SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY. MINNESOTA SECTION:
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Socialist Workers Party. Minnesota Section, creator. | |
| Title: | Socialist Workers Party records. | |
| Dates: | 1914-1980. | |
| Abstract: | Campaign literature, scrapbooks, form letters, bulletins, issues of party newspapers, pamphlets, and other materials generated or collected by the Socialist Workers Party, which was organized formally in 1938 to represent the Trotskyite branch of the American Communist Party. Most of the materials emanated from Socialist Workers party headquarters in New York City, although there are also items from Communist groups abroad and a small file (1962-1964) created by the Minnesota branch. | |
| Quantity: | 7.5 cubic feet (7 boxes) and 1 microfilm reel. | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
HISTORICAL NOTE
The Socialist Workers Party, although not formally organized under that name until January 1938, traces its beginnings to the formation of the American Communist Party in 1919. The latter party was composed of left-wing elements of the American Socialist Party. After the expulsion of Leon Trotsky from the Russian Communist party in 1927, the Communist groups supporting Trotsky were also expelled from the party (October 1928). In November 1928 the Trotskyite groups began the publication of a newspaper, The Militant, and continued to exist as a small splinter group of the American Communist Party. Some prominent leaders of the group at this time were James P. Cannon and Max Schactman. From 1928 to 1937 the Trotsky group was associated with the Socialist Party. In 1938 they broke with the Socialist Party and organized the Socialist Workers Party, which is still in existence as the Trotskyite branch of the Communist Party.
The Socialist Workers Party is of particular interest to Minnesota because of the party's involvement in the Minneapolis Truck Drivers' Strike of 1934. Trotskyites, who in the 1920s had been expelled from most of the regular unions, were in the early 1930s back into labor union groups as individual members, but not as leaders in the respective unions. By 1934 they were sufficiently strong in the coal workers' union and in the teamsters' union to challenge the Minneapolis business community, which had kept Minneapolis a non-union city for many years. This challenge culminated in the truck drivers' strike of May 1934. The strike brought to public attention a number of prominent Minnesota Trotskyite leaders: Farrell Dobbs, Carl Skoglund, and the Dunne brothers, Vincent, Grant, and Miles.
In the years between the 1934 strike and the outbreak of World War II, the Trotskyites lost control of the teamsters union in Minneapolis. First they were ousted from their positions in the union, partly as a result of factional disputes within the union between AFL and CIO leaders, with the AFL eventually gaining control. Then in 1941, in Minneapolis, the leaders were brought to trial by the United States government under provisions of the recently passed Smith Act. The leaders were convicted of "advocating and teaching the overthrow of the United States government by force and violence." The decision was later unsuccessfully appealed, and the eighteen leaders were imprisoned in 1944. This action was considered the test case proving the effectiveness of the Smith Act.
The above sketch is based on information found in the following volumes: Howe and Coser, The American Communist Party, A Critical History (New York, 1962); James P. Cannon, The History of American Trotskyism... (New York, 1944); Walter Goldwater, Radical Periodicals in America, 1890-1950 (New Haven, 1964). The latter work contains a useful chart depicting the changes and development of left-wing third party movements in the United States from 1890 to 1950.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Included is information on many subjects of concern to the Communist movement; political campaigns, particularly in 1948 when Farrell Dobbs was a candidate for U.S. president and Grace H. Carlson a candidate for vice-president; efforts to protect the civil rights of persons dismissed from positions because of party membership; Gerald L. K. Smith; and labor unions, particularly the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union, Local No. 544, which was involved in the Minneapolis truck drivers' strike (1934).
Information is especially full on the trial, conviction, and appeals (1941-1944) of Local No. 544 officers accused of sedition, including Grant, Miles, and Vincent Dunne, Grace Carlson, and Carl Skoglund. Part of these materials are on microfilm.
Among the topics documented in the collection are the problems confronting organized and unorganized labor. There is information on strikes, organizing activities of the party, and the proposed reorganization of the many individual railroad workers' unions. Also found is information on civil rights and civil liberties, political campaigns by party candidates in the United States, Leon Trotsky, peace, disarmament, relations with the Soviet Union and other communist countries, conflicts among the factions in the Communist Party, and world communism in its many phases.
