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Activists and Reference contacts for Center for Marxist Studies
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Abt, John
See Gov. Elmer Austin Benson
Alman, David & Emily
1933-65
Boston Unviersity Libraries.
Authors & film producers. Includes extensive material on Rosenberg case. Inventory available.
3 ft. MS 69-9.
American Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born
1933-80
University of Michigan Library Dept. of Rare Books & Special Collections, Ann Arbor.
Total 85 ft. MS 82-950.
Amter, Israel
Contact son, Don Amter 212 E. Broadway, New York, NY 212-777-3393
See also Fred Briehl
Ault, Harry E.B.
1918-53
University of Washington Library, Seattle
Journalist, politician & labor leader. Material on labor movement & politics in Washington. Correspondents include William Z. Foster, Harvey O'Connor, Anna Louise Strong. Unpublished inventory available.
6 ft. MS 65-1031.
B
Bedacht, Max
Tamiment Library
Benson, Elmer Austin (Governor of Minnesota)
1931-63
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.
Correspondents include John Abt, Earl Browder, Tom Mooney. Unpublished inventory available.
12 ft. MS 69-1686
Bert, Erik
1924-80
Columbia Unviersity Libraries
Marxist scholar & editor of Producers News & Farmers National Weekly. Manuscripts, notes, correspondence, reports, press releases, clippings, including articles for Political Affairs.
1,000 items. MS 84-503.
Billings, Warren Knox
1899-1973
Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Chiefly on his bombing conviction & pardon attempts in Billings-Mooney case, and activities in support of civil liberties for Earl Browder. Unpublished finding aid available.
Ca. 2600 items. MS 77-1493.
Binder, Carroll
1912-66
Newberry Library, Chicago
Chicago journalist. Materials include some on Workers Party of America. Index in repository.
Total 4,000 items. MS 84-370.
Biographical Oral History Collection
1948-68
Columbia University Liraries
Transcripts of tape recorded autobiographical interviews include Earl Browder. Described in Biography section of Oral History Collection of Columbia University (1964) & Supplements (1966) & (1968).
MS 70-484.
Bittelman, Alexander
New York Tamiment Library.
Autobiographical typescript, "Things I Have Learned." Describes his activities from 1912-1963, including the CP, its problems & personalities.
2 boxes. MS 82-764.
See also Rose Pastor Stokes
Bittner, Van Amber
1908-61
West Virginia University Library
Labor leader. Subjects include Workers Communist Party & Red International of Labor Unions.
11 boxes. 3 bundles. MS 66-624.
Blacks in the Railroad Industry Collection
1946-54
New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Correspondence, writings & union materials, apparently collected by Robert Wood, editor of the Railroad Workers' Link, newspaper published by the Railroad Committee of the CP. Unpublished finding aid available.
1 box, 1 microfilm reel of the collection. MS 82-1352.
Blair, Fred Bassett
AIMS Library
1934-62
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
CP leader in Milwaukee. Includes correspondence, articles, speeches, press releases & clippings of CP activities, mainly in Wisconsin
2 boxes. MS 68-2119.
Bloor, Ellen Reeve (a.k.a. Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor)
Hollins College near Roanoke, Virginia
See also New York Bureau of Legal Advice, Anna Rochester, Grace Hutchins
Boudin, Louis
1900-50
Columbia University Libraries
Lawyer & writer. Correspondence regarding his writings & opinions on communism, etc.
500 items. MS 61-3072.
Braden, Anne & Carl
See Harvey O'Connor
Bridges, Harry
See Elaine Black Yoneda, Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota
Briehl, Fred
1911-74
Cornell University Libraries Dept. of Manuscripts & University Archives, Ithaca
Dairy farmer, politician, union organizer of New yOrk City & upstate NY. Correspondence includes material on the CP & correspondents include Israel Amter, Si Gerson, Carl Brodsky.
Total 7 cu. Ft., 6 tape recordings, 9 videotapes. MS 84-1698.
Brodsky, Carl
See Fred Briehl
Browder, Earl Russell
1891-1967
Syracuse University Library.
