predominantly Irish and Italian Paramount Club that dominated Sheet Metal Workers Local 28. The independent groups stressed improvements in pension and welfare funds, organizing the unorganized, the International's strike fund, and integration. The Benevolent Association dissolved in the late 1970s with the election of an independent candidate. This collection includes incorporation papers from 1916; the Sheet Metal Workers' Bulletin, issued by the New York rank and file group; election materials; political action committee materials from 1978; arbitrations; and newspaper clippings.

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1 box. Sixteen b/w photographic prints (two 3x5, nine 4x5, two 8x10 and three 11x17) ca. 1946-1952, and one poster of a cartoon reproduction (1949), all regarding the Tamiment Playhouse, donated by Ora Levitas (widow of Willard Levitas, set designer for the Tamiment Playhouse. A few of the prints are signed and dated by Alex Cohen. The poster exhibits caricatures of Tamiment Playhouse actors and administrators, and displays their signatures.

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First draft and partial container list available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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19 Boxes (19 linear feet). Walter William Liggett (1886-1935), American author, journalist and political activist from Minnesota, worked at several newspapers in New York City before becoming a free-lance writer. In New York, he worked for a succession of papers, including the Times, Sun, Post, News, and the Socialist publication, The Call. His writing career began during World War I at local papers—the Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Journal , and St. Paul Dispatch. In 1932 he returned to his home in Minnesota. A large portion of his time was spent promoting the Minnesota-based populist reform movement of the 1920s known as the Farmer-Labor Party, and working on publications for a Farmer-Labor newspaper, the Midwest American. On December 9, 1935, Liggett was gunned down in front of his wife and daughter in Minneapolis after exposing a connection between local organized crime and Floyd B. Olson, the progressive Farmer-Labor governor of Minnesota. In 1998, Marda Liggett Woodbury published an account of Liggett's life and assassination in a book titled Stopping the Presses: The Murder of Walter W. Liggett. The majority of the collection includes material related to Marda Liggett Woodbury’s research on the life and assassination of her father Walter Liggett. The material consists of newspaper clippings, research files, and interviews. The collection also includes some family papers and photographs and published writings of Liggett’s mother, Edith Fleischer Liggett.

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3 boxes (3 linear feet). Furriers Joint Council, Local 70 (Greek). No finding aid available.

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1 box.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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4 boxes (2 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Meyer London was a Socialist, labor lawyer and the first Socialist ever elected to the United States House of Representatives (New York, 1915-1917, 1919-1921). The papers contain correspondence, speeches, handbills, press clippings, scrapbooks of London's congressional speeches, and photographs, chiefly relating to his political career. Most of the correspondence to London relates to bills he introduced or positions he took, such as his 1916 call for federal unemployment insurance. Includes correspondence relating to Socialist Party affairs; speeches concerning World War I neutrality and amnesty and Puerto Rican rights; Records of Meyer London Memorial Committee, relating to the dedication of the Meyer London public school on the Lower East Side of New York; messages of condolence to Mrs. London; and a personal tribute of Lena Morrow Lewis.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This small collection contains the personal papers of Sarah Lovell. The collection includes materials related to her involvement as a member of the International Typographical Union (ITU) Local 6 and the Coaliton of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in New York in the 1970s. Materials include correspondence, monthly bulletins of the Local 6, a few copies of the official paper of the International Typographical Union The Typographical Jounal. There are records concerning the 1980 ITU Convention, and the attempts of the CLUW to move the conference to from Missouri to an Equal Rights Amendment ratified state. Materials also include Solidarity Bulletins, a collection of articles compiled by the Solidarity labor commission. There are also materials relating to the Detroit Newspaper Strike of 1968. There is an original copy of Stalinists on the Waterfront by Art Preis published by the Socialist Workers Party. Publications concerning Leon Trotsky include Secrets of an Assassin by Isaac Don Levine published in Life Magazine and Trotsky in the September 19, 1971 issue of The Sunday Times Magazine (London). Sarah and husband Frank Lovell played a significant role in the Detroit labor and socialist movements of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s, Frank and Sarah were greatly involved in the Socialist Workers Party's trade union activity in New York City until Lovell and Sarah were expelled from the SWP in 1981. Related materials include the Frank Lovell Papers.

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1 box. Approximately 600 photographs (mostly 8x10 black and white prints with corresponding captions, including many duplicates), 200 reference photocopies of photographs, 100 35mm negatives and twenty (4x5) negatives, 15 contact sheets, and photograph indexes from the production files of the 1992 documentary film by John Lowenthal, "The Trials of Alger Hiss." The photographs capture key moments from Alger Hiss’ life and trials, and include family photographs. Five oversized photographs were separated and have been stored with oversized collections.

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1 box (1 linear foot). The Lower East Side - Bluefields Sister City Project began in 1985 as a solidarity effort by residents of the Lower East Side, when they paired with Barrio Nueva York, a community of 1,000 in Bluefields, Nicaragua. The formation of this organization was in part a response to the Reagan Administration’s policy towards the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The collection consists of administrative files, including grant applications, contacts, press clippings, and publicity information. Also included are fundraising plans, newsletters from other organizations, photographs, correspondence, videotape and three audio cassette tapes.

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See BobCat, NYU's online catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.5 linear foot). Materials include the papers of Oliver Lincoln Lundquist (1916-2009), an architect and industrial designer. As a Navy lieutenant in World War II, he served as a precursor to the C.I.A. in the Office of Strategic Services. Until 1946 he worked directly with Alger Hiss and the architect Eero Saarien, preparing visual presentations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as the Washington Press corps. The collection includes correspondence to Alger Hiss from Christoper Brown and Albert Lepawsky. Also among the materials is a collection of personal photographs.

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1 box (1 linear foot) Collection contains Normal Forer's papers realating to the unionization of the Mack Truck Company in the 1950's. The collection includes clippings, agreements, arbitrations, correspondence, and notes.

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9 boxes (9 linear feet).

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Small collection of documents related to Anna Magid, a member and tenant of the Workers Colony Corporation in the Bronx. Includes tenant's stock certificate and a Yiddish middle school graduation book.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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Container list is available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Engagement diaries and 1 file.

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1 box.

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40 boxes (40 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Small collection of correspondence, certificates, and some flyers pertaining to Margolin's work in various union organizations, including the ILWU and the NY Central Labor Council. Also included is a CD mis-labeled "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier." This CD actually only has one audio file on it called "Are You Ready To Fly?"

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Interviews were conducted between 1980 and 1992 by Joe Doyle, Morris Weiner, and Debra Bernhardt. Some of the interviews were funded by the Chelsea Waterfront History Project. SUMMARY: The collection contains six interviews with merchant seamen and longshoremen. Topics include the National Maritime Union, New York City waterfront corruption, the Chelsea Irish community, and political campaigns. Index available in repository. RELATED MATERIALS: See OH-01, New Yorkers at Work, for other oral accounts of New York's waterfront history.

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8 boxes (6 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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3 boxes (3 linear feet). Marvin Markman, a Communist Party member, was also the Executive Vice President of Advance, a radical youth organization. The collection consists of subject files and correspondence relating to Advance, as well as court transcripts and documents relating to trials of Markman and his associates before the Subversive Activities Control Board in the 1960s.

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1 box (1 linear foot) The collection consists of photocopies and photostats of published materials, written by Marx and Engels, relating to the United States. The material, which dates from 1846 to 1898, was collected by Louis Lazarus in 1963. Much of it was originally published in England. Also included are Lazarus's research notes, the research notes of Louise Heinze, and correspondence with libraries.

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Interviews were conducted in Italy, mainly in Italian, in the late 1970s-1980 for Marzani's book, "The Promise of Eurocommunism", published in 1981 by Lawrence & Hill Co., Westport, CT. Unprocessed. No index available.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This collection consists of a manuscript of an untitled maritime labor novel set in San Francisco in the 1930s and 1940s. Mayes was an editor of The Voice of the Federation, the press of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, which united all West Coast maritime unions from 1934 to 1937 - when the union split over a struggle for democracy within the federation. Mayes was also a staffer for the Meatcutter's union in San Francisco during the last years of his life.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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3 boxes (3 linear feet). Papers related to NYPD Sergeants Benevolent Association. No finding aid available.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet). Documents related to United Federation of Teachers (UFT). No finding aid available.

