David J. Saposs Papers, 1907-1968
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Summary Information
Title: David J. Saposs Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1907-1968

Creator:
  • Saposs, David J. (David Joseph), 1886-1968
Call Number: Mss 113; SC 1013; Micro 909; Tape 334A

Quantity: 13.5 c.f. (33 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 folder), 2 reels of microfilm (35mm) and 3 tape recordings

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Papers of David Saposs, labor economist, historian, and teacher, who investigated the Americanization of immigrant workers, the steel strike of 1919, and the labor movement and cooperatives in France between 1918-1929, and who served as senior research associate for the Twentieth Century Fund from 1934 to 1945. From 1935-1940 Saposs was chief economist for the National Labor Relations Board, a position he was forced to resign because of House Un-American Activities Committee accusations that he was a Communist, though he served other government agencies from 1940 to 1954. Included are biographical materials; correspondence with many labor and political leaders and economists; notes, drafts, and galleys of articles, pamphlets, and books; research files; and a teaching file mainly concerning Brookwood Labor College, 1922-1933. Also included is a taped interview (with transcription) concerning Saposs' association with Edwin E. Witte, Richard T. Ely, and John R. Commons, and his work with the National Labor Relations Board.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00113

Biography/History

David J. Saposs' studies of twentieth century labor history and economy were so extensive that by the 1930's he was known internationally as a walking encyclopedia of labor-related information. In addition to his careers in teaching and federal government service, between 1913 and 1968 he published fourteen books and numerous articles, pamphlets, and reports concerning U.S. and international labor, socialism, and communism. His life is described in more detail in the following chronology.

1886, Feb 22 David Joseph Saposs was born in Kiev, Russia, to Isaac and Shima (Erevsky) Sapostnik.
1895 The Sapostnik family moved to the United States and settled in Milwaukee. They shortened the family name to Saposs.
1900 David Saposs quit school after completing the fifth grade.
1900-1907 Held a variety of jobs, among them stenographer and worker at the Blatz and Schlitz breweries, where he was shop steward for the Brewery Workers' Union.
1907-1911 Undergraduate student in economics at the University of Wisconsin.
1913-1915 Graduate student in economics at the University of Wisconsin and research assistant to John R. Commons.
1917-1918 Expert in charge of Accident Prevention and Industrial Service, New York Department of Labor.
1917, July 3 Married Bertha Tigay, with whom he later had two daughters, Corinne and Barbara.
1918-1919 Investigator of Immigrant Workers and Trade Unions, Americanization Study, Carnegie Corporation.
1920 Investigator, Inquiry into Steel Strike of 1919, Inter-Church World Movement Commission.
1920 Educational Director, Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
1920-1922 Economic Consultant, Labor Bureau, Inc.
1922-1933 Instructor, Brookwood Labor College, Katonah, N.Y.
1924-1926 Graduate student in economics and labor history, Columbia University.
1926-1928 Head of the Labor Division, Social and Economic Study of Post-War France, conducted by Columbia University. Resided in France during this time.
1934-1945 Senior Research Associate, Twentieth Century Fund, Inc.
1935 Director, Company Union Study, U.S. Department of Labor.
1935-1940 Chief Economist, National Labor Relations Board. Although Saposs was a militant liberal and an early critic of Communist intervention in the American labor union movement, the House Committee on Un-American Affairs accused him of being a red and he was forced to resign from the NLRB. His work on the Board was an integral part of the New Deal's efforts to better the status of the American worker.
1940-1942 Labor Consultant to the U.S. Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, a position then held by Nelson A. Rockefeller.
1945-1946 Chief, Reports and Statistics Office, Manpower Division, U.S. Office of Military Government for Germany.
1946-1948, 1952-1954 Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
1948-1952 Special Advisor to the Director of the European Labor Division, U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration.
1954 Retired from federal government service.
1954-1956 Senior Research Associate, Littauer Center, Harvard University.
1955-1963 Lecturer on American and International Labor, Foreign Service Training Institute, U.S. Department of State.
1957-1958 Visiting Professor, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois.
1959-1965 Professor of American and International Labor, American University.
1961-1964 Lecturer on International Labor, Defense Intelligence School, U.S. Defense Department.
1962, 1964 Senior Specialist, East-West Center, University of Hawaii.
1968, Nov 13 David J. Saposs, known throughout the scholarly world as Mr. Labor History, died in Washington, D.C.

For additional biographical information, see box 1, folder 1.

Scope and Content Note

The David J. Saposs Papers span the years 1907 to 1968 and amply document his long career as an observer and participant in the U.S. and world labor movement. His papers have been organized into six series: Biographical Materials, General Correspondence, Writings and Speeches, Research File of Non-Printed Material, Research File of Printed Material, and a Teaching File. Each series is described separately below.

The BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 1911-1968, include information about Saposs' days as a student at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University, recommendations, employment forms, resumes, and publicity sheets. The arrangement is chronological.

Although the GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE only consumes 25 linear inches, it contains the heart of the Saposs papers. There is considerable information on the research, writing, and publication of his many articles, pamphlets, and books; and on his teaching career, especially his advice to graduate students and his work at the Brookwood Labor College from 1922 to 1933. The correspondence from 1935 to 1954, when Saposs was employed by various agencies of the federal government, details the nature of his work and its impact on other federal agencies and the U.S. labor movement. The main themes from 1938 to 1943 are his work as Chief Economist of the NLRB, HUAC's charges that Saposs was a communist, his forced resignation, and attempts to clear his name. Throughout this series there is also correspondence with Jack Barbash, John R. Commons, Nathan P. Feinsinger, Philip and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Selig P. Perlman, and Edwin E. Witte, showing the Wisconsin Idea in action. The arrangement is chronological. Many deteriorating carbons of his outgoing correspondence were replaced by Xerox copies.