Correspondence, manuscripts, legal files & subject files, including minutes, reports, finances, etc. of CPUSA. Unpublished finding aid in repository. Microfilm edition of the papers, with accompanying guide by Jack T. Ericson published by Microfilming Corporation of America in 1976.
Total 40 ft. MS 79-1961.
1891-1975
Microfilmed by Microfilming Corporation of America, a N.Y. Times Company.
Prices: $1250
See also Columbia Broadcasting System Library & Special Projects Division Records, Gov. Elmer Austin Benson, Biographical Oral History Collection
Budenz, Louis Francis
1953-67
Providence College Library, RI
Includes correspondence re American Communism & Budenz's activities as author & lecturer, & correspondence with Senator Joe McCarthy.
107 items. Additions expected. MS 71-404.
Burke, Alice
See John Edward Lawler
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Cacchione, Peter V.
Taminent Library, part of Bobst Library, New York University
Microfilm, papers contribued by Dorothy Cacchione.
Chase, Roy Park
1897-1944
Minnesota Historical Society, St. paul
Lwyer & state official. Material on Communist activities in Minnesota & U.S. (anti-CP). Unpublished inventory available.
18 ft. MS 69-1690.
Civil Rights Congress of Michigan
Wayne State University Archives of Labor History & Urban Affairs
Includes material on the Smith Act. Correspondents include William L. Patterson. Unpublished finding aid available.
47 ft. MS 70-1404.
Collier, John Armistead
1892-1940
Wayne State University's Labor History Archives
Covering in the John and Phyllis Collier Collection. J.A. Collier was an author. Subjects include his Communist activities. His correspondents include his Communist activities. His correspondents include Floyd Dell, Max Eastman & Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Unpublished finding aid available.
1 ft. MS 66-1514.
Columbia Broadcasting System Library & Special Projects Division Records
1937-43
Broadcast Pioneers Library, Washington, D.C. (RG 22).
Contains digests of broadcasts by Earl Browder & others, 1942-42.
226 items total. MS 78-1170.
Communist Party USA
1919-59
Milwaukee County Historical Society, Milwaukee.
Wisconsin records. Correspondence, clippings, publications. Finding aid available.
1 ft. MS 84-142.
Corey, Lewis
1910-53
Columbia University Libraries
An early CP member & writer. Includes a transcript of the FBI investigation of the early years of the CP in the U.S. & correspondence, some personal, some dealing with politics, 1926-53.
28 boxes. MS 62-896.
See also J.B.S. Hardman
Cronbach, Abraham
1910-53
American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati.
Rabbi & professor at Hebrew Union College. Includes material on civil liberties, fascism, communism, Joseph McCarthy & the Roseberg Case. Described in American Jewish Archives, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1949, p. 58; vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 1951, p. 35; & vol. 7, no. 1, Jan. 1955, p. 139-40.
7 boxes. MS 67-978.
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Dale, Thelma
See National Negro Congress Records
Dana, Henry W.L.
1914-339
Friends Historical Library Peace Collection, Swaarthmore College
Dana was a pacifist and author. Includes correspondence, publicity and releases, clippings, papers of anti-war organizations of World War I. Correspondents include Robert Dunn and Rose Pastor Stokes.
2 ft. MS 61-3644
Davis, Angela
See National Lawyers Guild Grand Jury Defense Office & Electronic Surveillance Project
De Caux, Len
Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Debs, Eugene Victor
1874-1955
Indiana State University Library, Terre Haute.
Correspondence, chiefly on World War I imprisonment & Socialist Party. Correspondents include William Z. Foster. Unpublished finding aid available.
Total 9,000 items. MS 78-292.
Dell, Floyd
See John Armistead Collier
Dennis, Eugene
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison
Dunn, Robert
Library University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Tamiment Institute Library, NYU
See also Henry W.L. Dana
E
Eastman, Max
See John Armistead Collier
F
Farquharson, Mary
1934-48
University of Washington Library, Seattle
State Senator in Washington. Includes material on CP in Washington State. Unpublished inventory available.
MS 65-1035.