ARRANGEMENT
These documents are organized into the following sections:
| Correspondence and Related Materials | ||
| Minutes | ||
| Clipping Files | ||
| Periodicals | ||
| Newspapers | ||
| Booklets and Pamphlets | ||
| Scrapbooks |
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Socialist Workers Party. Minnesota Section Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Location of Originals:
Originals of the microfilm loaned for copying by Tom Kerry, New York City.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 9994; 10,597; 13,215; 13,269
Processing Information:
Processed by: Dennis Meissner, November 2006
Catalog ID number: 990017310140104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
CORRESPONDENCE FILES AND RELATED MATERIALS
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| 151.I.2.3B | 1 | Anti-Nuclear power campaign, 1977-1980. | |||||||||||
| Anti-War groups, 1971-1972. | |||||||||||||
| National Peace Action Coalition and Student Mobilization Committee. | |||||||||||||
| Bloomington Three case (Indiana), 1963. | |||||||||||||
| Campaign literature and miscellaneous print material, undated, 1939-1964. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Most of the material in these folders relates to political campaigns in which the Socialist Workers Party participated. There are also flyers and other printed materials relating to memorials for Leon Trotsky and a flyer: "Down With The Stalin-Hitler Pact! Down With the War!" issued by the Socialist Workers Party and the Young People's Socialist League, protesting the non-aggression pact signed between Germany and Russia just prior to the outbreak of World War II. | |||||||||||||
| The campaign materials include information on candidates for various political offices for the years 1941 to 1954. Much of the literature is for candidates outside of Minnesota, such as James P. Cannon, Myra Tanner Weiss, and Farrell Dobbs. There are a great number of campaign pieces issued during the 1948 presidential race. At that time Farrell Dobbs and Grace Carlson were the party's candidates for president and vice president, respectively. There is also information on Grace Carlson's campaign for Minnesota's fifth congressional district seat (1950). Vince Dunne's campaigns for the United States Senate in 1952 and 1954, Myra Tanner Weiss' campaign for vice president in 1952, and the 1964 presidential campaign. | |||||||||||||
| Campaign reform laws, undated, 1971, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| Civil Rights Defense Committee, 1941-1944. | |||||||||||||
| This group was organized to protest the prosecution and imprisonment of the eighteen officers of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544, Minneapolis, who were accused of sedition under the Smith Act. Included in the group so prosecuted were the Dunne brothers, Grace Carlson, and others. The Civil Rights Defense Committee was headed by two prominent writers: James T. Farrell and John Dos Passos. Included in the file are newspaper clippings, reprints of articles on the case, form letters from individuals and organizations supporting the Committee's work, petitions for financial aid and support, and similar items. There are letters from the following persons of interest: August Scholle, of the CIO (form letter, May 27, 1944), and an original letter from Joseph Gilbert (December 25, 1944). Another item of interest is entitled: "Report of a Visit to Kelly Postal, Stillwater Prison," signed "G. N." (3 pp., typed). It describes a visit made to Postal, one of the Local 544 leaders in prison. | |||||||||||||
| Consolidated Committee of Enginemen, 1946-1947. | |||||||||||||
| This was an organization composed of railroad engineers. Its purpose was to supersede the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. It was felt that the latter two groups would be more effective in gaining rights for their workers if they were consolidated into one organization rather than operating as separate groups. Included in the folder are mimeographed letters circulated among three organizations concerning the merger, copies of the principles of the Consolidated Committee of Enginemen, and copies of the minutes of its convention held on February 11, 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1970-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Disclosure Files: | |||||||||||||
| The files all relate to state legal requirements for disclosing sources of political campaign funds. | |||||||||||||
| Exemption applications, affidavits, and related papers, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| Affidavits, 1971-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Letters of support, 1974. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Stapleton case, 1975. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Legal case in New York state regarding harassment of SWP. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous legal papers, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| North Dakota, 1976. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellany, 1974-1977. | |||||||||||||
| Dunne, Vince: Correspondence and telegrams upon his death, 1970. | |||||||||||||
| FBI surveillance legal suit, 1974-1976. | |||||||||||||
| Flag case, 1966. | |||||||||||||
| Vietnam war protest case involving U.S. flag desecration. | |||||||||||||
| Gay liberation, 1974-1977. | |||||||||||||
| Hillery, Mary: Political campaigns, 1972, 1975. | |||||||||||||
| House Un-American Affairs Committee: | |||||||||||||
| Intelligence efforts against radical groups, 1961-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Minnesota right-wing activities, 1962-1971. | |||||||||||||
| Iron Range steel strike, 1977. | |||||||||||||