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39 boxes (39 linear feet).

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28 boxes (28 linear feet).

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1 box.

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14 boxes (14 linear feet). Mirer was a member of the National Lawyers Guild, who also represented the Guild.

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This series contains odds and ends of sound actualities that have been donated to the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives from time to time. Some are cassette transfers of discs. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: Included in this miscellany are several speeches by or about Sidney Hillman including the September 1941 Salute to Labor, the dedication of the Hillman Health Center and Hillman’s funeral, all donated by Hillman’s daughter, Philoine Fried. Also included is a speech of Jay Lovestone in 1964 and a produced cassette featuring Bayard Rustin, the Singer (chiefly Negro Spirituals). Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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65 boxes (65 linear feet). Mobilization for Survival (MSF) is a national organization of local disarmament, anti-intervention, safe energy, religious and community organizations working for four goals: abolish nuclear weapons and power, stop military intervention, meet human needs, and reverse the arms race. Activities of the organization include arranging educational programs, large teach-ins, development of resource materials, production of a newsletter, planning massive non-violent demonstrations and organizing local MFS chapters. As a multi-issue coalition MFS highlights the connections among nuclear weapons, military spending, and social and economic justice. This collection contains newspaper clippings, minutes, publications, flyers, correspondence, newsletters, staff reports and memos, and financial journals. These materials document the formation of the organization starting in 1977 and captures the activities of past campaigns and the work of local affiliates . The materials from this collection are from both the national office and the New York City Chapter.

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5 boxes (5 linear feet).

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1 box (.5 linear feet).

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4 boxes (4 linear feet). Documents related to Utility Workers of America, Local 1-2. No finding aid available.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This collection contains an unpublished and incomplete autobiography and unpublished interview transcript of Richard Morford, both produced and complied from 1981 to 1986. Reverend Richard Morford (1903-1986) was born in Oneway, Michigan and graduated from Albion College. He prepared for the Presbyterian ministry at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was the minister of a Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey and organized the Albany Area Council of Churches. From 1942-1945 he was the Washington lobbyist of the United Christian Council for Democracy, a federation of the social action agencies of four Presbyterian denominations. On January 1, 1946 he became Executive Director of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. Just before he assumed the position in November 1945, the Council was served a subpoena to submit its membership and financial records to the House of Un-American Committee. Morford accepted service of the subpoena, but refused to turn over the records. After legal proceedings which ended at the Supreme Court, he served three months for contempt of Congress. In April, 1953, the Subversive Activities Control Board found the Council to be a Communist Front organization. Morford carried the issue to the Circuit Court where in May 1963, a unanimous finding overturning the SACB finding was handed down. In March, 1974, he was awarded the Medal of Friendship of the Peoples by the USSR Supreme Soviet and traveled to the Soviet Union on several occasions after 1959.

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13 boxes (12.5 linear feet).

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2 boxes (1 foot).

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1 box (0.25 linear feet). Vicki Morris was a reporter and editorilist for the Daily World as well as the daughter of George Morris, the Communist Party labor secretary. This small collection contains many clippings of articles and editorials of Morris's work as well as a couple photos of Morris.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Materials related to the Seafarers International Union. No finding aid available.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Collection contains the 448 page typescript of Moskowitz's autobiography about fighting McCarthyism and imprisonment in the 1950's.

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14 boxes (13.5 linear feet).

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. This collection consists of the personal papers of Helen A. Murphy (1889-1986), children's author and playwright, and director of the Children's Theatre Program at Greenwich House from 1923-1968. The papers span from 1914-1986. The bulk are from her tenure at Greenwich House, and includes short stories, scripts, promotional material from productions at G.H. Ch. Th., correspondence, administrative material and some personal effects. The fragmentary nature of much of the collection can be attributed to the loss of a great deal of material which occurred during Murphy's absence from 1968-72. The collection is organized into three series: The Children's and Adult's Theatre at Greenwich House; Writings and Other Activities; and Personal Material.

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1 box (1 linear foot). The MMPU, established in 1863, was the first organization that could be classified as a trade union for musicians. This collection documents the nineteenth-century activities of New York City's organized musicians. Musicians organized for better wages and working conditions, watched out for each other's welfare, and attempted to regulate their employment in a constantly fluctuating job market. The collection contains two volumes each of Executive Committee/Board of Directors minutes, 1863-1878, and Regular Meetings minutes, 1867-1905. There is also one book of minutes and accounts for the Pension Fund, 1900-1901, and a finance ledger, 1870-1910. There are a few pocket sized membership directories, 1877, 1883, 1885, 1886, 1899, and 1904 as well as pocket sized books of constitutions and by-laws. Inventory available in repository. MMPU Minutes, 1863-1910 are available on microfilm at the library (R-7437). Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). James Myers was a labor activist who served as the Industrial Secretary for the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. He also served as a labor manager for the Dutchess Bleachery where he worked to achieve profit sharing, housing, and education for workers.The collection contains pamphlets and other printed meditations and prayers that Myers wrote in the 1930s and 1940s while working for the Federal Council of Churhces. Also included are the letters the Myers family received in 1967 when James died, including one from American Socialist Norman Thomas. Also included is a photocopy of a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt whom Myers escorted through the mines of Ohio in 1936.

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11 boxes (11 linear feet).

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Tapes were donated to the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives in 1990 after NABET Local 15 joined IATSE. NABET Local 15 had its origins in the 1940s when the Association of Documentary Film Cameramen organized an independent union. In the late 1940s, the National Association of Broadcast Engineers, a CIO affiliate, approached the ADFC and gave them a charter. At that time the name was changed to the Association of Documentary and Television Craftsmen (ADTFC) to accommodate the expanding craft categories to be covered by the NABE union umbrella. The ADTFC organized film crews working on low-budget and television films, areas not organized by IATSE, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, affiliated with the AFL. In 1954, most of the 700 members of the ADFTC joined the various locals of IATSE. Those who remained with the ADFTC formed a new union affiliated with the CIO, the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians. When the AFL and CIO merged in 1955, IATSE and NABET remained separate entities. With the increased number of television commercials, series and feature production in the early 1960s, workers previously unorganized by IATSE now organized NABET Local 15, the Association of Film Craftsmen. The new local, formed on September 19, 1965, would organize all the craft positions under one contract, which it felt would be more effective for workers on low-budget productions. This encouraged Local 15 members to work in more than one craft in any area of production. NABET was predominantly organized around the television industry; Local 15's charter was one of only three NABET locals devoted to film craftsmen. By the early 1970s, Local 15 expanded as its members increasingly worked on more feature films. Regional offices opened the country in Boston, Miami and San Francisco. In the late 1980s, NABET set up a meeting between officials of IATSE and Local 15 to discuss a possible merger. Soon after, NABET accused Local 15 of trying to secede. The International brought charges against Local 15 which subsequently went to court in an attempt to retain its member status as a NABET local. It lost the case and the international revoked its charter in 1990. Local 15, membership voted to join IATSE; it was admitted in October 1990. This collection has not been processed. No inventory is available.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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21 boxes (21 linear feet).

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2 boxes (2 linear feet). Approximately 167 black and white photographs, about half of which come from two disassembled photograph albums, 47 color snapshots, 40 color slides.

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30 boxes (33 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu for details.

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1 box.

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First draft and container list available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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Audio cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes of radio recordings and symposiums/conferences. Inventory available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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First draft and container list is available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This small collection consists of copies from the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The documents comprise the petition for the release of the record of the Federal Grand Jury which indicted and convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1950-1951. The petition was brought before the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York in 2008 by the National Security Archive, the American Historical Association, and other leading U.S. historical associations. The collection consists of the main petition as well as declarations by Bruce Craig, Robert Meerepol (son of the Rosenberg's) and others.

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3 boxes (1.5 linear feet). These records of the National War Labor Board (1941-1948) are taken from the files of Henry Meyer, NWLB liaison officer for independent unions and vice-chairman of the NWLB's National Telephone Panel. The material consists of correspondence between Meyer and labor unions (both established and independent unions), national and regional boards of the NWLB, the Dade County Stabilization Panel, and the National Telephone panel. This collection is arranged into six groups of files: I. Administrative Affairs; II. Dade County Stabilization Panel; III. Established Unions and NWLB; IV. Independent Unions and the NWLB; V. National Telephone Panel; and VI. National Wage Stabilization Board.