Finerty, John Frederick
1910-61
University of Oregon Library, Eugene, OR
Lawyer. Includes files for the cases of Tom Mooney and the Rosenbergs, and material on the Workers Defense League.
15 ft. MS 70-1786.
Fitzpatrick, John
1890-1965
Chicago Historical Society Library
Chicago labor organizer. Includes material on William Z. Foster, nature of which is not specified. Unpulished inventory available.
8 ft. MS 69-102.
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
1917-23
Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, WI
Correspondence & miscellaneous papers.
1 box. MS 68-2188.
See also Rollard R. O'Hare, Rose Pastor Stokes, Mary (Heaton) Vorse, John Armistead Collier
Foster, William Z.
See also Eugene Victor Debs, Rose Pastor Stokes, John Fitzpatrick, Mary (Heaton) Vorse, Harry E.B. Ault
Frankfurter, Felix
1914-65
Harvard Law School Library
Supreme Court papers, includes material re court committees of which Frankfurter was a member, including the Rosenberg case. Unpublished inventory available.
11 ft. & 36 microfilm reels. MS 72-907.
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Ganley, Nat
1934-69
Wayne State University Walter P. Reuther Library Archives of Labor & Urban Affairs, Detroit.
Editor of the Michigan Worker. Chiefly his activities with the Michigan CP, Smith Act appeal, and his labor activities.
Total 19 ft. MS 77-1328.
Ganley-Wellman Papers
1945-53
Wayne State Univesrity Reuther Library Archives of Labor History & Urban Affairs.
Speeches, notes, leaflets & other papers of Nat Ganley & Saul Wellman, Michigan CP activists, re Party conventions, meetings, etc.
Total 4 ft. MS 81-1404.
Gannet, Betty
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison (1976)
32-page guide published by the Society.
Gerson, Si
See Fred Briehl
Gitlow, Benjamin
See M.G. Lowman
Gold, Ben
Labor Management Documentation Center of Cornell University
Goldman, Albert
1940-59
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Labor lawyer & Mexican counsel to Trotzky who had also been a CP & Workers Party member. Includes his annotated pamphlets & clippings.
1 ft. MS 64-1607.
Goldstein, Robert J.
1966-67
University of Illinois Archives, Urbana
Student at University of Illinois. Includes his file as Daily Illini reporter, on University's non-recognition of the W.E.B. DuBois Club.
1 folder. MS 69-251.
H
Hall, Haywood
1957-72
University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library Michigan Historical Collections, Ann Arbor.
Correspondence & reports of Black leader re Black nationalism movement in America & its place in the CP. Typed autobiography titled, "Free, Black and 71: Memoirs of a Black Marxist."
200 items & 2 vols. MS 80-1242
Hardman, J.B.S.
1908-1970
New York University Tamiment Library.
Includes material on his expulsion from Workers Party in 1923 and correspondence with Lewis Corey & Charles Ruthenberg.
Total 46 boxes. MS 82-777.
Hawkins, Oscar Ferdinand
1888-1963
Minnesota Historical Society, St. paul.
Teacher & politician of Minneapolis. Includes papers of Farmer-Labor Club, campaign literature of CP candidates, material on Rosenberg case, imprisonment of CP leaders, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, & Workers Defense League. Unpublished inventory available.
5 ft. MS 69-1705.
Hazelrigg, Rex
See Congressman John Sweet Hyde
Hopkinson, Mary & Edwin William
1923-64
University of Washington Library, Seattle
He was Communist Party Chairman of Pierce County, Washington State. Includes material from the Northwest District of the CP. Unpublished inventory available.
2 ft. MS 66-976.
Hudson, Hosea
Unveristy of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Oral history tapes, interviews by Nell S. Pointer.
90 reels.
Hutchins, Grace
1898-1954
University of Oregon Library, Eugene, OR
Correspondents include Ella Reeve Bloor & Anna Rochester.
2 ft. MS 72-1125.
Hyde, John Sweet (Congressman)
1938-40
Nebraska State Historical Society
Includes correspondence with Rex Hazelrigg, Communist Party branch organizer in Lincoln, Nebraska.
10 ft. MS 65-1507.
