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LABOR AND "LEFT-WING"-RELATED COLLECTIONS
This list gives the collection name, date range and number of items in a collection followed by a very brief description of the contents of the collection. All of these collections are related to labor or "left-wing" issues.
AMFITEATROV MSS.- DATE RANGE: 1890-1948
- ITEM COUNT: 8,000 items
- Letters to and the writings of journalist, playwright and socialist Aleksandr Valentinovich Amfiteatrov. Many of the correspondents are Russian emigre writers and literary critics. Most of the correspondence is in Russian.
- DATE RANGE: 1878-1949
- ITEM COUNT: 4,786 items
- Papers of Lewis Browne, author, radio commentator, lecturer, and world traveler. Includes correspondence with politicians, journalists and others, dealing with the American Socialist Party allied occupation of Austria, communism, and Industrial Workers of the World.
- DATE RANGE: 1919-1926
- ITEM COUNT: 149 items
- Chiefly the letters of Eugene Victor Debs, 1855-1926, socialist leader, to Mabel (Dunlap) Curry, 1868-1947, secretary.
- DATE RANGE: 1903-1953
- ITEM COUNT: 56,321 items
- Papers of the Columbia Conserve Company, a cannery in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1917 Columbia was one of the earliest companies in the U.S. to put into action a plan of workers' co-operative ownership and management. One of the most revolutinoary aspects of the company during the years of worker management was the adoption of many social benefits, commonplace today but practically unheard of at that time, this included pensions, vacations with pay and free medical, dental, and eye care.
- DATE RANGE: 1918-1924
- ITEM COUNT: 10 items
- Letters and draft press releases by Socialist leader Eugene Victor Debs.
- DATE RANGE: 1831-1864
- ITEM COUNT: 85 items
- Papers of George Grundy Dunn, lawyer and congressman of Bedford, Indiana. Includes legal correspondence pertaining to a law suit involving several Bedford men, among them Dunn, who are sued by Doolittle and Chamberlain, (contractors from Cincinnati), for their actions in an attempt to contain a riot resulting from a labor dispute.
- DATE RANGE: 1892-1968
- ITEM COUNT: 4,096 items
- Correspondence and writings of author Max Forrester Eastman. Major portion of the correspondence is concerned with Eastman's writings and the response of leading figures to his books, articles, and lectures.
- DATE RANGE: 1920-1979
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 46,000 items
- Papers of Ralph Follen Fuchs, Indiana University Professor Emeritus of Law. Includes files of materials relating to organizations in which Fuchs was active, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, 1932-1977 (including the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, of which Mr. Fuchs was a founding member, and the Indiana University Civil Liberties Union). These files contain material on the McCarthy-Communist hunt period.
- DATE RANGE: 1908-1924
- ITEM COUNT: 102 items
- Correspondence of publisher Emanuel Haldeman-Julius relating to his publications, politics, the Socialist party in the U.S. and the imprisonments of Fred D. Warren and Kate Richards O'Hare.
- DATE RANGE: 1915-1951
- ITEM COUNT: 4,286 items
- Papers of labor leader Powers Hapgood. Includes correspondence with labor leaders, union members and other persons interested in the labor movement and drafts of articles relating to labor by Powers Hapgood.
- DATE RANGE: 1912-1975
- ITEM COUNT: 359 items
- Correspondence and writings of Mary Donovan Hapgood, socialist leader, and also of her husband, labor leader Powers Hapgood. Mary Donovan Hapgood was nominated for the office of governor of Massachusetts by the Socialist Party. Also of interest is the separate group of Hapgood-Sacco- Vanzetti papers which consists of letters written by shoemaker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti who were accused of murder. Mary Donovan Hapgood was the recording secretary for the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Fund.
- DATE RANGE: 1932-1935
- ITEM COUNT: 6 items
- Papers of sociologist Robert Hunter. Includes "Memoirs" of Robert Hunter which consists of reminiscences of prominent persons he knew including Jane Addams, Eugene Victor Debs, Maksim Gorkii, and Ilia L'vovich Tolstoi.
- Of interest: "Report on the Subject of Employment" by Josiah Kirby Lilly dated 1916. This bears a quotation by J.K. Lilly Sr., and J.K. Lilly, Jr. on the value of employees to a company.
- DATE RANGE: 1924-1956
- ITEM COUNT: 300 items
- Papers of John Kaley Jennings, Indiana WPA administrator. In 1931 Jennings became the Chairman of the Unemployment Relief Agency, one of the first work relief programs in the nation. Jennings was also Chairman of the Tax Adjustment Board, WPA District Director and then became State Director of the War Manpower Commission. The bulk of the material covers his public service.
- DATE RANGE: 1906-1969
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 3,500 items
- Correspondence and writings of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, diplomat and writer. He joined the British Foreign Office and was posted as vice-consul to Moscow in 1912. He was named head of a special mission to the Bolsheviks in 1918 where he was soon arrested and imprisoned in the Kremlin, and later condemned to death for the attempted assassination of Lenin. His Memoirs of a British Agent, published in 1932, was based on his Russian experience and became a best seller.
