Smith, Edwin S. Papers, 1903-1978
Collection Number: 5549

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Edwin S. Smith Papers, 1903-1978
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5549
Abstract:
Correspondence, poetry, manuscripts, transcripts and papers collected and written by Edwin S. Smith.
Creator:
Smith, Edwin S.
Quanitities:
11 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

1891 Born November 12th, Brookline, Massachusetts
1915 Harvard University, A.B. Degree
1915-17 Newspaper reporter in Hartford and Springfield
Married Marion Long (October 20,1917), Framingham, Massachusetts
Conducted research on industrial relations at Dennison Manufacturing Company and for the Russell Sage Foundation
1924-30 Personnel Manager, Filene's Department Store
Personal Assistant to A. Lincoln Filene
1930-33 Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries
1933 Official Observer to the International Labor Conference in Geneva
1933-34 Member, National Labor Board under the National Recovery Act
1934-41 Member, National Labor Relations Board under the National Labor Relations Act
1941-42 National Director, Oil Workers Organizing Campaign, CIO
1942-45 Executive Director, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship
1947-49 Teacher of History, Putney School, Vermont
1949-52 Director, National Teachers Division, United Public Workers of America
1952-64 Owner and Manager, Am-Rus Literary and Music Agency, also Sovfoto and Eastfoto Agency
1964 Retired to Sag Harbor, New York
1976 November 27th, died at age 85

This is a collection of correspondence, poetry, manuscripts, transcripts and papers collected and written by Edwin S. Smith.
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Edwin S. Smith Papers #5549. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Smith, Edwin S.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Personal Papers
Sub-Series A. Correspondence 1925-1974
Box 1 Folder 1
Correspondence
1925-1935
Scope and Contents
Includes personal letter to "Dunny ..." discussing Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" and "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego"; poetry from Henry S. Dennison; Correspondence with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Governor of the State of New York, and as President of the United States) regarding Smith's appointments to the positions of Massachusetts Commissioner of Labor and Industries (1931) and Executive Member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) (1934); Smith's letter of resignation from the NLRB to President Roosevelt and abbreviated version to Frances Perkins (Secretary of Labor).
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence
1936
Scope and Contents
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.
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondence
1938-1949
Scope and Contents
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).
Box 1 Folder 4
Correspondence
1940-1948
Scope and Contents
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.
Box 1 Folder 5
Correspondence
1956-1959
Scope and Contents
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.
Box 1 Folder 6
Correspondence
1960
Scope and Contents
Copy of Edwin Smith's "A Thoreau for Today" (Mainstream, April 1960) and related correspondence from: Paul Sherman (author of The Shores of America, Thoreau's Exploration), Leslie C. Dunn (Professor, Dept. of Zoology, Columbia University), Dirk Struck, Leo Stoller and Lola S. Haverstick.
Box 1 Folder 7
Correspondence
1961
Scope and Contents
Personal correspondence from Mary Van Kleeck; Copy of editorial entitled "Comment on Harvey Swados' `The West Coast Waterfront' Dissent, Autumn 1961" (10pp), sent to Smith by Lincoln Fairley (Research Director, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.)
Box 1 Folder 8
Correspondence
1962
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Lincoln Fairley regarding Mechanization and Modernization Agreement funds; Copy to Edwin Smith of Ernest DeMaio's (President, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America) letter to Raymond Dennis (International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Toronto, Canada) concerning the Common Market's impact on the U.S. economy; table of Man-Days Lost Through Industrial Disputes in Selected Industries in France and Germany.
Box 1 Folder 9
Correspondence
1962
Scope and Contents
George Meany's opening remarks before the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions; Excerpt of M. J. Furay's manuscript The Forces And Events Which Led To The Institutionalization Of Unions In The American Way Of Life And The Impact Of That Process Upon Our Society And Culture (8pp); correspondence from Dr. Charles P. Larrowe and Lincoln Fairley regarding Smith's prospectus for his manuscript History of Labor.
Box 1 Folder 10
Correspondence
1963-1965
Scope and Contents
Lengthy criticism of Michael Eisner's (possibly a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin) manuscript discussing the role William Leiserson played on the NLRB (12pp); personal letter from Harvard classmate Carlyle Morris; hate mail from reactionaries.
Box 1 Folder 11
Correspondence
1965
Scope and Contents
Report entitled Deregistration of "D" Men, San Francisco, 1963-1964 (15pp); to Lincoln Fairley summarizing "leading ideas" discussed in Smith's manuscript History of Labor (4pp).
Box 1 Folder 12
Correspondence
1966-1969
Scope and Contents
To Hon. J. William Fulbright (Senator, Foreign Relations Committee) commending the committee on hearings it conducted regarding American military operations in Vietnam; Joseph Polowsky's (member, 1st American army patrol to meet the Soviet army at the Elbe River in Germany on 3/25/45) proposed resolution recommending the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council celebrate April 25 as a holiday of reconciliation, cooperation and rededication; letter of support to Senator Eugene McCarthy in his campaign for the Presidency; copy of letter to Coretta Scott King (Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr.) from John W. Willoughby (Friends of the Library of Southampton College) requesting permission to name a collection on Black history and culture "The Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection".
Box 1 Folder 13
Correspondence
1970-1971
Scope and Contents
Personal correspondence between Edwin Smith and Mark Heming (friend from Sag Harbor). Includes Heming's accounts of his experiences in London.
