SERIES I: NATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1905-1947, inclusive

Series I: National Correspondence (frames IX:1 34) constitute a small portion of this collection. Most of the items in these files pertain to Socialist Party activities in the 1930s, but there are some items for the period, 1907 1929. Of special interest in this section are the following items: Victor Berger's first congressional resolution which called for American neutrality in the Mexican Resolution; papers relating to Socialist Party membership; papers of the National Emergency Convention in 1917 and the Socialist Party response to American participation in World War I; minutes of the Left Wing Caucus and the eventual formation of the American Communist Party; papers pertaining to The Socialist and The Socialist Call; papers relating to the Socialist Party split in the mid 1930s; and resolutions and reports opposing the "Popular Front" of the 1930s. Some of the major correspondents in these files include Daniel W. Hoan, Norman Thomas, August Claessens, James Oneal, Clarence Senior, Paul Porter, David B. Berenberg, John M. Work, William E. Bohn, Julius Gerber, and Theodore Schapiro.