- DATE RANGE: 1899-1955
- ITEM COUNT: 31,922 items
- Papers of Paul Vories McNutt, lawyer, governor of Indiana and federal official. McNutt was a Federal security administrator, 1939-1942 and Chairman of the War manpower commission, 1942-1945.
- DATE RANGE: 1934-1977
- ITEM COUNT: 1,825 items
- Papers of Taulman Allaire Miller, professor of economics at Indiana University. Includes his dissertation, "Economic Effects of the Experience Rating Provisions of the Indiana Employment Security Act", and a history of the Connecticut National Recovery Administration office for 1933-1935.
- DATE RANGE: 1919-1966
- ITEM COUNT: 1,983 items
- Papers of social service worker Ruth Crawford Mitchell. Includes reports from when she served as the director of the unit in charge of the Social Survey of Prague sponsored by the War Council of the Y.W.C.A. in 1919. Also included are letters and reports on the communist party dated 1946-1948 and various material pertaining to Czechoslovakian affairs.
- DATE RANGE: 1938-1944
- ITEM COUNT: 21 items
- Letters and papers extracted from books collected by author Boris Ivanovich Nikolaevskii. Known as a famous Russian revolutionary of pre-Revolutionary days, he was a collector of materials on socialist and revolutionary movements.
- DATE RANGE: 1924-1963
- ITEM COUNT: 30,000 items
- Papers of playwright Clifford Odets. Regarded as one of the most gifted of the American social-protest dramatists of the 1930s. Odets is known for his "Waiting for Lefty", a drama about the awakening of the impoverished working classes. Included is some material from when Odets was investigated by the House Committee on Un-American Activities for his alleged Communist connections.
- DATE RANGE: 1894-1985
- ITEM COUNT: ca. 12,000 items
- Writings of poet Bonaro Overstreet and philosopher Harry Allen Overstreet. Includes "What We Must Know About Communism", "The Iron Curtain" and "The FBI in our Open Society". Included in Overstreet mss. III is material concerning the Overstreets investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and their supposed Communist connections.
- DATE RANGE: 1868-1928
- ITEM COUNT: 20,000 items
- Papers of Samuel Moffett Ralston, Indiana Governor and U.S. Senator. The bulk of the material covers the gubernatorial and senatorial period. Some of the subjects include the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company Strike of 1913 and corrupt election practices.
- DATE RANGE: 1895-1930
- ITEM COUNT: 47 items
- Letters from author Booth Tarkington to Herbert Milton Rogers, former classmate of Tarkington at Princeton. The letters relate to personal matters including the Indianapolis branch of the American Rights Committee in which Tarkington was active in 1916 and comments about Floyd Dell and John Reed among others.
- DATE RANGE: 1813-1967
- ITEM COUNT: 178,954 items
- Papers of novelist Upton Beall Sinclair. The correspondents include literary figures, politicians and other notable individuals. See also Sinclair II - VI for additional material.
- DATE RANGE: 1900-1957
- ITEM COUNT: 201 items
- Correspondence of Communist leader Lev Trotskii and author Max Eastman during the period when Eastman was preparing his book about Trotskii in 1922 and 1923 and later when he served unofficially as Trotskii's literary agent from 1929 to 1933. Also included is other material pertaining to Trotskii.
- Of interest is a 1933 copy of a document from the National Executive Committee of the U.S. Socialist Party announcing that the disruptionist tactics of the Communist Party has forced it to withdraw from participation in the U.S. congress against war.
- DATE RANGE: 1917-1977
- ITEM COUNT: 654 items
- Papers of author Louis Untermeyer. Includes collected materials concerning the blacklisting of writers.
- DATE RANGE: 1921-1940
- ITEM COUNT: 1,560 items
- Correspondence of former Russian Socialist leader and author, Mark Veniaminovich Vishniak as editor of the Russian periodical Sovremennye Zapiski (Contemporary Review).
- DATE RANGE: 1912-1920
- ITEM COUNT: 18 items
- Letters from socialist leader Eugene Victor Debs to cartoonist Ryan Walker and author Maud Helena Davis Walker. Included are also two letters from labor leader Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones).
- DATE RANGE: 1910-1948
- ITEM COUNT: 72 items
- Letters from socialist leader Eugene Victor Debs and author Fred D. Warren. The correspondence is chiefly concerned with articles for the Appeal to Reason.
- DATE RANGE: 1899-1957
- ITEM COUNT: 22,232 items
- Correspondence and papers of educator William Albert Wirt and his wife, teacher Mildred Harter Wirt. In 1934 Wirt wrote a booklet America Must Lose, in which he asserted that there was a deliberately conceived plot among some of the New Deal leftists to overthrow the establishment and substitute a planned economy. This resulted in a congressional investigation by the Bulwinkle committee and the collection holds some papers from 1933 to 1935 which deal with the Bulwinkle committee investigation.