The major correspondents are as follows:

  • Barbash, Jack
  • Biemiller, Andrew
  • Bliven, Bruce
  • Broach, H.H.
  • Brissenden, Paul F.
  • Budenz, Louis F.
  • Cohn, Fannia M.
  • Commons, John R.
  • David, Henry
  • DeLeon, Solon
  • Dies, Martin
  • Douglas, Paul H.
  • Dubinsky, David
  • Dunn, R.B.T.
  • Ely, Richard T.
  • Feinsinger, Nathan P.
  • Fitch, John A.
  • Flynn, E.G.
  • Foster, William Z.
  • Frank, Walter
  • Gibbons, Harold J.
  • Goldburg, Arthur J.
  • Green, William
  • Hardiman, J.B.S.
  • La Follette, Philip
  • La Follette, Robert M., Jr.
  • Laidler, Harry M.
  • Larsen, Frank
  • Lefkowitz, Abraham
  • Leiserson, William
  • Lee, Algernon
  • Madden, Warren J.
  • Muste, A.J.
  • Osburn, William F.
  • Olds, Leland
  • Otto, Max C.
  • Pitzele, Merlyn
  • Perlman, Selig P.
  • Porter, Paul
  • Raushenbush, Paul
  • Roberts, Harold S.
  • Rockefeller, Nelson A.
  • Salutsky, J.B.
  • Schlossberg, Joseph
  • Shishkin, Boris
  • Slichter, Sumner H.
  • Soule, George
  • Taussig, F.W.
  • Thomas, Norman
  • Trachtenberg, Alexander
  • Van Fleet, Josephine
  • Voorhis, Jerry
  • Wagner, Robert F.
  • Ware, Norman
  • Weisz, Morris
  • Witte, Edwin E.
  • Wolman, Leo

The WRITINGS AND SPEECHES series includes research materials, notes, and drafts of Saposs' articles, pamphlets, books, and speeches, although not all the stages of development for a given item can be found in these papers. This is the most extensive series in the collection and fills ten linear feet. The published and unpublished articles are arranged together chronologically, either by date of publication or by date of the earliest draft. The books follow a similar arrangement; material on The Labor Movement in Post-War France (1931) and the three volume Case Studies in Labor Ideology (1964, 1968) is particularly complete. Saposs' career as a lecturer and public speaker is only sketchily documented by material on five speeches given between 1918 and 1962; they are also arranged chronologically.

In this series are the RESEARCH FILES OF NON-PRINTED MATERIAL that Saposs maintained for his research. Much information exists on his 1919-1920 study of Americanization among the immigrant population; his 1926-1928 study of the labor movement in France after the First World War; and numerous workers' education groups that Saposs was affiliated with or interested in. There are also files concerning the Inter-Church World Movement Commission's study of the 1919 steel strike, including interviews with striking workers, later testimony of William Z. Foster about the strike, and information about John L. Lewis' efforts on behalf of Samuel Gompers to organize the steelworkers as early as 1913. These files have been arranged alphabetically by subject.

Only an unsorted, undated sampling of Saposs' RESEARCH FILES OF PRINTED MATERIAL has been retained. This sampling was drawn from twenty-three linear feet of broadsides, pamphlets, newspapers, government publications, magazines, and reprints. Those separated from this collection were either sent to the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for inclusion in their collections, or were discarded. The major themes of this file were U.S. and international labor, politics, socialism, and communism, mainly from 1916 to 1943 and from 1953 to 1968. Saposs and his clipping service went through The New York Times and The Washington Post primarily, but also through The Daily Worker, The New Leader, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Sun, The New York Herald Tribune, and The Washington Daily News. There was also much material in the 1930's from the Paris newspapers Le Peuple and La Vie Ouvriere and from the U.S. magazines The New Republic and The Nation.

Materials used by Saposs during his TEACHING career are arranged alphabetically by the name of the institution sponsoring the class or lecture. Ten linear inches concerns the Brookwood Labor College, particularly its faculty, organizational problems, and courses taught by Saposs and other instructors. There are also curriculi, lecture notes and drafts, and exams from other institutions, including The American University, the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, the League for Industrial Democracy lecture series, and the Universities of Hawaii and Wisconsin.

Administrative/Restriction Information
Acquisition Information

Presented by Mr. and Mrs. David J. Saposs, Washington, D.C., on December 16, 1965, April 21, 1967, and November 13, 1969. Accession Number: M65-415, M67-129, M69-367


Processing Information

Processed by Eleanor Niermann, Patrick M. Quinn, and J.A.C., June 27, 1972.


