Box 1
Contains 109 Results:
Item 13: Labor, the War and the Poll Tax, 1942 Request Item
Before Jefferson's Birthday Meeting of the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax. 4/13/1942.
Item 1: Untitled Address, 1950 Request Item
Delivered at the New York University Symposium, sponsored by the Young Progressives of America. 5/17/1950.
Item 2: Testimony of Smith before Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act And Other Internal Security Laws., 1953 Request Item
5/21/1953.
Item 3: Civil Liberties in the Present Crisis Request Item
Before a Mass Meeting of the National Action Conference for Civil Rights held under the auspices of the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties and the Washington Committee for Democratic Action) Untitled Speech (audience unknown and date incomplete.
Item 1: Articles and Speeches Indexes:, 1928-1941 Request Item
Smith's chronological listing of "Groups Before Which Edwin S. Smith Has Spoken." Also handwritten list of speeches and articles. Typed list of speeches.
Correspondence, 1925-1935 Request Item
Correspondence, 1936 Request Item
Substantial correspondence from officials of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers concerning the Berkshire Knitting Mills strike. Includes 13pp brief discussing wages, sex discrimination, and breakdown of collective bargaining. Also of interest are news releases describing Reading, Pennsylvania manufacturers' admiration for Hitler and fascist Germany's labor policies.
Correspondence, 1938-1949 Request Item
To Winston Churchill, Esq., M.P. regarding economic boycotts against fascist nations; Text of speech "The Basis of a Good Neighbor Policy" and related correspondence to Hon. Sumner Welles (Acting Secretary of State) and Ellis O. Briggs (Acting Chief, Division of the American Republics).
Correspondence, 1940-1948 Request Item
Lengthy (20pp+) correspondence documenting Edwin S. Smith's (Director, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc.) trip to the Soviet Union (6/45-7/45). Includes detailed account of early passenger aviation; descriptions of Tripoli, Cairo, Moscow and Kiev, as well as meetings with cultural heroes such as Prokoviev, Shostakovich, Kabalevsky and Eisenstein.
Correspondence, 1956-1959 Request Item
Subpoena to appear before Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives; Discussion of Edwin Smith's (Am-Rus Literary and Music Agency) review of books on Henry David Thoreau, from Walter Harding (Professor, Teachers College, Geneseo, N.Y.), Leo Stoller (Professor, Dept. of English, Wayne State University and author of After Walden) and Truman Nelson; from Edwin Smith to Dr. Annette Rubinstein regarding Jacksonian democracy and Thoreau.