I
International Labor Defense
District 19
1934-35
State Historical Society of Colorado, Denver
Includes materials re Tom Mooney.
Ca. 250 items. MS 71-1588.
1925-46
New York Public Library Schomburg Collection
Minutes, financial records, case files, photos, clippings, etc., including Scottsboro, Mooney, Herndon & Sacco-Vanzetti cases. (Partial?) copy of collection also on 12 reels of microfilm. Inventory available in Library.
14 ft. MS 72-259.
J
Jefferson School of Social Science
New York University Tamiment Library.
Records.
5 boxes. MS 82-782.
Jerome, Victor Jeremy
1923-67
Yale University Library, New Haven.
Bulk of collection relates to work with CP, 1930-65, and to organization and activities of Party. Materials were gift of John M. Whitcomb, Cambridge, MA. Unpublished register available.
Total 16 ft. MS 76-1434.
See also Rose Pastor Stokes
Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
Includes material on Communist & "Communist-front" organizations, although mostly anti-Communist. Persons included are Harry Bridges & the Rosenbergs. Unpublished inventory available.
26 ft. MS 70-257.
Johnson, Oakley C.
State University at Stony Brook
See also Charles Emil Ruthenberg
Johnston, Wayne Andrew
1945-67
University of Illinois Archives, Urbana
President of University Board of Trustees. Includes papers on its W.E.B. DuBois Club. Unpublished finding aid available.
9 ft. MS 69-256.
L
Lauck, William Jett
1937-46
Wayne State University Walter P. Reuther Library Archives of Labor History & Urban Affairs, Detroit.
Includes correspondence with Jay Lovestone on CIO & CP. These are photocopies of originals in the William Jett Lauck Papers at the University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville (MS 62-1629) to which any request for copies should be directed.
Total 65 items. MS 81-1423.
Lawler, John Edward
1937-74
Virginia Commonwealth University James Branch Cabell Library, Richmond.
FBI & CIA agent. Papers include material on CP activities, particularly of Party secretary, Alice Burke, who lived in Richmond, VA., his base of operations. Finding aid available.
Total 5 cu. Ft. MS 83-1136.
Le Sueur, Arthur
1910-54
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.
Lawyer, educator & political activist. Incluldes material on the CP. Unpublished finding aid available.
Total 6 ft. MS 82-1278.
Lewis, Nell Battle
1920-56
North Carolina State Dept. of Archives & History
Newspaper columnist in N.C. Subjects include Communism in N.C.
10,000 items & 5 scrapbooks. MS 66-1241.
Lovely, Clinton W.
1920-66
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
Newspaperman & politician. Includes material on Farmer-Labor Party, Daily Worker articles on labor problems & pamphlets. Unpublished inventory available.
500 items. MS 69-1712.
Lovestone, Jay
See William Jett Lauck
Lowman, M.G.
1921+
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace, Stanford University
Includes material from Benjamin Gitlow & other former Communist functionaries.
Unpublished preliminary inventory available.
MS 71-1106.
M
McCarthy, Joseph (Senator)
See Louis Francis Budenz
Meyers, Ben
1935-43
Chicago Historical Society Library
Lawyer, counsel for Ira Silbar et al. tried by State of Illinois for circulating CP petitions.
2 ft. MS 71-908.
Minnesota State Legislators & Politics, Oral History Interviews
1973
Minnesota Historical Society Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead State College. Includes information re CP. Described in Preliminary Guide to the Holdings of the Minnesota Regional Research Centers, by James E. Fogerty (1975), p. 11-13.
6 items only. MS 77-449.
Minor, Robert
1907-52
Columbia University Libraries
Notes, speeches & articles, much on the organization & policies of CP, 1930s-late 1940s & 1949-53 trials.
15,000 items. MS 67-800.
Mooney, Tom
See Warren Cox Billings, Gov. Elmer Austin Benson, John Frederick Finerty, International Labor Defense
N
National Lawyers Guild Grand Jury Defense Office & Electronic Surveillance Project
1972-75
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, Berkeley
Partly photocopies. Chiefly legal records collected by the two projects, including some re Angela Davis.
