SERIES II: STATE CORRESPONDENCE, 1904-1939, inclusive

Series II: State Correspondence (excluding New York) (frames IX:35-43) contain information on Socialist Party events in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. The contents of the state files relate primarily to the Socialist Party conflict between the Old Guard and the Militants. The material pertaining to this conflict is quite interesting and offers the scholar a unique insight into how the various branches reacted to this particular development. Other items within these files include papers relating to the controversy surrounding Morris Hillquit's defense of several Russian refugees whose oil fields had been confiscated by the Soviet Union in 1931; minutes of the Dover, New Hampshire local; constitution and by laws of the Ohio branch; an expense record for a Eugene V. Debs Benjamin Hanford Presidential campaign meeting at Philadelphia in 1904; and a letter from Daniel W. Hoan explaining the Wisconsin branch's decision to join, the FarmerLabor Progressive Federation in 1936. The principal correspondents in these state files include Alfred Baker Lewis, Albert Sprague Coolidge, Daniel W. Hoan, and James Oneal.