Labor unions and communism -- United States

Abstract Social and political issues of concern to the Joint Board as reflected in the minutes include relations with the Socialist Party, the imprisonment of Tom Mooney, the movement to create a Farmer-Labor Party, the plight of immigrants, economic downturns and the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. The Board supported Jewish charities, aid to Russia and various anti-fascist Italian movements. It also endorsed the La Follette-Wheeler ticket in the 1924 presidential campaign. The Joint Board opposed...

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Meeting minutes, 1919-1932; Broadsides, 1966

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Photocopies of correspondence between Brownie Lee Jones and Mary C. Barker, advisor to the Southern School for Workers, as well as suggested questions for an interview with Jones in 1976.

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This collection documents the origins and early history of the CIO as well as the dynamics of working-class militancy in the era of the Great Depression. The collection also provides a substantial amount of information concerning workers and trade unionism before the creation of the CIO and also after the UMWA's separation from the CIO in 1942.

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Consist of minutes, reports, correspondence, statements, and manuscripts relating to the early history of the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and to certain aspects of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, its successor.

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"The Making of A Rebel in America: An Unfinished Autobiography" by George James Saul (May 24, 1897-January 27, 1967), with an introduction by William Edward Saul.

Abstract This manuscript consists of approximately 110 type-written pages and represents the major portion of Mr. Pascoe's projected history of the United Mine Workers. The material here was written between 1926 and 1932. The manuscript deals mainly with Mr. Pascoe's early organizing activities in Kentucky and with the Illinois "rebellion" of the late twenties and early thirties. Mr. Pascoe's examination of the affair in Illinois differs from most other accounts in that he approaches the events from...

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Primarily correspondence, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and broadsides dealing with his activities as a leader in Local 22 (in Series I), as well as his other union and political activities (in Series II). Among the most significant material in the collection is correspondence documenting Zimmerman's activities with the Communist Party in the U.S. and its various factions and splinter groups, as well as other political organizations and figures.

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The collection includes images of important people in Local 22, along with images of sports and cultural events, parades, marches, strikes, meetings and educational programs.