| Johnson, Joseph D.: Deportation case, 1961-1977. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| James Kutcher Case, 1949-1956. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and printed items relating to the case of James Kutcher. Kutcher was a veteran of World War II who lost both legs in the Italian campaign. After the war he was hired by the veterans administration and then fired in 1948 because of his membership in the Socialist Workers Party. The materials in the folder relate to the attempts by union members and others to have Kutcher reinstated in his job. He won his case in 1956. | |||||||||||||
| Labor endorsements, 1974-1975. | |||||||||||||
| Latin America: | |||||||||||||
| U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin American Political Prisoners, 1966, 1973-1978. | |||||||||||||
| Other groups, [197-]. | |||||||||||||
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| 151.I.2.4F | 2 | Lykken, David and Harriet: Court case, 1973-1974. | |||||||||||
| News releases, 1973-1974. | |||||||||||||
| Medical rights conference, St. Paul, 1954. | |||||||||||||
| The Militant Forum: | |||||||||||||
| Press releases, 1971, 1977-1978. | |||||||||||||
| Fliers and broadsides, 1970-1978. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Out-of-state fliers and broadsides, [197-]. | |||||||||||||
| Minneapolis police, 1968-1974. | |||||||||||||
| National Headquarters: | |||||||||||||
| publicity materials for educational events, [197-]. | |||||||||||||
| Mailings, 1980. | |||||||||||||
| Nazi Party raid on SWP headquarters, 1976. | |||||||||||||
| Phillips, Wendell: Tour, 1962. | |||||||||||||
| Publicity materials relating to the case of Wendell Phillips, a teacher in California who was fired because of his membership in the Socialist Workers Party. There are form letters, clippings, and some correspondence relating to Phillips' tour of the United States and his visit to Minneapolis. | |||||||||||||
| Petition on 1972 ballot, 1972. | |||||||||||||
| Petitions on Minneapolis city election ballots, 1975-1976. | |||||||||||||
| Political Rights Defense Fund, 1974. | |||||||||||||
| Carl Skoglund case, 1949-1951. | |||||||||||||
| Form letters, newspaper clippings, and printed materials relating to the case of Carl Skoglund, one of the eighteen leaders of Local 544 imprisoned for sedition. The papers relate to the attempts of the government to deport Skoglund to his native Sweden. | |||||||||||||
| Gerald L. K. Smith, undated, 1945-1948. | |||||||||||||
| The materials in the folder relate mainly to the opposition by unions and others to the appearance of Smith in Minneapolis. There is also information on Smith's activities in other parts of the country. | |||||||||||||
| Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, 1977-1979. | |||||||||||||
| Charles Stenvig, 1970. | |||||||||||||
| Minneapolis mayor's cancellation of Peace Day. | |||||||||||||
| Student government at University of Minnesota, 1973-1976. | |||||||||||||
| Task Force on Military Surveillance, 1971. | |||||||||||||
| University of Minnesota. | |||||||||||||
| Teamsters union activities, 1946-1947. | |||||||||||||
| Most of the materials (clippings and some correspondence) relates to the activities of the teamsters union in other United States cities. | |||||||||||||
| Trade unions, 1971-1972. | |||||||||||||
| United Railroad Operating Crafts, 1946-1952. | |||||||||||||
| This group, similar to the Consolidated Committee of Enginemen, was organized in 1951. It included all engine, train, and yardmen now organized into separate unions. The folder also includes some information on the Consolidated Committee of Enginemen. | |||||||||||||
| U.S. Army protesters: Howard Patrick and Edwin Glover, 1968-1969. | |||||||||||||
| Women's liberation, 1975-1978. | |||||||||||||
MINUTES
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| 151.I.2.4F | 2 | Twin Cities Branch executive committee, 1970-1978. 4 folders. | |||||||||||
| Other branches, 1970-1978. 4 folders. | |||||||||||||
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| 151.I.2.5B | 3 | Southside Branch, Minneapolis, 1977. | |||||||||||
| Young Socialist Alliance, 1976-1981. 3 folders. | |||||||||||||
CLIPPING FILES
Information on the death of Woodrow Wilson, Leon Trotsky, the Moscow "purge trials" (1934-35), the role of third parties in the 1936 election. There is also a series of articles on American communism by Louis Francis Budenz and an article on Vince Dunne.
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| 151.I.2.5B | 3 | General file, 1941. 7 folders. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, 1944-1957. | |||||||||||||
| General file, 1963. 3 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Albert Lea strike, 1959. | |||||||||||||
| Clippings relating to the United Packinghouse Workers strike against the Wilson and Company plant at Albert Lea, Minnesota. There is information on the strike, Governor Orville L. Freeman's dispatching of the National Guard to Albert Lea, the removal of the National Guard troops, and the settlement of the strike. | |||||||||||||
| Local 544 election, 1941. | |||||||||||||
| Relates to the seizure of Local 544 by the American Federation of Labor, following the ouster of Dunne and others from the leadership of the local. | |||||||||||||
| Local 544 sedition trial, 1941. | |||||||||||||
| A few clippings relating to the trial of the Dunne brothers and other Social Workers Party leaders of local 544 on sedition charges. | |||||||||||||
| Political campaigns, 1944-1954. | |||||||||||||
| Most of the clippings relate to the 1948 presidential campaign. Farrell Dobbs and Grace Carlson were the Socialist Workers Party candidates. There are also a few clippings on Vince Dunne's campaign for the United States Senate in 1952 and 1954. | |||||||||||||
| Death of Trotsky, 1940. | |||||||||||||
| Clippings and newspaper pictures of the murder of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, 1924-1949, 1966-1978. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
PERIODICALS
Issues of serials published by the Socialist Workers Party.