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19 boxes (19 linear feet). The National Writers Union (NWU) was formed in 1981 during the Writer's Congress held in New York City. By the end of 1981, the organization had more than 1000 dues paying members and was actively organizing around the country. The Union convened annual delegates' assemblies, offered a low-cost health and dental insurance plan for freelancers, instituted a committee structure, and produced materials to assist their membership such as a model book contract, a survey of New England publications and their term and a checklist of questions for writers to use when bidding on jobs. Most significantly, the Union began to win contracts with periodicals, such as Mother Jones, Columbia Journalism Review, In These Times, and Los Angeles Weekly. The Union is currently affiliated with the United Auto Workers. The collection consists of National Executive Board minutes, correspondence, local and national newsletters, membership applications and grievances. Also included are materials from Delegate Assembly meetings, which include minutes, reports, agendas and notes. These records were described by the Harry Van Arsdale Labor History Project.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Walter Scott Neff was a phycologist and professor who authored several books, including Work and Human Behavior, and was also head of the American Peace Mobilization. This collection contains the FBI files obtained through a FOIA request. The files cover FBI observations of Neff and his activities with Communist affiliated groups and organizations.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). A small collection mostly of research material on anarchism. Includes a draft of Max Netlau's "A Short History of Anarchism" and clippings on Emma Goldman. Also includes pamphlets and writings examining Nestor Makhno.

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19 boxes (19 linear feet).

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80 boxes (80 linear feet).

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53 boxes (53 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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34 boxes. The late Herbert Gutman, Professor of History at the City University of New York, project director, donated the tapes of the New York City Immigrant Labor Oral History Project to the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives in 1983. They were transferred from the New Jersey Historical Commission where they had been temporarily housed. The project began in 1973 under a two- year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Interviews were conducted by undergraduate City College students taught by Virginia Yans and Leon Fink, social history students at CUNY Graduate Center, and graduate student staff interviewers. Interviewers visited nursing homes such as the Workman's Circle Home and union retiree groups including the ILGWU Cloak Worker's Union and Longshoreman's Local 1814 to search out and tape immigrant workers whose memories dated to the turn of the century. The project focused on contrasting experiences of white ethnic and black newcomers to New York and the community, cultural and work lives of immigrants. Institutional history was not a priority. COLLECTION SUMMARY: The collection consists of 285 interviews with American Black, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Scandinavian immigrant workers. Topics include: family life, education, assimilation, women's roles, work process, ethnic community relations, pre-immigration experiences, work in the garment industry and on the docks, living conditions, politics, leisure, religion, unions, Ellis Island, courtship, class. Indexes or partial transcripts are available for many of the tapes. Index available in repository.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot). In 1964, under the direction of Harry Van Arsdale, Jr., the Taxi Driver's Organizing Committee was formed. In several weeks, 9,000 cab drivers had been signed up. On the strength of this showing, mass rallies were called for by Van Arsdale. Top labor leaders, among them George Meany, pledged their support for the cab drivers. The fruit of their efforts became evident when in July 21, 1965, in elections called for by the fleet owners, the TDOC won elections conducted by the National Labor Relations Board in 22 garages. Within the next year, it went on to win elections and bargaining rights in 82 garages and came to represent nearly 18,000 taxi drivers and other workers within the fleet garages. The culmination of the taxi drivers' struggle to organize was the granting of a charter by the AFL-CIO, on July 1, 1966 to the newly organized NYC Taxi Driver's Union, directly affiliated Local Union 3036. In the first election of union officers held in November of 1966, Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. was elected President of the Local. By September 1967, its membership had grown to 28,000. During the 1970's Local 3036 became affiliated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). In the early 1990's, Local 3036 claimed 8,000 members. COLLECTION SUMMARY: The span dates for the collection are 1966-1981, with the bulk of the material between 1966 and 1972. Local 3036 donated this collection to the Wagner Labor Archives in 1985. The collection totals 255 tapes of Union meetings, demonstrations and speeches. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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12 boxes (11.25 linear feet).

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Collection contains seventeen interviews regarding organizing longshoremen on the NYC waterfront. Index available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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44 boxes (43 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). The collection contains documents generated by the New York Council to Abolish HUAC which circulated literature and staged rallies and protests to try and bring down the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The collection includes press releases, newsletters, flyers and memoranda. The collection also contains flyers, leaflets and outreach collected from the National Lawyers Guild and other organizations on the left interested in law reform. The documents range from 1946 to 1970.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Records in this collection relate to the District 65 (UAW) organizing campaign and strike at the New-York Historical Society in 1979. Victory in the union elections led to contract negotiations in the fall of 1979. A strike ensued and last for 6 months. This collection contains flyers, newspaper clippings, photographs, minutes from the negotiating committee, copies of contracts, and handouts.

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96 boxes (96 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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11 boxes (11 linear feet).

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15 boxes (15 linear feet).

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Barbara Wertheimer, labor educator at Cornell NYSSILR's New York Labor Extension, conceived of an oral history project utilizing union retiree groups to document workers' contributions to New York City. The study of the New York Metro Postal Workers began in 1976 with a small grant under the direction of Dana Schecter and was meant to be a prototype project. For two years, Schecter met with a group of retired postal workers, trained them in oral history techniques, and set them to the task of the interviewing. The collection also contains an extensive interview with Morris Biller, President of the union from 1959-80, when he became president of the national union. Schecter donated the tapes and transcripts to the Wagner Archives in 1980. The New York Area Postal Union represents over 21,000 postal clerks, motor vehicle operators, maintenance, and mailhandlers in New York and New Jersey. The local resulted from the 1958 secession of officers and members of Local 10, National Federation of Post Office Clerks, an organization dating back to 1901. The secessionists favored an "industrial" organization that would include all postal "crafts." SUMMARY: The collection consists of life history oral interviews of 15 retired officers or activists of the New York Metro Area Postal Union including Morris (Moe) Biller, who went on to become president of the national union. The interviews cover the following topics: postal service working conditions; Local 10, National Federation of Post Office Clerks; organization of Postal Union of Manhattan-Bronx Clerks, National Postal Clerks Union; evolution of the New York Metro Area Postal Union; the National postal strike of 1970; and highlights of work histories and union leadership development. Transcripts are available for each of the interviews. RELATED MATERIALS: New York Metro Area Postal Union Collection at the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and the Josie McMillian oral history interview in the New Yorkers at Work Oral History Collection.

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First draft and partial container list available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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As part of her duties under the Harry Van Arsdale fellowship offered to Cornell ILR undergraduates, Leslie Braginsky conducted these interviews in 1988 with active and retired officers of the state labor federation. The New York State AFL-CIO was formed in December 1958 by the merger of the separate state bodies of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The state AFL traces its activities as far back as the 1860s, when existing labor unions called meetings to protest the Folger Anti-Strike Bill in the State Legislature. In 1865, the first state organization of labor unions was founded as the New York State Trades Assembly, with Henry Rockefeller of the Troy Typographical Union as president. Later that year, the name was changed to the Workingmen's Assembly of the State of New York. The name was again changed in 1898 to the Workingmen's Federation of the State of New York when the Assembly merged with the State branch of the American Federation of Labor. Finally in 1910, the name New York State Federation of Labor was adopted. After World War I, the State Federation fought for several labor reforms such as Workmen's Compensation. During the Depression, the Federation fought for State unemployment insurance and the New York State Labor Relations Act. The New York State CIO was chartered in November 1938, three years after John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, became chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organizations, and one year after the CIO was expelled from the AFL and changed its name to the Congress of Industrial Organizations. At the 1938 New York State CIO founding convention, President-elect Allan Haywood adopted the principle that labor would take a greater role in the State's political affairs. The merger of the two rival labor federations took place on a national level in 1955. At that time, the State organizations began merger negotiations, but did not reach an agreement until 1958. COLLECTION SUMMARY: There are no transcripts for these interviews, but brief summaries do exist for all interviews. Narrators discuss their family backgrounds, their work as organizers and/or officers of their unions, and their experiences as officers of the State AFL-CIO. Interviewees came from various unions, including the Building Trades, IUE, Shoe and Boot Workers, RWDSU, Civil Service Technical Guild, and the American Communication Association. Narrators discuss the merger of the AFL-CIO, personalities within the State Federation, their positions on Taft-Hartley, and the current condition of the labor movement. Index available in repository. RELATED MATERIALS: The Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives are the repository for the historical records of the New York State AFL-CIO.

