Part 1 (U.S. Mss 128A): Original Collection, 1920-1977
Physical Description: 4.8 cubic feet (12 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note

The Roland White Papers are comprised of Mr. White's business correspondence, 1932-1962, mainly while he was serving as editor of the Dubuque Leader. This correspondence is arranged chronologically by months. The collection has been heavily culled and a great quantity of routine business correspondence relating to the operation of the newspaper was discarded, as were most of the newspaper's clipping files.

In addition to the general business correspondence, there are segments of the collection relating to the Archie Carter Case, the Iowa Co-operative Publishing Company, and the Iowa Socialist Party. The Archie Carter material includes the minutes, bills, and receipts of the Archie Carter Defense Committee, 1938-1939; articles, clippings, and speeches relating to Archie Carter; and a portion of Donald Emerson's confession. White's correspondence with Archie Carter is filed in the general business correspondence and covers many years, but with the heaviest concentration from 1938 to 1940.

The Iowa Co-operative Publishing Company is represented by stockholder's minutes, 1936-1961; yearly financial reports, 1938-1960; articles of incorporation and bylaws, 1939-1941; and lists of stockholders and directors, 1936-1961.

The Roland White Papers also include many subject folders relating to the Iowa Socialist Party in the 1930s. These files include general correspondence, 1932-1940; correspondence with local Iowa chapters, 1936; the constitution of the Iowa Socialist Party, 1932; membership lists; minutes of local chapter meetings; and miscellaneous newsletters and other printed materials.

The collection contains three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings relating to Roland White and the Dubuque Leader (volumes 1-3) and one volume of roll calls for the Dubuque Trade and Labor Congress (volume 4).

Correspondence

1932-1939 February

1939 March-1940 December

1941 January-1946 May

1946 June-1948 May

1948 June-1951 May

1951 June-1954 June

1954 July-1958 September

1958 October-1962 July, undated

Archie Carter Case

Archie Carter Defense Committee

Bills and receipts

Minutes, 1938 June-1939 February

Articles, speeches, and ephemera

Clippings

Emerson confession relating to Archie Carter

Iowa Co-operative Publishing Company

Articles of incorporation and by-laws, 1939-1941

List of stockholders and directors, 1936-1961

Miscellaneous business papers, 1936-1941

Patronage dividends, 1945-1953

Stockholders minutes, 1936-1961

Yearly financial statements, 1938-1960

Iowa Socialist Party

Card files of members

Constitution, 1932

Constitution of the University of Iowa Socialist Club

Correspondence with local Iowa chapters, 1936

Legislation, 1935-1936

Farmer-Labor co-operation

General correspondence, 1932 December-1937, 1940

Labor and Socialist Press Service, 1936

Members-at-large, correspondence, 1936

Minutes of the Marengo Socialist local, 1934-1935

Miscellaneous mimeographed newsletters and pamphlets, 1936

Miscellaneous printed pamphlets and flyers relating to the Socialist Party

National convention, 1936

Newsletters of the Iowa Socialist Party, 1935-1936

Platforms, 1934-1936

Press correspondence, 1935-1936

Publicity

Referendum votes, 1936

State convention, 1936

Dubuque Americanism Committee, 1940

Dubuque Trade and Labor Congress

New Deal Association - Constitution and list of members, 1934

United Workers of Iowa - Constitution and list of members, 1934-1935

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to the Dubuque Leader, 1956

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to “The Monkey Barrel,” 1962

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to Roland White, 1962

Roll call book of the Iowa Trade and Labor Congress, 1920-1923

Part 2 (M66-393): Additions, 1941-1962
Physical Description: 2.0 cubic feet (1 records center carton and 3 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions of press clippings, press releases, political mailings, correspondence, and publications. Topics include state and federal elections, political issues, labor relations, and union racketeering.