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| 147.K.9.7B | 4 | Internal Bulletin, 1939-1956. 14 folders. | |||||||||||
| The following issues are present: December 20, 1939; August 1942 (2 issues); March 1943; September, 1945 (2 issues); August 1943; August 1944; September 1944 (3 issues); October 1944 (3 issues); November 1944 (2 issues); December 1944; April 1945 (2 issues); May 1945; June, 1945; July 1945; August, 1945; October 1945; November 1945; December 1945; January 1946; February 1946 (2 issues); March 1946; March 1945; April 1946; May 1946; June 1946; July 1946; August 1946; October 1946 (3 issues); November 1946; January 1947; May 1947; June 1947; August 1947; June 1948; March 1949; April, 1949; June 1949; January 1950; April 1950; September 1950; November 1950; August 1951; June 1952 (2 issues); February 1953 (4 issues); March 1953 (2 issues); March 1953 (2 issues); May 1953 (3 issues); August 1953; October 1953; December 1953; August 1954; April 1956. | |||||||||||||
| Discussion Bulletin, 1950-1954. 3 folders. | |||||||||||||
| The following issues are present: October 1950; January 1951; October 1951; May 1952; January 1953; November 1953; February 1954 (2 issues); March 1954; June 1954; August 1954; September 1954 (2 issues). | |||||||||||||
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| 147.K.14.5B | 5 | Discussion Bulletin, 1954-1956. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| The following issues are present: October 1954 (2 issues); November 1954; December 1954; February 1955; August 1955; December 1955; July 1956; November 1956. | |||||||||||||
| International Bulletin, 1940-1946, 1950-1953. 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| The following issues are present: July 1940; August 1941; June 1944; February 1945; September 1946; May 1950; March 1952; January 1953. | |||||||||||||
| The Internationalist, 1959-1960. | |||||||||||||
| Published in England by the Secretariat of the Fourth International. The following issues are present: November 1959; December 1959 (2 issues); January 1960; April 1960; May 1960; June 1960 (2 issues); August 1960; November 1960. | |||||||||||||
| The Party Builder, 1944-1947. | |||||||||||||
| August 1944; October 1944; December 1944; February 1945; March 1945; March 1946; July 1946; January 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Twin Cities SWP City Letter, 1973. | |||||||||||||
| Young Socialist Alliance Newsletter, 1977-1978. | |||||||||||||
NEWSPAPERS
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| 147.K.14.5B | 5 | The Worker, 1923. | |||||||||||
| Daily Worker, 1924-1929. | |||||||||||||
| The Organizer, 1934. | |||||||||||||
| Publication of Local 544 during the 1934 Minneapolis Truck Drivers' Strike. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Appeal, 1937-1940. | |||||||||||||
| Labor Action, 1936-1940. | |||||||||||||
| Industrial Worker, 1962. | |||||||||||||
| New America, 1962. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous Issues. 1 folder: | |||||||||||||
| Strike Bulletin (Clinton, Illinois), 1914. | |||||||||||||
| Appeal to Reason, 1919. | |||||||||||||
| Truth About the Moscow Trials, April 1937. | |||||||||||||
| Minnesota Appeal, January 1939. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Call, January 21, 1939. | |||||||||||||
| The Consolidator, April 13, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Consolidated Committee of Enginemen. | |||||||||||||
| Progressive News Review, Duluth, Minnesota, October 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Arbetar Posten, July 1, 1949. | |||||||||||||
| The Workers Vanguard, February 1962. | |||||||||||||
| The Independent, April 1962. | |||||||||||||
| The Newsletter, April 7, 1962. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Labour League, Great Britain. | |||||||||||||
| Federation News, April 14, 1962. | |||||||||||||
| Labor, April 28, 1962. | |||||||||||||
| Weekly People, April 28, 1962. | |||||||||||||
BOOKLETS AND PAMPHLETS
Booklets and pamphlets prepared and issued by the Socialist Workers Party in the United States and by Trotskyite groups abroad. In four arrangement sequences: by author, by place of issuance, by topic, and miscellaneous.