Box 1 Folder 14
Correspondence
1972-1974
Scope and Contents
Personal correspondence between Edwin Smith and Mark Heming. Includes a discussion of Nixon and Watergate, as well as Smith's review of a film on the Chinese Communist Revolution. Personal letter from Thomas I. Emerson (Yale University Law School, formerly of the NLRB); poetry exchange with Marian Curtiss; personal letter from Moses Soyer (friend and member of the Artists Committee of the National Council of American Soviet Friendship) regarding "Ida".
Sub-Series B. Speeches, 1905-1950
Box 1 Folder 15
Speeches
1905-1932
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 1: The Lumber Dealer Needs Cooperative Research
1928
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
1/26/28.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 2: Will Ethical Practices Help Solve Merchandising Problems
1928
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the New England Section of National Association of Stationers, Manufacturers and Office Outfitters. 2/1/2028.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 3: How A Northern Democrat Feels About The Future
1929
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
3/5/29.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 4: What Employers Can Do To Prevent Unemployment
1931
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
1/15/31.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 5: Untitled Address (before the Women's Educational and Industrial Union)
1903
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
4/17/03.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 6: The Problem of Stabilized Employment
1931
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Given at the annual convention of the Association of Government Officials in Industry of the United States and Canada. 5/20/1931.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 7: State Leadership Toward The Prevention of Unemployment, Massachusetts Commission on the Stabilization of Employment
1931
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Massachusetts Conference of Social Work. 9/25/31.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 8: Untitled Address
1932
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
At the annual state conference of the Massachusetts Safety Council. 4/20/32.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 9: Radio Address
1932
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Boston American. 5/37/32.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 10: Extract of Address
1932
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the annual convention of state branch [Massachusetts], American Federation of Labor. 8/1/1932.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 11: Inspectors' Function in Promoting Employees Training and Education in Reducing Work Injuries
1905
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
4/15/1905.
Box 1 Folder 15
Item 12: The Relationship of the Massachusetts Courts to the Forty-Four Hour Law
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
(n.d.).
Box 1 Folder 16
Speeches
1933
Box 1 Folder 16
Item 1: Opening Address
1933
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Second Interstate Conference on Labor Laws. 1/27/1933.
Box 1 Folder 16
Item 2: Radio Talk
1933
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
New England Council. 2/7/1933.
Box 1 Folder 16
Item 3: The Labor Department Inspector's Part in Promoting Employee Education for Prevention of Work Injuries
1933
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Fourth Annual Greater New York Safety Conference. 3/1/33.
Box 1 Folder 16
Item 4: A Defense of the Thirty-Hour Bill
1933
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
4/21/1933.
Box 1 Folder 16
Item 5: Untitled Address
1933
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the American Federation of Labor Convention at Springfield. 8/7/1933.
Box 1 Folder 16
Item 6: Meeting at Taunton
1933
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Discharged Moulders. 8/30/1933.
Box 1 Folder 17
Speeches
1934
Box 1 Folder 17
Item 1: Section 7 (A)
1934
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the New England Conference. 11/23/34.
Box 1 Folder 18
Speeches
1935
Box 1 Folder 18
Item 1: Radio Address
1935
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Ft. Worth, Texas. 2/7/1935.
Box 1 Folder 18
Item 2: Press Release of Speech
1935
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Regional Labor Board, 7th District, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2/7/1935.
Box 1 Folder 18
Item 3: Press Release of Speech
1935
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Regional Labor Board, 13th District, Ft. Worth, Texas. 2/8/1935.
Box 1 Folder 18
Item 4: Untitled Address
1935
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Consumers League of Massachusetts. 3/8/1935.
Box 1 Folder 18
Item 5: Notes on Company Unions
1935
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Testimony on the Wagner Bill. 3/18/35.
Box 1 Folder 18
Item 6: Should Government Foster Organization of Labor?
1935
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco. 5/10/1935.
Box 1 Folder 19
Speeches
1936
Box 1 Folder 19
Item 1: Statement
1936
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before Hearings of Subcommittee, on Senate Resolution 266. 4/23/1936.
Box 1 Folder 19
Item 2: Statement for release in next issue of Labor
1936
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
5/23/36.
Box 1 Folder 19
Item 3: Portland Radio Talk
1936
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
5/36.
Box 1 Folder 19
Item 4: Untitled Speech
1936
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor, New Bedford. 8/4/1936.
Box 1 Folder 20
Speeches
1937
Box 1 Folder 20
Item 1: Untitled Address
1937
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the American Federation of Hosiery Workers Convention. 1/28/1937.
Box 1 Folder 20
Item 2: Untitled Address
1937
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the National Conference of Social Work, Indianapolis, Indiana. 5/28/1937.
Box 1 Folder 20
Item 3: Adjustment of Industrial Disputes
1937
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the International Association of Governmental Labor Officials, Toronto. 9/1/1937.
Box 1 Folder 20
Item 4: How the National Labor Relations Board Administers the Wagner Act
1937
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
24th Annual National Business Conference, Babson's Institute, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts 10/6/37.
Box 1 Folder 20
Item 5: Excerpt from Address
1937
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Associated Industries of New York State, Inc. 11/11/1937.
Box 1 Folder 21
Speeches
1938
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 1: Civil Rights for Labor
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the American Civil Liberties Union. 1/4/1938.
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 2: The Demand for Regulation of Labor Unions
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the International Juridical Association. 1/15/1938.
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 3: The National Labor Relations Act - Guardian of Democracy
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Carolina Political Union, Durham, North Carolina. 3/30/1938.
