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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Series III contains scrapbooks of Riesel's columns, other writings, including two unpublished typescripts, Farmer and Labor Third Parties, and Communism in the Motion Picture Industry, a file of notes and memoranda related to Riesel's Nixon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)
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