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170 boxes (179 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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1 box (.5 linear feet). This collection concerns an unsuccessful clerical workers organizing campaign at New York University led by UAW, District 65 and OPEIU, Local 153. The collection traces the campaign's history from its conception in the fall of 1969 through the strike of April/May 1970, the election of May 15, 1970, SLRB and NLRB decisions, and another election in 1971. Contents of the collection include: leaflets; statements by the university; picket duty material; NYU Press reports; NLRB and SLRB material; files on an IBT, Local 810 strike; UAW, District 65 and OPEIU, Local 153 flyers; and student support material.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Background files on the Wagner oral history project by that name.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Transcripts of oral interviews of Carol Glassman and Jill Hamberg - activists in Newark in the 1960s. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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575 boxes (575 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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8 boxes (8 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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19 boxes (19 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu

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1box (1 linear foot). Daniel Nilva was a freelance photographer involved in the Film and Photo League in the 1920's. Nilva also worked as an ILGWU staff photographer for many years and saw himself as an historian of the role of the Communist Party in the labor movement. This small collection contains various newsletters, publications, and mailings by the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, the Young Communist Party and Communist Party opposition groups on the Left. There is also a small amount of biographical material on Nilva.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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1 box.

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1 box (.5 linear feet).

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8 boxes (3.75 feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Socialist, author, editor of New Leader (1924-~1940). Correspondence, manuscripts, and clippings of this active participant in Socialist Party and Social Democratic Federation. Box of correspondence includes letters from Lena Morrow Lewis, Algernon Lee, August Claessens, Theodore Debs, Irving Stone, Norman Thomas, John M. Work, Jean Longuet, Emma Henry, Elsie Ehret, and daughter Olive Oneal Rude. Letters fre¬quently discuss developments, past and present, on the left. Later correspondence includes Onat's answers to historians studying U.S. socialism. Other subjects dealt)Vwith in correspondence are details of publication of 1947 edirtion of American Communism, done with G.A. Werner, Social Democratic Federation, and New Leader. Two boxes of manuscripts include notes, articles, book reviews, and typescripts of "American Party Struggles," and "The Great Collapse and After: a Socialist Interpretation." Other documents include material from SDF and New Leader Association.

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5 boxes (3.75inear feet). Open Media was founded in 1991 as a pamphlet publishing effort in opposition to the first Gulf War. The series continues to publish a wide array of critically acclaimed scholars, activists and artists committed to a common vision of social justice, democracy and human rights for all. This collection contains binders of correspondence with authors, requests for publications, records documenting the editing and publishing of the pamphlets, press releases flyers, order forms and copies of publications. An inventory of the binders can be found in box 2. Date range: 1991-1994.

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1 box (.5 linear feet).

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89 boxes.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (1 linear foot). 1960s material including Peace and Freedom Party.

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The Out in the Union Oral History Project was initiated in 1994 by Dr. Miriam Frank, Master Teacher of Humanities in the School of Continuing Education at New York University with support from the Stephen Charney Vladeck Junior Faculty Fellowship Program. Frank, the co-author of "Pride at Work: Organizing for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Unions" (Lesbian and Gay Labor Network, 1990), sought out gay and lesbian union activists in New York City, Boston, Detroit, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Portland and Seattle. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: The interviews are both biographical and topical covering such themes as family and class identity, the influence of the institutions of the political left and/or the church, love, and death. Specific labor topics Frank sought to document were institutional policies and new bargaining issues with regard to lesbians and gays; the history of gay participation in unions, both hidden and "out"; resistance to gays and lesbians in some sectors of the labor movement; labor education and AIDS education; and the influence of community organizing. Frank attempts to document individual struggles which had engaged activists in trying to live a gay life in the union world. Index available in repository. NOTE TO RESEARCHERS: This collection is restricted. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information on obtaining permission to use the collection. RELATED MATERIALS: See the archives of the Lesbian and Gay Labor Network, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Andy Overgaard joined the Communist Party in 1920 and served as a TUEL/TUUL organizer in Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Waterbury (CT), Youngstown, Buffalo, and New York City. He taught at Commonwealth College in Arkansas and worked as an organizer for the Diecasters Union, UE and the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union. This collection contains an autobiographical typescript.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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4 boxes (1.75 linear feet). SocialistV labor leader, judge. Correspondence, mss., clippings, published materials document the political and judicial career of this Socialist judge. Following his early involvement in organizing labor, he was elected New York Municipal Court Judge on the Socialist ticket in 1917. Failing at re election in 1927, he was appointed to Court of Domestic Relations by LaGuardia in 1934, retiring in 1955, Wrote book and articles on juvenile delinquency, laying major responsibility on parental neglect and media violence, particularly comic books, television, and radio. Correspondence frequently relates to court cases and includes some appreciative letters from boys and parents of boys brought before him. Much correspondence is from admirers, some from distractors; a smaller number relates to Socialist affairs and includes some letters from friends such as Morris Hillquit, Girolamo Valenti, and A. I. Shipla¬coff. Mss. contain addresses on socialism, and social and political issues. Includes some speeches delivered during his unsuccessful campaigns for political office, such as Municipal Court Justice (1927), and Congress (1930). Also ran for U.S. Senate (1920), Mayor (1921), and Governor (1930). Active in ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training), a Jewish philanthropy. Typed pages of autobiographical writings, legal documents relating to court cases, and clippings on his career after 1927 are also found.

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9 boxes (9 linear feet).

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10 boxes (10 linear feet). Patrinos (1941-2000) was a peace and social justice activist in Chicago. She was a long-time member of the Communist Party USA. In 1991, the year of the fall of the Soviet Union, she joined the Committees of Correspondence, founded by dissident (democratic-socialist oriented) CPUSA members inspired by the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, and other U.S. leftists. In 1994 the organization changed its name to the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, and Patrinos served on its National Coordinating Committee.

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5 boxes (4.5 linear feet). Not Open for Research. Consult staff.

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4 boxes (1.75 linear feet). FBI Files. PM (1940-48) was a progressive daily New York City tabloid format newspaper.

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13 boxes (7 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. George Polk was a CBS news correspondent covering the Greek civil war who was murdered in Salonika on May 16th, 1948. In the course of his investigations, he had uncovered, and was about to publish, evidence of criminal activity by rightist forces who had the support of the United States and Great Britain. This collection contains: I. GWP writings - broadcasts and cables, diaries, notebooks, short stories, Middle East Mosaic (book ts.); II. Clippings, cables re GWP murder, clips collected by GWP; III. Family Correspondence, incl. WRP (William Roe Polk - brother), ARP (Adelaide Roe Polk - mother); Capt. James H. Polk -ancestor (returned to donor); IV. GWP memorabilia, awards, memorials; V. Photographs - GWP, WRP, other family.

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7 boxes (7 linear feet).

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5 boxes (5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet).

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1 box.

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6 boxes (6 linear feet). Expelled "Fosterite" Communists, c1945-1960

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8 boxes (8 linear feet).

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These titles were donated to or purchased by the Tamiment Library/Wagner Labor Archives. COLLECTION SUMMARY: Produced tapes include documentary histories of Fiorello LaGuardia, Emma Goldman, the Scottsboro case, and Eugene Debs. There are two tapes from a CWA talk show program. In most cases there are no transcripts for these tapes. Scripts are protected by copyright. Index available in repository.

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16 boxes (10 linear feet). No finding aid. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.5 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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8 boxes (8 linear feet). Container list available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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See BobCat, NYU's online catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. The tapes are open for research but copyright is held by Schomburg Center, NYPL, and researchers should apply there for permission to quote. Index available in repository.

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119 boxes (119 linear feet).

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32 boxes (32 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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14 boxes (14 linear feet).