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 4: The Drive Against the National Labor Relations Board
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the 2nd Convention of the United Office and Professional Workers of America. 5/21/1938.
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 5: Extracts from Speech
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the convention of Oil Workers International Union, Houston, Texas. 6/7/38.
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 6: Excerpts from Talk
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the San Antonio Manufacturers Association. 6/8/38.
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 7: The National Labor Relations Board and Business
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Harvard Business School Alumni Association. 6/18/1938.
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 8: Untitled Speech
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the American Communications Association Convention. 7/22/38.
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 9: Statement of Board Member Edwin S. Smith
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
re William Green's attack. 8/6/1938.
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 10: Government and the Trade Unions - An Analysis of Experience in Administering the National Labor Relations Act
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the International Industrial Relations Institute Regional Study Conference, Mexico City. 9/3/38.
Box 1 Folder 21
Item 11: Excerpts from Speeches regarding the courts
1938
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Massachusetts Conference of Social Work. 11/30/1938.
Box 1 Folder 22
Speeches
1939
Box 1 Folder 22
Item 1: The National Labor Relations Act in the Democratic Crisis
1939
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Church League for Industrial Democracy, Boston, Massachusetts. 2/13/1939.
Box 1 Folder 22
Item 2: Excerpts from Speech
1939
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Presented at a town meeting on the National Labor Relations Act, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 3/30/1939.
Box 1 Folder 22
Item 3: What Sort of Liberalism Do We Want?
1939
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Liberal Club Conference, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. 5/5/1939.
Box 1 Folder 22
Item 4: Statement
1939
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor in connection with proposed amendments to the National Labor Relations Act. 6/5/1939.
Box 1 Folder 22
Item 5: Untitled Address
1939
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
At the 5th Convention of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. 9/5/1939.
Box 1 Folder 22
Item 6: Untitled Address
1939
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Second Annual Biennial Convention of Transport Workers Union. 9/20/1939.
Box 1 Folder 23
Speeches
1940
Box 1 Folder 23
Item 1: Civil Liberties in the Present Crisis
1940
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Civil Liberties Committee of Massachusetts. 1/27/1940.
Box 1 Folder 23
Item 2: The National Labor Relations Board
1940
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Harvard Law School Students. 3/8/1940.
Box 1 Folder 23
Item 3: Civil Liberties and National Defense
1940
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the National Conference on Constitutional Liberties in America. 6/9/1940.
Box 1 Folder 23
Item 4: Statement
1940
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the House Committee on Labor in connection with proposed amendments to the National Labor Relations Act. 7/40.
Box 1 Folder 23
Item 5: Untitled Address
1940
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the convention of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Denver, Colorado. 8/5/40.
Box 1 Folder 23
Item 6: Untitled Address
1940
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Committee for People's Rights, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 10/15/1940.
Box 1 Folder 23
Item 7: The National Labor Relations Act and Its Administration
1940
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. 10/31/1940.
Box 1 Folder 23
Item 8: Untitled Address
1940
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the State Convention of Maryland and District of Columbia Industrial Union Council, Hagerstown, Maryland. 12/14/1940.
Box 1 Folder 24
Speeches
1941-1942
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 1: The National Labor Relations Act and Its Administration
1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Harvard, Yale and Princeton Engineering Associations, La Guardia Airport. 1/17/1941.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 2: Democracy in Crisis
1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the New York Conference for Inalienable Rights, New York City. 2/14/1941.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 3: Address at the Lawyers Guild Dinner in Honor of Judge J. Warren Madden
1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
2/22/1941.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 4: Democracy and Academic Freedom
1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Testimonial Dinner to Dr. Franz Boas. 3/12/1941.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 5: Untitled Address
1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the annual luncheon meeting of the New York College Teachers Union. 5/3/41.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 6: The Current Attack on Our Civil Liberties
1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the 5th annual convention of the National Lawyers Guild, Detroit, Michigan. 5/31/1941.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 7: The Newspaper Guild and the Wagner Act
1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the 8th annual convention of the American Newspaper Guild, Detroit, Michigan. 6/25/1941.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 8: The Significance of Labor Day 1941
1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Western Maryland Labor Day Celebration, Cumberland, Maryland. 9/1/1941.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 9: Labor in the Present Crisis
1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the annual convention of the Transport Workers Union of America, New York City. 9/24/1941.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 10: The War and Labor's Civil Rights
1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before the Education Conference of the Indiana State Industrial Union Council. 12/14/1941.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 11: Statement in Reply to Final Report of the Special Committee to Investigate the National Labor Relations Board
1905
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
4/24/1905.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 12: Labor and the War
1942
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Delivered at the Anniversary Dinner of the International Juridical Association. 3/2/1942.
Box 1 Folder 24
Item 13: Labor, the War and the Poll Tax
1942
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Before Jefferson's Birthday Meeting of the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax. 4/13/1942.
Box 1 Folder 25
Speeches
1950-1953
Box 1 Folder 25
Item 1: Untitled Address
1950
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Delivered at the New York University Symposium, sponsored by the Young Progressives of America. 5/17/1950.
Box 1 Folder 25
Item 2: Testimony of Smith before Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act And Other Internal Security Laws.
1953
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
5/21/1953.
Box 1 Folder 25
Item 3: Civil Liberties in the Present Crisis
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
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.
Box 1 Folder 26
Articles and Speeches Indexes:
1928-1941
Scope and Contents
Smith's chronological listing of "Groups Before Which Edwin S. Smith Has Spoken." Also handwritten list of speeches and articles. Typed list of speeches.
