Box 11

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Includes statistics on Black unemployment and students in secondary schools of ten states receiving grand-in-aid including Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming.

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Routine internal administrative correspondence

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Includes statistics on salaries and staffing of Blacks in the Labor Department, United States Employment Service and the National Reemployment Service. Data from the Washington, DC Employment Service on job applicants and employee placements divided by race.

Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding the Labor Department's public policy concerning state conferences on Black employment problems; Memorandum to Lawrence A. Oxley, April 15, 1935, requesting a study of the decline in Black labor union membership during the depression. Author suggests the reason involves unemployment; Memorandum to A.F. Hinrichs, March 4, 1935, re National and International labor unions in the Construction Industry, affiliated and unaffiliated with the AFL in which discrimination...

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Correspondence and petitions from Blacks alleging racial discrimination and requesting to be sent to Africa

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Correspondence re procedure on arranging state conferences concerning Black employment problems. Requests for travel authorization to conferences concerning Blacks where the Labor Department's presence might have positive political influence for the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.

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Detailed accounts of Lawrence Oxley's action as Chief, Division of Black Labor.

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Correspondence and pamphlets, including general facilitative office correspondence to Perkins, Oxley, and other officials in the Labor Department. Contains routine solicitation for information on Black employment and general information on Secretary of Labor and the Labor Department.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports and pamphlets. Includes correspondence to Perkins and Oxley on discrimination against Blacks in employment. Statistics on Black workers and Black education. Reports to Perkins on the Division of Black Labor and speeches. Exchange on alleged discrimination against Blacks in Labor Department. Includes hostile correspondence from Black person relating to Black federal employees; Letter from General Counsel of International Association of Railroad Employees on...