Summary Information

Title: Labor's Non-Partisan League Records
Inclusive Dates: 1936-1944

Creator:

• Labor's Non-Partisan League

Call Number: U.S. Mss 123A

Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes)

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of a CIO auxiliary formed in 1936 to marshal labor support for political candidates favorable to labor on all levels of government, and to form public opinion on issues such as labor legislation and public housing. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, resolutions, telegrams, and speeches. Correspondence is between league officers and union officials, attorneys, scholars, and office holders on topics of concern to labor, particularly proposed labor legislation. The correspondence and memoranda of Russel Nixon, the Washington representative of the league, to Secretary John T. Jones illustrate the organization's lobbying methods. Other correspondents include George L. Berry, John L. Lewis, and Robert M. La Follette, Jr. Also present are clippings on subjects of interest to labor, copies of organizing letters, proceedings of the committee which formed the league and of the 1937 league convention, and a scrapbook.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us00123a