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Title: Emil Seidel Papers, 1906-1940

Creator: Seidel, Emil
Quantity: .6 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Call Number: UWM Manuscript Collection 76
Abstract: Contains miscellaneous papers, mostly dating 1912-1919, of a Milwaukee political and socialist leader. Includes drafts and a manuscript booklet on Seidel's defense of his 1910-1912 Socialist mayoral administration in Milwaukee; the first report of the strikers' aid committee organized during the strike against Cudahy Brothers Company and against the Illinois Steel Company in 1919; and information on the Socialists' view of World War I.
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Summary Information
• ... Emil Seidel Papers, ...
• ...Seidel, Emil: : ...
• ... Milwaukee political and socialist leader. Includes drafts and a manuscript booklet on Seidel's defense of his 1910-1912 Socialist mayoral administration in Milwaukee; the first r ...
Biography/History
• ... Emil Seidel was born on 13 December 1864 in Ashland, Pennsylvania and moved to Wisconsin with his ...
• ...in Germany, and converted to Socialism while in that country. Upon his return to Milwaukee, Seidel helped organize local Socialists, and promoted gradual change, political action, and ...
• ...ears later. He unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 1908 but was elected alderman again in 1909. Seidel was elected mayor in 1910, but was defeated in 1912. He was alderman again from 1916 ...
• ... and from 1932 to 1936. He was the Socialist Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1912. Seidel died on 24 June 1947. ...
Scope and Content Note
• ...e political and socialist leader. Of special interest is drafts and a manuscript booklet on Seidel's defense of his 1910-1912 Socialist mayoral administration in Milwaukee. Seidel desc ...
• ...booklet on Seidel's defense of his 1910-1912 Socialist mayoral administration in Milwaukee. Seidel described the Socialist philosophy as being "the duty, the purpose, and the object of ...
• ...ents of socialism. Also includes a 31 December 1914 letter to Mrs. May Wood Simons in which Seidel stated his interests and position on vocational education and the role of education i ...
• ...he role of education in building a socialist society; and undated manuscript which provides Seidel's comparison of the management of railroads under capitalism and socialism, and the r ...
• ... capitalism and socialism, and the relationship of railroad terminals to city planning. Seidel's personal file includes manuscripts on the future of Milwaukee, the elimination of t ...
• ... The file on unions contains the first report of the strikers' aid committee (of which Seidel was a member) organized by the Federated Trades Council and the Milwaukee County Cent ...
Related Material
• ... Emil Seidel Papers: Milwaukee Manuscript Collection G ...
Administrative/Restriction Information
• ... The Milwaukee Public Library transferred Seidel's papers and mayoral records to the Archives in April 1991. Seidel's mayoral record ...
• ...ic Library transferred Seidel's papers and mayoral records to the Archives in April 1991. Seidel's mayoral records were removed and processed separately. ...