Contents List
Mss 113
Box   1
Folder   1
Series: Biographical Materials, 1911-1968
Tape 334A
Recorded Interview with Saposs, 1964, Sept 8
Scope and Content Note: Concerns his association with Edwin E. Witte, Richard T. Ely, and John R. Commons; his experience with the National Labor Relations Board; and his views on the labor movement. Interviewers are Theron Schlabach and William C. Haygood of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
SC 1013
Transcription
Mss 113
Series: General Correspondence
⇧
Box   1
Folder   2-14
1910-1924
Box   2
Folder   1-7
1925-1931
Box   3
Folder   1-10
1932-1938
Box   4
Folder   1-14
1939-1952
Box   5
Folder   1-17
1953-1968
Series: Writings and Speeches
⇧
Subseries: Articles
Box   6
Folder   1
Bibliography
Box   6
Folder   2
Book Reviews
Box   6
Folder   3
“Jurisdictional Disputes of the United Brotherhood of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners,” 1913
Box   6
Folder   4
“Phases of English Common Law Development,” 1914
Box   6
Folder   5
“Knights of Labor - Dual Unionism,” circa 1914
Box   6
Folder   6
“Shop Safety, Sanitation, and Health Organization,” 1918, April
Box   6
Folder   7
“How the Steel Strike Was Organized,” 1919, Nov. 8
Box   6
Folder   8
“An Instrumental View of Labor Education,” 1921, June
Box   6
Folder   9
“Out of the Beaten Path: The Denver Convention of the American Federation of Labor,” 1921, July 16
Box   6
Folder   10
“Origin and Development of the American Federation of Labor,” 1921
Box   6
Folder   11
“The Packers Break the Peace,” 1922, Jan.
Box   6
Folder   12
“The Line-Up at Cincinnati,” 1922, Sept.
Box   6
Folder   13
“Unionizing the Brainworker,” 1922, Dec.
Box   6
Folder   14
“Political Aspects of the American Federation of Labor,” 1922
Box   6
Folder   15
“Progressive Boring From Within,” 1922
Box   6
Folder   16
“What Lies Back of Foster,” 1923, Jan. 17
Box   6
Folder   17
“In the Wake of the Big Strike,” 1923, Jan.
Box   6
Folder   18
“After-War American Federation of Labor Politics,” 1923, March
Box   6
Folder   19
“Some Factors Underlying Workers Education,” 1923, April 23
Box   6
Folder   20
“Labor Banks and Trade Union Capitalism,” 1923, Sept.-Oct.
Box   6
Folder   21
“American Federation of Labor - Panaceas, Political Action and Unionism,” 1923, Oct.
Box   6
Folder   22
“The American Federation of Labor: A Reading List,” 1923
Box   6
Folder   23
“Circuit Riding Among the Miners,” 1923
Box   6
Folder   24
“Labor Banks: A Phase of Genuine Trade Union Activity,” 1924, Feb.
Box   6
Folder   25
“Labor Leadership: A Blind Alley Job,” 1924, Aug.
Box   6
Folder   26
“Realism in Labor Strategy,” 1924, Sept.
Box   6
Folder   27
“Samuel Gompers and Wage Conscious Unionism,” 1925, Jan.
Box   6
Folder   28
“The Labor Chatauqua and Mass Education,” 1925, May 4
Box   6
Folder   29
“Data on Negroes in Trade Unions,” 1925, Aug.
Box   6
Folder   30
“The Immigrant in the Labor Movement,” 1926, April
Box   7
Folder   1
“Conciliation and Arbitration,” 1926-1928
Box   7
Folder   2
“Legal Aspect of Trade Agreements,” 1926-1928
Box   7
Folder   3
“Public Employment Offices,” 1926-1928
Box   7
Folder   4
“Belgian Labor College Trains for Unionism,” 1927, Sept.
Box   7
Folder   5
“Trade Union Politics and Tactics,” 1928, April 5
Box   7
Folder   6
“Labor in 1927,” 1928, May
Box   7
Folder   7
“Social Changes in 1927,” 1928, Dec.
Box   7
Folder   8
“The Councils of Discipline in the French Postal Service,” 1928
Box   7
Folder   9
“Trade Union Policies and Tactics,” 1928
Box   7
Folder   10
“The Union Teachers of France,” 1929, Feb.
Box   7
Folder   11
“Labor in 1928,” 1929, May
Box   7
Folder   12
“The Future of Radicalism in the Labor Movement,” circa 1929
Box   7
Folder   13
“Populism, Socialism, and Labor,” 1929-1930
Box   7
Folder   14
“Function of Organized Labor,” 1920's
Box   7
Folder   15
“International Labor Union,” 1920's
Box   7
Folder   16
“Labor in 1929,” 1930, May
Box   7
Folder   17
“Cut the Racket,” 1930, Aug.
Box   7
Folder   18
“The Rise and Decline of the A.F. of L.,” 1930, Oct.
Box   7
Folder   19
“Labor in Politics,” 1930
Box   7
Folder   20
“Dual Unionism,” 1931, March
Box   7
Folder   21
“Social Classes,” 1931, May 25
Box   7
Folder   22
“Labor in 1930,” 1931, May
Box   7
Folder   23
“Left Opposition: the Labor and Socialist International,” 1931, Dec.
Box   7
Folder   24
“World Socialist Congress,” 1931
Box   7
Folder   25
“Producers' Cooperation,” after 1931
Box   7
Folder   26
“Methods of Economic Research,” 1932, Feb.
Box   7
Folder   27
“Role of the Intellectual in the U.S.,” 1932, April
Box   7
Folder   28
“Labor in 1931,” 1932, May
Box   7
Folder   29
“Mass Labor Party,” April-1932, June
Box   7
Folder   30
“The Radical Vote,” 1932, Nov.-Dec.
Box   7
Folder   31
“Schlessinger, Benjamin,” 1932, Dec. 27
Box   7
Folder   32
“Sigman, Morris,” 1932, Dec. 27
Box   7
Folder   33
“Labor in Politics,” 1932
Box   7
Folder   34
“Labor and Revolution,” 1932
Box   7
Folder   35
“Social Forces Underlying Fascism,” 1933, March
Box   7
Folder   36
“The Catholic Church and the Labor Movement,” 1933, May
Box   7
Folder   37
“Labor in 1932,” 1933, May
Box   7
Folder   38
“The Middle Class Stages a Comeback,” 1933, Jan.-Oct.
Box   8
Folder   1
“Towards a United Front,” 1933, Nov. 22
