Walter Gordon Merritt Papers

Consist of documents relating to court cases in which Merritt represented management and reprints of articles written by Merritt. Include legal documents (briefs, transcripts, petitions, and decisions) relating to cases brought before the Superior Court of Fairfax County, the United States District Court (Connecticut), United States Circuit Courts of Appeals (Connecticut, Arkansas, and New York), the State Supreme Court of New York, and the Supreme Court of the United States. These cases include: "Dietrich E. Loewe and Martin Fuchs vs. Martin Lawler et al." ("Danbury Hatters Case") (1906-1908); "The Lundoff-Bucknell Company vs. Charles B. Smith" (1911); "D.E. Loewe vs. The Savings Bank of Danbury" (n.d); "The Auburn Draying Company vs. William Wardell" (1913); "Louis Boussert and John Boussert vs. Frederick Dhuy, etc. et al." (1911-1912); "Abro J. Newton Company vs. Henry Erickson, William O'Grady, Frederick Dhuy, Harry Lea, individually and as Business Agents of the Joint District Council, etc." (1912); "Charles H. Finley, Receivor of Coronado Coal Company vs. United Mine Workers of America" (1920-1925); "Duplex Printing Press Company vs. Emil Deering" (1917); and "Hat Corporation of America vs. United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers Union et al." (second Danbury Hatters case) (1953). Reprints of articles and pamphlets by Merritt include his reflections on the open and closed shop, industrial liberty, social control, industrial welfare, cooperation between management and labor, factory solidarity as opposed to class solidarity, and labor legislation (1912-1923).