Part 1 (Mss 3, Micro 854): Original Collection, 1932-1965
Alternate Format: Selections found in ProQuest History Vault. Access by subscription; available at the Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin.

Physical Description: 166.6 cubic feet (411 archives boxes and 12 volumes) and 142 reels of microfilm (35 mm) 
Arrangement of the Materials: The original records have been arranged into nine series: Union for Democrative Action (UDA) Administrative File; ADA Administrative File; Chapter File; Convention File; Legislative File; Political File; Public Relations File; the Campus Division File; and Publications. In each series (except for Series 9: Publications), box numbering begin again at #1, so it is necessary to specify the series number as well as the box number when requesting materials.

Series: Union for Democratic Action (UDA) Administrative File, 1932, 1935, 1940-1947, 1950, 1951
Note: Specify series number when requesting boxes.

Physical Description: 36 boxes and 16 reels of microfilm (35 mm) 
Scope and Content Note

The Union for Democratic Action Administrative File is arranged alphabetically by subject. The material has been kept in the order originally maintained by the UDA office staff, with the exception of alterations made in misleading folder titles. The correspondence within each folder is arranged chronologically by years and months, and is placed first in each folder. Miscellaneous printed and mimeographed materials follow the correspondence and may occasionally overlap the inclusive dates given for the correspondence.

Much of the UDA administrative file relates to purely business and social activities of the organization including arrangements for dinner and luncheon meetings, various topical conferences, speaker's bureau, and tours such as that arranged for Patrick Gordon-Walker in 1946-1947. There is little financial information and only scattered correspondence and minutes of the National Board, although there is correspondence for National Director James Loeb Jr., 1941-1946, and National Chairman Reinhold Niebuhr, 1942-1947, as well as miscellaneous correspondence, 1940-1946.

The UDA actively supported many political, social, and economic issues between 1941 and 1946, such as fair employment policies, anti-discrimination measures, the Bretton Woods Monetary Agreement, the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, civil liberties, and world food supply. Although there is not a great deal of material in this series on any one of these issues, the collection does contain considerable information on UDA's fight for full post-war employment and its support of Henry A. Wallace for the position of secretary of commerce in 1945.

Included in this series are files relating to local UDA chapters, arranged alphabetically by state. The largest single chapter represented is the New York City chapter. The files for this chapter cover much of the same material found in the entire UDA administrative file including full employment activities, New Republic Supplement, Dumbarton Oaks Conference, and issues of minority groups. Also included are files for the New York Administrative Committee, materials relating to publicity, fund raising, and membership activities, and files for various social activities sponsored by this chapter.

There is an overlap of materials in both the New York City chapter files and the National Organization files. Prior to the summer of 1945 both groups occupied the same office in New York City and utilized many of the same staff members. The arbitrary location of certain folders in either location does not always indicate the original file location of these folders.

Most of the work of organizing chapters was by the national director, James Loeb Jr., although various other staff members aided. Two of the organizers were William Dnotes, who worked in the West in the summer of 1945, and Richard Bollings, who worked in the Midwest in the spring of 1947.

This series also includes the files of the Washington Bureau and its director, Thomas R. Amlie. Amlie's New Republic Supplement of May 14, 1942, was sanctioned by UDA and served as a campaign document for the supporters of the Roosevelt administration. Attacks upon the UDA by the Dies Committee in the summer of 1942, and a lack of funds, caused the temporary closing of the Washington office in the winter of 1942. Amlie's correspondence with James Loeb Jr., Howard Y. Williams, and Bruce Bliven is located in the files "Amlie, Thomas" and "New Republic Supplement." [See also Thomas R. Amlie Papers, Mss 452.]

Paul Sifton, a former employee of the National Farmers Union, reopened the Washington Bureau in November 1944. Under his leadership the Washington Bureau's main function was to make known and to influence national legislation. To aid in this project, UDA published the UDA Congressional Newsletter.

In 1946 the UDA Educational Fund Inc. established a London Bureau, headed by David C. Williams. The London Bureau's basic purpose was to inform Americans of the new economic and social experiments being carried out by the post-war government of Great Britain. It also had the function of interpreting American political, social, and economic developments to the British. This was partially accomplished by publishing the UDA London Letter. In addition, Williams arranged for tours for Patrick Gordon-Walker, M.P., and labor leader Jennie Lee.

Administrative Committee, correspondence and minutes 1941 July-1945 November

American Association for a Democratic Germany, 1945 April-1947 May

American Friends of German Freedom, minutes 1941 December-1942 January

Amlie, Thomas 1942 February-December

Anniversary Luncheon (May 9, 1942) 1942 March-May

Applications for Employment, 1941 July-1943 June

Argentine Hoax, reports 1945 June

Army Morale Conference (November 21, 1941) 1941 October-November

Army Pay Petitions

Atomic Energy Dinner (November 21, 1945) 1945 October

Barry, William B., Congressional Campaign 1942 April-July

Barry, William B. v. Frank Kingdon et al., Examination 1943 November

Bermuda Conference (July 1943), 1943 June

Bilbo, Senator Theodore 1945 July-August

Bolling, Richard 1947 April-June

Bolte, Charles 1944 February-May

Bretton Woods, 1945 February-June

British Labor Project, 1941 July-August

Brophy, John, Meeting (July 2, 1941) 1941 June

California, Los Angeles Chapter 1944 February-1945 June

Canada, 1944 March-October

Carnegie Hall Meeting For a Free Italy (September 26, 1943) 1943 August-September

Chapters, general, lists and reports 1945 January-1947 February

Civil Liberties, 1942 December

Civil Liberties pamphlet, 1942 September-1943 January

Commission Reports, 1945-1946

Conferences, regional 1941 May-June

Conference (September 1941), 1941 December

Conference (December 21, 1941) 1941 December
Note: See also: Conference, Reorganization, 1942 January 11.

