Series VI: Communist Party and its Relations with the American Labor Movement
Language of Materials
English.
Scope and Contents note
The material in this part of the collection is primarily concerned with Communist Party activity in the labor movement during the 1920s and 1930s. There are several historical essays on CP development; a short study of the left wing in American trade unions, 1921-1925; and a history of the Party in the Food Workers Industrial Union. These studies in manuscript are supplemented by articles from communist and labor journals concerning CP labor policies and factional disputes and, in some cases, lengthy interviews with leading figures. Extensive reading notes on the political left and on communist influence in labor, particularly in the needle trades and in coal, and notes on CP minutes complete the section. The minutes are from the Political Committee, 1925-1928; the Trade Union Educational League and the Trade Union Unity League; the Trade Union Committee of the Central Executive Committee, 1923-1927; and a Party Conference, 1930.
Volume I, undated, inclusive
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Volume II, undated, inclusive
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Volume III, undated, inclusive
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Volume IV, undated, inclusive
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Volume V, undated, inclusive
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Volume VI, undated, inclusive
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Volume VII, undated, inclusive
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Volume VIII, undated, inclusive
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Carpenters Union, undated, inclusive
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Chicago, Role of as Radical Center, undated, inclusive
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Coal Mining Industry: Trade Union Committee of TUC (includes Foster reports), 1927, inclusive
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Communist International. 2nd Congress : Syndicalist Issue, undated, inclusive
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Communist International. 3rd Congress : Discussion of Union Question (in German), 1921, inclusive
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CPUSA Agitprop Dept. Instructions [from Browder file], 1929, inclusive
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CPUSA 8th Convention. Documents and Correspondence, 1934, inclusive
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Draft of Economic Article/Attack on Lovestone [from Browder file], 1929, inclusive
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IWW Role within/Communications with PROFINTERN [from Browder file], 1922-1923, inclusive
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National Training School. Jan-Mar 1934, Report on, 1934, inclusive
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Needle Trader[from Browder file], 1929, inclusive
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Political Committee Secretariat Minutes (source: Gitlow copies). Includes Letters to/from Communist International on organization, 1925-1928, inclusive
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Red Aid, Other CP/CI Material; "Rationalisation in the U.S.", 1930, inclusive
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TUEL/TUUL Minutes, Reports, etc., 1924-1927, inclusive
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Steel/Packinghouse Campaign of 1919 (ts.), undated, inclusive
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Youth Work, Emphasis on [Draft Thesis for the NEC Plenum], 1930, inclusive
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American Labor Party; Brookwood Labor College; Conference for Progressive Labor Action - articles on, undated, inclusive
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Brookwood Labor College : Conflict at, 1933, inclusive
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Comintern History [published articles], undated, inclusive
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Needle Trades, 1920s: notes on, undated, inclusive
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Open Letter, 1933 - Transformation of CP, 1933, inclusive
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Radicalism and Musteites; Founding of AWP [clippings], 1930s, inclusive
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A Short History of the CPUSA [ts, 66 pp], undated, inclusive
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TUEL Central Executive Committee - notes on, undated, inclusive
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TUEL Minutes, 1923-27 - notes on, undated, inclusive
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TUEL National Committee, 1923-24 - notes on, undated, inclusive
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TUEL - Programs, Reports, etc., undated , 1927, inclusive
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TUEL - "Resolution on the Broadening of…", undated, inclusive
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Browder, Earl: Autobiography [notes on], undated, inclusive
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Browder, Earl: "The Left-Wing in the American Trade Unions, 1921-1925" [ts, 16 pp], undated, inclusive
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Browder, Earl: "Strategy and Tactics of World Communism." [U.S. Senate Internal Security Act testimony], Oct 6, 1955
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CP Attitude toward Labor, 1919-21 [notes on], undated, inclusive
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CP Organizational Conference of 1930 [notes on], undated, inclusive
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CP Political Committee Minutes, 1926-27 [notes on, undated, inclusive
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Foster, William Z. "From Bryan to Stalin." [notes on], undated, inclusive
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, undated, inclusive
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Amalgamated Metal Workers, undated, inclusive
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American Negro Labor Congress, undated, inclusive
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Bittelman, Alex, undated, inclusive
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Changing Character of Labor Leadership, undated, inclusive
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Communist Party of America, undated, inclusive
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Communist Labor Party, undated, inclusive
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Communist International, undated, inclusive
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Communist Control of Labor Unions (Theory), undated, inclusive
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The Communist: List of articles on Negroes & Trade Unions, undated, inclusive
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The Coal Digger, Oct 1928
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Dubinsky, David - Clippings, undated, inclusive
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Empire in Wood: A History of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters [PhD abstract], May 1905, inclusive
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Farmer Labor Party (Chicago, General), undated, inclusive
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Farmer Labor Communist Party ( New Republicarticle), Jul 1924
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Foster, William Z. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons[excerpts], undated, inclusive
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Foster, William Z. Leaves from a Workers Life, undated, inclusive
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Frey, John - Interviews by William Goldsmith (ts, 63 pp), Nov 10, 1955
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International Fur & Leather Workers Union, undated, inclusive
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Labor Age(Brophy), Nov 1922
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Labor Herald (re Coal), Dec 1922
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Labor in Politics (MA thesis abstract), 1949, inclusive
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Labor Unity ; Labor Unity (topic), 1926-1927, inclusive
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Left Wing Unions, undated, inclusive
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Lusk Committee Reports, 1920, inclusive
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Manley, Joseph, undated, inclusive
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Men and Coal(Coleman) excerpts, undated, inclusive
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National Miners Union, undated, inclusive
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National Save the Miners Union Committee, undated, inclusive
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Quill, Michael, undated, inclusive
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Red International of Labor Unions, undated, inclusive