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169 boxes (169 linear feet). Collection of 8,672 pamphlets microfilmed on 89 reels shelved in the Tamiment Library at: R-1743 to R-1831. See the published guide to the collection in the Tamiment Library shelved at Tam Ref HN 90 .R3 T323.

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10 boxes (10 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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17 boxes (5.5 linear feet). The Rand School of Social Science (1906-1956), a school for workers and socialists which was associated with the Socialist Party, and after 1936 with the Social Democratic Federation, offered a variety of courses on contemporary topics, traditional subjects and socialist theory taught by intellectual leaders of the socialist movement, distinguished academicians and trade union leaders. In 1917 the Rand School purchased a six story building at 7 East 15th Street, that had an auditorium, a library, classrooms, and office space which was utilized by several socialist organizations. In a climate of anti-radical feeling after World War I, the Rand School came under attack by the Lusk Committee, created to investigate radical activities in New York. After a series of court cases the Rand School retained control of its operations, and programs and enrollment increased. Shortly after World War II, courses and enrollment decreased sharply. In January 1956 the Board of Directors of the American Socialist Society closed the Rand School and transferred the title of the school and its building to the People's Educational Camp Society, the governing body of Camp Tamiment, a successful workers resort which had long provided the majority of the School's budget. The collection contains correspondence, mostly of the chief executives of the school; minutes of the school's Educational Council; student term papers; internal memoranda on reorganization plans for the school; material relating to the school's publications, among them the Institute of Social Science Bulletin (1951-1955); course records; reports, monographs on topical issues, and transcripts of lectures and debates; the records of the school's Labor Research Department, which published American Labor Year Book from 1916-1932; records of American Labor Archive and Research Institute, founded in 1941 to preserve documents of the European and American labor movement; and financial and bookstore records.

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4 boxes (4 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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10 boxes (10 linear feet).

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2 boxes (3 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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33 boxes (33 linear feet).

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7 boxes (7 linear feet). Contains research files of Jerome Greenfield compiled for his book, "Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A." The collection contains Reich's writings and correspondence relative to his life as a scientist and communist as well as copies of others' writing on orgonomics and other Reichian concepts. Includes records of Reich's legal battles against the United States FDA as well as materials on his imprisonment, including correspondence from jail with his daughter Eva. Also of note is correspondence between Reich and Albert Einstein and between Reich and Sergei Eisenstein.

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot). Materials relate to the Retail Apparel Salespeople's Union Local 340A of New York, and arbitration cases such as Local 1125 v. Kelly Mutal Credit Clothing Company.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Donated by Adele Hector on behalf of the D'Angelo family, this small collection contains some of the records of the Retail Furniture Employees Union which had become a Local of the Retail Clerks International Association. The collection contains election materials, correspondence, fliers for protests, speeches, and a program for dinner and dance put on by the local.

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13 boxes (13 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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17 boxes (17 linear feet)

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2 boxes (2 linear feet). The Reunion of Old Timers was founded in 1941 by veteran members of the labor struggle. The Reunion was established to honor distinguished individuals involved in the labor and socialist movements and to provide financial aid to members and institutions in need. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, dinner programs, financial records, membership lists and communications with the membership. They have been arranged chronologically within record format. Of particular interest to researchers is the network of friendships among labor and socialist activists revealed in these papers. The correspondence of Marx Lewis, former secretary to Meyer London, to Charles Grossman, for example, documents Lewis' own political observations and activities, and those of the milieux from which he came, between 1963 and Grossman's death in 1979.

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2 boxes (1 linear foot). The Revolutionary Workers Headquarters (RWH) was a U.S. Marxist-Leninist organization that formed out of a split from the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1977. Two years after the death of Mao, the majority of the Revolutionary Communist Party, led by Bob Avakian, felt that the Chinese government had adopted revisionist policies, while the minority, which supported the present regime of the CCP, established the RWH. RWH merged with the Bay Area Communist Union, the League of Revolutionary Struggle, and other organizations to from the Committee to Unite Marxist-Leninists. The RWH was active in the labor movement, struggles of oppressed nationalities, the women's movement, the student movement, the struggle for divestiture from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa, and was directly involved with founding of the Progressive Student Network. The collection contains meeting reports, bulletins, leaflets and position papers. Date span: 1976-1980

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Charles Rivers was a well-known photographer who photographed the construction of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. He was also the Executive Secretary of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), District 3 in Schenectady, NY. Rivers was active in the civil rights movement and the Greek anti-fascist movement. The collection contains photocopies of three scrapbooks (which contain photographs, correspondence and clippings) as well as correspondence from figures such as Cesar Chavez, Congressman William F. Ryan, Rockwell Kent, and Pete Seeger. See also Charles Rivers Photographs (Photos #50).

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First draft and partial container list available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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5 boxes (5 linear feet).

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1 box (.5 linear feet)

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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"1 box (.25 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Carpenter, trade unionist. The son of Russian immigrants (father an anarchist shoemaker), Rosen became a carpenter and active in the trade union movement. In the 1920's he joined Local 376 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and in Dec. 1925 was elected business agent. He was also National Secretary of the Building Trade Section of the Trade Union Educational League. The papers consist of an unpublished autobiographical typescript (246p) ""Man Made Cliffs,"" by Mike Ross (pseud). After a brief biographical sketch of early life and family the memoir is principally the account of the struggle within Local 376 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners between Rosen, a communist and National Secretary of the Building Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League, and the leadership. He was elected Business Agent of the Local Dec. 1925. The General Executive Board of the Carpenters Union revoked 376's charter June 1926. The narrative ends with the depression in the building trades in 1929. Included also are a scrapbook of newspaper articles written by Mike Ross on the struggle within the Carpenters Union for labor newspapers including Labor Unity, The Progressive Builder, and the Daily Worker, 1924-1929, and several drafts of poems ""To Hell with Hoovers,"" ""Liberty."" A pamphlet ""Appeal of Local Union 376 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America,"" (1926) complete the collection."

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1 box (.5 linear feet). This small collection contains the papers of Riva Rosenfield, a leftist who attended and was involved with The Workers Children's Camp (Camp Wo-Chi-Ca). Most of the materials pertain to Wo-Chi-Ca, its reunions, and writings on the camp. Some documents also touch on Higley Hill, another camp run and staffed by the Communist Party of America. A set of photographs of Higley Hill and its campers from the early 1950's remains in the collection. The collection also contains a file of FBI and WPA papers on Herbert Gurewitz obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. For additional information on Camp Higley Hill, see the papers of Grace Granich and Manny Granich (TAM 255) who ran the camp.

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1 box ( 0.25 linear feet). This small collection contains the collected papers of Mark Rosenthal regarding AFSCME, Distcit Council 37, Local 983. The collection includes clippings, newsletters, election materials, and a discrimination complaint by Rosenthal against the union.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Morris Rosenzweig was the comptroller of District 65. This collection contains clippings and official documents related to Rosenzweig and a history of District 65 written by him.

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1 box.

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1 box (1linear foot).

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Unprocessed collection of eighty photographs, from 1929 – ca. late 1970s, bulk 1940s. Images mainly relate to the activities of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order of the International Workers Order (I.W.O.) and Jewish Young Fraternalists of the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order, I.W.O., and Ernest Rymer (December 27, 1908 – March 16, 1986), who, according to one of his daughters, was the "junior director" (director of the Jewish Young Fraternalists?) of the JF before World War II., and then director of the Jewish Fraternalists division of the International Workers Order, from after World War II to ca. the 1950s,. Notable images include three photographs dating from 1929 of the Pioneers Camp at Camp Nitgedaiget; there are also three photographs that have nothing to do with the IWO—they are scenes showing the unemployed and breadlines in New York City, shot by a “Joe Hall” (quality is extremely poor) during the Depression of the 1930s. Color snapshots are of an anti-nuclear demonstration in New York City, ca. late 1970s.

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1 box (0.25 linear feet). Charles Salk was an active officer in the Postal Workers union, particularly the New York City local. The collection contains Salk's FOIA file and his correspondence with the FBI trying to obtain those records.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Theodore Schapiro (1898-1998), a political activist and the last director of the Rand School of Social Science. His early training in art and industrial design at Cooper Union, the Art Students' League, and the Beaux Arts Institute of Design led to a career in industrial design. He joined the Socialist Party early in his life and assisted in planning the Party's platform for Norman Thomas' presidential bid in 1940. He served as an organizer for the Textile Workers Union as well as other unions, and he taught adult education classes for them and for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. He became the director of the Rand School of Social Science in 1943. This collection consists of biographical matter, correspondence, papers from the Institute of Social Studies and misc. 56 photos and 1 negative have been separated from the collection.