National Negro Congress
1933-47
New York Public Library Schomburg Collection
Persons included are Thelma Dale, Edward E. Strong & Max Yergan. Organizations referred to include American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, American Youth for Democracy, Civil Rights Congresss & ILD. Inventory available in Library.
47 ft. MS 72-261.
Nelson, Elba Chase
1908-67
Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, NH
CP Secretary in NH, 1933-61. Pamphlets, clippings, brochures, etc. & correspondence, including Party leaders.
Total 5 ft. MS 84-81.
New York Bureau of Legal Advice
1917-19
New York University Tamiment Library.
This was originally called New York Bureau of Legal First Aid, organized to provide legal advice & counsel to those in conflict with the wartime laws on civil liberties, etc. Includes correspondence with Ella Reeve Bloor.
Total 13 boxes. MS 82-796.
North, Joe
Boston University
O
O'Connor, Harvey
1927-67
Wayne State University Archives of Labor History & Urban Affairs
Correspondence, notes, clippings & pamphlets, including material on American League for Peace & Democracy, American Peace Mobilization in Chicago in 1940s, 1948 Progressive Party, & correspondence with Anne & Carl Braden. Guide available in repository.
50 ft. MS 71-651.
See also Harry E.B. Ault
O'Hare, Rolland R.
Wayne State University Reuther Library Archives of Labor & Urban Affairs.
ACLU Collection of Rolland R. O'Hare. Includes a file on the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn dispute with the ACLU.
Total 3 ft. MS 81-1434.
Oral History Interviews
1972-1980
California Historical Society Library, San Francisco.
Typed transcripts of interviews with San Francisco labor leaders, CP members & others. Some interviews are described in Preliminary listing of the San Francisco Manuscript collections in the Library of the California Historical Society, by Diana Lachatanere, 1980, nos. 15, 65, 74, 76, 83, 133, 141, 170, 184, 191, 222, 249, 264.
Total 20 items. MS 82-438.
Ornitz, Samuel Badisch
19?-1957
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison
One of the Hollywood Ten. Includes material on his conviction for contempt of Congress and on the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, the ILD, etc.
9 boxes. MS 68-2293.
P
Patterson, William L.
Schomburg Library
See also Civil Rights Congress of Michigan
Parsons, Alice Beal
1921-62
Syracuse University Library
Includes a transcript of the trial of Arthur Person, a Communist defended by Clarence Darrow in the Illinois Circuit Court in 1920. Unpublished register of the collection available.
8 ft. MS 66-220.
Pennock, William J.
See Washington Pension Union.
Potash, Irving
Labor Management Documentation Center of Cornell University
R
Ragozin, Rachel
See Charles Emil Ruthenberg
Ramp, Floyd Cleveland
1897-1949
University of Oregon Library, Eugene, OR.
Communist of Roseburg, OR. Includes CP literature, court records, photos, speeches. Unpublished inventory available.
MS 78-1134. This replaces MS 69-1028.
1903-49
University of oregon Library, Eugene, OR
Communist of Roseburg, OR, visitor to the Sovie Union in 1920-22. Includes correspondence with other Party members & political pamphlets &broadsides.
2 ft. MS 69-1028.
Rochestor, Anna
1880-1965
University of Oregon Library, Eugene, OR
Correspondents include Ella Reeve Bloor.
2 ft. MS 72-1142.
See also Grace Hutchins.
Rosenbergs
See Abraham Cronbach, David & Emily Alman, Oscar Ferdinand Hawkins, Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota, John Frederick Finerty, Felix Frankfurter
Ruthenberg, Charles Emil
1906-57
Ohio Historial Society, Columbus (#163).
Correspondence with Rachel Ragozin during his prison term, 1020-22 & correspondence, interviews, notes, bibliographic data, clippings, manuscript of Oakley Johnson from preparation of his biography of Ruthenberg. Materials were received from Oakley Johnson, NYC; Daniel Ruthenberg (his son), & Mrs. Rachel stone, Miami Beach. Inventory available.
4 ft. MS 75-1163.