Conference (January 4, 1947) 1946 July-December

Conference, Chicago (September 1946) 1946 April-October

Conference, Mexico City 1945 August-September

Conference on Unfinished Business in Social Legislation, 1946 January-April

Conference, Pittsburgh (December 13, 1942) 1942 November-1943 April

Conference, San Francisco 1945 March-June

Conference, Reorganization (January 11, 1942) 1941 December-1942 January
Note: See also: Conference, 1941 December 21.

Conference, Washington, D.C. (October 27, 1945) 1945 October-November

Conference on the War and the Consumer (January 24, 1942) 1941 November-1942 April

Conferences, miscellaneous

Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1945 March-July

Congressional Dinner (April 25, 1944) 1944 March-May

Congressional Reorganization, 1945 March-September

Congressmen, research on, reports 1944

Constitution and By-Laws, 1945-1946

Contributions to UDA, 1946 April-August

Coordinator, mailing list

Correspondence, miscellaneous
Note: See also: General correspondence.

1940 January-1941 May 31

1941 June

1941 July-1942 February

1942 March-1944 December

1945 January-1946 December

Correspondence to answer, 1941 July-1942 April

Correspondents Dinner

November 30, 1943 dinner 1943 October-December

May 10, 1945 dinner 1945 April-May

Corrupt Practices Act, 1946 October

Councilmanic Questionnaire, 1941 October-November

Davis, Elmer, memorial

Democracy Day, 1941 August

Dies Committee, attack on UDA 1942 June-August

Dnotes, William 1945 June-September

Domestic Policy Committee, reports 1945 May-August

Dumbarton Oaks, 1945 March-April

duPont, Ethel B., General Motors campaign 1945 December-1946 January

Eckhardt, Tibor 1941 December-1942 April

"Economic Roadmap ... for the Postwar Years," report undated

Economists Advisory Committee, 1942 November-1943 March

Education Fund, 1946 June-December

Educator's Division, UDA 1941 June

Educator's Luncheon (October 4, 1941) 1941 August-September

Emergency Committee for Food Production, 1945 April-June

Encampment for Citizenship, 1946 March-November

Epstein, Ethel S.

1946 October-1947 December

UDA Party (October 8, 1941) 1941 October

Executive Committee

Minutes, 1941 May-1946
Note: Incomplete.

Correspondence, 1945 January-1946 September

Ex-Marine Guards advertisement, 1945 May-June

Facts From Italy, 1945 March

Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1945 June

Fan Mail, 1946 January-1947 May

Fight for Freedom Inc., memorandum undated

Finance Committee, 1944 September-1945 February

Financial papers

1941 May-1947 January

Journal, 1946

"Food for Freedom", 1945 March-October

Food, general 1945 February-1946 November

Food pamphlet, "Peace In a Hungry World" 1946 April-May

Foreign Affairs, general 1941 April-1947 March

Foreign Affairs Committee, UDA 1946 September-December

Foreign Affairs Conference (March 25, 1944), correspondence and reports 1944 February-April

Foreign Policy, correspondence and reports 1944 March-1946 November

Form letters, 1942 October-1945 December

Forum Committee, 1942 December-1943 January

France, Open Letter Against the Vichy Government 1941 August

Friends of the Spanish Republic, press release 1945

Full Employment
Note: See also: Outland, Congressman George E.

1944 May-1945 December

1946 January-1946 September

Meeting (February 26, 1945), speeches, and printed matter

Printed matter

Printed matter (continued)

Publicity, 1945 March-1946 October

Germany, Meeting on postwar problems 1946 April-November

General Motors - United Automobile Workers Dispute, 1945 January-1946 January

Gertz, Elmer, "The Rise and Fall of the New York Daily News" undated

Gordon-Walker, Patrick, tour

1946 November

1946 December-1947 April

Greco-Turkish Aid Bill, 1947 April-May

Hayek, Prof. Friedrich A. 1945 April-May

Health and Defense Division, UDA 1941 May-June

Heimann, Eduard, The United Nations 1942 July

History of UDA

Hudson-Bergen (New Jersey) Progressive League, 1944 November

Humphrey, Hubert H. 1946 September-1947 December

Illinois, Chicago, Chapter 1945 May-October

Indiana, politics 1942 July-October

Japanese Question, 1942 April

Kentucky, Louisville, chapter 1943 August-1945 November

Kenyon, Dorothy, meeting (October 6, 1941) 1941 September-October

Kingdon, Frank and Robert A. Taft Debate 1942 July

Labor Committee, UDA 1941 May-June

League for Human Rights, 1941 June

League of Women Shoppers, minutes 1945 September

Lee, Jennie, tour 1941 October

Lerner, Abba P., "Wage Policy in Wartime" 1943

Lerner, Max, "Third Battle for France" 1945 April-May

Levy, Norman, Mrs. 1946 June-1947 May

Lewis, Alfred Baker 1943 April-1947 May

Lindbergh, Charles A., Des Moines, Iowa, speech 1941 September

Lists

1941-1947

Undated

Bulletin and Newsletter subscribers, 1946 October-1947 March

Membership lists for various chapters, 1945 October-1946 November

Newsletter and membership, 1941-1946, undated

Loeb, James, Jr.