Box   8
Folder   2
“Labor and Independent Politics,” 1933, Dec.
Box   8
Folder   3
“The Future of Radicalism in America,” 1933
Box   8
Folder   4
“Industrial Unionism Knocks Twice,” 1933
Box   8
Folder   5
“Labor in Politics,” 1933
Box   8
Folder   6
“The New Labor Progressives,” 1934, Jan. 24
Box   8
Folder   7
“The Effect of the NRA on American Union Organizations,” 1934
Box   8
Folder   8
“Government Intervention in Industrial Relations,” 1934
Box   8
Folder   9
“Independent Labor Political Action is An Essential,” 1934
Box   8
Folder   10
“Industrial Unionism,” 1934
Box   8
Folder   11
“Industrial Unionism in the Crucible,” 1934
Box   8
Folder   12
“Industrial Unionism,” 1935, Feb.
Box   8
Folder   13
“The American Labor Movement Since the War,” 1935, Feb.
Box   8
Folder   14
“The Role of Government in Labor Relations,” 1935, Mar. 4
Box   8
Folder   15
“European Labor and Peace,” 1935, June
Box   8
Folder   16
“Housing in Company Towns,” 1935
Box   8
Folder   17
“Will American Labor Turn Radical?,” 1936, Mar.
Box   8
Folder   18
“0rganizational and Procedural Changes in Employee Representation Plans,” 1936, Dec.
Box   8
Folder   19
“The Role of the Middle Class in Social Developments: Fascism, Populism, Socialism, Communism,” 1936
Box   8
Folder   20
“Pacific Coast Labor Movement,” 1938, July
Box   8
Folder   21
“The A.F. of L. and the C.I.O.: Principles, Policies, and Tactics,” 1938, Aug. 2
Box   8
Folder   22
“The Mind of Immigrant Communities,” 1938, Oct. 6
Box   8
Folder   23
“Rapid Increase in Contracts,” 1939, June 12
Box   8
Folder   24
“Social History of the Corporation in the U.S.” and a Discussion of Thomas C. Cochran's Paper, 1939, Dec. 28
Box   8
Folder   25
“The Theory and Practice of Collective Bargaining,” 1940
Box   8
Folder   26
“Labor's Stake in Our Defense of Freedom,” 1941, June 28
Box   8
Folder   27
“History of the American Trade Union Movement,” 1942
Box   8
Folder   28
“Present Economic Situation and Reconversion,” 1944, Feb.-July
Box   8
Folder   29
Reports, Military Government of Germany, 1945, July-1946, Mar.
Box   8
Folder   30
Reports, Military Government of Germany, 1946, April-May
Box   9
Folder   1
“Social Outlook of the American Worker,” after 1950
Box   9
Folder   2
“European Housing Crisis,” 1952
Box   9
Folder   3
“Need for Stable Government in the Six Schuman Plan Countries,” 1952
Box   9
Folder   4
“Postwar Ideological Development in the International Labor Movement,” 1954, Jan.
Box   9
Folder   5
“The Communist Menace,” 1954, June
Box   9
Folder   6
“Effect of Certain Union Practices, Labor Management Policies, and Mores on Labor Mobility,” 1954, July 7
Box   9
Folder   7
“Myth of Voluntarism in the American Labor Movement,” 1954, June-July
Box   9
Folder   8
“The Split Between Asian and Western Socialism,” 1954, July
Box   9
Folder   9
“Soviet Outlook of the American Worker,” 1954, July-Sept.
Box   9
Folder   10
“Status of the American Worker,” 1954, Aug. 11
Box   9
Folder   11
“Voluntarism in the American Labor Movement,” 1954, Sept.
Box   9
Folder   12
“Communist Tactics in the Trade Unions,” 1954, Oct. 1
Box   9
Folder   13
“Recent Labor Political Action in Western Europe,” 1954, Oct.
Box   9
Folder   14
“Boring From Within and Dual Unionism - Changing Versions,” 1954, Nov. 30
Box   9
Folder   15
“Some Outstanding Features of the Jewish Labor Movement in the American Scene,” 1954
Box   9
Folder   16
“Communist Strategy and Tactics,” 1955, April
Box   9
Folder   17
“La renaissance du movement syndical americain,” 1955, Dec. 28
Box   9
Folder   18
“Labor Unions,” 1955, Dec. 30
Box   9
Folder   19
“The Role of the Union in the Shop in Germany,” after 1955
Box   9
Folder   20
“Communist Activities in CIO and AFL,” 1956, Jan. 26
Box   9
Folder   21
“Rebirth of the American Labor Movement,” 1956
Box   9
Folder   22
“Fifth Amendment Cases,” 1957, July
Box   9
Folder   23
“Communist Undercover Policies,” 1957, Nov. 20
Box   9
Folder   24
“Labor Racketeering: Evolution and Solutions,” 1958, Fall
Box   9
Folder   25
“American Labor's New Thinking,” 1958, Nov. 14 and 28
Box   9
Folder   26
“Communism - An International Conspiracy,” 1959
Box   9
Folder   27
“Postwar Development in International Labor,” 1960, Spring
Box   9
Folder   28
“Coexistence - Communist Style,” 1960, March
Box   9
Folder   29
“The Wisconsin Heritage and the Study of Labor - The Works and Deeds of John R. Commons,” 1960
Box   9
Folder   30
“Ideological Conflicts in the International Labor Movement,” 1962, March
Box   10
Folder   1
“Labor Ideology Impact on Industrial Relations,” 1962, Oct.
Box   10
Folder   2
“Ideological Developments in the International Labor Movement,” 1964
Box   10
Folder   3
“John F. Kraft, Inc.,” 1967, April
Box   10
Folder   4
“Union Membership Loyalty,” 1967, Oct.
Box   10
Folder   5
“Collective Bargaining to Finality,” 1967
Box   10
Folder   6
“Populist Impact on Social-Science Academicians,” 1967
Box   10
Folder   7
Miscellaneous outlines, undated
Subseries: Books
⇧
Public Opinion and the Steel Strike, 1921
Box   10
Folder   8
Organization of the National Committee
Box   10
Folder   9
Typed draft
Box   10
Folder   10
Comment on Critical Reviews, 1920, Aug. 31-1923, March 21
Box   10
Folder   11
“The Trade Union and the Immigrant,” Ch. VI, 1922