Box 1 Folder 26
Item 1: Articles and Speeches Indexes:
1928-1941
Format: Speech
Scope and Contents
Smith's chronological listing of "Groups Before Which Edwin S. Smith Has Spoken." Also handwritten list of speeches and articles. Typed list of speeches.
Sub-Series C. Writings
Box 1 Folder 26a
Burdenz, Louis.
Scope and Contents
Series of 10 articles written by Smith on Burdenz and the Communist Party.
Box 1 Folder 27-29
Civil Liberties of Teachers.
1949-1951
Scope and Contents
Drafts of eight articles relating to violations of academic freedom. Includes discussion of the Feinberg Acts and loyalty oaths; letters to the New York Times Editor; testimony at the hearings on the Master Plan of the Board of Trustees, State University of New York, Albany; statement on the Interrogation of Teachers Union Officials by Superintendent of Schools William Jansen; statement entitled Support of Foreign Teachers for New York Teachers Union in Its Struggle Against Timone Resolution and Suspension of 8 Teachers; "What's Happening to Your Children, Your School and Your Teachers" March of Labor.
Box 1 Folder 30-35
Coal Industry.
1949
Scope and Contents
Drafts and final copies of ten articles written for The Daily Compass, examining the conditions under which miners live and work.
Box 1 Folder 36-42
CIO.
1949
Scope and Contents
Drafts and final versions of four articles written for The Daily Compass, the series entitled "The CIO in Crisis". Includes discussion of the CIO and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). Paper entitled "Labor Gains Recognition" concerns CIO strikes in 1935.
Box 1 Folder 43-44
History of Labor.
1962
Scope and Contents
Early format of manuscript includes annotated, edited drafts of forward; some of the text (annotated) which is divided into Books I, II, and III, containing chapters I and II, IV, VI respectively.
Box 1 Folder 45-46
History of Labor.
1962
Scope and Contents
Includes revised draft of forward; early list of chapter headings and revised list of chapter headings.
Box 1 Folder 47-63
History of Labor.
1962
Scope and Contents
Chapters I-XXX; Over 800 pages of typewritten text, surveying American labor history from Colonial times up to the Cold War era. Very little editing, possibly a near final version of the manuscript.
Box 2 Folder 1-8
History of Labor.
1962
Scope and Contents
Chapters XXXI-XXXVIII; same as above.
Box 2 Folder 9-12
History of Labor.
1962
Scope and Contents
Bibliography
Box 2 Folder 13-14
History of Labor.
1962
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous draft of correspondence; discussion of automation; discussion of racial discrimination.
Box 2 Folder 15
Interviews with Labor Officials and Industrialists. [folder 1 of 4]
1946-1963
Scope and Contents
Summaries and excerpts of interviews are arranged alphabetically and extend from one paragraph to six pages. Discussions appear to correspond to researcher subject files, and may well be related to various writing projects. Index.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 1: Interviews with Labor Officials and Industrialists.
1946-1963
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
Summaries and excerpts of interviews are arranged alphabetically and extend from one paragraph to six pages. Discussions appear to correspond to researcher subject files, and may well be related to various writing projects. Index.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 2: Aaron, Benjamin (with Irving Bernstein, and Fred Myers)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/29/1961.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 3: Abner, Willoughby
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
6/7/1962.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 4: Allard, John F. (2nd in command of auto workers of Los Angeles area)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
12/1/1961.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 5: Annand, John (Teamsters, heads S. Cal. District Council)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
Nov- 62.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 6: Barkin, Solomon (TWUA)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/8/1961.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 7: Block, Joseph (Division of Wages and Industrial Relations, Dept. of Labor)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
12/23/1962.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 8: Bridges, Harry (and Goldblatt)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/17/1961.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 9: Cantfil, William (Ass't Dir. Labor Management Reports)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
1/28/1962.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 10: Chennault, ... (in charge of Compliance and Enforcement)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
1/28/1962.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 11: Daugherty, James (S. Cal. Rep. for Mine, Mill)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
Dec-61.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 12: De Lacy, Hugh
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/30/1961.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 13: Denise, ... (Vice-President of Ford Co. in charge of Labor Relations) (3/27/62)
1962
Format: Interview
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 14: Doherty, William C. Jr. (Director, Social Projects Department, The American Institute for Free Labor Development)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/13/1962.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 15: Donner, Frank
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
10/30/1961.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 16: Erikila, Reino (President, ILWU, Local 10, San Francisco)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/20/1961.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 17: Fairley, Lincoln (and Sidney Rogers)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/17/61,11/23/61.
Box 2 Folder 15
Item 18: Fitzgerald, ...
1946-1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
c.1946, 4/4/62.
Box 2 Folder 16
Interviews with Labor Officials and Industrialists. [folder 2 of 4]
1946-1963
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 1: Flaxner, Abe
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
1/22/1962.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 2: Fowler. C.D.
1963
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
7/21/1963.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 3: Goldblatt, Lou
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
12/7/1961.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 4: Golden, Ben
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
2/27/1962.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 5: Goldenthal, ... (European Common Market Development Corp.)
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
n.d.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 6: Goodman, Ernie (and Philo)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
3/27/1962.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 7: Grace, W.R.