1941 June-1945 December
Note: Reel 8 ends of 1945 July 30.

1946 January-1947 February

Farewell Luncheon (April 29, 1944) 1944 March-April

Organizing Trip, 1946 March

Loeb, Arthur, Mrs., meeting (December 11, 1941) 1941 November-December

London Letter, 1946 July-1947 August

London Office, 1945 January-1946 December

Mailings, 1932 July-1945 July

Martin, Kingsley, dinner (October 13, 1942) 1942 August-October

Maryland, Baltimore, chapter 1945 April-1946 November

Massachusetts, Boston, chapter 1942 February-1945 February

Meetings, special 1945 January-1947 January

Membership, information 1941

Membership Promotion, 1941 May-1945 October

Mimeographed Material, 1941

Miscellaneous

Missouri, St. Louis, Liberal Voters League 1944 June-December

Moses, Robert 1935 January-1946 June

Mowrer, Edgar A., Lecture at Town Hall (March 31, 1943) 1943 March

National Affairs Committee, undated

National Board

1945 January-1946 December

List of members, 1946

Minutes, 1942 January-1946 December

Supporting material for National Board meetings, 1942-1946

National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, 1946 May-October

National Citizens Political Action Committee, 1944 September

National Office

Inter-staff correspondence, 1945 August-1946 September

Nathalie E. Panek, 1946 April-November

Personnel, 1945 March-1946 November

Procedure, 1945 July-1946 November

Publications, 1944 September-1945 November

National Farmers Union, 1945 January-December

National Student Association, 1945 April-November

National Student Merger Convention, 1941 December

Negro Conference (June 19, 1941) 1941 May-July

Negro Petition Against Discrimination in Armed Forces, 1942 March-September

New Jersey, chapters, list of members

New Republic Supplement

1942 April-August

1943 December-1944 April

Questionnaire, 1944

Warburg, James, Mrs. 1944 February-May

1945 January-1946 December

Newsletter, 1943 October-1947 February

New York Daily News, experiment 1943 April-May

New York, New York City Chapter

Administrative Committee, minutes 1945 October-March

American Veterans Committee, 1946 January-April

Birthday luncheon (May 11, 1946) 1946 April

Board of Directors, correspondence and minutes 1944 November-1947 July

Board of Directors, membership lists 1944-1945

Brooklyn chapter, 1941 September-December

Bronx chapter, 1941 August-1942 March

Carey, James, meeting (March 29, 1945) 1945 March-April

"Congress to Win the War" - Supplement, 1942 October

Constitution and By-Laws, 1945 March-April

Contributions, lists 1944-1946

Dumbarton Oaks, 1944 December-1945 April

East Side chapter, membership list undated

Election Activities, 1946 April-November

Executive Committee, 1942 April-1946 November

Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1945 February-October

Forum (December 8, 1942) 1942 November-December

Full Employment Campaign, 1945 March-November

Full Employment, luncheon (May 17, 1945) 1945 April-June

Pull Employment Speakers Bureau, 1945 May-1944 January

Fund Raising Instructions

General correspondence
Note: See also: Correspondence, miscellaneous.

1945 February-May

1945 June-1945 July

1945 August-1947 January

General Motors Strike, 1946 January

Housing Commission, 1945 November-1946 January

Inter-Office Memoranda, 1944 December-1945 October

Kandel, Bernice and Janet Sachs 1945 December-1946 September
Note: See also: Publicity Files.

Legislative Committee, correspondence and minutes 1944 December-1946 April

Lists, undated

Meeting, annual (June 12, 1946) 1946 February-July

Meeting, membership (February 21, 1945) 1945 February

Meeting, membership (November 14, 1946) 1946 November

Midtown Luncheon Committee, 1945 July-1946 February

Minority Problems Commission, 1945 November-December

Moses, Robert, meeting undated

"The Next Four Years in New York City," dinner (January 11, 1946)

1945 November-1946 January

Sponsors and arrangements committee, 1945 November-December

Nominating Committee, 1945 March-June

Office form letters to the membership, 1944 December-1947 March

Office of Price Administration, 1945 July-1946 June

Oliver, Eli, We Still Can Lose the Peace 1945 September-October

Organizing Committee, minutes 1941-1942

"Our Town", 1946 February and May issues

Padover, Saul, Committee Regarding Progressives 1946 September-December

Personnel, 1945 March-1946 August

Press Releases, 1946

Publicity Files, Bernice Kandel 1945 January-December
Note: See also: Kandel, Bernice et al.

Queens chapter, membership list undated

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr. 1946 February-March

Social Security information, 1943 October

Society for Ethical Culture, 1945 November

Staff Meetings, minutes 1945 June-October

Village and Chelsea area chapters, 1942 January

West Side chapter, correspondence and minutes 1941 September-1942 April

New York, New York City Conference on Inflation (January 24, 1942)

Niebuhr, Reinhold 1942 October-1947 October

Norman party (May 14, 1943) 1943 May

Norman party (June 18, 1945) 1945 June

Norris, George, dinner (December 29, 1942) 1942 December

North African Meeting (February 27, 1943) 1943 February-July

O'Dwyer, William, Evaluation Committee of 1946 September-1947 February

Office form letters to the membership, 1941-1946

Office of Price Administration, 1946 January-June

Office of Public Opinion Research, Hadley Cantril, reports 1942

Organizing of new chapters, 1942 January-1946 December

Oregon, Portland, chapter 1941 June-September

Outland, Congressman George E., correspondence and memoranda 1945 June-July
Note: See also: Full Employment Campaign.

Petition, "Now Is the Time" 1941

Petition for Higher Army Pay

Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce [Mrs. Gifford Pinchot], party for UDA National Board (October 27, 1945) 1945 October

Pittman, Marvin, dinner (October 4, 1941) 1941 September-October

Plans for Post-War Reconstruction, 1942 September-October

"Plugs", 1945 July-September

Political Action Programs and Reports, 1945 March-1950 September

Political Policy, statements 1945 January-May

Porter, Hilda 1942 February-April

Post Election, dinner (November 27, 1944) 1944 September-November

Presidents Council of Economic Advisors, 1946 September-1947 January

Press Releases

1941 April-1942 January

1942 January-1947 February

Public Relations, 1944 October-1947 January

Puerto Rico, 1945 February

Questionnaire to political candidates, answers

1942 October-1943 February

1944

Radio Programs for UDA, 1942 January-May; 1945 June-1946 January

Red Cross class, 1942 August

Reid, James, Mrs., meeting (December 8, 1941) 1941 November-December

Reorganization of UDA, reports 1945 September-October

Reports of UDA committees, 1945 February-July

Resignations, 1945 September-October

Reuther, Walter, luncheon December 13, 1941

Rising Prices Campaign, undated

Rochester Group for Liberal Action, 1941 September-1946 May

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Dinner (February 27, 1946) 1946 January-March

Hunter College speech (February 27, 1946) 1946 January-March

Rosett, Blanch, meeting (April 9, 1942) 1942 March-April

Rubber Production Hold-Up (January 1942), 1942 January-February

Sachs, Janet 1944 November-1945 October

Salter, Prof. J. T. 1945 February-April

Schieffelin, William J. 1944 March

School for Democratic Action, 1941 October-November

Sforza, Count, luncheon (July 11, 1946) 1946 September

Sifton, Paul 1944 November-1945 November
Note: See also: Washington Bureau.