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Rochester, Anna: Labor and Coal, 1931, inclusive
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Ruthenberg, C.E., Oct 1925
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San Francisco General Strike, undated, inclusive
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Saposs, David: Readings in Trade Unionism, undated, inclusive
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Socialist Party - Left Wing of, undated, inclusive
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Transport Workers Union of America, undated, inclusive
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TUEL (Practice), undated, inclusive
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United Mine Workers Journal, Sep 1928
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United Rubber Workers of America, undated, inclusive
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Workers (Communist) Party, undated, inclusive
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Zimmerman, Sascha, undated, inclusive
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Bill Haywood's Book- Notes, undated, inclusive
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Brophy, John - Interview Notes, undated, inclusive
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Browder, Earl - Correspondence re Interview, 1955, inclusive
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Browder, Earl - What the Left Wing Has Accomplished, undated, inclusive
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Browder, Earl - Interview Notes, undated, inclusive
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Cannon, James P., undated, inclusive
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Communism and U.S. Social Structure: Differentiated Vulnerability, undated, inclusive
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Corker, Charles E.: Some Observations on Study of the Communist Problem (ts., 39 pp), 1954, inclusive
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CPUSA: Early Years, Views of J.P. Cannon, undated, inclusive
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Fund for the Republic Project: Karsh, Garman tss, undated, inclusive
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Fund for the Republic Project: Political Economy, TUEL, undated, inclusive
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Fund for the Republic Project: Replies to Outlines, 1955, inclusive
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Gitlow, Ben, undated, inclusive
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Hapgood, Powers, undated, inclusive
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Howat, Alexander, undated, inclusive
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Institute of Pacific Relations Hearings (1952): Baldwin Letter to William Z. Foster, 1922, inclusive
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Labor Herald, undated, inclusive
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Lewis, John L., undated, inclusive
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Ralph Chaplin, Wobbly: The Rough and Tumble Story of an American Radical, 1948, inclusive
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Rosenbaum, Arthur (Barbers & Beauty Culturists of America): Interview re NYC CIO Council, undated, inclusive
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Widick, B.J.: Memo to DB re CP in the Automobile Industry, 1956, inclusive
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Bell, Daniel: Correspondence, Fund for the Republic Project, 1956-1957, inclusive
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Bell, Daniel: Labor Outline, Bibliography, Correspondence (FFR), 1955, inclusive
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Browder, Earl: American Communist Parties Under Attack, undated, inclusive
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Browder, Earl: Interviews with Dan Bell and Bill Goldsmith - Notes and Excerpts [thick file], 1955-1956, inclusive
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Browder, Earl: Relations between the Communist Party and the Communist International(ts, 40 pp - memo for Theodore Draper), Nov 11, 1955
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The Caligari World of Underground Communism, undated, inclusive
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Communism and Government (ts.), undated, inclusive
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Communist Party, 1919-1924, undated, inclusive
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Donnelly, Ignatius, undated, inclusive
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Fund for the Republic Bibliography(work plan, memos, etc.), 1956, inclusive
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Intelligentsia and Communism; Review of Whitaker Chambers' Witness, undated, inclusive
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IWW [thick file], undated, inclusive
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Labor Movement, US - History, Theory, Jewish Labor, undated, inclusive
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Melancholy Intermezzo (re 1919), undated, inclusive
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Miscellaneous notes, undated, inclusive
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Needle Trades Bibliography, undated, inclusive
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Pullman Strike, Eugene Debs, undated, inclusive
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Radical Mentality - Jack London's The Iron Heel, undated, inclusive
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The Schooling of Abraham Cahan, 1954, inclusive
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Sinclair, Upton - Memoirs (Institute of Social Studies Bulletin, Rand School), 1952, inclusive
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Socialist Party, 1919-24, undated, inclusive
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Syndicalism, undated, inclusive
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Trotskyism, US - History, undated, inclusive
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Biographical Sketches Compiled from American Labor Who's Who, undated, inclusive
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Darcy, Sam: Interview Notes, undated, inclusive
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Dodd, Bella: School of Darkness[ts of published book], 1954, inclusive
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Labor Herald: Notes on 1920s Articles, undated, inclusive
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Miscellaneous Notes (Mine Workers, other), undated, inclusive
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Notes from the Stenotype of a CP Conference Mar 31-Apr 4, 1930, undated, inclusive
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Notes on the Minutes of the National Committee, TUEL, 1923-1928, inclusive
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Notes on the Minutes of the Trade Union Committee of the Central Executive Committee, 1925-1927, inclusive
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Notes on the Minutes of the Political Committee of the C.P., 1926-1927, inclusive
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Workers Monthly: List of Articles, 1924-1927, inclusive
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Bell, Daniel: The Inner World of American Socialism, undated, inclusive
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Bell, Daniel: Letter to Max Shachtman re [attached] article in the New International, 1955, inclusive
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Bellamy, Edward, undated, inclusive
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Class Consciousness / Syndicalism, undated, inclusive
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De Leon, Daniel / Socialist Labor Party, undated, inclusive
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Gompers, Samuel, undated, inclusive
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Introduction - General, undated, inclusive
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Miscellaneous Notes and Clippings, undated, inclusive
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The New International: Issues with articles on the history of American Communism/Socialism, 1955-1956, inclusive
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Origins of the Communist Party / Split in the Socialist Party, undated, inclusive
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Populism, undated, inclusive
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The Proletarian Party, undated, inclusive
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Socialist Party, 1900-1912, undated, inclusive
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Socialist Party. Convention, Apr 1917 - Documents, 1917, inclusive
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Socialist Party - War Position (WWI), undated, inclusive
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Reference Queries Correspondence, 1946-1947, inclusive
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Socialist Party: Daniel Bell Correspondence with, 1947, inclusive
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