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
n.d.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 8: Hackler, Charles (formerly of NLRB, now lawyer for Teamsters Council of S. Cal.)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/28/1961.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 9: Haessler, Carl (auto history)
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
n.d.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 10: Helstein, Ralph (President, UPWA)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
6/6/1962.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 11: Hogue, Jo (Office Manager, Local 600, UAW)
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
no date.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 12: Holmes, ... (Head of Teamster local, Detroit)
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
no date.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 13: Huberman, Leo (and Paul Sweezy)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
10/18/1961.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 14: Johnson, Clyde (et al)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/22/1961.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 15: Karman, Marc (Educational Director, Amalgamated)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
8/13/1962.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 16: Kandal, Harry (UAW Diesel Plant)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
6/6/1962.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 17: Kenny, Robert
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/28/1961.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 18: Kiestler, Alan (Organizing Dept., AFL-CIO)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
1/29/1962.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 19: Lens, Sidney
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
6/7/1962.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 20: Lonergan, Edward M. (Ass't to Thomas Holleran, Trade Union Programs Division, Office of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Labor)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/13/1962.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 21: Lyndon, Richard (Sec'y Treas. Local 6, Warehouse ILWU)
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
no date.
Box 2 Folder 16
Item 22: Matles, Jim
1961-1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
10/31/61, 2/28/62.
Box 2 Folder 17
Interviews with Labor Officials and Industrialists. [folder 3 of 4]
1946-1963
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 1: Matles, Jim
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
3/13/1962.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 2: Mazey, Ernie
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
3/28/1962.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 3: Mc Elwain, Irwin (N.Y. Reg. Dir. NLRB) (n.d.)
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
no date.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 4: McTernan, Frank (Lawyer for Amalgamated Lithographers of America)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
Dec-61.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 5: Mills, Saul (AFL-CIO)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
1/23/1962.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 6: Myers, Blackie
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/18/61, 12/61.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 7: Natrella, Vito (Ass't Commissioner for Reports, Securities and Exchange Commission)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
1/28/1962.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 8: Nixon, Russ
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
10/25/61, 11/6/61.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 9: Peters, Edwin
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
no date.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 10: Pinski, Paul (and Virginia Wood)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
12/8/1961.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 11: Poyer, Bruce (Research Director, Western Conference of Teamsters)
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
Dec-61.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 12: Prosten, Jessie
1972
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
6/7/1972.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 13: Queen, Henry A. (Head of Investigators, Bureau of Labor Standards)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
1/28/1962.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 14: Randolph, A. Philip
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
2/13/1962.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 15: Ross (interview with assistant of Ross in International Division, AFL-CIO)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
1/30/1962.
Box 2 Folder 17
Item 16: Rowell, Ed (Head of Labor Attache Program, State Dept.)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/13/1962.
Box 2 Folder 18
Interviews with Labor Officials and Industrialists. [folder 4 of 4]
1946-1963
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 1: Sacharoff, Norris (Chief for Operations of the Labor Standards Bureau)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
1/28/1962.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 2: Seaton, (et al at GM in Detroit)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
3/26/1962.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 3: Selly, Joe (and Jeff Kyber and ... Bender)
Format: Interview
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 4: (10/18/61, 1/8/63)
1961-1963
Format: Interview
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 5: Schmidt, Henry
1961
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
Dec-61.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 6: Senter, William (Letter to the editor of WFTU fortnightly paper)
1951
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
12/5/1951.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 7: Shelton, ... (Division of Foreign Labor Conditions of the Labor Statistics Division of the Labor Department)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/9/1962.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 8: Skolnick, ... (Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
1/28/1962.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 9: Sturmthal, Adolph (Prof. of Economics, Bard College.)
1948
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. I, pp. 624-638, July 1948.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 10: Taylor, James (Liason man between Labor and State Departments)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/9/1962.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 11: Watts, Daniel (Liberation Committee for Africa)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
7/3/1962.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 12: Weinberg, Nat (UAW)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
3/28/1962.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 13: West, ... (Assistant to Mr. Warnat of the Statistic Div. of the Labor Department)
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
11/14/1962.
Box 2 Folder 18
Item 14: Witt, Nat
1962
Format: Interview
Scope and Contents
5/3/62, 5/17/62, 7/10/62.
Box 2 Folder 19
Poetry
1920-1960
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 1: The Worker
1960
Format: Poem
Scope and Contents
1/10/1960.
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 2: Walkers on the Beach
1920
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 3: The Lovers
1920
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 4: Rejected
1920
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 5: A Survivor
1920
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 6: The Young Poet
1920
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 7: Over the Tea Cups
1929
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 8: The End
1930
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 9: Unemployment
1930
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 10: On Seeing Prints by Hokusai, 1929
1930
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 11: To My Father: who died after a long illness
1930
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 12: Hospital Flowers
1930
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 13: To Dick Shaw
1930
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 14: A Chaplet of Haiku
1960
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 15: Life of the Humming Bird
1960
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 16: Hospital
1960
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 17: Viet Nam
1960
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 18: Little Marion
1960
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 19: Diana
1960
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 19
Item 20: Spring Campaign
1960
Format: Poem
Box 2 Folder 20
Proposal for a Study of Progressive Labor Unions
Scope and Contents
no date
Box 2 Folder 21-25
Soviet Union Trip.
1943-1945
Scope and Contents
Articles entitled "Trip to the Soviet Union" (9/45) and "Visit to Tolstoy Estate" (10/45); diaries and general notes (6/10/45-8/20/45) record detailed impressions of individuals, places and events (90+pp). Pamphlet (47p.) "Organized Labor in the Soviet Union." (1943)
Box 2 Folder 26
"The Problem of the Workless Child" Boys' Work Exchange (11/17/33); "What Workers and Employers Should Know About the National Labor Relations Act" reprint from Labor Information Bulletin (6/37).