Simons, Hans 1942 September-1943, Feb

Smith, Anthony W. 1941 October-1944 November

Southern Tenant Farmers Union, 1945 September

Speaker's Bureau, 1942 January-March

Special Gifts Dinner (April 6, 1942) 1942 March-April

Speeches, 1945

State Department White Paper, 1942 March-June

Stimson, Henry L., signers of letter 1943 March

Straight, Michael, tour 1942 October-November

Survey of the "Ten Worst Congressmen", 1942

Swing, Raymond, "Russia and Ourselves" 1945 June-September

Tawney Luncheon (October 25, 1941) 1941 October

Taxation Conference (March 28, 1942) 1942 March-May

Technicians and Scientists Division, UDA 1941 June-September

Texas, Dallas, chapter 1946

Textile Industry, luncheon (May 18, 1945) 1945 March-May

Theatre Benefit, The Rivals 1941 November

Theatre Benefit, Deep Are the Roots 1945 August-October

Waldo, Frank, dinner (October 22, 1942) 1942 October-November

Wallace, Henry A.

1944 November-1947 June

Dinner (January 29, 1945) 1944 December-1945 February

Rally, New York City (February 26, 1945) 1945 February-March

Washington, D.C., chapter 1946

Washington, D.C. Bureau
Note: See also: Sifton, Paul.

Accounts, 1945 February-December

Sustaining fund, 1942 June-November

Washington, D.C., meeting with New Congressmen (January 17, 1945) 1945 January

Washington (State), Seattle, chapter 1946

Wedgewood, Col. Josiah, dinner (June 26, 1941) 1941 May-July

Wickersham Amendment, 1945 May

Willen, Joseph, Mrs., meeting (December 9, 1941) 1941 November-Dec

Williams, Aubrey

1945 February-March

Luncheon (April 23, 1945) 1945 April

Wisconsin, Milwaukee, conference (June 27-28, 1941) 1941 May-June

Withers, William, UDA Tax Committee 1945 February-June

Writers Division, UDA 1941 June

Youth Division, UDA 1941 May-October

Youth Movements, 1941 May

UDA Printed Matter

UDA Bulletin, 1941-1946
Note: Incomplete

UDA Congressional Newsletter, 1943-1947
Note: Incomplete

UDA London Letter, 1946-1951
Note: Complete

UDA Research Letter, 1941,
Note: Volume I, Numbers 1-3 only

What's Doing In the UDA, 1942 August and 1944 December

Miscellaneous printed pamphlets and broadsides

Journal of Cash Receipts, 1945-1946

Journal of Cash Disbursements, 1943-1946

Series: ADA Administrative File, 1946-1965
Note: Specify series number when requesting boxes.

Physical Description: 96 boxes, 1 volume, and 40 reels of microfilm (35 mm) 
Scope and Content Note

The ADA administrative file is composed of materials the ADA office staff originally maintained as a loosely organized file for the various national directors. In addition, it includes closely related materials added to this series during processing by the staff of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The ADA administrative file includes correspondence and subject files.

Carbon copies of the outgoing correspondence, May 1948-December 1963, is arranged in reverse chronological order within each folder just as the ADA staff filed them. The files for March-April 1952, and for the years 1956-1958, are lacking, while the folder for March 1953, is incomplete. In 1949 only carbons of the letters of James Loeb Jr., executive secretary, and his assistant, John F.P. Tucker, are included; but by the 1950's other staff members filed carbons of all or some of their correspondence, both important and routine. Some correspondence is filed within the subject files including outgoing telegrams (1947-1953).

Incoming correspondence, 1948-1956 is arranged alphbetically within the subject files, including miscellaneous correspondence filed under "Correspondence, miscellaneous".

The subject files are arranged alphbetically. The correspondence within the subject files is arranged chronologically by month and placed first in each folder. Miscellaneous printed and mimeographed materials follow the correspondence and may occasionally overlap the inclusive dates given for the correspondence.

The subject files include correspondence of various staff members and national officers such as: Francis Biddle, 1950-1951; Evelyn Dubrow, 1947-1949; Violet Gunther, 1950-1963; Leon Henderson, 1947-1952; Edward Hollander, 1947-1963; Hubert H. Humphrey, 1947-1963; Charles M. LaFollette, 1947-1949; Richard A. Lambert, 1960-1964; James Loeb Jr., 1947-1961; Robert R. Nathan, 1952-1963; Nathalie E. Panek, 1947; Sheldon Pollock, 1952-1962; Joseph L. Rauh, 1947-1963; John P. Roche, 1962-1963; Eleanor Roosevelt, 1948-1961; Marvin Rosenberg, 1951-1961; John F.P. Tucker, 1946-1952; David C. Williams, 1952; Page Wilson, 1958-1964; Wilson Wyatt, 1947-1959; and Reginald H. Zalles, 1951-1953. A staff organizational chart is located in an appendix to this finding aid.

The initial formation of ADA is represented by correspondence, minutes, reports, and memoranda of the 1947 ADA Organizing Committee. The correspondence and minutes of the National Board (1947-1964), and the Executive Committee (1947-1965) provide a fairly complete guide to the internal workings of the organization. The folders titled National Board, for example, include correspondence with board members regarding agenda for the meetings, attendance at the meetings, and reservations. The minutes include not only the first draft and final mimeographed copy of almost all the Board meetings, but a great deal of supporting material; such as, agenda, attendance lists, pre-meeting reminders, policy statements, and copies of mimeographed reports presented by various ADA officers and staff. These files are most complete for the years 1947, 1948, 1958, and 1960. The files of the National Board contain a duplicate set of only the minutes of the Board, filed separately after the originals.