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| 147.K.14.5B | 5 | Booklets and Pamphlets, by Author: | |||||||||||
| Allport, Gordon W. A.B.Cs. of Scapegoating, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Bittelman, Alexander. Program for Survival, The Communist Position on the Jewish Question, January 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Blackett, P. M. S. The Military Background to Disarmament, [196-]. | |||||||||||||
| Bohannan, William E. A Letter to American Negroes, September 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Breitman, George. Wartime Crimes of Big Business, October 1943. | |||||||||||||
| Breitman, George. Anti-Negro Prejudice..., 1960. | |||||||||||||
| Brown, William Montgomery. Bad Bishop Brown's Quarterly Lectures, No. 1, The American Race Problem, [1925?]. | |||||||||||||
| Burnham, James. How to Fight War...., March 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Burnham, James. The People's Front..., 1937. | |||||||||||||
| Cannon, James P. The Coming American Revolution, April 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Cannon, James P. The Russian Revolution, March 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Cannon, James P. The End of the Comintern, September 1943. | |||||||||||||
| Cannon, James P. Socialism on Trial...Minneapolis Sedition Trial, January 1942. | |||||||||||||
| Cannon, James P. The Workers and the Second World War, November 1942. | |||||||||||||
| Cannon, James P. The Road to Peace, November 1951. | |||||||||||||
| Cannon, James P. America's Road to Socialism, December 1952-January 1953. | |||||||||||||
| Cannon, James P. Defense Policy in the Minneapolis Trial, June 1942. | |||||||||||||
| Cannon, James P. American Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism, July 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Carsten, Charles. Veterans and Labor, A Program of Action, July 1946. | |||||||||||||
| Charles, C. Your Standard of Living..., March, May 1943. | |||||||||||||
| Clarke, George. Build a Labor Party Now, August 1946. | |||||||||||||
| Dewey, John Truth is on the March, May 9, 1937. | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky Defense Committee. | |||||||||||||
| Dobbs, Farrell. Trade Union Problems, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Draper, Harold. Out of Their Own Mouths, [1943?]. | |||||||||||||
| Einstein, Albert. Why Socialism?, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Engels, Friedrich. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, 1875(reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Engels, Friedrich. The Fourteenth of March...Death of Marx, 1883. (reprint 1933) | |||||||||||||
| Erickson, James. Political Economy Illustrated, 1956. | |||||||||||||
| Flynn, John T. The Truth About Pearl Harbor, 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Flynn, John T. The Final Secret About Pearl Harbor, 1945. | |||||||||||||
| Goldman, Albert. Why We Defend the Soviet Union, March 29, 1940. | |||||||||||||
| Goldman, Albert. The Truth about the Minneapolis Trial of the 28..., 1942 [?]. | |||||||||||||
| Goldman, Albert. In Defense of Socialism...Minneapolis Sedition Trial, March 1942. | |||||||||||||
| Green, Gil. Young Communists and Unity of Youth, October 1935. | |||||||||||||
| Hansen, Joseph. A Labor Party, November 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Hansen, Joseph. Wall Street's War - Not Ours!, [1940?]. | |||||||||||||
| Hansen, Joseph. Father Coughlin, Fascist Demagogue, [1940?]. | |||||||||||||
| Harrison, Henry, ed. The Sacco-Vanzetti Anthology of Verse, 1927. | |||||||||||||
| Henderson, Fred. The Case For Socialism, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Huberman, Leo and Sweezy, Paul M. Socialism is the Only Answer, May 1951. | |||||||||||||
| Jackson, Charles. A Practical Program to Kill Jim Crow, August 1945. | |||||||||||||
| Kester, Howard. To Establish Justice: Sharecroppers Under Planters Law, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Kutcher, James. The Case of the Legless Veteran, August 1953. | |||||||||||||
| Autographed by the author. | |||||||||||||
| Lenin, Nikolai. Lenin Speaks to the Youth, 1936 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Lenin, Nikolai. Lenin on Engels..., 1935 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Lenin, Nikolai. State and Revolution, 1932 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Lenin, Nikolai. Will the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?, 1932 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Lenin, Nikolai. The April Conference, 1932 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Lenin, Nikolai. The Threatening Catastrophe..., 1932 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Lynd, Robert. You Can Do it Better Democratically, November 1949. | |||||||||||||
| MacDonald, Dwight. Fascism and the American Scene, December 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Magil, A. B., and North, Joseph. Steve Katovis, The Life and Death of a Worker, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Matthews, J. B. Traffic in Death..., [1934?]. | |||||||||||||
| Marcy, Mary E. Shop Talks on Economics, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Mayer, Milton. Conscience and the Commonwealth, October 29, 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Mower, A. Glenn. But You Can't Trust the Russians!, 1960. | |||||||||||||
| Murray, Philip. The Case of Labor, February 19, 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Murray and Kempton. "All for Mr. Davis"...Sharecropper Odell Waller, [194-]. | |||||||||||||
| Nearing, Scott. British Labor Bids for Power...Scarboro Conference, [1926?]. | |||||||||||||