1933-1937
Sub-Series D. Miscellaneous
Box 2 Folder 27
Biographical information; obituaries (1976-77); subpoena to appear before the Subcommittee on Internal Security of the Judiciary
1953-1977
Box 2 Folder 28-30c
Newspaper clippings.
1924-1976
Scope and Contents
Includes "Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings" which document Smith's career as Massachusetts Commissioner of Labor and Industries, and as Executive Member of the National Labor Relations Board. Many of the later clippings relate to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee's investigation of Smith and others.
Box 2 Folder 31
Photographs
Scope and Contents
no date
Box 2 Folder 32
Research Notes
Scope and Contents
no date
Box 2 Folder 33
Writings. Fragments of writings; tribute to Mary Bachelder Smith (Edwin Smith's aunt).
Scope and Contents
no date
Series II. Research Files
Box 2 Folder 34-41
AFL-CIO General
1961-1968
Box 2 Folder 42
African-Asian Conference
1964-1967
Box 2 Folder 43
AID
1963-1965
Box 2 Folder 4445
Agriculture and Agricultural Labor
1962-1967
Box 2 Folder 46-48
Alliance for Progress
1962-1966
Box 2 Folder 49-52
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
1962-1966
Box 2 Folder 53-55
American Institute for Free Labor Development
1960-1966
Box 2 Folder 56-58
Anti-Labor Propaganda - Bills and Laws
1962-1966
Box 2 Folder 59
Arbitration
1963-1967
Box 2 Folder 60-63
Asia
1963-1967
Box 2 Folder 64
Automation
1948-1965
Box 3 Folder 1-5
Automation
1955-1964
Box 3 Folder 6-9
Black Civil Rights Movement
1962-1967
Box 3 Folder 10
British Trade Unions
Scope and Contents
no date
Box 3 Folder 11-23
Books
1966-1967
Box 3 Folder 13
Budget
1964-1966
Box 3 Folder 14-19
Business Cycle and Business
1961-1966
Box 3 Folder 20-21
Canada. Benjamin Caplan's "Memorandum on the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act."
Scope and Contents
no date
Box 3 Folder 22
Catholic Action
Scope and Contents
no date
Box 3 Folder 23
Catholic Church
1960-1964
Box 3 Folder 24-28
CIA
1961-1967
Box 3 Folder 29
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)
1963
Box 3 Folder 30-31
China
1963-1966
Box 3 Folder 32
Christian International
1966
Box 3 Folder 33
Civil Liberties
1958-1966
Box 3 Folder 34-37
Cold War
1962-1969
Box 3 Folder 38-45
Collective Bargaining
1959-1966
Box 3 Folder 46
Comic Strip "Frontiers of Science"
1962-1963
Box 3 Folder 47
Common Market - Agriculture
1962-1965
Box 3 Folder 48-61
Common Market
1961-1962
Box 4 Folder 1-14
Common Market
1960-1963
Box 4 Folder 15
Common Market - Tariff
1962
Box 4 Folder 16
Community Services
1965-1966
Box 4 Folder 17-20
Corruption
1962-1965
Box 4 Folder 21
Cuba
1963
Box 4 Folder 22
Cuban Refugees
1960-1966
Box 4 Folder 23-24
Czechoslovakia
1968-1969
Box 4 Folder 25
Debs
1962
Box 4 Folder 26
Defense
1964-1967
Box 4 Folder 27
DeMaio, Ernest
1963-1964
Box 4 Folder 28
Depreciation
1962
Box 4 Folder 29-33
Developing Countries
1959-1965
Box 4 Folder 34-35
Disarmament
1961-1965
Box 4 Folder 36-58
Discrimination
1959-1967
Box 5 Folder 1
Donner
1962
Box 5 Folder 2
Economic Growth
1964
Box 5 Folder 3
Egypt
1962-1965
Box 5 Folder 4-8
Europe
1963-1967
Box 5 Folder 9
European Coal and Steel Industry
1963-1966
Box 5 Folder 10
European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
1963-1964
Box 5 Folder 11
European Trade Union Comm.
1961-1965
Box 5 Folder 12
FBI
1966
Box 5 Folder 13-16
Foreign Aid
1962-1967
Box 5 Folder 17
Foreign Aid (Labor)
1963-1966
Box 5 Folder 18-23
Foreign Labor
1962-1967
Box 5 Folder 24-25
Foreign Policy
1964-1965
Box 5 Folder 26
Foreign Trade
1964-1966
Box 5 Folder 27
General Motors
1964-1966
Box 5 Folder 28-35
Germany
1962-1970
Box 5 Folder 36-38
Germany
Scope and Contents
Benjamin Caplan's "Memorandum on Labor Courts with Special Reference to the German System" and "Memorandum on the German Postwar System of Arbitration."
