Box 8

Includes "Proceedings, 1st Constitutional State Convention, IWO of Massachusetts, Held November 9 and 10, 1940," 17 p. mimeograph; correspondence between Sol Vail, Executive Secretary, New England District, Max Bedacht, General Secretary, and Sam Milgrom,

Correspondence between Harold Peters, New Haven organizer and later President of New Haven Lodge, and Sam Milgrom re recruitment and establishment of new lodge which was named "Frederick Douglass Society, IWO, Lodge 909."

Includes "Minutes, 5th Annual Convention, IWO, New Jersey, November 30th and December 1st, 1940," unpaged; correspondence between David Vines, Executive Secretary, New Jersey, IWO, and Milgrom and others re district budget; plans for the political campaign

Includes monthly program announcement for Lodge 500; lists of members of Hungarian, Carpatho-Russian, Greek, Roumanian, Yugoslavian, Puerto Rican, Spanish, Russian, Slovakian, and Italian members in New York City, 1942; correspondence with John Middleton,

Correspondence re support of the Price Control Bill; personnel problems with officers in Cleveland District; Toledo, Lodge 770 re problems with financial secretary office; Ohio District re political campaign for Roosevelt and state elections.

Correspondence re situation of IWO lodges in the Ohio Valley; 2 p. mimeograph of "Minutes, June 25, 1945, Cleveland City Committee of IWO"; also minutes for July 30, 1945 and September 24, 1945; and routine.

Correspondence re personnel needed for organizing in Ohio; plans for Health and Social Security Conference re bill, S. 1606; re organizing a City Central Committee in Youngstown; and routine.

Correspondence re recruiting drive in Ohio, largely correspondence with Cleveland City Committee; membership lists; and routine.

Correspondence form an organizer relating experiences of members dropping out because of fear; financial problems in lodges - Milgrom writes that expenses have to be cut; "Minutes of the City Central" (Cleveland), 2/10/47; from a member in Akron requesting

List of Anthracite Districts by lodge number, giving Secretary's name and number of members, June 1938; "Proceedings of the Anthracite Area, 5th District Convention of the IWO, November 9-10, 1940" and "Resolutions of the Anthracite Area, 1940"; correspond