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Series 1: Labor and Political Activities

Language of Materials

English.

United Automobile Workers Union, 1935, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Workers PartyContents Include: Cochran Correspondence, Internal Documents. (Correspondents include: James Cannon, George Clarke, Rose Karsner, A.J. Muste, Max Shachtman, Arne Swabeck), 1935-1936, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mechanics Educational Society of America (MESA): Cochran Correspondence with Matthew Smith (National Secretary)., 1935-1937, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unemployed Movement Activity - Ohio, New York, 1935-1940, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cochran: Notes (Midland Steel Strike); Speech (The Flint Sit-Downs: The Spirit of 1937), 1937, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist PartyContents Include: National Auto League Conference (Detroit, May 22-23) Minutes (participants included Victor Reuther and Walter Reuther); Unsigned letter (Nov 25, from Farrell Dobbs?) re Minneapolis Teamsters Movement., 1937, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Automobile Workers Correspondence (Includes: Cochran, George F. Addes, Homer Martin), 1937, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers PartyContents Include: Cochran Correspondence (includes letters from James Cannon and George Clarke, and one from James Burnham); Minutes of National Auto Fraction Meeting (Detroit, Dec 25th)., 1938, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Automobile Workers: Cochran Correspondence (principally with activists); Homer Martin memorandums; Internal Documents including Unity Caucus material., 1938, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Anti-Communist Party Leaflets for Auto Workers (by Homer Martin supporters), 1938-1939, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Revolutionary Workers League. Cleveland Unit: An Open Letter to All Delegates to the UAW-CIO Convention., 1939, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Automobile WorkersContents Include: Cochran Correspondence; Cleveland Convention (March) and Other Factional Materials., Jan 1939-May 1939

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clarke, George: The Truth About the Auto Crisis: The Petty-Bourgois Leaders Before the Test of the Class Struggle (contra Shachtman, et al - 22 pp), ca.1939, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Robins, Harold: Some of Our Opportunist Mistakes in the Auto Union (19 pp), ca.1939, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers PartyContents: National Auto Conference Minutes, Detroit, May 5th; Pre-Plenum Discussion Bulletin vol. 3, no. 3, September; Correspondence and other documents), 1940, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Automobile Workers, 1940, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers PartyContents Include: Cochran correspondence, including James P. Cannon, C. Charles, Vincent Dunne, Jules Geller, automobile industry rank and file activists; Club Executive Minutes; Draft of Revised Declaration of Principles., 1941, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers PartyContents Include: Correspondence (including Cannon, Cochran, Dobbs, Dunne, Jules Geller, G. Munis (Mexico, D.F.); 1942 Report of Outgoing Executive Board Detroit Branch; Resolutions., 1942, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Automobile Workers: Cochran correspondence, 1942, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Cochran]: Report on the U.S. Political Situation (30 pp.), ca.1942-1943, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers PartyContents Include: Correspondence and Reports re Auto Fraction (George [Clarke?], Cochran, Dobbs, rank and file, etc.); Resolution on U.S. and Second World War., 1943, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Morrow, Felix -- The First Phases of the Coming European Revolution: a criticism of the fifteenth anniversary plenum [19 pp], Dec 1943-Jan 1944

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor Movement, Reports on [E.R. Frank, J. Lyons, anonymous], 1943-1945, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers Party Contents Include: Correspondence and Reports on Polish, German and Other International Issues - includes two letters (from/regarding) the Internationale Kommunisten Deutschlands (International Communist Party of Germany)., 1944, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The European Revolution and Tasks of the Revolutionary Party (45 pp) -- SWP National Committee Plenum Resolution, Aug 1944

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Trotsky, Natalia: Letter "Dear Friend" (the USSR no longer even a "degenerating" workers state), 2 pp., Aug 16, 1944

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cannon, James P.: Letters re Fight Against the Morrison/Morrow Faction (to Larry Trainor, Murry Weiss, and J. Andrews)., Mar 1945-Apr 1945

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cochran [?]: Report (contra Felix Morrow, on the International Political Situation). 50 pp., ca.1945, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cochran: Speech re Labor Movement (hand-written), May 1945

Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Morrison, M.: Why We Support the Struggle of the EAM (Greece), 4 pp., ca.1945, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers Party Correspondence (Includes: Cochran, Dobbs, Dunne), Nov 1945-Dec 1945

Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers Party DocumentsContents: Discussion on the Black Question, by Murray Weiss; Proposal on the Functioning of the 4th International; Motion by Morrow on Italian Affiliation., 1945, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers Party Club Executive Minutes, Jan 1946-Apr 1946

Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

SWP correspondence (Felix Morrow, et al), Feb 1946-Jun 1947

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers Party Club Executive Minutes (focus on Korea, Yugoslavia), May 1950-Jul 1950

Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialist Workers Party National Committee Reports and Resolutions on Korea, Yugoslavia (Includes report on a trip to Yugoslavia), 1950, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cochran Speech: The Revolution in Bolivia, Apr 24, 1953

Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cochran Speeches (2): U.S., International, ca.1953, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cochran Speech: "What Is Going to Happen in the Next Ten Years?", 1955, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cocharn Speeches: American SocialistBanquet, Other, 1955, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cochran Speeches: Detroit, Los Angeles, San-Francisco, ca.1960, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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