Box 5 Folder 39
Gompers and Lincoln
1963-1964
Box 5 Folder 40
Government and Foreign Labor
1963-1964
Box 5 Folder 41
Government Aid to Business
1962-1963
Box 5 Folder 42-45
History
1960-1968
Box 5 Folder 46
Histradrut
1960-1963
Box 5 Folder 47
Hoffa Career - Corruption
1962
Box 5 Folder 48
Holland
1963
Box 5 Folder 49
Hunger
1962-1966
Box 5 Folder 50
Imperialism (modern)
1966
Box 5 Folder 51-52
Income
1961-1966
Box 5 Folder 53
International Bank
1964-1965
Box 5 Folder 54
International Banking
1963
Box 5 Folder 55
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
Scope and Contents
no date
Box 5 Folder 56-59
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
1962-1965
Box 5 Folder 60
International Federation of Plantation, Agricultural and Allied Workers (IFPAAW)
1963
Box 5 Folder 61-62
International Labor Organization (ILO)
1962-1966
Box 5 Folder 63-66
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU)
1962-1967
Box 5 Folder 67
International Monetary Fund
1963-1965
Box 5 Folder 68
International Trade and Development Corporation
1963-1964
Box 5 Folder 69
Internationals 1st and 2nd
1964
Box 5 Folder 70
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
1963-1965
Box 5 Folder 71-77
Japan
1962-1968
Box 6 Folder 1-6
Japan
1963-1966
Box 6 Folder 7-8
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
1964-1967
Box 6 Folder 9-10
Labor and Safety - Labor Attaches and Labor Dept. in Foreign Relations
1960-1963
Box 6 Folder 11
Labor Dept. (U.S.)
1960-1967
Box 6 Folder 12-13
Labor-Management Committee
1962-1965
Box 6 Folder 14
Labor-Management Cooperation
1961-1964
Box 6 Folder 15
Labor Visitors
1962-1964
Box 6 Folder 16-17
Landrum-Griffin Act
1960-1965
Box 6 Folder 18-53
Latin America
1961-1968
Box 7 Folder 1-16
Latin America
1961-1967
Box 7 Folder 17-21
Lenin
1917-1970
Box 7 Folder 22
Lewis, John L.
1963
Box 7 Folder 23
Lie Detectors, etc.
1964-1965
Box 7 Folder 24
Magdott
Scope and Contents
no date
Box 7 Folder 25
Malaysia
1964
Box 7 Folder 26
May Day
1965
Box 7 Folder 27
McCarran Act
1963
Box 7 Folder 28
McNamara, Robert
1964
Box 7 Folder 29-33
Meany, George
1964-1965
Box 7 Folder 34-35
Middle East
1963-1967
Box 7 Folder 36
Migration in Europe, Migration of Industry
1966-1967
Box 7 Folder 37
Millionaires
1963
Box 7 Folder 38
Miscellany
1950-1970
Box 7 Folder 39
Myrdal, Gunnar B.
1963
Box 7 Folder 40-41
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and Committee for Economic Development (CED)
1962-1963
Box 7 Folder 42
Neo-Colonialism
1963-1966
Box 7 Folder 43
Non-Aligned Nations
1964
Box 7 Folder 44
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
1964
Box 7 Folder 45
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
1963-1964
Box 7 Folder 46
Organization of American States (OAS)
1965
Box 7 Folder 47-58
Overseas Investment
1962-1968
Box 7 Folder 59-60
Peace
1961-1965
Box 7 Folder 61-62
Plant Removal
1962-1966
Box 7 Folder 63
Population
1961-1965
Box 8 Folder 1-3
Profit
1962-1966
Box 8 Folder 4-5
Profit Sharing
1962-1964
Box 8 Folder 6
Profit-Wages
1964-1967
Box 8 Folder 7
Progressive Party
1948
Box 8 Folder 8
Public Ownership
1961
Box 8 Folder 9
Public Works
1962
Box 8 Folder 10
Raiding
1961-1962
Box 8 Folder 11-12
Red Baiting
1962-1964
Box 8 Folder 13-15
Right to Work
1961-1965
Box 8 Folder 16
Rightists
1961-1963
Box 8 Folder 17-19
Santo Domingo
1965-1966
Box 8 Folder 20-21
Savings
1964-1969
Box 8 Folder 22
Scientific Management
1963
Box 8 Folder 23-24
Sino-Soviet Quarrel
1963-1965
Box 8 Folder 25
Sites Picketing
1965-1966
Box 8 Folder 26
Slavery
1965
Box 8 Folder 27
Social Security
1964-1967
Box 8 Folder 28
Socialists
1963-1966
Box 8 Folder 29
Stock Ownership
1964
Box 8 Folder 30
Thirty Hour Work Week
1963-1965
Box 8 Folder 31
Times (New York) News Summary
1963-1965
Box 8 Folder 32
Triple Revolution
1964-1965
Box 8 Folder 33
Undercover Agencies
1963
Box 8 Folder 34
Unions - Finances
1962-1965
Box 8 Folder 35-36
Unions - Foreign Policy AFL-CIO
1965-1967
Box 8 Folder 37
Unions - General
1964-1968
Box 8 Folder 38
Unions - Membership
1961-1966
Box 8 Folder 39-41
Unions - Politics
1961-1966
Box 8 Folder 42-47
Unions - Thirty Hour Week
1961-1964
Box 8 Folder 48
United Nations
1963-1965
Box 8 Folder 49
United Nations Trade and Development Conference
1964
Box 8 Folder 50-56
USSR
1947-1969
Box 8 Folder 57-62
Vietnam
1965-1966
Box 9 Folder 1-6
Vietnam
1965-1969
Box 9 Folder 7-8
Vietnam - Labor
1966-1972
Box 9 Folder 10-15
Wages and Wage Methods
1962-1967
Box 9 Folder 16
Western Europe
1963-1965
Box 9 Folder 17
Western European Unions
1963-1965
Box 9 Folder 18
World Bank
1963
Box 9 Folder 19
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)
1961-1963
Box 9 Folder 20
World Trade Conference
1963
Box 9 Folder 21
World Trade Union Unity
1964
Series III. History of the National Labor Relations Board
Box 10 Folder 1-42
Printed materials of the NLRB
Scope and Contents
Includes: executive orders, resolutions, statement of powers and jurisdiction, legal memoranda, legislative history of the NLRA, concurring opinions, decisions and dissents by Edwin Smith, rules and regulations, statements of procedure, and J.M. Landis' supplement to Cases on Labor Law, entitled Labor Law.
