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National Policy Committee Reports and Memoranda

 Collection
Identifier: 5248

Scope and Contents

Include memoranda concerning National Policy Committee dinners and reports of meetings at which were discussed political and economic issues confronting the post-war world. Include memoranda regarding NPC dinners in Washington, D.C. and New York in 1944. Matters discussed include the Dumbarton Oaks Proposal; economic controls and economic freedom; post-war international trade; manpower; price controls; surpluses, reconversion to peacetime industrial pursuits; the press and radio in wartime; the presidential election campaign; and the future of industrial risk.



Include reports of NPC sessions (1943-1945) held in Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, New York, Topeka, and Billings, Mont. Topics include international civil aviation; the post-war world; world peace; Bretton Woods monetary proposals; food problems in times of war and peace; and post-war problems in education, among others.

Dates

  • 1943-1945

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

The National Policy Committee (NPC) was founded in 1935 by a group of men and women representing management, labor and the general public, who were interested in promoting discussions on the "due process of policy making which is centrally important to the democratic procedure."

The NPC organized meetings from 1935 to 1947, in various locations in the United States, in order to supply the public with information on issues of regional and national interest; to stimulate discussions of public interest in preparation for political decision making; to facilitate exchange of information; to encourage public participation in political decision making; to "ensure the translation of political thought into political action; and to work towards a national policy based on general interest rather than special interest."

Extent

0.5 cubic feet

Abstract

Reports and memoranda of the National Policy Committee.

Quantity:

0.5 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Memorandums, records (documents) .

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
Compiled by:
R. Miles, June 06, 2013
EAD encoding:
Kheel Staff, March 08, 2019
Title
National Policy Committee Reports and Memoranda
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by R. Miles
Date
March 08, 2019
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

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

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853