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33 boxes (33 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot). This collection contains papers of Andre Schiffrin, an American publisher, author, and socialist who helped organize and run the Student League for Industrial Democracy (the student affiliate of the League for Industrial Democracy) which eventually became the Students for a Democratic Society in 1960. The papers pertain to Schiffrin's work with the SLID and their relations with the LID and other socialist organizations. The collection particularly showcases SLID's actions at Yale and Schiffrin's correspondence with the LID and the International Union of Socialist Youth. The documents span from 1954 to 1961 and include correspondence, fliers, newsletters, and clippings.

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1 box (0.25 linear feet). This collection contains a small manuscript on Julius and Lilly Schmulewitz. Julius was a member of the Bakery and Confectionary Workers International Union, Local 3 and the manuscript covers their lives and Julius's work with the Local. The manuscript also contains several maps and tables.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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15 boxes (15 linear feet).

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2 boxes (2 linear feet). A long-time member of the Socialist Labor Party, Schwartz broke with the Party in the 1960's along with Louis Lazarus and Murray Block among others. Papers include correspondence with other dissidents from the Socialist Labor Party and their attempts at various re-groupings into the DeLeonist League and League for Socialist Reconstruction. Topics include publishing activities of these groups and discussion of issues around the re-groupings and Schwartz's political observations and critiques. He was especially interested in Chile and Allende. His research on this topic led him into undertaking the writing of a history from a Marxist perspective (this manuscript is not among the papers). In his personal life, Schwartz was a witty, multi-faceted man who along with other activities, wrote lyrics under the name Ted Persons and produced a TV show in the early 1950s, the AdLibbers. The papers date from the 1970s and 1980s.

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2 boxes (2 linear feet).

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4 boxes (4 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Joseph P. Selly was the President of the American Communications Association in the 1960s and 1970s. The date span of the collection is 1959-1974. The collection contains Selly's correspondence, newsletters, a statement by Selly before the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce In opposition to legislation that would remove the long-standing statutory prohibitions against mergers, contracts, executive board minutes, and legal documents.

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1 box.

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2 boxes (.75 linear feet). Oscar Shaftel was a faculty member at Queens College who was fired in 1953 after he refused to answer a Senate subcommittee's questions about Communist affiliations in academia. Box 1 contains clippings on Shaftel, broadsides, pamphlets and flyers, Testimony of Shaftel before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, correspondence, and legal documents. Shaftel's FBI file in box 2 is closed to researchers until 2017.

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12 boxes (9 linear feet).

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1 box (.1 linear feet). This collection documents George Shibley (1910-1989) a left-wing lawyer who represented seamen and longshoremen and a number of labor unions on the West Coast. Shibley was convicted in 1957 of receiving stolen government records in connection with his defense of a Marine. The collection contains newspaper clippings and documents from the Shibley Defense Committee.

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1 box (.5 feet). Maynard Shipley (1872-1934) was criminologist and scientist who often spoke out in favor of science and evolution and against religious fanaticism and capital punishment. Shipley also worked as an editor, speaker, and organizer for the Socialist Party alongside Eugene V. Debs. Shipley married Miriam Allen de Ford in 1921. Ford was a writer and eventually wrote about Shipley in a biography titled Up-Hill All The Way. The collection primarily consists of correspondence to de Ford regarding her book on Shipley. It also contains a variety of reviews on the book.

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5 boxes (3 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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2 boxes (1 linear foot). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (0.25 linear feet). This small collection contains some of the correspondence of Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, one of the founders of Greenwich House, a social settlement house in the Greenwhich Village area of New York City. The papers include many letters of thanks from Simkhovitch. The collection also contains letters to Simkovitch, including one from Harry S. Truman.

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1 box.

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12 boxes (12 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Upton Sinclair (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was a socialist and author of books such as Manassas (1904) and The Jungle (1906). The collection includes correspondence and manuscripts by Sinclair, as well as critical essays relating to his life and work.

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4 boxes (3.5 linear feet). Herman Singer (1915-2001) was an editor of the New Leader from 1945-1950. He worked for Radio Free Europe (RFE) and was active in their alumni organization, the Society of International Broadcasters. He edited the publication East Europe in the 1960s and 1970s wrote on V.F. Calverton, proletarian literature and Socialist Party history, and reviewed books and films. This collection contains correspondence and documents relating to his work on Calverton, Socialist Party history, NY Call/SDF, East Europe (publication), Newspaper Guild-Free Europe Unit, and Free Europe Guild News. There correspondence with Bob Rindel, Sam Solon, Calverton and various editors and publishers.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Edwin S. Smith (1891- 1976) was a New Deal National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member and president of Friends of the Soviet Union. He was the personnel director of Filene's department store in Boston, commissioner of labor and industries in Massachusetts, and one of the first three members of the NLRB. He was a persistent worker on behalf of Soviet-American friendship. When he appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 he refused to answer questions about alleged Communist affiliation. He also worked for the Oil Workers Union of the CIO, and the Teachers' Division of the United Public Workers of America. The collection includes a biography, obituary, and a manuscript on American labor history.

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2 boxes (1 linear foot). Maritime history materials collected by Randall B. "Pete" Smith. The collection includes: Marine Workers Historical Association [MWHA[] minutes and correspondence; 1934 Strike Pictorial; World War II Casualty List; California Hearing Report (1948); H. Rubin, "In the Case of Morrissey and Ibrahim v. Joseph Curran, et al.; Danny Boano autobiographical transcript; Ed Gordon autobiographical transcript; Peter Filardo, "The Communists and NMU"; Bill Morel correspondence; Bruce Nelson correspondence; and Dorothy Wicker correspondence. Date span: 1970s-1980s. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Helen Sobell was the wife of convicted atomic spy Morton Sobell. Collection consists of an autobiographical typescript.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). The collection consists of correspondence from Paul Buhle, founder of Cultural Correspondence (1979-1981). The correspondence contains discussion of publishing humor material in Cultural Correspondence, plans to start a new mass circulation humor magazine, and creation of an international radical humor movement. The collection also contains a number of radical humor publications from around the country.

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1 box (0.5 linear feet). Sidney and Clara Solomon were both New York anarchists and were members of the Vanguard Group in the 1930s and the New Trends Group in the 1940s. This collection most notably contains many letters from Emma Goldman and some other correspondence from John Dewey. The collection also contains some materials from the Vanguard Group and some flyers pertaining to leftist causes like Spanish labor and relief in the 1930s. The materials span from the 1920s to the 1940s.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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See BobCat, NYU's library catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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4.5 boxes.

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1 box. Unprocessed collection containing approximately eighty mostly black and white photographs documenting a variety of activities and individuals related to Spanish Refugee Aid, Inc. (SRA), Spain, the Spanish Civil War, and between 1917 and 1993, with the bulk dating from the 1960s and early 1970s. Notable activities include art sales, clothing drives, and fundraisers organized by SRA between 1960 and 1975, but the collection also documents famous Spanish artists sympathetic to SRA, along with various hospitals or homes where refugees received care. Individuals of note include SRA director Nancy McDonald, writer Albert Camus, and musician Pablo Casals.

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1 box (0.5 linear feet). This collection contains the minutes of the editorial board of Spartacist, a publication pertaining to the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), a Trostkyist international organization based primarily in the United States. The group was led by James Robertson and Tim Wohlforth. The records span from 1964 to 1969.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Notes (handwritten and typed) on dissident activity in the National Maritime Union in the 1960s and 1970s, compiled by Henry Spira. Possibly intended for use in a book project. The notes included contact information and rental communications from many NMU insurgents.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Massachusetts consumer cooperative for purchase of clothing, coal, groceries. Fragmentary records found here are financial records.