See also J.B.S. Hardman.
S
Sacco-Vanzetti
See International Labor Defense
Schappes, Morris U.
American Jewish Historical Society, Waltham, MA
Correspondence, ephemra, etc. of various organizations & court records growing out of Rapp-Coudert hearings of New York State Legislature on Communist activities at City College.
5 ft. MS 72-1385.
Shachtman, Max
See Socialist Movement: Oral History Collection
Selsam, Howard
1935-72
Columbia University Libraries.
Manuscripts, correspondence, notes & printed material. Gift of Mrs. Millicent E. Selsam.
6,000 items. MS 77-126.
Silbar, Ira
See Ben Meyers
Sobell, Morton
1950-69
.State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison.
The Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell. Finding aid published by the repository, 1976.
Total 62 boxes, 85 tape reels, 9 film rolls, 3 phonorecords. Also 28 microfilm reels of the collection published by Brookhaven Press. MS 78-979.
Socialist Movement: Oral History Collection
1965
Columbia University Libraries
Transcripts of taped interviews on the genesis and development of the Socialist Party, including its relationship to the Communist Party. Interviewees include Max Shachtman. Described in Oral History Collection of Columbia University, Supplement (1966), p. 29-30.
MS 70-504.
Socialist Workers Party
1914-64
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
Includes material on factional disputes in CP. Unpublished inventory available.
4 ft. MS 69-1723.
Starobin, Robert Saul
1960-67
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison.
Includes material re W.E.B. DuBois Club at University of California, Berkeley. (Starobin's dates are 1939-1971.)
Total 1 ft. MS 81-1180.
Stokes, Rose Pastor
1900-1958
Yale University Library
Correspondence, published material, clippings & miscellaneous papers. Correspndents include her husband, J.J. Jerome, Alexander Bittelman, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Unpublished register available.
6 ft. MS 71-2041
1905-33
New York University Tamiment Library
Correspondence, clippings, etc. Includes materials on 4th Congress of Communist International, Foster 1923 trial, & correspondence with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
Total 6 boxes. MS 82-213.
See also Henry W.L. Dana
Storey, Moorfield
1847-1930
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Lawyer, author & crusader for unpopular causes, from Boston. Correspondence, scrapbooks, petitions, clippings, photos, resulting in part from his interest in the Anti-Imperialist League. Unpublished finding aid available.
17 ft. MS 70-976.
Strong, Anna Louise
See Harry E.B. Ault
Strong, Edward E.
See National Negro Congress Records
T
Trotsky, Leon
See Albert Goldman
Tuck, John Bennett
1890-1948
Cornell University Libraries Collection of Regional History & University Archives, #2604
Lawyer of Syracuse, NY. Includes his association with Young Workers League of America.
13 ft. MS 70-1136.
V
Vorse, Mary (Heaton)
1841-1966
Wayne State University Archives of Labor History & Urban Affairs
Correspondence, reference & research material, clippings, pamphlets, etc. re labor social reform, strikes & union organizing campaigns. Correspondents include Elizabeth Gurley Flynn & William Z. Foster. Guide available in repository.
78 ft. MS 71-664.
W
Washington Pension Union
1933-61
University of Washington Library, Seattle.
The Washington Pension Union was led by Communist William J. Pennock. The records include the Papers of the William J. Pennock Memorial Association and transcripts of the U.S. Subversitve Activities Control Board hearings on Pennock and the Washington Pension Union.
8 ft. MS 65-1057.
Wellman, Saul
see Ganley-Wellman Papers
William, Edwin & Mary Hopkinson
See Mary Hopkinson & Edwin William
Wood, Robert
See Blacks in the Railroad Industry Collection
Y
Yates, Oleta (O'Connor)
1934-57
University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library.
Speeches, reports, notes, lectures & translations re Mrs. Yates' activities with the CP in California.
Total 1 box. MS 75-342
Yerger, Max
See National Negro Congress Records
Yoneda, Elaine Black
1931-39
California Historical Society Library, San Francisco
Photocopies. Miscellaneous documents re ILD, trials of Harry Bridges & of the San Francisco Communists.