| Nearing, Scott. Russia Turns East, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| Nearing, Scott. World Labor Unity, 1926. | |||||||||||||
| Novack, George E., Farrell, James T. The Bill of Rights in Danger!...Minneapolis Trial, [1942?]. | |||||||||||||
| Pannekoek, Anton. Marxism and Darwinism, 1912. | |||||||||||||
| Parker, Albert. The March on Washington, One Year After, June 1942. | |||||||||||||
| Parker, Albert. Negroes in the Post-War World, [1943?]. | |||||||||||||
| Preis, Art. Welfare State: or Socialism?, July 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Preis, Art. Jobs for all, August 1945. | |||||||||||||
| Preis, Art. Stalinists on the Waterfront, April 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Raymond, Harry. Dixie Comes to New York, February 1946. | |||||||||||||
| Reifenberg, Benno. Does the European Spirit Still Live?, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Reimann, Guenter. The Black Market, Inevitable Child of Statism, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Reissner, Larissa. Svyazhsk..., 1940. | |||||||||||||
| Saunders, John, and Parker, Albert. The Struggle for Negro Equality, 1943. | |||||||||||||
| Schuman, Frederick L. The Baltic Soviet Republics, 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Schuman, Frederick L. Falsifiers of History, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Workers Party. Constitution, 1969. | |||||||||||||
| Solow, Herbert. Union-Smashing in Sacramento..., [1935?]. | |||||||||||||
| Stalin, Joseph. Foundations of Leninism, 1934(reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Stalin, Joseph. Joseph Stalin, A Short Biography, 1939. | |||||||||||||
| Swabeck, Arne. Unemployment and the American Working Class, [1932?]. | |||||||||||||
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| 147.K.9.6F | 6 | Trotsky, Leon. The Lesson of Spain, The Last Warning!, December 17, 1937 (reprint). | |||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. Trade Unions in the Epoch of Imperialist Decay, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. In Defense of October..., November 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. Whither Europe?, February 15, 1926 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. Perspectives of World Development, 1924 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. In Defense of the Soviet Union..., 1927-37. 1936 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. George Valentinovich Plekhaov, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. Fascism: What it is, How to Fight it, October 1940 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. Communism and Syndicalism..., January 1931 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. Their Morals and Ours, June 9, 1939 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. The Last Words of Adolf Joffe, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. The Suppressed Testament of Lenin..., 1926 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. The Spanish Revolution in Danger!, June 1931. | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. Leon Sedoff...Dedicated to the Proletarian Youth, March 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. Against Social-Patriotism, October 1916. | |||||||||||||
| Trotsky, Leon. Stalinism and Bolshevism, 1937. | |||||||||||||
| Thomas, C. West Coast Longshoremen and the "Bridges Plan", December 1942. | |||||||||||||
| Todes, Charlotte. The Injunction Menace, 1932. | |||||||||||||
| Tse-Tung, Mao. On People's Democratic Rule, 1949 (reprint). | |||||||||||||
| Tse-Tung, Mao. On People's Democratic Dictatorship, 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Warde, William F. The Long View of History, 1960. | |||||||||||||
| Wells, H. G. Crux Ansata, An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church, 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Weiss, Myra Tanner. Vigilante Terror in Fontana..., February 1946. | |||||||||||||
| Wise, Rabbi Stephen S. Address at 8th CIO Convention, November 1946. | |||||||||||||
| Booklets and Pamphlets, by Place: | |||||||||||||
| China: Chia-chu, Chien. State Capitalism in China, undated. | |||||||||||||
| China: The Common Program...Chinese People's Consultative Conference, 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Cuba. Castro, Fidel. History Will Absolve Me!, 1961. | |||||||||||||
| Cuba: Hansen, Joseph. In Defense of the Cuban Revolution, April 1961. | |||||||||||||
| Cuba: Hansen, Joseph. The Truth About Cuba, May-August 1960. | |||||||||||||
| Cuba: Pincus, Arthur. Terror in Cuba, December 1936. | |||||||||||||
| Cuba: Ring, Harry. How Cuba Uprooted Race Discrimination, June 1961. | |||||||||||||
| France: Duclos, Jacques. France Faces Her Destiny, March 1946. | |||||||||||||
| France: Cachin-Thorez, Marty. The People's Front in France, 1935. | |||||||||||||
| Germany: Neal, Fred Warner. ...The Problem of Berlin, July 1961. | |||||||||||||
| Great Britain: Morel, E. D. The Secret History of a Great Betrayal, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Great Britain: Morel, E. D. Military Preparations for the Great War..., 1922. | |||||||||||||
| Great Britain: Labour Review, vol. 1, no. 4-5, 1953-1954. | |||||||||||||
| Great Britain: Union of Democratic Control. Patriotism, Ltd., 1933. | |||||||||||||
| Greece: Vakmanovic, Svetozar. How and Why the People's Liberation Struggle of Greece Met with Defeat, 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Hungary: Socialist Workers Party. Revolution in Hungary and the Crisis of Stalinism, January 1957. | |||||||||||||
| India: Bulganin, N. A., Khruschev, Nikita. N. A. Bulganin and N. S.Khrushchev in India, 1955. | |||||||||||||
