The papers consist of general correspondence and form letters, minutes of meetings, broadsides, and other printed matter. Runs of minutes of the Minneapolis Central Council for the Unemployed and the Council for United Labor Action, perhaps the most significant portion of the collection, make the papers valuable for the historian studying organizing efforts among the unemployed during the Depression, while the numerous broadsides provide a good indication of the struggle carried out between the Stalinist and Trotskyist tendencies in the labor movement in Minneapolis during the period. The collection is organized into Personal Files, Subject Files, and Miscellany. The subject files consist largely of printed matter pertaining to the Minneapolis branches of various socialist and labor groups. The correspondence is quite routine and includes numerous form letters from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
All material is arranged chronologically within the files. Because of its highly acidic character, the collection was microfilmed and then destroyed.