The heavy emphasis placed upon the formation of new chapters is evidenced by the correspondence, minutes, reports, and memoranda (1947-1964), of the National Committee on Organization. This committee was responsible for organizing new chapters, handling problems relating to the membership, and guiding chapter programs. Much of this responsibility was handled by the various directors of the organization, such as Evelyn Dubrow, Sheldon Pollock, and Richard A. Lambert.

Between 1947 and 1954, the ADA hired a number of chapter organizers to work in various parts of the country. The following is a list of those organizers who are represented in this series, together with the areas in which they worked, and the years.

Adler, Bernard (Box 24)	Ohio	1950-1951
Anderson, Douglas B. (Box 25)	Chicago Organizing Comm.	1947-1948
Cronheim, Emily (Box 32)	Missouri	1951-1952
Girvetz, Harry (Box 52)	California	1949
Holzinger, Charles (Box 53)	Illinois, Indiana, Michigan	1949
Hopkins, Alden (Boxes 53, 77-79)	Southern Representative	1949-1950
Leavy, Leonard L. (Box 57)	New Jersey	1952-1953
Leuchtenburg, William E. (Box 57)	Missouri, Nevada, Colorado	1948
McSweeney, Margaret (Box 59)	New England	1948
Mishnun, Eleanor (Box 63)	New England	1947-1948
Panek, Natalie E. (Box 72)	Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England	1947
Payne, Ancil (Box 72)	Oregon and Washington (State)	1947-1948
Pollock, Sheldon (Box 74)	New Jersey and New York	1952-1954
Stern, Louis H. (Box 81)	California	1950
Taylor, Barney B. (Boxes 82, 77-79)	Southern Representative	1947-1948

Most of these organizers are represented by only one folder of correspondence and field reports; exceptions are Alden Hopkins and Barney B. Taylor, who served at different periods as ADA's southern representative, 1946-1950. Their records have been incorporated into this series and include correspondence, membership lists, weekly reports on the status and organization of new chapters, and reports of the various chapters in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

The financial records of ADA from 1947 to 1965 are also included in the administrative files. The financial correspondence and the lists of contributors deal primarily with contributions. There is a complete set of auditor's reports, 1947-1957, and an incomplete set of budget proposals and reports, 1948, 1952-1960. The weekly financial reports and comparative balance sheets provide a good view of ADA's tenuous financial standing. There are also two ledgers (1946-1951), and a journal of chapter income (1948-1949). The files relating to the Corrupt Practices Act, 1947-1958, contain reports to the federal government on all yearly receipts of more than one hundred dollars and all expenditures of more than ten dollars. The chapter quota file contains general correspondence (1950-1957), and files, arranged alphabetically by state and city, for numerous major chapters. These files also relate to the transferral of chapter quota fees and often include lists of chapter members.

ADA has always had a great deal of difficulty in financing its various programs. In its early years many of the larger unions, such as the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the International Association of Machinists, the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), and the United Automobile Workers Union (UAWU), helped support the work of the organization. Promotional mailings, pamphlets, and various types of social events have been utilized to raise additional funds. Files relating to labor unions and these attempts to raise additional funds are located in this series, usually under the union.

Other large segments of material in the administrative file include the correspondence and minutes of the Businessmen's Council of ADA (1954-1961), and the Trips Abroad files (1949-1965), concerning yearly foreign study trips organized and conducted by ADA.

Outgoing correspondence

1948 May-1949 April

1949 May-September

1949 October-November

1949 December-1950 April

1950 May

1950 June-October

1950 November-1951 March

1951 April-May

1951 June-December

1952 January

1951 February, May-August

1952 September-1953 March

1953 April

1953 May-September

1953 October-November

1953 December-1954 March

1954 April-August

1954 September

1954 October-December

1955 January-May

1955 June-October

1955 November-December

1959 January-March

1959 April-July

1959 August-December

1960 January-February

1960 March-September

1960 October-1961 May

1961 June-1962 January

1962 February-September

1962 October-1963 February

1963 March-May

1963 June-December

Subject Files

"A", 1948 January-1952 August

Adler, Bernard 1950 December-1951 September

Administrative Memoranda and Program Actions, bulletin 1961-1962

Ahrend Associates, 1964 March-April

American Civil Liberties Union, 1946 February-1955 March

American Federation of Labor, 1948 February-October

American Veterans Committee, 1947 November-1949 August

Americans for Democratic Action -- its origin, aims, and character and its designs upon the Democratic Party, editions of 1955 and 1958

ADA employees contracts, 1947

Anderson, Douglas B. 1947 January-1948 December

Arts Division of ADA, 1948 March-1952 December

Attlee, Clement, cable replies 1947 June-July

"B", 1948 July-1956 December

Bean, Louis H., pamphlet, "The Mid-Term Battle" 1949 May-1950 November

Biddle, Francis

Chicago trip, 1950 May

Midwest trip, 1950 May

Rochester trip, 1950 June-1951 March

Western trip, 1950 November-1951 March

Biemiller, Andrew J. 1947 January-1948 October

Biographies, ADA officers and staff

Bondfield, Margaret, United States tour 1948 November-December

Bowles, Chester 1948 March-1949 December

Brock, Clifton 1963 May

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 1948 January-1949 August

Buchanan Lobby Committee, testimony and material removed from ADA files as evidence

1947-1950

1947-1950 (continued)

Businessmen's Council of ADA

1954 July-1957 January

1957 January-1961 December

"C", 1948 March-1957 January

California, Southern Regional Conference 1946 September-1947 March
Note: See also: Girvetz, Harry.