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3 boxes (3 linear feet). The squatters’ rights movement which was centered in New York City’s East Village and Lower East Side reached its peak in the late 1980s and culminated in the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot of August 1988. However, the movement continued well into the 1990s. The collection consists of clippings and subject files related to housing and New York City politics.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Fly is a visual artist who was involved in the 1980s squatters’ rights movement in New York City’s East Village which culminated in the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot of August 1988. The collection consists of photographs, a scrapbook that contains clippings, artwork and photographs, and copies of zines, including Dog Days and Slug & Lettuce.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Jerry "The Peddler" Wade is a squatter and housing advocate who was prominently involved in the 1980s squatters’ rights movement in New York City’s East Village which culminated in Tompkins Square Park Police Riot of August 1988. The collection consists of flyers that document the squatters rights movement, court transcripts and clippings. Three video tapes, which contain footage of the 1988 riots, are included.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Kurt Reynertson is a plant science biologist and a founding member of the Brooklyn Artist Alliance. As one of the squatters at the 537-539 East 5th Street squat, he was involved in legal proceedings against the City of New York after a fire damaged the building. The case was closed in 1997 after the plaintiffs were awarded damages. The collection consists of legal documents pertaining to the suit against the city, as well as press clippings and a number of videotapes.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). On Davis was involved in the 1980s squatters’ rights movement in New York City’s East Village which culminated in the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot of August 1988. The collection consists of subject files, clippings, oversized artwork, account books and a diary composed by squatters at 537 East 13th street.

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4 boxes (3 linear feet). Peter Spagnuolo is a poet and author of The Squatter's Midden (2001) and Ten by Fourteen (2005). He was involved in the squatters’ rights movement in New York City’s East Village in the 1980s which culminated in Tompkins Square Park Police Riot of August 1988. The collection consists of subject files, clippings and legal documents relating to eviction of East Village Squatters as well as one videotape titled "By Any Means Necessary."

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1 box (1 linear foot). Roland Politi is an Italian-born anarchist and artist who was involved in the 1980s squatters’ rights movement in New York City’s East Village which culminated in Tompkins Square Park Police Riot of August 1988. The collection contains newspaper clippings, subject files, including eviction notices, documents relating to the New York City Community Board, and commemorative t-shirts.

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1 box (1 linear foot). John Penley is a photographer and activist associated with the Squatters' Rights movement in New York City's East Village and Lower East Side. The collection contains magazine and newspaper clippings that include Penley's photographs or are related to his photographic and journalistic interests, leaflets and handbills (including some original artwork) concerning the squatters rights movement. Legal documents from Penley's suit against the New York City Police Department and then Mayor Ed Koch are also included, as are Freedom of Information Act documents and Penley's 1991 New York City Police Department press pass.

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1 box.

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Jennifer Stafford is an Elevator, Ride and Tramway Engineer for the State of California. This collection focuses on the role of women in the International Union of Elevator Constructors and their struggle for recognition within the union. This collection contains legal papers from Adrian v. Dover, the first case of sexual harassment brought by a group of Elevator Workers, a letter written by Stafford to city supervisors expressing concern that no women were being hired by elevator contractors, a report by Jennifer Stafford to the Human Rights Commission stating that elevator contractors were not fulfilling their minority goals on city jobs, papers from the Equal Rights Advocates, union membership cards, and contracts. Date span: 1994-2000.

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15 boxes (15 linear feet). Committee for Abortion Rights and against Sterilization Abuse (CARASA). No finding aid available.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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45 boxes (35.5 linear feet).

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot). Bernhard J. Stern (1894-1956) was a social scientist and political radical who came under persecution from Congressional investigative committees during the McCarthy period. The materials in the collection were assembled by Samuel W. Bloom, a sociology professor who wrote an article on Stern, "The Intellectual in a Time of Crisis," for Volume 26 of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. The documents pertain to Bloom's writing of the article and contains drafts of the article, correspondence related to it, and much of the documentation and research used in its writing. The Library also holds the papers of Stern's wife, Charlotte Todes Stern (TAM 70)

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22 boxes (22 linear feet)

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See BobCat, NYU's library catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Index available in repository.

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8 boxes (7.5 linear feet).

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22 boxes (22 linear feet).

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14 boxes (8.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a radical student group descended from the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), the student branch of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social democratic organization. SDS was expelled from the LID in 1965 and gained national prominence in the late 1960s as SDS. The records contain predominantly SLID material including conference and convention proceedings, correspondence, minutes of national executive committee meetings, membership files, and reports of committees, student secretaries, chapters and other activities.

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5 boxes (5 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). A small collection featuring 2 TLS by Mother Jones to Otto Branstetter (1920), photos of various socialists, and clippings and releases from 1932 Presidential campaign of Norman Thomas.

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22 boxes (16.5 linear feet). The Tamiment Institute was founded in 1935 as the educational arm of the People’s Educational Camp Society (PECS), which owned and operated Camp Tamiment, an educational and recreational summer resort (originally) for socialists and their families near Bushkill, in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. The Institute organized lectures, conferences and seminars, essay contests, and book awards at the Camp and in New York City. Contains clippings, correspondence, conference and seminar papers, essays, and programs. 21 boxes (15.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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This ongoing series of audiotapes consists of recordings of educational forums, conferences, commemorations, radio broadcasts, memorials, addresses and other formal events relating to the history of American labor and radicalism. The bulk of the events were staged by the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and the Tamiment Library and related organizations such as the New York Labor History Association beginning from 1980 to the present. "Pillar of Labor" dedications provide biographical information about important unionists. The series also includes a few sound recordings of New York political organizations of the 1980s such as C.A.R.D., the Coalition against Registration and the Draft, and the Citizens' Party. Where programs or leaflets advertising events existed, they have been assembled to document the tapes. Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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25 boxes (15 linear feet). Records related to the operation of the Tamiment Library.

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30 boxes (21 linear feet). Access through 3x5 card file available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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Interviews were conducted between 1980 and 1988 by Andrew Horn of the Tamiment Playhouse Archives and by NYU Performance Studies graduate student Martha S. LoMonaco for her dissertation and subsequent book on the Tamiment Playhouse, entitled Every Week a Broadway Revue. The Tamiment Playhouse, located at the Socialist Party's retreat, Camp Tamiment, in Pennsylvania's Pocono mountains, became the preeminent workshop and a major creative outlet for theater, dance, film, and television of the mid-twentieth century. Actors such as Danny Kaye, Bea Arthur, Imogene Coca, and Carol Burnett, directors Max Liebman, Herb Ross, and Joe Layton, choreographer Jerome Robbins, and writers Woody Allen and Neil Simon are a small sampling of the major entertainment figures nurtured at Camp Tamiment. Much of the original material performed at Tamiment found its way to the professional stage, Broadway, and television. All interviewees were involved in the Tamiment Playhouse, mainly in the 1950s. Most of the interviews consist of recollections of the Tamiment summer theater, as well as discussions about the importance of the Playhouse for Broadway. Of note in the collection are interviews with Woody Allen, Carol Burnett, Imogene Coca, and Neil Simon. Inventory available in repository. The Shows were recorded (live, on reel to reel audiotape) at the Tamiment Playhouse from 1955-1960.

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See BobCat, NYU's library catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Index available in repository.

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5 boxes (5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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8 boxes (8 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot). The scrapbook contains a collection of newspaper clippings concerning the 1959 Teachers Guild Strike in New York City.

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3 boxes (3 linear feet).

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10 boxes (10 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box

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6 boxes (6 linear feet). The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1939 and which merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) in 1976. As a leading organization in the CIO’s “Operation Dixie,” it led numerous organizing campaigns in the union-resistant South, aiming to help textile workers achieve higher wages, health insurance and other benefits, and to ensure fair labor practices. The TWUA was able to organize new plants and revive some moribund organizations, but it was unable to achieve a breakthrough win which would organize the whole industry. The TWUA's textile locals eventually became part of UNITE/HERE, a manufacturing and hospitality workers union. The collection consists of large scrapbooks dating approximately from 1948 to1962 containing conference and meeting reports, as well as statistical data gathered by the TWUA’s Research Department.

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9 boxes (6 linear feet).

