CHARLES RUMFORD WALKER:

Walker was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1893 and served in World War I. His career included stints as assistant and associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1922-1923), the Independent (1924-1925), and The Bookman (1928-1929) and as research director for a number of organizations. His own writings were concerned with various aspects of automation and industrial history. He also translated a number of Sophocles' dramas and authored novels and other books, including American City, the focus of this collection. Walker married Adelaide Haley George in 1928 and died in 1974.

Additional biographical data is found in the first folder of the collection.

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Chapter drafts, notes, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles for chapters 2-6, 10, 11, and 14 of the volume give historical information on economic and political conditions in Minnesota and in Minneapolis; anti-union sentiment in Minneapolis; the rise of the Farmer-Labor Party; and James J. Hill, Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., and Floyd B. Olson. The rest of the collection contains interview notes on strike figures Karl Skoglund, Farrell Dobbs, and Vincent Dunne; a chronology of the strike; printed materials, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles regarding the Socialist and Communist parties; and some materials on three 1936 Minneapolis strikes: Gasoline Station Employees' Union Local 19802, Strutwear, and Northern Oats.

Walker's papers include correspondence between Herbert Solow and the editors of the New Republic on the 1934 strike (1934 and 1936), and two notebooks on the strike kept by Walker.

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These documents are organized into the following sections:

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Charles Rumford Walker Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples

Accession Information:

Accession number: 14,882

Processing Information:

Processed by: Miranda Nighbor, August 2002

Catalog ID number: 990017293140104294

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Communist parties -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Communists -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Labor disputes -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Labor movement -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Martial law -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Political parties -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Radicals -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Socialist parties -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Strikes and lockouts -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Third parties (United States politics).

Depressions -- 1929 -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Labor unions -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Truck Drivers' Strike, Minneapolis, Minn., 1934.

Persons:

Bevan, Aneurin.

Carlson, Grace, 1906-.

Chafee, Constance.

Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-.

Dobbs, Farrell, 1907-.

Dunne, Vincent R. (Vincent Raymond), 1889-1970.

Howe, Quincy, 1900-1977.

Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles August), 1859-1924.

Olson, Floyd Bjornstjerne, 1891-1936.

Skoglund, Karl, 1884-.

Solow, Herbert, 1903-1964.

Organizations:

Citizens Alliance of Minneapolis.

Communist Party.

Farmer-Labor Party (Minn.).

General Drivers, Helpers, Petroleum and Inside Workers Union. Local 574 (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Socialist Party (U.S.).

Socialist Workers Party.

Places:

Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Economic conditions.

Document Types:

Manuscripts for publication.

Occupations:

Authors, American.

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