Box   10
Folder   12
“The Jews in the United States,” 1923, Sept.
Left Wing Unionism, 1926
Box   10
Folder   13
Manuscript draft, chapter on dual unionism
Box   10
Folder   14
Typed draft, chapter on ideological struggles
Box   10
Folder   15
Galley
Box   10
Folder   16
Book jacket and blurbs
Readings in Trade Unionism, 1926
Box   11
Folder   1
Outlines and plans
Box   11
Folder   2
Draft and bibliography
Box   11
Folder   3
Readers' criticisms
The Labor Movement in Post-War France, 1931
Box   11
Folder   4
Expense account, 1927-1928
Box   11
Folder   5
Notes and chapter outlines
Box   11
Folder   6
Introduction and prospectus
Box   11
Folder   7-8
Part I, chapters I and II
Box   11
Folder   9
Part II, chapter I
Box   11
Folder   10
Part III
Box   11
Folder   11
Part VI
Part VII
Box   11
Folder   12
Manuscript draft
Box   11
Folder   13
Typed draft
Part VIII
Box   11
Folder   14
Manuscript draft
Box   12
Folder   1
Typed draft
Box   12
Folder   2
Chapter on minimum wage commission
Box   12
Folder   3
Appendices
Box   12
Folder   4
Bibliography
Box   12
Folder   5
Reviews
“Labor's Organization Problems,” 1926-1932
Box   12
Folder   6
Reports and grant proposals
Box   12
Folder   7
Outlines
Research materials
Box   12
Folder   8
Articles by Saposs
Box   12
Folder   9
Articles, broadsides, and brochures
Box   12
Folder   10
Clippings
Draft
Box   12
Folder   11
Introduction
Box   12
Folder   12
Part I, chapter I, II
Box   12
Folder   13
Part II, chapter I-IV, VI-XII
Box   12
Folder   14
Part III, chapter I-X
Box   12
Folder   15
Part IV, chapter I, II
Box   12
Folder   16
Fragment
“The Future of Radicalism,” 1929-1932
Box   13
Folder   1
Research material
Box   13
Folder   2
Draft fragment, manuscript
Box   13
Folder   3
Draft fragment, typed
Box   13
Folder   4
Draft fragment, manuscript and typed
Box   13
Folder   5
Draft, manuscript
Box   13
Folder   6
Readers' criticisms and blurb
Box   13
Folder   7
Revised draft, typed
Labor and the Government, 1936, Twentieth Century Fund Labor Study
Box   13
Folder   8
Outlines
Box   13
Folder   9
Research material - interviews
Box   13
Folder   10
Drafts and editorial correspondence
Draft: chapter--
Box   13
Folder   11
Adjustment of Industrial Disputes under NIRA
Box   13
Folder   12
Civil Liberties in Labor Relations
Box   13
Folder   13
Employer Association Problems
Box   13
Folder   14
Labor Organization Problems
Trade Union Organization - Nature and Activities
Box   13
Folder   15
First draft
Box   13
Folder   16
Second draft
Box   13
Folder   17
Fragments of first draft
Box   14
Folder   1
Miscellaneous draft fragments
Box   14
Folder   2
“The American Labor Movement,” draft, 1938
Box   14
Folder   3
Collective Bargaining Today and Tomorrow, 1938, manuscript draft of Part III, Collective Bargaining
Untitled draft fragment
Box   14
Folder   4
“Labor and the State,” 1930's
Box   14
Folder   5
“The Newcomers in Industry”
Economic Cooperation Administration Study, 1951
Box   14
Folder   6
Outline and preface
Chapter I
Box   14
Folder   7
Early draft and readers' criticisms
Box   14
Folder   8
Revised draft
Box   14
Folder   9
Revised draft
Box   14
Folder   10
Revised draft
Box   14
Folder   11
Revised draft and readers' criticisms
Box   14
Folder   12
Chapter II, draft
Box   14
Folder   13
Chapter III, draft
Chapter IV
Box   14
Folder   14
Revised outline and drafts
Box   14
Folder   15
Revised draft
Box   14
Folder   16
Chapter V, research material, outline, draft, and readers' criticisms
Box   14
Folder   17
Chapter VI, draft
Communism in American Unions, 1959
Draft
Box   15
Folder   1
Chapter 1-5
Box   15
Folder   2
Chapter 6-10
Box   15
Folder   3
Chapter 11-16
Box   15
Folder   4
Chapter 17-20
Box   15
Folder   5
Chapter 21-24
Final draft
Box   15
Folder   6
Chapter 1-4
Box   15
Folder   7
Chapter 5-7
Box   15
Folder   8
Chapter 8-13
Box   15
Folder   9
Chapter 14-17
Box   15
Folder   10
Chapter 18-22
Box   15
Folder   11
Chapter 23-24
Box   16
Folder   1
Galley proof, corrected
Box   16
Folder   2
Advertisements and reviews
Box   16
Folder   3
Communism in American Politics, 1960, Research material, draft fragment, blurb, reviews
National Labor Movements in the Post-War World, 1963
Box   16
Folder   4
Manuscript draft - Introduction
Box   16
Folder   5
Manuscript draft
Box   16
Folder   6
Article, “Ideological Conflicts in the International Labor Movement,” 1963
Case Studies in Labor Ideology, 1964, 1968
Box   16
Folder   7
Grant proposal
Box   16
Folder   8
Announcements
Monograph I - The Nordic Countries, 1964
Box   16
Folder   9
First Draft, manuscript
Box   16
Folder   10
Fragments of manuscript draft
Box   16
Folder   11
Revised draft, Introduction; Parts 1-2
Box   16
Folder   12
Revised draft, Parts 3-6
Box   17
Folder   1
Final second draft
Box   17
Folder   2
Draft fragments
Box   17
Folder   3
Reviews
Monograph II - Central European Countries, 1964
Box   17
Folder   4
Introduction
Austria
Box   17
Folder   5
First draft
Box   17
Folder   6
Revised draft
Box   17
Folder   7
Final draft
West Germany chapter
Box   17
Folder   8
“Transitory Schizophrenia”
Box   17
Folder   9
“S.P.D. Wanders in the Wilderness”
Box   17
Folder   10
“S.P.D. Records Ideologic Metamorphosis”
Box   17