Candidate Support Committee, 1962 June-1964 January

Chapter constitution forms

Chapter mailings, 1947 January-1947 July

Chapter mailings, 1947 August-1949 May

Chapter statistics

Charters for new chapters, 1947 January-June

Civil Rights

1948 January-1949 December

1950 January-1960 February

Committee on Economic Stability, report 1947 May-July

Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1946 January-1949 November

Congress of Racial Equality, 1961 April-May

Congressional, 1948 January-1951 August

Constitution, by-laws, and revisions of ADA 1947-1958

Consultative Conference on Desegregation, 1958 February-August

Contacts

New England, 1947 January-March

New York, 1947 January-April

Northwest, 1947 January-March

Southwest, 1947 January-March

Correspondence, foreign 1946 September-1952 April

Correspondence, miscellaneous

1947-1951

1952-1964

Council of Economic Advisers, 1946 February-1947 January

Crank letters, 1947 September-1964 September

Cronheim, Emily 1951 May-1952 December

Czechoslovakia, 1948 December-1950 June

"D"

1947 December-1953 December

1954 January-1958 December

Davies, Dr. A. Powell 1948 January-June

Douglas, Paul H. 1948 March-1949 September

Douglas, William O. 1948 March-September

Dubrow, Evelyn

1947 September-1948 January

1948 February-1948 May

1948 June-1949 February

"E", 1948 February-1956 August

Edwards, George 1948 March-1949 September

Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1948 February-June

Evaluation Committee of ADA, 1955 October-November

Executive Committee

1947 January-1949 November

Minutes

1947-1948

1949-1955

1956-1957

1958-1965

Xerox copies, 1947-1962

"F", 1948 January-1956 December

Fairbanks, John K. 1951 September-November

Far East, 1949 April-December

Farm Conference, Chicago (February 1949) 1949 January-April

Farm program, 1948 January-1950 January

Federal aid to education, 1950 February-1951 June

Figueres, Jose, luncheon (April 9, 1951) 1950 November-1951 May

Financial records

Auditor's reports, 1947-1957

Budget proposals and reports, 1948, 1952-1960

Chapter quotas

1950-1951

1952-1957

Comparative balance sheets, 1953-1956 November

Comparative balance sheets, 1956 December-1965

Contributions, correspondence regarding

1947 October-1950 March

1950 April-1955

1956-1957

Contributions, lists 1947-1964

Correspondence, miscellaneous

1947 January-1949 May

1949 June-1951 December; 1961 March-December

Corrupt Practices Act, reports 1947-1958

Quotas

Arizona, Tucson 1959

California, East Bay 1952-1957

California, Greater Los Angeles 1953-1957

California, Northern 1958-1961

California, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara 1953-1961

Colorado, Denver 1953-1957

Connecticut, Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, New London, Stamford, Greenwich 1953-1956

District of Columbia, 1953-1961

Hawaii, Honolulu 1953

Illinois, Chicago 1953-1962

Indiana, 1954-1961

Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa City, and Johnson County 1953-1955

Kentucky, Louisville 1953-1958

Maryland, Baltimore 1953-1961

Maryland, Montgomery County 1953-1956

Massachusetts, chapter 1953-1956

Massachusetts, state 1957-1961

Michigan, chapters 1953-1961

Missouri, St. Louis 1953-1961

Nebraska, chapters 1953-1955

New Jersey, chapters

1952-1956

1957-1961

New York City, chapter 1953-1955

New York City, chapter 1956-1962

New York, chapters 1953-1958

Ohio, Akron 1953-1961

Ohio, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Youngstown 1953-1961

Ohio, Cleveland 1953-1961

Oregon, Portland 1952

Oklahoma, Oklahoma City 1953-1954

Pennsylvania, Erie 1953-1958

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1954-1961

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh 1952-1961

Rhode Island, Providence 1953, 1958

Tennessee, chapters 1953-1954

Texas, chapters 1953-1961

Washington (State), Seattle and Spokane 1953-1954

France, Paris 1949-1953

Weekly financial reports

1947-1950

1951-1952

1953-1954

Ledger, 1950-1951

Ledger, 1946-1947

Journal of chapter income, 1948-1949

Foreign policy, 1947 March-1949 December

Foreign Policy Conference, 1953 October-1954 January

Foreign Policy Report, 1947 July-December

France, 1950 March-1953 October

Full Employment Conference, 1949 June-July

Fund raising, 1947 January-1963 June

Fund raising party, New York City (April 20, 1956) 1955 November-1956 August

"G", 1948 January-1956 December

Germany, 1947 November-1951 June
Note: Includes Willy Brandt correspondence.

Gerwitz, Stanley 1952 February-October

Ginsburg, David 1948 June-1949 August

Girvetz, Harry 1949 May-December
Note: See also: California Southern Regional Conference.

Greco-Turkish Aid bill, 1947 April

Gunther, Violet 1950 March-1963 March

"H", 1948 January-1956 December

Harris, Louis H. 1948 April-September

Hatch Act, 1947 September

Health, 1948 February-1951 January

Henderson, Leon 1947 April-1952 September

Hollander, Edward 1947 February-1963 December

Holzinger, Charles 1949 January-July

Hopkins, Alden 1949 April-1950 April

Hotel and Restaurant Worker's Union, 1947 June-1949 December

Housing bill, 1948 April

Humphrey, Hubert H.

1947 November-1963 September

West Coast trip, 1949 June-December

"I"

1948 February-1949 September

1949 October-1956 October

Independent Voters of Illinois, 1961 January-December

International Association of Machinists, 1947 April-1949 November

International Ladies Garment Workers Union, 1947 December-1949 November

Inter-Office memoranda, 1947 April-1964 October

"J", 1948 May-1956 November

Jeremias, Siegmund 1946 February-July

Job applications

1949 December-1951 March

1951 April-1958 February

"K", 1947 March-1956 December

Kerr Oil bill, 1950 February-April

"L"

1947 March-1951 October

1952 June-1956 December

Labor, 1947 October-1948 October

LaFollette, Charles M. 1947 March-1949 July

LaFollette, Charles M. 1949 August-1949 December

Lambert, Richard A.