| India: De. Silva, Colvin. The Present Political Situation in India, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| India: Fourth International. To the Workers and Peasants of India, 1942. | |||||||||||||
| Japan: Socialist Vanguard, July-August 1952. | |||||||||||||
| Japan: Report from Hiroshima, 1961. | |||||||||||||
| Korea: Tyler, Bill. Letters from Korea, February 1951. | |||||||||||||
| Middle East: Perlo, Victor. Israel and Dollar Diplomacy, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Middle East: Cliff, T. Middle East at the Cross Roads, 1946. | |||||||||||||
| Middle East: Hashim, Abu. Egypt, A People Rising, October 1952. | |||||||||||||
| Soviet Union: Adler, Friedrich. The Witchcraft Trial in Moscow, [1936?]. | |||||||||||||
| Soviet Union: Bubnov, A. Leninism, 1932. | |||||||||||||
| Soviet Union: Pioneer Publishers. Why Did They Confess?...Radek-Piatakov Trial, 1937. | |||||||||||||
| Soviet Union: Russia With Our Own Eyes, 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Djilas, Milovar. Report on Agitation-Propaganda Work, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Djilas, Milovar. On New Roads of Socialism, 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Djilas, Milovar. Lenin on Relations Between Socialist States, 1949. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Kardelj. People's Democracy in Yugoslavia, July 1949. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Kidric, Boris. On the Construction of Socialist Economy in the FPRY, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Lalic, Radovan. The Russian Language and Great Russian Chauvinism, 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Piyade, Mosha. ...Yugoslav Uprising..., 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Popovic, Milentije. On Economic Relations Among Socialist States, 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Tito, Jossip Broz. For Independence and Equality, 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Tito, Jossip Broz. Political Report...Communist Party of Yugoslavia, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Statute of the People's Youth of Yugoslavia, 1949. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Joint Congress of the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia and People's Youth Organization, [1949?]. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Commercial News of the Chamber of Commerce of Yugoslavia, [1949?]. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Freedom of Religion in the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia, 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Constitution of the Federal Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia, 1946. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Program of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia..., 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: Yugoslavia: New Land in the Making, [1950?]. | |||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia: FYP Yugoslavia, 1949. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous: De Silva, Colvin. Left Disunity..., 1950. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous: Dimitroff, G. Speech at Seventh Congress of the Communist International, 1935. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous: Pablo, M. Capitalism or Socialism, the Coming World Showdown, 1952. | |||||||||||||
| Booklets and Pamphlets, by Topic: | |||||||||||||
| Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: Terror in Tampa, [1935?]. | |||||||||||||
| Ku Klux Klan. | |||||||||||||
| Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: ...The Story of Jim Crow in Uniform, 1942. | |||||||||||||
| Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: The Negro and the U. S. Army, [1944?]. | |||||||||||||
| Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: Discrimination Costs You Money, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: Labor's Enemy, Anti-Semitism, 1945. | |||||||||||||
| Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: McCarthyism: American Fascism on the March, 1953. | |||||||||||||
| Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: Stop McCarthyism!..., 1954. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: The Avery Formula, 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: Action and Reaction on the Railroad, [1936?]. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: Kansas Court of Industrial Relations, 1921. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: Analysis of the Taft-Hartley Act, 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: Build Labor Party, 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: Fight the Slave Labor Law!..., 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: Today's Fight Against the Bosses, [194-]. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: American Workers Need a Labor Party, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: You and the WFTU..., [1946?]. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: An Appeal to Members and Friends of Labor, 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: Half a Million Forgotten People...Cotton Textile Workers, [1944?]. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: Witch Hunt in Minnesota, 1941. | |||||||||||||
| Prosecution of Local 544. | |||||||||||||