Folder   11
“Local Election Returns Foreshadow S.P.D. Gains”
Box   17
Folder   12
“Socialists Gain, Christians Lose”
Box   17
Folder   13
“Future S.P.D. Electoral Prospects”
Box   17
Folder   14
“Land and Local Elections”
Box   17
Folder   15
“Future S.P.D. Prospects”
Box   17
Folder   16
“New S.P.D. Image Propounded and Opposed”
Box   17
Folder   17
“Epilogue”
Box   17
Folder   18
Review
Monograph III - American Labor Ideology, 1968
Box   17
Folder   19
Drafts - Introduction and Foreward
Manuscript draft
Box   17
Folder   20
Chapter 1
Box   17
Folder   21
Chapter 2
Box   18
Folder   1
Chapter 3
Box   18
Folder   2
Chapter 4
Box   18
Folder   3
Chapter 5
Box   18
Folder   4
Chapter 6, 7
Box   18
Folder   5
Chapter 8
Box   18
Folder   6
Chapter 10
Box   18
Folder   7
Chapter 12
Box   18
Folder   8
Chapter 39
Box   18
Folder   9
Second manuscript draft
Fragments of manuscript draft
Box   18
Folder   10
1966, March 31
Box   18
Folder   11
1966, June 11
Typed revised draft
Box   19
Folder   1
Pages 1-71
Box   19
Folder   2
Pages 72-151
Box   19
Folder   3
Pages 152-189
Box   19
Folder   4
Pages 190-204
Box   19
Folder   5
Pages 205-240
Box   19
Folder   6
Pages 241-268
Box   19
Folder   7
Pages 269-297
Box   19
Folder   8
Pages 298-341
Box   19
Folder   9
Second revision and final draft, Preface and Introduction
Box   19
Folder   10
Second revision, chapter 39
Third revision
Box   19
Folder   11
Pages 79-284
Box   19
Folder   12
Pages 288-341
Box   19
Folder   13
Pages 351-401
Box   19
Folder   14
Insert, chapter 42
Final revised draft
Box   20
Folder   1
Chapter 1-5
Box   20
Folder   2
Chapter 6-20
Box   20
Folder   3
Chapter 21-28
Box   20
Folder   4
Chapter 29-38
Box   20
Folder   5
Chapter 39-43
Box   20
Folder   6
Promotional tract
Subseries: Speeches
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Box   20
Folder   7
“On Workers' Safety Organizations,” 1918
Box   20
Folder   8
“Labor's Stake in Peace,” 1935, July 5
Box   20
Folder   9
Tamiment Labor Conferences, 1941, July
Box   20
Folder   10
“The Labor Movement - A Look Backward and Forward,” 1955
Box   20
Folder   11
“Impact of Ideology on the International Labor Movement,” 1962, April 30
Series: Research Files of Non-Printed Material
⇧
Box   21
Folder   1
American Cooperatives, 1922
Box   21
Folder   2
American Labor Opinion Census, 1925, Fall
Box   21
Folder   3
American Negro Labor Congress, 1927
Americanization Study, 1918-1919
Box   21
Folder   4
Leiserson material: Schedule B Interviews
Box   21
Folder   5
Saposs material: Schedule C Interviews
Box   21
Folder   6
Miscellaneous Interviews
Box   21
Folder   7
Reports
Box   21
Folder   8
Citizenship and Other Union Restriction of Immigrants
Box   21
Folder   9
Immigrant Competition
Box   21
Folder   10
Immigrant in Coal Mining
Box   21
Folder   11
Immigrant in Clothing Trade
Box   21
Folder   12
Immigrant Invasion of Industry - Occupations at Home and Here
Box   21
Folder   13
Immigrant's Organizing American Workers
Box   21
Folder   14
Immigration Problems
Box   21
Folder   15
Italians
Box   21
Folder   16
Jewish Unions
Box   21
Folder   17
Jews
Box   22
Folder   1-2
Jews, continued
Box   22
Folder   3
Poles - Overland Situation
Box   22
Folder   4
Radicalism Among Foreigners
Box   22
Folder   5
Notes - Role of Immigrant in American Labor Movement
Box   22
Folder   6
Ruthenians, Lithuanians, Magyars, Poles, Slovaks
Box   22
Folder   7
Slavs
Box   22
Folder   8
Social Benefits of Unionism
Box   22
Folder   9
Spanish
Box   22
Folder   10
Union Americanization
Box   22
Folder   11
Birthday Poem, 1962, Feb 22
Box   22
Folder   12
Brewery Workers' History of Unionization, 1920-1930
Box   22
Folder   13
Bureau of Personnel Administration, 1935, March-1936, Jan
Box   22
Folder   14
Cigarmakers' Union History, 1851-79. Written after , 1907
Box   22
Folder   15
John R. Commons, 1952
Box   22
Folder   16
Conference for Progressive Labor Action (CPLA), 1930, Sept 1933, April
Box   22
Folder   17
CPLA, Notes on Convention, 1932
Box   22
Folder   18
Conference on Jewish Relations, 1934, Jan-May
Box   22
Folder   19
Continental Congress for Economic Reconstruction, 1933, May
Continental Congress of Workers and Farmers
Box   22
Folder   20
1933, March-Aug
Box   22
Folder   21
1933, Sept-1934, June
Box   23
Folder   1
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, 1940, Dec-1943, June
Box   23
Folder   2
Electrical Workers, 1924-1932
Box   23
Folder   3
English Trade Unionism, 1913-1926
Box   23
Folder   4
Farmer-Labor Party, 1924
France, Labor Conditions after World War I
Box   23
Folder   5
Accidents, 1927
Box   23
Folder   6
Agricultural Workers, 1926-1927
Box   23
Folder   7
“Boring from Within,” 1923
Box   23
Folder   8
Building Trades Union, 1923
Box   23
Folder   9
Collective Bargaining Tables, 1919-1926
Box   23
Folder   10
Company Unions, 1927, Nov
Box   23
Folder   11
Conciliation - Arbitration, 1919-1927
Box   23
Folder   12
Confederation Generale du Travail (C.G.T.U.), 1927
Box   23
Folder   13
C.G.T.U. and Eight Hour Law, 1919-1926
Box   23
Folder   14
C.G.T.U. - Evans' Chapter, 1927
Box   23
Folder   15
C.G.T.U. - Postwar by A.D.M. Evans; Saposs critique, “The Collapse of Syndicalism,” 1927
Box   23
Folder   16
Conseil de prud'hommes, 1924-1927
