Series III: Writings, Topical Files and Research Materials
Scope and Content Note
Series III contains scrapbooks of Riesel's columns, other writings, including two unpublished typescripts, Farmer and Labor Third Parties, and Communism in the Motion Picture Industry, a file of notes and memoranda related to Riesel's Nixon Administration activity, which document confidential White House staff and cabinet-level discussions, and the transcript of a 1959 meeting between U.S. labor leaders and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Subseries A: Scrapbooks (Riesel articles and columns), 1934-1948
New Leader etc., 1934-1936
Box: 16a, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Various Newspapers, Jan 1941-Feb 1948
Box: 16a, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York Post, Nov 1941-Apr 1942, inclusive
Box: 17, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York Post, Apr 1942-Nov 1943
Box: 17, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York Post, Nov 1943-Jul 1944
Box: 17, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New York Post, Jul 1944-Oct 1945
Box: 18, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries B: Newspaper Clippings (by and about Riesel), 1933-1988
New York Post, Nov 1945-Apr 1947
Box: 18, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Clippings, undated
Box: 18, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Clippings, 1933-1959
Box: 18, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Clippings, 1960-1969
Box: 19, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Clippings, 1970-1977
Box: 19, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Clippings, 1978-1988
Box: 19, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Columns ("Inside Labor") (I), Feb 1976-Apr 1976
Box: 19, Folder: 3a (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Columns ("Inside Labor") (II), Feb 1976-Apr 1976
Box: 19, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries C: Other Writings by Riesel, 1939-1984, inclusive
Adenauer, Konrad - Interview, 1957
Box: 19, Folder: 4a (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Attacks on the State Department (typescript), 1951
Box: 19, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
CBC-Interview with Riesel, 1958
Box: 19, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conversations - Transcripts?, 1958
Box: 19, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Farmer and Labor 3rd Parties (typescript), 1940
Box: 19, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Files Indices, circa 1975-1984
Box: 19, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gorman of the Amalgamated (typescript), 1957
Box: 19, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Inside Labor" typescripts, 1980-1986
Box: 20, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memos and Notes, 1939-1969
Box: 20, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memos and Notes, 1970-1976
Box: 20, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memos and Notes, 1977-1986
Box: 20, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Miscellaneous, 1940-1949
Box: 20, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"My War with the Mob" Pulitzer prize nomination, 1956
Box: 20, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook, 1959
Box: 21, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notes for Jewish Lectures, 1969-1971
Box: 21, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Press Conference with General Electric, 1978
Box: 21, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Riesel Speech to Associated Equipment Distributors, 1972
Box: 21, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Ten Men Can Defeat America" - typescript, circa 1956
Box: 21, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries D: Communism in Hollywood, 1951-1960, inclusive
Communism in Hollywood (notes and research materials), 1951-1952
Box: 21, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communism in Hollywood (notes and research materials), 1952
Box: 21, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communism in Hollywood (notes and research materials), 1952
Box: 21, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communism in Hollywood (notes and research materials), 1953
Box: 21, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communism in the Motion Picture Industry (typescript), 1960
Box: 22, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries E: Topical Files, 1945-1988, inclusive
Anti-Semitism issues, 1968-1969
Box: 22, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Carpenters, circa 1960, inclusive
Box: 22, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bonitati, Robert, 1981-1983
Box: 22, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conference on Technological Change and Human Development, Jerusalem, 1969
Box: 22, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Council on Foreign Relations, 1967-1981
Box: 22, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Court Case: Anthony Anastasio v. Victor Riesel, 1952
Box: 22, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Democratic Convention, 1976
Box: 22, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Examination and Comparison of Signatures: Richard/Dick Pastor, 1958
Box: 22, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hall, Paul, 1960-1980
Box: 22, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hoffa, James, 1958-1975
Box: 22, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Khrushchev and Mikoyan meetings with Reuther et al., 1959
Box: 22, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Korshak, Sidney, 1976
Box: 22, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Labor and the Cater Administration, 1976-1980
Box: 22, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Labor Critique of McGovern, 1972
Box: 22, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Labor News - Miscellaneous, 1986-1988
Box: 22, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Labor Organization Annual Reports, 1964-1971
Box: 23, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Meat Packing Union, 1967
Box: 23, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Meir, Golda article, 1970
Box: 23, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mine, Mill Workers Prosecution, 1956-1962
Box: 23, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Health Insurance, 1979
Box: 23, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Labor Management Conference, 1945
Box: 23, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Nixon File - Memos, 1960-1969
Box: 23, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Nixon File - Memos, 1970-1972
Box: 23, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Nixon File - Memos, 1973-1978
Box: 23, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notes: Communism, 1948-1977
Box: 24, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Organized crime, 1963-1981
Box: 24, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pegler, Westbrook David, 1947-1963
Box: 24, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Posner, Herman, 1959-1960
Box: 24, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
President's Committee on Employment for the Handicapped, 1970-1978
Box: 24, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reagan and American Labor - Interview with Riesel, undated
Box: 24, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reagan - White House Memos, 1983-1985
Box: 24, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Rockefeller File, 1968-1975
Box: 24, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ruby, Jack, 1976-1983
Box: 24, Folder: 8a (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scotto, Anthony, 1966-1979
Box: 24, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scotto, Anthony, 1979-1982
Box: 24, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Screen Actors Guild, 1980-1985
Box: 24, Folder: 10a (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Show business tribute to Harold G. Gibbons", 1969
Box: 24, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sokolsky, George, 1953-1957
Box: 24, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Steel Industry, 1983
Box: 24, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
United Nations, San Francisco, 1945
Box: 25, Folder: 0.1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The International Jewelry Workers Union - A History of Betrayal", 1958
Box: 25, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Trade Unionism in the United States" by John A. Fitch, 1945
Box: 25, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Transcript of Hearings before the Committee to investigate charges against International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers., 1950
Box: 25, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)