Industrial Relations Center publications

Press clippings, general, 1941, 1959-1961
Physical Description: 4 folders 

Press clippings, political issues, 1952-1953, 1956-1957
Physical Description: 4 folders 

Handwritten notes, mostly shorthand
Physical Description: 2 folders 

Press releases, 1953, 1956-1957
Physical Description: 2 folders 

Labor and political directories, 1957-1959

State Department of Social Welfare, 1953

Wisconsin labor laws publications, 1937-1938, 1950-1951

Newspaper printing information, 1953, 1961

Political mailings, reports, articles, 1956

Labor union mailings, reports, correspondence, 1953-1957

Press releases, labor union issues, 1942, 1952-1953, 1957-1960
Physical Description: 2 folders 

Handwritten notes

Correspondence, 1941-1942, 1961-1962

Correspondence with Daniel Tobin, International Brotherhood of Teamsters general president, 1941

Iowa Alumni Review, 1961

Subject files

Independent Unions, 1946-1951

Monkey Barrel, 1962

Peoria Daily News contract, 1961

Northeast Iowa, 1956

Population trends, 1957

Stockholder lists, Iowa Cooperative Publishing Company, 1960

National manpower resources, 1956-1957

Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), 1956

Migratory farm labor, 1956-1957

New industry, 1956-1957

Iowa Bureau of Labor, 1957

Social services, 1958

Peoria Labor News, 1962

Illinois labor contacts

Labor racketeering, 1962

Teamsters racketeering, 1957

Industrial Commission of Wisconsin, 1953, undated

The Iowa Publisher, 1960

National Labor Relations Board correspondence, 1941

Peoria Fire Department annual reports, 1957, 1959, 1960

Press releases, 1953-1961

Part 3 (M77-142): Additions, 1934, 1937-1942
Physical Description: 1.8 cubic feet (1 records center carton and 2 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Correspondence regarding the Dubuque Leader, and the Williamsburg Journal-Tribune, as well as personal correspondence. Material is arranged chronologically, then alphabetically within each year.

Correspondence

Norman Thomas, 1934

Personal, 1937 January-May

Personal, 1937 April-July

Williamsburg Journal-Tribune, 1937

Personal, 1938-1939

Dubuque Leader, 1939

Grace “Lydie” Crenshaw, 1939

Personal, 1940-1941

Freda Blum, 1941

Personal, 1942

Part 4 (M86-178): Additions, circa 1937-1977
Physical Description: 1.0 cubic feet (1 records center carton) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions circa 1937-1977, including clippings, union newsletters, correspondence, and petitions. Materials concern the Carter case, the Iowa Co-operative Publishing Company, the International Typographical Union, and the Teamsters.

Part 5 (M88-060): Additions, 1935-1947
Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1935-1947, including newspaper clippings dealing with labor, religion, farm issues, Iowa college enrollment, and post-World War II happenings such as rationing; articles White wrote for Federated Press; copies of the newspaper In fact, an Antedote for Falsehood in the Daily Press, 1945-1946; Mark Twain Association contest and quotation material; and Spanish and English class material.

Part 6 (M89-347): Additions, 1932-1959
Physical Description: 2.0 cubic feet (1 records center carton and 3 archives boxes) and photographs 
Scope and Content Note: Additions including love letters between Roland White and Virginia Maxson, personal correspondence, letters written while he was in the Army (1942-1943), notes on labor history in Dubuque, Iowa, and press clippings and articles written by Roland White.

Correspondence with Virginia Maxson, 1932-1935
Physical Description: 12 folders 

General notes, press clippings, and correspondence, 1933-1934

Correspondence

Elizabeth “Betty” Aliason, 1932-1933

Lois Pote Smith, 1939-1940

Dubuque Leader, 1942-1943

General, 1942-1944, 1947

Greeting cards to Marjorie Kerth, 1937-1939

Dubuque, Iowa labor history notes

Labor unions

Agreements, 1955-1957

Constitutions and bylaws, 1947, 1948, 1959, undated

Contact information cards

Wage increase notes

Articles written by Roland White, 1943-1945, undated

Articles by Roland White on labor and farm issues, 1939-1941

Handwritten notes, mostly shorthand

Unidentified individuals

Part 7 (M90-167): Additions, 1931-1961
Physical Description: 1.6 cubic feet (1 records center carton and 2 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions of correspondence, press clippings and press releases concerning such issues as education, labor, farming, and postwar employment for veterans. Also includes personal correspondence.

