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Steel - Communists, Negroes, Handbills, Miscellaneous, 1918-1943

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 35

Scope and Contents

Handbills: ("Colored Steel Workers", "CIO Steel Workers Mass Meeting", "Steel Workers - Are You Satisfied?" by Steel Workers Organizing Committee, "What's the Score? On Negotiations" by United Steelworkers); "General Report on Steel Strike Relief Fund," by William Z. Foster, Secretary-Treasurer, National Committee for Organizing Iron and Steel Workers, January 31, 1920 and report on newly organized steel workers by location and trade from August 1, 1918 to January 31, 1920, by William Z. Foster; letter from John P. Davis, National Secretary, National Negro Congress, to William Mitch, United Mine Workers re organizing black steel workers, October 12, 1936; numerous memoranda by V.R. Tompkins (most unsigned), some addressed to AFL Metal Trades Department Director John Frey, re Communist party activity within Steel Workers Organizing Committee, 1936-1937; miscellaneous memoranda re SWOC activities, 1936; miscellaneous papers

Dates

  • 1918-1943

Language of Materials

Collection material in English, French, German, Italian, Russian

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

16.67 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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