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Work diaries used to keep a record of Lauck's activities on behalf of a number of organizations, arranged by date in Boxes 216-219. Due to their fragile condition, access to the original diaries is restricted. Researchers should use the diaries on microfilm M-1239-1241.
The largest group of W. Jett Lauck papers was given to University of Virginia Law Library by Charles Chase, Washington, D.C. in April 1954 and then transferred from the Law Library to the University of Virginia Special Collections Library on March 23, 1973 and October 7, 1974. The second accession (formerly MSS 4742-a) was given to the Special Collections Library on October 31, 1979, by Charles Chase, with Peter B. Lauck and Eleanor M. Lauck, Annapolis, Maryland, as the donors of record. The last accession (formerly MSS 4742-b)was given to the Libary on 2012 by Peter B. Lauck and Eleanor M. Lauck.
Manuscript student assistants who worked on the W. Jett Lauck papers for at least one semester include Jacob M. Baker, Shannon Lee, Jacob T. Shaw, and Emily Shipman.
Only two copies of identical duplicates having no annotations were kept. Duplicates were compared and only two were kept of each unique document or publication. News clippings were only copied if used by Lauck in a case or arbitration, contained an article or other work by him, or information pertaining to his work and career. Others were sorted and arranged by topcs that he had written on the clipping; those with no obvious relevance were discarded. Ledgers and scrapbooks were rehoused in acid free cubic boxes or phase boxes created by the Preservation staff.
Originally the papers were organized with the help of a University of Virginia history seminar sometime between their transfer to Special Collections from the Law Library and 1973, producing a large paper finding aid consisting of the list of the file folder headings. Folders were replaced near the end of the 1990's but some folder headings were lost or corrupted. In 2018, the papers were re-organized into series based on several early indexes created by the office of W. Jett Lauck. Folder headings were corrected based on the indexes, the original paper finding aid, and Lauck's notations on the tops of his documents. Headings were altered on the folders when possible to match the finding aid but only some of the folders were replaced due to constraints of time and money.
Physical processing work was complicated by constant student assistant turn-over and the interruption of the Pandemic of 2020-2021, which prevented onsite work for almost six months and allowed only several onsite short stints per week the rest of the time. The finding aid is as accurate as these conditions have permitted but there may well be inconsistencies. If such errors are discovered, we welcome researcher input.
William Jett Lauck, an American economist and statistician, whose work expertise and experience was both broad and varied, was born on August 2, 1879, in Keyser, West Virginia, to William Blackford Lauck, a railway official, and Emma Eltinge (Spengler) Lauck. He attended Keyser High School and Washington and Lee University (Bachelor of Arts, 1903), becoming a Fellow in the department of political economy at the University of Chicago, 1903-1906. Lauck was an associate professor of economics and political science at Washington and Lee University, 1905-1908, until he entered government service in 1908. That same year, he was married to Eleanor Moore Dunlap of Lexington, Virginia, and they had three children, William Jett Lauck, Jr., Eleanor Moore Lauck and Peter Blackford Lauck. Lauck belonged to the Cosmos and Chevy Chase clubs and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Sigma, and Theta Nu Epsilon.
Lauck joining the United States Immigration Commission in 1908-1909, where he designed a survey of immigration for the Commission. Lauck was the chief examiner for the Tariff Board, 1910-1911. The U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations hired Lauck in 1913-1915 as a managerial expert and consulting statistician to design their investigation into industrial problems in the United States. He was an economic advisor on the Canadian Commission on Economic Development, 1916. Lauck joined the U.S. National War Labor Board in 1918 as Secretary.
Lauck also took part in the national movement for banking reform and the establishment of the Federal Reserve banking system1911-1912. As an expert on railway economics, he represented the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers in their demands for wage increases during a series of arbitrations from 1912-1919, the Western freight weight case, 1915, and also represented the railroad unions in several high-profile national railroad arbitrations in the early twenties. Lauck functioned as the economic advisor for presidential candidate James B. Cox in 1920 and 1924. In 1926, Lauck devised a settlement to end the Passaic New Jersey textile strike.
During a large part of his career, W. Jett Lauck acted as an economic advisor to John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers, the Committee on Industrial Organization, the United Automobile Workers and other union organizations, in arbitrations and cases, 1919-1939. He was an investigator for the U.S. Coal Commission, 1923 and economist for the Grain Marketing Company, Chicago, 1924-1925. Lauck assisted on the legislative drafting committee for the National Recovery Act in 1933 and as an expert advisor to the Senate Finance Committee on the revision of the National Recovery Act in 1935. He was also a member of various special boards, and a labor advisor to the Coal Section of the National Recovery Act, 1933-1935. He was also often a government expert witness, as seen in his work for the House of Representatives Special Committee on Government Competition with Private Business, 1933. Lauck served as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Industry Coal Commission, 1937.
Lauck was Vice President of the organization American Association for Economic Freedom. He was also an author or co-author of many books and other publications, including "The Causes of the Panic of 1893" (1905); "The Immigration Problem" with Johann Wolfgang Jenks (1911); "Conditions of Labor in American Industries" with Edgar Sydenstricker (1917); "The Industrial Code" with C.S. Watts (1923); Political and Industrial Democracy, 1776-1926" (1926); and "The New Industrial Revolution and Wages" (1929) and Editor of "British War Experience Series."
"W. Jett Lauck: Biography of a Reformer" by Carmen Brissette Grayson is a 1975 University of Virginia dissertation that covers the early part of Lauck's career up until the Depression.