Box   23
Folder   17
Conseil superior des chemins de fer, 1927
Box   23
Folder   18
Councils of Discipline - State Workers, 1911-1924
Cooperatives
Box   23
Folder   19
Chain Stores, 1926-1929
Box   23
Folder   20
Consumers National Federation, 1926-1927
Box   23
Folder   21
Producer's Cooperative Societies, Statistics for France and other European countries, 1923-1929
Box   23
Folder   22
France - Cooperatives - Relationship with Unions, 1920
Box   23
Folder   23
Employer Attitude, 1913-1927
Box   23
Folder   24
Functionnaires - Syndical right, 1927
Box   23
Folder   25
General Electric Company, 1926
Box   23
Folder   26
Government (general), 1926
Box   23
Folder   27
Iron Mines - Workers and Production, 1926
Box   23
Folder   28
Labor Legislation, 1927-28
Box   23
Folder   29
Les Greves, 1919-1927
Box   23
Folder   30
Mines - Lens and Dourges, 1925-1927
Box   23
Folder   31
Miners' Pensions and Unions, 1927
Box   23
Folder   32
Polish Immigrant Workers, 1924-1927
Box   23
Folder   33
Public Employment Offices, 1923-1928
Box   23
Folder   34
Public Service, 1925, Aug
Box   23
Folder   35
Relations of Conflicting Groups, 1926, Dec
Box   23
Folder   36
Renters Unions, 1927, Nov
Box   24
Folder   1
Social Projects, “Les Oeuvres Sociales de la Blanchisserieet Teinturerie de Thaon,” 1923
Box   24
Folder   2
Social Projects, “Oeuvres Sociales de la Maison Michelin,” 1923-1929
Box   24
Folder   3
Social Projects, Textile Consortium, 1927-1928
Box   24
Folder   4
Strikes and Results, 1923-1926
Box   24
Folder   5
Strike Tables - Proposed, 1919-1923
Box   24
Folder   6
Strike Statistics, 1919-1928
Box   24
Folder   7
Strike Statistics, 1919-1928
Box   24
Folder   8
Les Syndicats, 1907-1926
Box   24
Folder   9
Trade Agreements Data, 1926-1927
Box   24
Folder   10
Trade Union Characteristics, 1928
Box   24
Folder   11
Unemployment and the State, 1927
Box   24
Folder   12
Union Membership - Tables and Statistics, 1913-1919
Box   24
Folder   13
Union Recognition and Collective Bargaining, 1928
Box   24
Folder   14
Wage Problem and State Employees, 1926
Box   24
Folder   15
Welfare Work, 1926, April
Box   24
Folder   16
Independent Unions, 1919
Box   24
Folder   17
Industrial Crisis, 1929
Box   24
Folder   18
Industrial Research Group, Columbia University, 1933
Box   24
Folder   19
Italy, 1944; 1953, June
Box   24
Folder   20
International Cooperation of Free Trade Unions, 1950, April-1951, Aug
Box   24
Folder   21
International Workers of the World, 1918-1920
Box   24
Folder   22
Labor and the Government - Miscellaneous Research Material, 1933-1935, March
Box   24
Folder   23
Labor Bureau, 1921
Box   24
Folder   24
Labor Press, 1920
Box   24
Folder   25
Labor's League for Political Education, 1919, June; 1948, July
Box   24
Folder   26
League for Industrial Democracy, 1930, April-May
Box   24
Folder   27
Machinists Union, 1895-1918
Box   24
Folder   28
“The National Catholic Confederation of Labor” by Carleton Beals, 1926, Aug
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Box   25
Folder   1
1928, Dec-1937, Dec
Box   25
Folder   2
1938, Jan-Sept
Box   25
Folder   3
1938, Oct-Dec
Box   25
Folder   4
1939, Jan-Dec
Box   25
Folder   5
1940, Feb-April
Box   25
Folder   6
1940, May-Dec
Box   25
Folder   7
1941, Jan-June
Box   25
Folder   8
1942, June-1954, Sept
Box   25
Folder   9
Cornell University, Saposs Interview, 1968, July 22
Box   26
Folder   1
Nuremberg Trials, 1945, Nov
Box   26
Folder   2
Packing Industry, 1919
Box   26
Folder   3
Post-War Ideologies, 1953, July-1954, March
Box   26
Folder   4
Saposs, Bertha Tigay, 1926, Feb 27
Mss 113/Micro 909
1919 Steel Strike
Box/Folder>   26/5
Reel/Frame>   1/1
Pennsylvania State University Interview with Saposs, 1967
Interviews with Workers, 1919-1920
Scope and Content Note: These files contain brief summaries of interviews conducted by David Saposs, Bertha Saposs, and Mary Senior. They are organized by community and thereunder by interviewee's name. Saposs was researching the attitudes of immigrant workers toward the strike, unionization, and working conditions. The summaries usually give the interviewee's name, address, nationality, and job. In addition to striking and nonstriking workers, the interviewees include union officials, spouses of workers, supervisors and foremen, clergyman and librarians who served steel worker communities, and leders of ethnic organizations. The Pittsburgh file in particular contains interviews with several ethnic group leaders.
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Illinois-Chicago and South Chicago
Indiana
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Gary
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Reel/Frame>   1/94
Indian Harbor
Ohio
Box/Folder>   26/6
Reel/Frame>   1/96
Girard
Box/Folder>   26/6
Reel/Frame>   1/101
Youngstown
New York
Box/Folder>   26/6
Reel/Frame>   1/139
Lackawanna
Box/Folder>   26/6
Reel/Frame>   1/157
New York City
Box/Folder>   26/6
Reel/Frame>   1/159
South Buffalo
Pennsylvania
Box/Folder>   26/7
Reel/Frame>   1/178
Allentown
Box/Folder>   26/7
Reel/Frame>   1/187
Bethlehem
Box/Folder>   26/7
Reel/Frame>   1/258
Braddock and North Braddock
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Reel/Frame>   1/342
Brackenridge
