Subseries: A. Records of the National Executive Committee, 1878-1906

Minutes, 1889 August 28-1891 September 27
Scope and Content Note: This official minute book of the National Executive Committee contains a record in German of the regular weekly meetings and the special meetings of the Committee, as well as financial statements and reports of the Committee, the Board of Supervision, and the party press.

Outgoing Correspondence, Letter Books
Scope and Content Note: These five volumes of letter-press copy books, with incomplete alphabetical indexes, contain copies of letters written by the secretaries of the National Executive Committee and other national officials of the party to the Board of Supervision, the sections, the section officials, the agitators, the party newspapers, and individual party members. This correspondence, written primarily in German and English with some scattered letters in French, largely concerns routine party business such as section meetings and activities, orders for literature and dues stamps, newspaper subscriptions, agitation tours, finances, and National Executive Committee actions. These letter-press copy books are deteriorating, and some of the letters are almost illegible.

1883 June 20-1885 June 5
Scope and Content Note: Letters signed by Emil Kreis, Hugo Vogt, and W.L. Rosenberg.

1888 August 14-1889 June 4
Scope and Content Note: Letters signed by William Hintze.

1889 June 4-1891 May 26
Scope and Content Note: Letters signed by William Hintze, W.L. Rosenberg, Joseph H. Sauter, Adolf Gerecke, and Benjamin J. Gretsch

1891 June 6-1892 March 25
Scope and Content Note: Letters signed by Benjamin J. Gretsch and Henry Kuhn.

1892 March 26-December 27
Scope and Content Note: Letters signed by Henry Kuhn.

Lists of Letters Received
Scope and Content Note: These three volumes compiled by National Secretary Henry Kuhn contain an inventory in English of the correspondence received by the National Executive Committee. Upon receiving correspondence, Kuhn numbered each letter and recorded in these volumes the number, the surname of the correspondent, his city, and the date of receipt.

1891 October 16-1893 June 23
Scope and Content Note: This volume contains not only a list of letters received, 1891, November 2-1893, June 23, but also a list of sections organized or dissolved between 1891, October 16 and 1893 May 24, with notations on their nationality.

1893 June 23-1894 October 9

1897 January 20-1899 May 10

Incoming Correspondence

1878-1884 January 19

1885 January 1-19

1885 January 20-1892

1885 January 20-1895

1896 January-May

1896 June

1896 July

1896 August

1896 September 1-15

1896 September 16-30

1896 October 1-14

1896 October 15-31

1896 November

1896 December

1897 January

1897 February-March 18

1897 March 19-April 15

1897 April 16-May

1897 June 1-14

1897 June 15-July

1897 August 1-16

1897 August 17-September

1897 October 1-14

1897 October 15-November

1897 December

1898 January

1898 February

1898 March-April

1898 May

1898 June

1898 July

1898 August

1898 September

1898 October

1898 November

1898 December

1899 January-February

1899 March 1-22

1899 March 23-April

1899 May 1-22

1899 May 23-December

1899, undated

1900-1906, undated

Ballots
Scope and Content Note: Official ballots of the Socialist Labor Party sections and the members at large on assorted questions of party policy and selection of party officials compose this group.

1880 March 10: Ratification of the platform and the amendments to the constitution adopted by the national convention

1899 October 10: Votes on the question to hold a special national convention and the selection of a date and site

1900 March 31: Selection of a site for the national convention

1901 January 19: Election of the National Executive Committee members

1901, July 10: Ratification of the National Executive Committee action regarding an invitation from the National Executive Board of the Social Democratic Party to participate in the Indianapolis Socialist Unity Convention

1902 March 14: Selection of the amendments to the constitution concerning the party press

1902 September 15: Votes on the question to hold a special national convention

1903 March 27: Election of the National Executive Committee members

1904 November 9: Ratification of the actions of the national convention

1904 November 9: Ratification of the constitution adopted by the national convention

Financial Records, 1881-1899
Scope and Content Note: Official accounting records of the National Executive Committee kept by the national treasurer or the national secretary. Most volumes contain a record of the receipts and expenditures of the National Executive Committee, but some volumes also include the accounts of special funds administered by the Committee.

Account Book, 1881 November 17-1885 January 31
Scope and Content Note: Entries include National Executive Committee receipts and expenditures, 1881, November 17-1884, December 31; Deutsche Reichstagswahl Fund Accounts, 1883, April 3-1884, December 31; Party Paper Fund Accounts, 1884, February 8-1885, January 31; Subscriptions to the Party Press, 1884, November 19-December 31; and Hocking Valley Strikers Fund Accounts, 1885, January 20.

Account Book, 1884 January 1-1888 February 6
Scope and Content Note: Entries include National Executive Committee receipts and expenditures, 1884 January 1-1887 December 31; Cigar Maker's Progressive Union Lockout Fund Accounts, 1886, February 1-June 6; Liebknecht-Aveling Agitation Fund Accounts, 1886 March 29-December 31; English Party Organ Accounts, 1885 October 26-1887, May 27; Central Party Organ Accounts, 1884 May 1-1888 February 6; and Deutsche Reichstagswahl Fund Accounts, 1884 April-1885 January 26. Indexed.

Account Book, 1888 October 17-1890 November 7
Scope and Content Note: Day Journal of National Executive Committee receipts and expenditures.

Account Book, 1890 November 8-1891 August 21
Scope and Content Note: Day Journal of National Executive Committee receipts and expenditures.

Deutsche Reichstagswahl Account Book, 1884 April 20-December 31
Scope and Content Note: Record book of the Deutsche Reichstagswahl Fund subscription list.

Account Book, Money Orders, 1886 October 30-1888 March 16
Scope and Content Note: Day Journal of money orders received by the National Executive Committee.

Account Book, Special Funds, 1893 January 17-1896 July 17
Scope and Content Note: Entries include A. Monteleone Accounts, 1893 January 17-1895 July 19; [Grand Rapids, Michigan] Volkstribun Accounts, 1896 January 14-March 25; and Accounts for J. Wilson Becker, party agitator, 1896 June 12-July 17.

Account Book, Dead Debts, 1895-1899
Scope and Content Note: Entries include the names of debtors and the amount of the debts. The records may pertain to one of the party newspapers.

Agitators' Date Book, 1896 August 1-November 1
Scope and Content Note: This volume contains the itineraries of Socialist Labor Party agitators and candidates during the 1896 presidential campaign. Speaking dates were recorded for Martha Moore Avery, Howard Balkam, Harry Carless, Daniel De Leon, Max Forker, Alexander Jonas, W. E. Krumroy, Matthew Maguire, Charles H. Matchett, Lucien Sanial, F. J. Sieverman, and Charles Wilson.

List of Sections and Officers, circa 1896
Scope and Content Note: This volume, prepared by National Secretary Henry Kuhn, lists the Socialist Labor Party state committees, local sections, and the names and addresses of their officers.