Young, Art
1924-44
New York University Tamiment Library
Correspondence, drawings, reproductions, printed matter & catalogues of exhibitions by artists on political themes.
2 boxes. MS 82-823.
Edward Dmytryk
(1908 - 1999)
Occupation: Director
Also: producer
Born: September 4, 1908, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
Education: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Former projectionist and editor at Paramount who directed his first film, The Hawk, in 1935. Concentrating on directing from 1939, Dmytryk made several socially and politically oriented films such as Hitler's Children (1943) and Crossfire (1947) before fellow director Sam Wood gave his name to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. One of the "Hollywood Ten" cited for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify, Dmytryk was fired by RKO and spent some time in England, where he made several movies.
Forced to return to the US in 1951 to renew his passport, he was arrested and sentenced to six months in jail. Dmytryk then appeared before HUAC a second time, recanting his earlier statements and himself "naming names," and was removed from the blacklist. He went on to direct several films, most notably The Sniper (1952) for producer Stanley Kramer, and worked on a number of prestigious, big-budget productions, most of which lacked the edge of his earlier, more modest works. In the 1980s, Dmytryk published a series of books on film, including On Directing (1984) and Cinema: Concept and Practice.
Biography from Baseline's Encyclopedia of Film
Others were declared to be "unfriendly", meaning they would refuse to answer questions about their political beliefs. Eleven of the nine were questioned about their connection with the Communist party. As a direct result, their lives were greatly affected. Bertolt Brecht, the German emigrant playwright, was the only person of the eleven "unfriendly" witnesses who answered questions while on the stand. After claiming he wasn't a communist, he immediately returned to East Germany. The remaining ten "unfriendlys" acquired the name "The Hollywood Ten".
The Hollywood Ten consisted of one director (Edward Dmytryk) and nine screenwriters (Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornintz, Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo). Claiming their Fifth Amendment rights at the stand, they refused to answer any and all questions. Gordon Kahn also used the same excuse for not answering.
The "Committee for the First Amendment" (CFA) was established to counter what they claimed were baseless attacks on Hollywood by the HUAC and harrassment of Hollywood liberals. The fifty members of the CFA included Lauren Bacall, Groucho Marx, Ira Gershwin, Frank Sinatra, Ronald Reagan, John Huston, Danny Kaye, William Wyler, Gene Kelly, headed by Humphrey Bogart.
The Committee of 50 Hollywood writers, producers and actors chartered a plane to Washington, D.C. on October 24, 1947 in an attempt to lend support as the eleven unfriendly witnesses began to testify. It tried to assure the protection of rights for the Hollywood Ten and failed in an effort to protest the violation of Constitutional rights. It held press conferences in St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City and on the steps of the HUAC.
The eleven unfriendly witnesses responded with theatrics more irrational than the congressmen, the CFA became embarrassed and began to alienate. It is said the Hollywood Ten lost all their support when Lawson began haranguing with committee members. The only thing achieved by the CFA was trouble for its members.
Bogart found his heroic image being damaged by his actions, defence of "impertinent subversives". In a desperate attempt to salvage his image, he published a piece in Photoplay Magazine, March 1948. It was entitled "I'm No Communist" and admitted to being "duped." His trip to Washington, he said, had been "ill-advised"
The famous were not excused. Sam Jaffe was a lifelong non-Communist progressive, but was blacklisted for refusing to collaborate. He was reduced to teaching high school math and living with his sisters. This was a man who was nominated for an Oscar for The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and was w ell-known for his roles in Lost Horizon (1937) and Gunga Din (1939).
Screenwriter Arnold Manoff's wife Lee Grant (nominated for an Oscar for her role in Detective Story, 1951) was blacklisted for not testifying against him. As the Hollywood ten, many of the over 200 people called to testify refused to cooperate.
But others openly spoke about themselves and others, like (writers) Martin Berkeley and Leo Townsend who are said to have incriminated literally hundreds of people. Actor, Zero Mostel told the committee that he would speak on behalf of his actions but was forbidden by religious convictions to name other Communists.