Box/Folder>   26/7
Reel/Frame>   1/344
Carrick
Box/Folder>   26/7
Reel/Frame>   1/346
Donora
Box/Folder>   26/7
Reel/Frame>   1/350
Duquesne
Box/Folder>   26/7
Reel/Frame>   1/362
East Vandergrift
Box/Folder>   26/7
Reel/Frame>   1/366
Franklin
Box/Folder>   26/7
Reel/Frame>   1/380
Hazleton
Box/Folder>   26/8
Reel/Frame>   1/385
Homestead
Box/Folder>   26/9
Reel/Frame>   1/492
Johnstown
Box/Folder>   26/9
Reel/Frame>   1/540
McKeesport
Box/Folder>   26/9
Reel/Frame>   1/617
Mt. Oliver
Box/Folder>   26/9
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Natrona
Box/Folder>   26/9
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New Kensington
Box/Folder>   26/9
Reel/Frame>   1/630
Pittsburgh
Box/Folder>   26/9
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Rankin
Box/Folder>   26/9
Reel/Frame>   1/737
Swissvale
Box/Folder>   26/9
Reel/Frame>   1/742
Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Box/Folder>   26/9
Reel/Frame>   1/744
Unidentified Communities
Box/Folder>   26/10
Reel/Frame>   1/750
Summaries and Reports
Research Material
Box/Folder>   26/11
Reel/Frame>   1/852
Harassment of Strikers, 1919-1920
Box/Folder>   26/12
Reel/Frame>   1/879
Miscellaneous
Box/Folder>   26/13
Reel/Frame>   2/1
Testimony Before Interchurch World Movement Commission by William Z. Foster & Others, October-November 1919
Box/Folder>   27/1
Reel/Frame>   2/271
Trade Union Printed matter, 1918-1923
Box/Folder>   27/2
Reel/Frame>   2/401
Articles by Saposs
Mss 113
Box   27
Folder   2
Union Material, 1918, Oct-1923, Aug
Box   27
Folder   2
Untitled Articles, 1920
Box   27
Folder   3
Teachers Union, 1934, Dec-1935, April
Box   27
Folder   4
Norman Thomas, 1940, June 3
U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations (US-CIR), Company Town Investigation
Box   27
Folder   5
Ray, Arizona, 1914, June-Aug
Box   27
Folder   6
Globe, Arizona, Interview Transcripts, 1914, Aug
Box   27
Folder   7-8
Louisiana, Notebook I and II, 1913
Box   27
Folder   9
South Carolina, Notebook, 1913
Box   27
Folder   10
Lead, South Dakota, 1911-1914
Box   27
Folder   11
Lead, South Dakota, Homestake Mining Co., 1914, May-1917, July
Box   27
Folder   12-13
Ray, Texas, Notebook I and II, 1913
Box   28
Folder   1-2
Taft, Texas, Notebook I and II, 1913
Box   28
Folder   3
San Patricio County, Texas, 1912, Oct
Box   28
Folder   4
Texas, Field Study Interviews, 1914, Aug
Box   28
Folder   5
Wage Theory, 1922
Box   28
Folder   6
War Production Board, 1943, Jan 19-1944, June 6
Box   28
Folder   7
Workers' Defense League - White Paper for Labor, 1958, Dec-1960, March
Workers' Education
Box   28
Folder   8
Dressmakers Local 22, 1933-1934
Box   28
Folder   9
Reading Lists, 1940, 1941
Box   28
Folder   10
Rose Kline File, 1930's
Box   28
Folder   11
Rose Kline File, 1938-1940
Box   28
Folder   12
Miscellany, 1927-1946
Box   28
Folder   13
Workers Education Bureau, 1925, March-1926, Sept
Box   28
Folder   14
Young People's Socialist League, 1929, Feb; 1940, Feb-1948
Series: Research Files of Printed Material
⇧
Box   29
Pamphlets, unsorted, undated
Box   30
Pamphlets and clippings, unsorted, undated
Series: Teaching
⇧
Box   31
Folder   1
American Labor History, Class Notes and Outlines, 1931-1944
Box   31
Folder   2
The American University, Reading List, Lecture Notes, and Exams, 1961-1964
Box   31
Folder   3
Barnard Summer School, 1930-1934
Brookwood Labor College
Saposs Course Material
Box   31
Folder   4
General, 1922-1924
Box   31
Folder   5
AFL and New Deal, 1933
Box   31
Folder   6
French Labor Movement, 1928-1929
Box   31
Folder   7-8
Labor History, 1922-1938
Box   32
Folder   1-2
Trade Unions and Labor Organizations, 1922-1930
Box   32
Folder   3
Trade Union Organization, 1927-1933
Box   32
Folder   4
Labor Strategy Seminar, 1924-1926
Box   32
Folder   5
Other Instructors' Course Material, 1924-1967; undated
Faculty and Organizational Material
Box   32
Folder   6
1921-1927
Box   32
Folder   7
1928-1929
Box   32
Folder   8
1929-1931
Box   33
Folder   1
1932-1936; 1965
Box   33
Folder   2-3
Undated
Box   33
Folder   4
Brookwood vs. A.F. of L., 1928-29
Box   33
Folder   5-6
Brookwood and C.P.L.A., 1932-33
Box   33
Folder   7
Brookwood and Workers Education Bureau, 1929
Box   33
Folder   8
Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, 1931
Box   33
Folder   9
Columbia University Extension, 1932-1933
Course Material
Box   33
Folder   10-11
Saposs, General, 1926-1945, 1953-1958
Box   33
Folder   12
Other Instructors, 1963; undated
Box   34
Folder   1
IGLWU - Workers' University, 1921-1937
Box   34
Folder   2
League for Industrial Democracy Lecture Series, 1923-1933
Box   34
Folder   3
New Workers College, 1931-1933
Box   34
Folder   4
PTTI Front Royal Trade Union Training Institute, 1959, Sept
Box   34
Folder   5
Rand School, 1931-1932
Box   34
Folder   6
University of California, 1953
Box   34
Folder   7
University of Hawaii, 1962, March-May
Box   34
Folder   8
University of Illinois, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1944-1958
Box   34
Folder   9
University of Wisconsin - Conference in Honor of the 80th Birthday of David J. Saposs, 1966
Box   34
Folder   10
Vineyard Shore School, 1930-1931
Box   34
Folder   11
Wesleyan College, A Parley on Labor Relations, 1935