1960-1961

1962-1964

Leavy, Leonard L. 1952 November-1953 February

Lee, Jennie, trip 1947 June-October

Lerner, Leo A. 1949 April-December; 1956 April; 1958 April

Leuchtenburg, William E. 1948 April-September

Lewis, Alfred Baker 1947 March-1963 August

Lists, 1947 January-1949 September; 1954

Loeb, James, Jr.

1947-1961 October

Radio Speeches, 1948 November-1949 May

Trips, 1946 December-1949 December

London Office, 1947 January-1949 December

Los Angeles Times, 1961 articles on ADA 1961 July-1962 January

Loyalty program, 1949 June-November

"M", 1947 December-1962 October

MacArthur, Douglas 1951 April-June

McGrath, J. Howard 1949 October-December

McSweeney, Margaret 1948 March-September

Mailings, promotional 1947 June-1964 September

Marshall Plan, ERP 1948 January-1949 November

Members-at-large, 1953 April-1964 December

Membership, 1960 May-1961 December

Membership promotion, 1947 June; 1952 April-1961 January

Membership statistics, 1947 June-1958

Metropolitan government, conference on 1958

Mid-West Conference, Chicago (March 1, 1947) 1947 February-April

Mimeographed material

1947 January-1948 May

1948 June-1952

1953-1959

1960-1965

Mishnun, Eleanor 1947 December-1948 December

Mobilization, war and national 1950 July-1951 May

"N", 1947 March-1956 November

Nathan, Robert R.

1952 May-1956 December

1957 January-1958 June

1958 July-1963 July

The Nation, 1945 July-1949 November

National Board

Correspondence re meetings, 1947 January-1962 February

Minutes

1947

1948-1952

1953-1959

1960-1964

Xerox copies, 1947-1958

Xerox copies, 1959-1963

Poll on Adlai Stevenson, 1952 July-August

Violet Gunther's correspondence, 1960 December-1964 June

National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, 1961 September-October

National Committee for Peaceful Alternatives, 1951 May-June

National Committee on Organization, ADA

1947 January-September; 1956 May-1963 November

"Manual of Organization", undated

Minutes, 1947-1964

Reports and memoranda, 1956 August-1963 September

National Conference on International Economic and Social Development, 1952 February-April

National Sharecroppers Fund, 1948 January-1949 December

Nehru, Jawaharlal 1947 June; 1951 September-December; 1962 November

Neuberger, Richard L. 1954 August-1959 October

New Republic, 1947 January-1949 December

"O", 1948 August-1949 December

Office Employees International Union, 1952 February-1963 June

Organization Committees, Eastern and Western 1949 June-1950 February

Organization, Director of, memoranda, statements, reports, lists 1947 April-1948 August

Organizing Committee of ADA

1946 November-1947 April

Minutes, reports, and memoranda 1946 November-1947 March

"P", 1948 January-1956 November

Padnos, Michael 1961 December-1962 December

Palestine, 1946 July-1948 July

Panek, Nathalie E. 1947 January-November

Payne, Ancil H. 1947 April-1949 January

Peace movements, report 1962

Pegler, Westbrook 1949 November-December

Pending, 1953 May-1954 March

Personnel, 1947 January-1949 December

Political Action Programming, 1954 March-1956 October

Political Action Committee - C.I.O., 1948 March-1949 October

Political attacks on ADA, 1958 August-1962 March

Political Committee, ADA

1947 April-December

1948 January-April

Politics, 1948 May-1953 February

Pollock, Sheldon 1952 February-1962 January

Porter, Paul A. 1947 December-1949 May

Price control, 1947 December-1948 January

"Program Action," ADA, bulletin 1956-1959

Progressive Citizens of America, memorandum 1947

The Progressive, 1948 June-1956 July

Public relations, 1946 November-1947 May

Publications, ADA 1947 February-1951 May

Publications Review Committee, 1958 June-July

Public utilities - railroads, 1949 January-May

"R", 1948 January-1956

Radio reports re ADA, 1953-1964

Rauh, Joseph L.

1947 June-1963 February

Speeches, 1961-1963

Rent control, 1947 March

Republican National Convention, 1948 June

Roche, John P. 1962 May-1963 October

Roosevelt, Eleanor 1948 January-1961, may

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr. 1947 March-1949 August

Rosenberg, Marvin 1951 September-1961 October

Quemoy - Matsu petition, 1955 April-May

"S", 1947 November-1954 December

"S", 1955 January-1958 October

Smith, Lillian 1947 July-1949 November

Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1955 May-1957 January

Southern Representative

Correspondence, 1946 January-1950 February

Clippings

Form letters, 1947 May-1948 September

Fund raising

Lists

Membership lists

Memoranda, 1947 April-1950 January

North Carolina politics, 1947 October

Organization of chapters, 1947 April-1948 January

Weekly reports re organization of new chapters, 1947 May-December

Alabama, Birmingham, chapter 1947 May-December

Arkansas, Little Rock, chapter 1947 April-December

Georgia, Atlanta, chapter 1947 January-November

Florida, Miami, chapter 1949 August-1950 January

Louisiana, New Orleans, chapter 1947 May-November

North Carolina

Ashville, chapter 1949 June

Chapel Hill, chapter 1947 February-July; 1949 May

Charlotte, chapter 1949 February-December

Durham, chapter 1948 November-1950 February

Greensboro, chapter 1948 January-1950 February

Raleigh, chapter 1948 January-1950 February

Winston-Salem, chapter 1947 June

Tennessee

Chattanooga, chapter 1947 June-1950 January

Knoxville, chapter 1947 February-December

Memphis, Chapter

1947 January-1948 April

Membership list

Minutes, 1947 August-1948 March

Nashville, chapter 1947 July-1948 March

Virginia, Lynchburg, chapter 1949 June

Spain

1947 April-1950 January

1950 February-1952 March

Clippings

Speaker's Bureau, 1947 February-1948 August

Sprink County, South Dakota, Republican Central Committee 1958 September-1959 May