Subject files

AFL-CIO economic legislation conference, 1958

Apprentice training information

Building permits, 1955-1958

Child labor laws, 1951-1956

Education, 1958

Farm statistics, 1957-1958

Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1950-1952

Iowa economic information packet, Iowa Daily Press Association, 1958

Older worker employment article, Bureau of Labor and Management, 1958

State labor force, 1947-1948, 1954-1955, 1958

Legislative proposals, 1956-1958

Manpower resources survey, 1957

Migratory labor, 1957-1958

Minimum wage, 1940-1941, 1956-1957

Speeches on conditions in Iowa, 1956, 1958

Unemployment figures and comparisons, 1958

Unemployment compensation, 1947, 1952, 1954-1956, 1958

Wage collection, 1947

Workmen's compensation, 1948, 1958

Post-war jobs for veterans, 1943-1944

Nebraska tourist information

American Legion Commission on Postwar America Report on Labor, Management, Private Enterprise, and Public Activity, 1944

Milo Reno and Farmers Union press clippings and correspondence, 1934-1935

Milo Reno correspondence, radio talks, and press clippings, 1936

Farmers Union, 1931, 1933

American Association for United Nations

1960-1961

Iowa Division, 1958-1960

Correspondence

General, 1937, 1939-1940

General, 1940-1941

Grace “Lydie” Crenshaw, 1938, 1940

Leona White, 1937

Farmers Union, 1934-1935, 1941

Part 8 (M90-351): Additions, 1934-1970, 1984
Physical Description: 3.8 cubic feet (2 records center cartons, 3 archives boxes, and 1 flat box) and photographs (1 folder) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1934-1970, 1984, of press clippings of Roland White's published articles and articles concerning labor and political issues. Also includes correspondence regarding newspaper, farm and labor issues, and a scrapbook of editorials White wrote for the Dubuque Leader (Iowa), 1950-1951.

Correspondence, 1945-1948, 1950, 1955, 1962-1963

Correspondence and books donation receipts, Milner Library, University of Iowa

United States vs. Clyde C. Crosby court transcript, 1959 February 2-3

Ephemera

Milo Reno: Farmers Union Pioneer / by Roland White, information and press releases, 1941

The Pantagraph editorials, Bloomington, Illinois, 1964-1968, 1970
Physical Description: 2 folders 

Burlington Labor News, Burlington, Iowa, 1954, 1961

A Midwest Magazine: Hinterland, Des Moines, Iowa, volume 1, numbers 2-5; volume 2, number 1

Hinterland copies and clippings, 1934, 1936, undated

Dubuque Leader editorials, correspondence and article submissions, 1951, 1955, 1961

Cigar Manufacturers Official Journal, 1938, 1942, 1956

Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, act text and press clippings, 1959

Life insurance press releases, 1961

General press releases, 1961

General press clippings, 1930s-1950s, 1961-1962, 1966, 1984
Physical Description: 3 folders 

Farm issues press clippings, 1941

Labor relations press clippings, 1959

Pamphlets, newsletters, press clippings on labor and economic topics, 1930s-1940s, 1960-1961
Physical Description: 2 folders 

Labor relations reform legislation, 1959

AFL-CIO and Teamsters memos and mailing

Legislation
Physical Description: 2 folders 

Press releases

General press releases

1950s-1960s

1961

Dubuque Leader rejected press releases, 1961
Physical Description: 2 folders 

Newsletters, 1961

Labor newsletters, 1940s, 1961

Home improvement newsletters, 1958-1960

General notes, mailings, and flyers, 1950s-1960s
Physical Description: 3 folders 

Correspondence, 1950, 1959, 1960

Department of Agriculture reports, 1961

Press clippings, 1930s, 1950s

Press releases, 1950s-1960s

Labor press releases, 1955, 1961

Peace Corps, 1961

General press releases, mailings, notes, flyers

Press clippings, 1930s, 1950s

Publications and newsletters, 1935-1938, 1957-1961

Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Alliance 50th anniversary history, 1941

Iowa weather and crop report bulletins, 1961

Kiwanis Club material, 1967-1969

Labor press releases, 1959-1961

National Labor Relations Board press releases, 1960-1961

Scrapbook of Dubuque Leader editorials, 1950-1951

Photographs of Roland White and wife, Washington, D.C. trip; unidentified newspaper editors and politicians, 1935, 1950, 1967

Part 9 (M91-228, Audio 1875A): Additions, circa 1927-1963
Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box) and 2 tape recordings 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, circa 1927-1963, consisting of correspondence, clippings, and other documents concerning White's World War II anti-draft and conscientious objector activities, his activities as editor of The Iowan (the University of Iowa newspaper) regarding anti-militarism and the campaign against compulsory ROTC, and a small file on the issue of censorship. Also included are two tape recordings, “Mississippi Moonlight” and “Lend-a-Hand Club, Davenport, Iowa Farmers Union,” both dating from October 14, 1963.