Others like ex-Communists Budd Schulberg and Elia Kazan, felt it was patriotic to expose others. Kazan named Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, Clifford Odets, Pamela Miller, Morris Carnovsky, Pheobe Brand, Tony Kraber, J. Edward Branberg and many others. Lucille Ball got through the trial by babbling nonsense testimony.
The most pathetic attempt to ask the committee for mercy was made by Larry Parks. Parks known for such roles as the lead of The Al Jolsen Story, pleaded with the house on his hands and knees. Parks named Morris Carnovsky, Joe Bromberg, Sam Rossen, Anne Revere, Lee Cobb, Gale Sondergaard, Dorothy Tree, Howard Da Silva, Roman Bohnen (who was then dead), James Cagney, Sam Jaffe, John Garfield, Sterling Hayden, Andy Devine, Madeleine Carroll, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson.
These (gag) "tolerant and compassionate" types crack me up. They perpetuated the insulting Stepin Fetchit stereotypes---and employed Black men and women to do the dirty work in their homes. Then they hypocritically march for civil rights, and criticize conservatives who didn't.
Extracted from the remainder of the article:Screen Stars Fly to Protest Inquiry on Reds
To protest the House Un-American Committee's inquiry into Hollywood Communism, 30 film players and motion-picture industry figures yesterday took off for Washington, D.C., from Los Angeles Airport in a chartered T.W.A. Constellation.On arrival at the capital they held a press conference at which they accused the Congressional committee of "un-American tactics".
Included on the list were . . .
According to a 1947 article in the LA Times, the flight manifest included only 30 names (which I just posted). It said the committee claimed a total of 135 members.
INTREP - Marxism
Thanks for the additional info!
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The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
Just ask a woman who...
would be President:
HILLARY
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What can we do about this? How do we fix it?
Elia Kazan = a great man. "I'm glad what he done to 'em."
The fact is even after he named names, he was still well-received in Hollywood. He wrote books some of which were made into movies AFTER the incident.
My take is Kazan made a deal with the moguls and was offered up as the sacrificial lamb to get the feds off Hollywood's back.
Kazan was probably promised film deals and other emoluments if he did the deed.
Kazan took the heat ...... but there was even more really bad stuff going down in La-la Land that never got revealed (some of which which Fedora outlined here).
He was not a traitor to Hollywood, Kazan saved their tushes.
No surprise Jolson was conservative. In those days, everybody was conservative. Things began to change after Hollywood began making "socially relevant" films.
Jolson was a legendary Hollywood, uh, swordsman, even in that swashbuckling milieu of accomodating starlets and predatory producers.
In her book, dancer/actress Ruby Keeler, a staunch Catholic---one of Jolson's four wives---refused to comment on the failed marriage.
Of course you know that Al Jolson was singing, Larry Parks was miming, in the Jolson movies. Jolson was a pain, and insisted that only his voice should be heard on film, according to biographies. Guy was totally self-absorbed, and hated to give anyone else the spotlight.
Betty Garrett's career was tainted for several years when spouse Larry Parks admitted he had been a Communist.
She bounced back, made more films, and segued into TV---All In The Family for which she won an Emmy----and was prominently featured on the "Laverne and Shirley" sitcom for many years (seen on reruns).
What's the matter with socially relevant films? Plenty. As I've indicated it's intellectually dishonest to use the entertainment milieu to proselytize audiences, to change people's thinking without their knowledge or consent. People go to movies to be entertained. To prey on that, to manipulate audiences into one's agenda sub rosa, is not exactly praiseworthy---even if the filmmaking was praiseworthy.
Case in point: Watching a TV retrospective on the successful Planet of the Apes movie series (I had not seen the original releases which were based on an obscure book by French author Pierre Boulle), I was immediately struck with the films' attempts to insinuate an onscreen agenda. Yet looking at old reviews of the film, no one advertised, or picked up, that the series was "socially relevant."
However, during the retrospective, I was shocked (well, not really) to hear one of the producers acknowledge they calculatedly intended to use the films' theme to advance their agenda.
We should remember, too, that "subliminal advertising" was outlawed, due to its insidious nature.
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