State Department, 1950 March-1961 September

Stern, Louis H. 1950 January-June

Statements on the importance of ADA, 1953 April-May

Straight, Michael, tour 1949 January-March

Students for Democratic Action

1946-1947

1948-1949

Sweetland, Monroe 1948 January-1959 December

"T", 1948 April-1960 November

Taft-Hartley Act, 1948 January-1951 December

Taxes, 1948 January-1953 October

Taylor, Barney B. 1947 April-1948 April

Taylor, William L. 1957 October-1959 November

Telegrams (sent), 1947-1953 January

Textile Workers Union of America, 1948 March-1957 December

Texas - political reports of George Lambert, 1954-1956

Thomson, Morgan - articles from Glasgow, Scotland, Forward 1951-1952

Tractors for Freedom Committee, 1961

Trips Abroad

ADA, 1949

SDA, reports 1949

ADA, 1950

SDA, reports 1950

ADA, 1951-1954 September

ADA, 1954 October-1959 December

ADA, 1960 January-1960 June

ADA, 1960 July-1961 May

ADA, 1961 June-1963 May

ADA, 1963 June-1964 April

ADA, 1964 May-1964 July

ADA, 1964 August-1965 December

ADA, clippings 1949-1951

Tucker, John F.P. 1946 November-1952 March

"U", 1947 December-1960 September

Union for Democratic Action Educational Fund, 1947 January-1959 May
Note: Also includes clippings.

Union operations in the Imperial Valley, California 1951 May

Unions, 1951 June-1960 April

United Automobile Workers, 1948-1960

United Nations, 1947-1955 August

United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers Union of America 1953 June-1960 March

United States possessions, 1947 September-1949 March

United States Student Assembly, 1945 May-1947 February

United World Federalists, 1949 April-1956 October

Universal military training, 1948 March-1951 December

Upholsterers International Union, 1947 March-1961 December

"V", 1947 October-1959 June

"Vital Issues," proposed pamphlet 1959 October-1960 February

"W", 1947-1960

Wallace, Henry A. 1947 May-1953 July

White House, 1949 June-1951 May

Whitney, General Courtney 1951 April-October

Williams, David C. 1952 August

Wilson, Page 1958 June; 1962 January-1964 October

Wyatt, Wilson 1947 January-1959 November

Writings, miscellaneous of ADA staff 1947-1964

"X-Y-Z", 1948 April-1959 December

Zagreb Peace Conference, 1951 June-October

Zalles, Reginald H. 1951 September-1953 June

Series: Chapter File, 1943-1965
Note: Specify series number when requesting boxes.

Physical Description: 48 boxes and 23 reels of microfilm (35 mm) 
Scope and Content Note

The ADA Chapter Files contain the record of the activities of the various ADA chapters throughout the country arranged alphbetically by state. There are also files at the end of the series dealing with ADA's internationally based membership which seems to have been largely located in Paris, as well as general correspondence the national organization had with its various chapters.

The file contains correspondence dealing with local and national political action; internal organizational rivalries; personnel problems, correspondence with the members; invitations to ADA social affairs; printed propaganda for local and national elections and issues; lists of contributions and contributors; and mimeographed financial reports, press releases, minutes of board meetings, and constitutions. The states with the largest files are: New York, California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, and Illinois; with the remaining states having relatively smaller files.

With the exception of New York, within each state the general state files are first, followed alphabetically by the city, county, and district chapter. Within each folder the material is arranged chronologically by months. States where there are numbered assembly or congressional districts the materials are filed chronologically by the number of the district at the end of that state's file.

Some city chapter records may also be filed at the state level, for example records for the Detroit chapters can also be found under the general Michigan materials. The New York State files are not separated by chapter; therefore, the files are arranged chronologically.

Alabama

1944 May-1964 January

Alaska

1961 February-June

Arizona

1944 May-1964 October

Arkansas

1947 October-1953 March

California

1944 April-1948 May

1948 June-1960 May

1960 June

1960 July-1964 December

East Bay chapter

1948 June-1952 September

1953 April-1959 June

Los Angeles chapter

1947 January-1956 December

1957 January-1963 March

Peninsula chapter, 1949 April-1952 May

Sacramento chapter, 1949 September-1960 July

San Francisco chapter, 1946 November-1948 December

San Francisco chapter, 1949 January-1964 June

Santa Barbara chapter, 1946 September-1962 March

42nd Assembly District chapter, 1948 July-1950 January

12th Congressional District chapter, 1947 August-1949 August

13th Congressional District chapter, 1948 February-1949 September

15th Congressional District chapter, 1947 December-1950 November

16th Congressional District chapter, 1947 August-1951 January

20th Congressional District chapter, 1947 April-1950 July

Carolina, North and South

1944-1953

Colorado

1944 May-1964 May

Denver chapter, 1948 March-1956 August

Connecticut

1944 May-1946 December

1947 January-December

1948 February-1964 July

Bridgeport chapter, 1949 March-1954 December

Hartford chapter, 1948 January-1963 December

Middletown chapter, 1949 June-1953 March

New Haven chapter

1947 May-1950 November

1951 January-1956 August

Norwalk chapter, 1947 November-1954 February

Stanford-Greenwich chapter, 1949 May-1953 May

Dakota, North and South

1944 November-1949 May

Delaware

1944 August-1961 October

District of Columbia

1941 June-1947 April

1947 May-August

1947 September-1962 December

1963 February-1964 December

Florida

1944 May-1964 June

Miami chapter, 1947 October-1956 July

Georgia

1944 May-1957 April

Hawaii (Territory)

1951 January-1953 March

Honolulu chapter, 1945 June-1954 March

Idaho

1941 May-1948 October

Illinois

1944 May-1962 September

Chicago chapter

1942 January-1945 December

1946 January-1948 December

1949 January-1950 March

1950 April-1957 July 1

1957 August-1964 December

Indiana

1944 May-1961 November