Series IV. Additional Papers 1932-1971
Sub-Series A. Correspondence
Box 11 Folder 1
Correspondence.
1945-1974
Scope and Contents
Braden, Mrs. Anne - correspondence re articles in Monthly Review re Mississippi Freedom Labor Union; Curtiss, Marion - personal; Duryea, Perry B., Jr., House Speaker - routine; Freeman, Harry - personal re Smith's trip to Soviet Union; Ginsburg, Herman R. - personal; Gronouski, John A. - routine to Postmaster General; Huberman, Leonard - personal; Johnson, Pres. Lyndon B. - re Vietnam War; Kennedy, Robert F. - re bill restricting foreign travel; Lewis, Dr. John - routine including Smith's article "A Reply To Cornforth on Cauldwell" (21 p.); Madden, Judge J. Warren - personal; Murdock, Rep. Abe - routine; Morris, Carlyle - personal; Pike, Rep. Otis - re foreign travel restrictions, re Vietnam War (c.c. Robert F. Kennedy and Jocab Javits); Rabinowitz - Louis Rabinowitz Foundation re proposal for grant to study American trade union movement; Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin D. - card invitation; Shanahan, Paul R. - correspondence with Kansas Secretary of State; Smith, Marion & Diana - personal to wife and daughter re Smith's Soviet Union trip (1945); Soyer, Moses - personal; Stowe, Helen - personal; Times - correspondence to editor re dispute mediation; Wallace, Mrs. Harry (Anne) - personal; Woods, Dorothy - personal; Miscellaneous personal correspondence - no full names.
Sub-Series B. Subject Files
Box 11 Folder 2
American Committee for Armenian Rights. Routine Correspondence, pamphlets, photographs.
1945-1950
Box 11 Folder 3
American Economics Association Essay. Industry - A Problem in Human Resources
1946-1950
Scope and Contents
Under pseudonym Frederick Adams - written shortly after college graduation.
Box 11 Folder 4
Berkshire Knitting Mills Strike (NLRB).
1932-1941
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with American Federation of Hosiery Workers; news releases; pamphlets; "Chaos vs. Order in the Hosiery Industry" - radio address by Pres. Emil Rieve.
Box 11 Folder 5-6
Federal Bureau of Investigations Deposition and Correspondence.
1941-1971
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Madden, Millis, Nathan Witt.
Box 11 Folder 7
Mexico City Conference - Federation of Latin American Workers.
1938-1946
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings re Pres. Cardenas; editorial "Encouragement for Cardenas"; "Red Labor Marches in Mexico" by Hartley W. Barclay; "Mexico, Our Good Red Neighbor" by Hartley W. Barclay; "America's Future - Mill and Factory"
Box 11 Folder 8-9
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.
1943-1945
Scope and Contents
Speeches and radio addresses including "American-Soviet Friendship for Peace and Economic Stability"; "American Labor's Stake in Allied Labor Unity"; "Importance of Friendship with the Soviet Union"
Box 11 Folder 10
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.
1943-1945
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook contents including photographs, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.
Box 11 Folder 11
Oil Workers Organizing Campaign.
1943-1978
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Clyde Johnson re book on subject; routine correspondence; photographs.
Box 11 Folder 12
Parish Art Museum.
1968
Scope and Contents
Routine correspondence, petitions, newspaper clippings re dismissal of George Perret as Museum Director.
Box 11 Folder 13
Poland Business Proposals.
1945-1947
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re Polish trade, etc. with M.D. Deutsch, Ambassador Oscar N. Lang, "Proposal for the Organization of Trade Between Central Europe and Latin America"; report to R.B. Roger of Rogers International Corp. re Polish Assignment, re Development of polish Business.
Box 11 Folder 14
Putney School.
1947-1949
Scope and Contents
Calendar of events; newspaper clippings; correspondence with school's director Carmelita Hinton re teaching, re Putney School Faculty Association, re teachers' strike and negotiations, re resignation; personal correspondence re resignation; routine.
Box 11 Folder 15
Southampton College Library for Black History.
1968-1975
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings; correspondence with Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. re Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection; correspondence to Harry Belafonte; pamphlets; speech by Smith re collection; routine.
Box 11 Folder 16
United Public Workers (Teachers' Division).
1949-1953
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Senator Claude Pepper from UPW Vice President Roy Eldean re Smith's appointment to Panama Canal Zone and denial of visa; correspondence re visa application and probe; correspondence re suspension of New York Teachers; "Jim Crow Discrimination Against U.S. Employees in the Canal Zone."
Sub-Series C. Miscellaneous
Box 11 Folder 17-21
Revised Drafts of History of Labor.
Scope and Contents
Includes reference notes re ICGTU, CISL, ERP, AFL-CIO conventions, UAW, miscellaneous.
Box 11 Folder 22-25
Miscellaneous Publications. Includes: NLRB "Written Trade Agreements in Collective Bargaining"; International Labor Conference Record of Proceedings 1933.
1933-1962