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10 boxes (10 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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15 boxes (15 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot). This collection contains documents relating to the court case Thompson v. McNamara, including court documents, press releases and newspaper clippings. Robert Thompson fought in WWII and won the Distinguished Service Cross - the nation's second highest military award-or "extraordinary heroism." He was also a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Thompson was a leading spokesman for the New York State Communist Party and was convicted in 1949 of conspiring to teach or advocate the overthrow of the Government by force. After his death in 1966, his widow asked that he be buried in Arlington National Cemetery--which anyone who served honorably in the Armed Services was entitled to at the time. But the Attorney General of the United States denied Thompson's burial at the cemetery, leading to a court case which claimed the Defense Department acted beyond all statutory and constitutional authority in barring the interment. A District Court judge ruled that the government may issue regulations governing the exclusion of certain individuals from the cemetery.

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1 box (1 linear foot). This small collection contains material on actions by unions and other labor groups regarding the Three Mile Island incident and efforts to improve conditions and employment in the energy and construction industries. The main actions covered in the collection are the first National Labor Conference for Safe Energy and Full Employment held in Pittsburgh in 1980 and the national march for safe energy and jobs in Harrisburg in 1981. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, maps, and many fliers.

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1 box (.5 linear foot). The handwritten ledger (1889-1892) documents information about tramcar workers in New York City, their conditions of work and the strike of 1889.

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4 boxes (4 linear foot). Records contain materials relating to Naomi Allen's involvement with the Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union of America in the 1990s.

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Index available in repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for information.

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First draft and partial container list available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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170 boxes (170 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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See BobCat, NYU's library catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Index available in repository.

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12 boxes (12 linear feet).

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2 boxes (.5 linear feet).

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1 box (.5 linear feet).

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1 box (.5 linear feet).

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1 box (I linear foot).

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22 boxes (13 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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25 boxes (24.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. One oversized box (Box #25). For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.5 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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39 boxes (39 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). In 2003 and 2004, the UAW assisted the adjunct teachers and graduate students at NYU in organizing and attempting to form a union to fight for benefits from the university. The collection contains the relevant NLRB decisions, some articles and flyers on the issue, And a large amount of printed electronic correspondence. The collection also contains some videos. One box of materials is restricted.

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See BobCat, NYU's library catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Index available in repository.

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First draft and container list for the negatives portion of the collection is available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu. A database of ca. 30,000 of the negatives that includes caption information and dates exists and may be searched by Nonprint Curator.

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5 boxes (5 linear feet).

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49 boxes (49 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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8 boxes (7 linear feet).

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7 boxes (7 linear feet).

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1 box (.25 linear feet). Minutes book of Local 475 dating 1940 to 1941.. Charter records from 1937 and excutive board minutes of Local 1227 from 1941.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This collection documents the Italian-American Studies Committee of the United Federation of Teachers. The purpose of this committee was to make available materials on Italian Americans for use by teachers in the classroom and to bring awareness of the Italian-American experience through outreach. Materials in the collection document a UFT leadership and labor conference in Italy, symposium programming honoring Italian Heritage and Culture Month, and correspondence with other Italian-American organizations. The committee organized special events during the annual Italian Culture Week. Date span: 1978-1987.

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See BobCat, NYU's library catalog (http://bobcat.nyu.edu), for a description of this collection. Index available in repository.

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29 bozes (29 linear feet).

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26 boxes (26 linear feet).

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Small collection of newspaper clippings related to the United Financial Workers Strike of 1948. Several pictorial spreads from local New York City newspapers are included.

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1 box.

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9 boxes (9 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (.25 linear feet). The United Office and Professional Workers of America began organizing white collar workers in 1929. This collection contains bulletins, newsletters, clippings, draft constitutions, board minutes, national convention materials, and other organizational material of the union. Date span for collection: 1935-1946.

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1 box (.25 linear feet).

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8 boxes (6.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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4 boxes (4 linear feet).

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1 box (.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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3 boxes (3 linear feet). Records related to Consolidated Edison Employees Mutual Aid Society, Inc. No finding aid available,

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3 boxes (3 linear feet)

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1 box (.25 linear feet). A notebook of minutes of 1939 meetings of the Vanguard Group - a New York anarcho-communist group. The group published a magazine called Vanguard and dissipated during World War II. The notebook comes from the collection of the late Sidney Solomon, husband of Clara Solomon.

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2 boxes (1.5 linear feet). Al Viani joined Local 371 on the first day he came to work for the Department of Social Services in 1961. He became president of the Local in 1964, a position he held during the Welfare Department strike of January, 1965. With other members of the Local’s Executive Board, along with the leaders of the Social Service Employees Union (SSEU), Viani spent 12 days in jail for defying the Condon-Wadlin law by refusing to order the membership back to work. In 1968 he left the union to become the assistant director of District Council (DC) 37’s Research and Negotiations section. He became its director in 1973. In 1986 he left DC 37 to become the Deputy Director of the Office of Collective Bargaining (OCB), an agency that was established as a direct result of that 1965 strike. He retired in December of 1992. Although retired he is still active as a labor negotiator and was one of the people brought in to help end the New York City transit strike of 2005. Although there is material relating to most of the stages of his career, the collection is made up primarily of correspondence and press clippings from Viani’s days with Local 371 including a scrapbook he kept of the events of January to February 1965.

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First draft and container list for processed portion of collection is available on request to Nonprint Curator: erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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193 boxes (193 linear feet). An inventory for boxes 1-52, pertaining to the Kyriazi case, is available in the repository. Contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu for details.

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1 box (1 linear foot). Stephen C. Vladeck was the husband of Judith Vladeck and worked as a labor and civil rights lawyer and collective bargainer in higher education. Vladeck was also counsel to and secretary-treasurer of the Peoples Educational Camp Society and worked with the Tamiment Institute and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. This collection contains much of Vladeck's personal and professional correspondance from the 1950's and 1960's.

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11 boxes (6.5 linear feet). Leftist playwright. Consists of unpublished plays.

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4 boxes (3.25 linear feet).

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1 box. Approximately 225 black and white mostly 8 x 10 photographs and 13 black and white slides separated from the Sam Wallach Papers (Tam #241). Most of the images appear to document the activities of Rose Russell in the Teachers Union, and its successor organization, the United Federation of Teachers. Many of them were shot by the photographer and Teacher’s Union member, Mildred Grossman. Dates appear to range from 1940s to the 1970s.

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Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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7 boxes (7 linear feet).

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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6 boxes (6 linear feet).

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First draft and container list is available on request to Nonprint Curator. Contact erika.gottfried@nyu.edu.

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14 boxes (12 linear feet).

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1 box (.5 feet). Abe Weisburd was a progressive activist who wrote regularly for the communist weekly paper The Guardian. This collection is a scrapbook presented to Abe by family and friends on his 70th birthday. It contains writings by Weisburd, biographical notes, photos, and letters from friends and family talking about Weisburd.

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2 boxes. Nearly 5,000 color slides of this progressive activist's personal and political travels.

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11 boxes (11 linear feet).

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"5 boxes (2.25 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu. Myra Tanner Weiss (1916-1997) was a socialist, feminist, and the Socialist Workers Party's Vice-Presidential candidate in 1952, 1956, 1960. Together with her husband Murry she organized the School for Marxist Education in New York. Rhw papers contain correspondence, speeches and writings and Socialist Workers Party internal documents."

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1 box (.25 linear feet). This collection consists of two supervisory manuals from the Wel-Met Camps, Narrowsburg, NY Division. The manuals contain information about the camp program, responsibilities of counselors, and overall goals of the camp.

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Approximately 20 photographic prints, mainly black and white 6x8 or 8x10. Many show Welsh meeting with union representatives in some African countries.

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15 boxes (12.5 linear feet). Inventory available in repository. For information, contact gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu.

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1 box.

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1 box (1 linear foot).

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1 box (0.25 linear feet). Isidore Wisotsky (1895-1970) was born circa 1895 and immigrated from Latvia to the U.S. with his family when he was fourteen. He worked in the garment industry, became an anarchist, was involved with the Industrial Workers of the World, and became a friend of Norman Thomas. The collection contains a typescript of Isidor Wisotsky's autobiography, "Such a Life," in which he recounts his experiences as a Russian Jewish immigrant working in New York City's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century, his anarchist and Industrial Workers of the World activities, and his personal recollections of radical leaders. An introduction by Norman Thomas is included.

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