| Labor: Why We Are in Prison..., 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Workers Party: Program of the Communist International, 1936. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Workers Party: Declaration of Principles and Constitution..., 1937-1938. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Workers Party: The Founding Conference of the Fourth International, September 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Workers Party: The Farmer-Labor Party...Open Letter to Governor Benson, September 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Workers Party: ...Resolutions of the Eleventh Convention of the American Trotskyist Movement, 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Workers Party: Manifesto of the Fourth International..., 1947, 1948. 2 items. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Workers Party: The Voices of Socialism...Dobbs and Carlson, 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Workers Party: ...Election Platform, Socialist Workers Party..., 1952. | |||||||||||||
| Socialist Workers Party: Vote for Socialism in 1956, 1956. | |||||||||||||
| War and Peace: War and the Fourth International, 1934. | |||||||||||||
| War and Peace: Plowshares and Pruning Hooks, 1954. | |||||||||||||
| War and Peace: Arms and the Men, 1934. | |||||||||||||
| War and Peace: Manifesto of the Fourth International..., 1946. | |||||||||||||
| War and Peace: The Genesis of Pearl Harbor, 1945. | |||||||||||||
| War and Peace: Are You Ready for War?, [1937?]. | |||||||||||||
| War and Peace: Steps to Peace...Quaker View..., 1951. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous: The White Terrorists Ask for Mercy, 1925. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous: Cure, undated. | |||||||||||||
| Watchtower Society. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous: Marx and Engels, Biographies and Bibliography, 1956. | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous: Social Science and Freedom..., 1955. | |||||||||||||
SCRAPBOOKS
| Box | |||||||||||||
| 148.C.4.2F | 7 | Volume 1. May-June 1938. | |||||||||||
| Articles on the affairs of Local 544, and on Leon Trotsky in Mexico. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 2. March-July 1941. | |||||||||||||
| Sedition trial of leaders of Local 544. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 3. July-December 1941. | |||||||||||||
| Sedition trial and the controversy over the leadership of Local 544 after the ouster of the Socialist Workers leadership. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 4. October-December 1941, 1943. | |||||||||||||
| Sedition trial. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 5. June-July 1944, April-May 1947. | |||||||||||||
| Fusion of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties; series of articles by James P. Cannon. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 6. June-November 1946. | |||||||||||||
| Political campaign, Socialist Workers Party candidates. | |||||||||||||
| Volume 7. March-August 1948. | |||||||||||||
| Dobbs-Carlson political campaign. | |||||||||||||
| M145 | May-December 1941. | ||||||||||||
| Takeover of Local 544 by CIO; sedition trial. | |||||||||||||
| October-December 1941. | |||||||||||||
| Sedition trial. | |||||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
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:
- Academic freedom -- United States.
- African Americans
- Civil rights -- United States.
- Communism -- Asia.
- Communism -- Cuba.
- Communism -- Europe.
- Communism -- United States.
- Communism -- Yugoslavia.
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
- Disarmament.
- Fascism.
- Labor movement -- United States.
- Labor unions -- United States.
- Political campaigns -- United States.
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions.
- Sedition -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
- Socialism.
- Strikes and lockouts -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
- Truck Drivers' Strike, Minneapolis, Minn., 1934.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Persons:
- Beck, Dave, 1894-1993. .
- Benson, Elmer A. (Elmer Austin), 1895-1985.
- Budenz, Louis F. (Louis Francis), 1891-1972.
- Burnham, James, 1905-1987.
- Cannon, James Patrick, 1890-1974.
- Carlson, Grace, 1906- .
- Castro, Fidel, 1927- .
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
- Djilas, Milovan, 1911-1995.
- Dobbs, Farrell.
- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
- Dunne, Grant J., 1893-1941.
- Dunne, Miles.
- Dunne, Vincent R. (Vincent Raymond), 1889-1970.
- Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895.
- Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979.
- Freeman, Orville L.
- Gilbert, Joseph, 1865-1956.
- Hansen, Joseph.
- Kutcher, James.
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 1870-1924.
- MacDonald, Dwight.
- Mao, Tse-Tung, 1893-1976.
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
- Mayer, Milton Sanford, 1908- .
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1993.
- Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.
- Preis, Art, 1911- .
- Scholle, August, 1904- .
- Schuman, Frederick Lewis, 1904- .
- Skoglund, Carl, 1884-1960.
- Smith, Gerald L. K. (Gerald Lyman Kenneth), 1898-1976.
- Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953.
- Tito, Josip Broz, 1892-1980.
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940.
- Weiss, Myra Tanner.
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.
- Organizations:
- American Federation of Labor.
- Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.).
- Consolidation Committee of Enginemen (U.S.).
- Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
- Socialist Labor Party (U.S.).
- United Railroad Operating Crafts.
- Places:
- Albert Lea (Minn.).
- Minneapolis (Minn.).
- Minnesota -- Politics and government.
- Russia (Federation) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
- United States -- Politics and government.
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