The W. Jett Lauck collection consists of his professional, business and personal papers as an economist, statistician and government consultant on immigration, banking, railroads, coal, and unemployment problems as well as other facets of labor in the United States. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks of news clippings reflecting his activities, labor reports and studies, drafts of congressional bills, legal briefs, and other material concerning labor problems in the United States from its formative World War I years until 1949. They begin with his association with the progressive labor codes of the Taft-Walsh Labor Relations Commission and continue with the Railway Labor Act of 1926; the fight to gain recognition of labor's right to collective bargaining "through representatives of their own choosing" under the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933; the incorporation of its principles in the National Labor Relations Act; and further activity in defense of this act.
Other manuscripts deal with studies of government competition with private business, the American Association for Economic Freedom, the New York Power Authority; branch, chain, and group banking, drafts of speeches, and work diary accounts of activities and meetings with prominent congressional and labor leaders on labor problems and legislation.
The largest portions of the W. Jett Lauck papers deal with cases and arbitrations, chiefly railroad and coal related, his work on various boards and commission and topical files.
His correspondence with individuals heading organizations interested in labor and industrial relations was wide-spread, just as it was with political figures, educators, and labor leaders. Among the public figures with whom he corresponded are Bernard Baruch, Homer S. Cummings, Clarence A. Dystra, John T. Flynn, Guy M. Gillette, Leon Henderson, Herbert Hoover, Hugh S. Johnson, Jesse Jones, William S. Knudsen, Robert M. Fa Follette, Jr., Franklin K. Lane, John L. Lewis, H.C. Lodge, Jr., William G. McAdoo, James M. Mead, Francis P. Miller, Henry Morgenthau, Karl E. Mundt, Donald Nelson, Judge Ferdinand Pecora, Frances Perkins, Gifford Pinchot, James H. Price, Franklin D. Roosevelt, E.R. Stettinius, Jr., Robert F. Wagner, David I. Walsh, Burton K. Wheeler, and Woodrow Wilson. The educators include Hardy Dillard, Edward C. Elliot, Frank Graham, J.W. Jenks, Richard R. Mead, Lewis Tyree, Harry F. Ward, H.B. Wells, and Ray Lyman Wilbur; and the labor leaders Jacob Baker, Solomon Barkin, Van A. Bittner, Sophia Carey, David Dubinsky, P.T. Fagan, John P. Frey, William Green, Sydney Hillman, Earl E. Houck, Thomas Kennedy, Donald MacMillan, and A.O. Wharton.
There are fifteen series in this collection. The two largest series are the Cases and Topical series. The majority of series have at least two subseries. Lauck had created two earlier indexes to his files and they were used to shape the current re-organization of the collection, particularly concerning the case files. Some of the decisions concerning arrangement were made due to the difficulties of completing the processing of the W. Jett Lauck papers during the Pandemic of 2020-2021.
An Outline of the Arrangement is as follows: Series 1) Correspondence (Boxes 1-16); Series 2) American Association for Economic Freedom (Boxes 17-37 and Card files boxes 1-12); Series 3) National War Labor Board (Boxes 38-56); Series 4) Congress of Industrial Organizations (Boxes 57-67); Series 5) Commission on Industrial Relations (Boxes 68-72); Series 6) Articles, Memoranda, and Speeches by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 73-91) with Subseries A) Work created by W. Jett Lauck for use by himself (Boxes 73-91), Subseries B) Work created by W. Jett Lauck for other people to use (Boxes 82-88), and Subseries C) Banking Monograph by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 89-91); Series 7) Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Commission (Boxes 92-103); Series 8) Cases (Boxes 104-204) with Subseries A) Railroad (Boxes 104-146), Subseries B) General (Boxes 147-169), and Subseries C) Coal (Boxes 170-204); Series 9) Arbitrations (Boxes 205-211); Series 10) Dockets and Other Records of Work by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 212-219); Series 11) Personal, Financial and Miscellany Papers (Boxes 220-233) with Subseries A) Financial Correspondence and Files (Boxes 220-225), Subseries B) Bureau of Applied Economics (Boxes 225-226), Subseries C) College Notes and School Papers (Boxes 227-230), and Subseries D) Notes, Notebooks, Photographs, Post cards and Miscellany (Boxes 230-233); Series 12) The National Recovery Act and National Recovery Administration (Boxes 234-241) with Subseries A) General Files (Boxes 234-238) and Subseries B) National Recovery Administration Codes (Boxes 238-241); Series 13) Oversize Scrapbook Volumes of Newspaper Clippings and News clippings Files with Subseries A) Scrapbooks (Boxes 242-252) and Subseries B) News clipping Files (Boxes 253-257); Series 14) Topical Files with Subseries A) Coal (Boxes 258-270), Subseries B) Railroad (Boxes 271-287), and Subseries C) General A-Z (Boxes 288-389); and Series 15) Printed Material and Works by Others (Boxes 389-399) with Subseries A) Printed Material (Boxes 389-396) and Subseries B) Works by Others (Boxes 397-399).
This series consists chiefly of correspondence but also includes typescripts of speeches by individuals, and financial and other information about organizations.
Correspondents include: E. Abbott, Louis Adamic, Adrian Adelman, Sara M. Addison, Joseph Agor, Helen Alfred, Fred H. Allen, Irving B. Altman (editor of "Dynamic America"), Aluminum Workers of America, Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees, American Association for Labor Legislation, American Association for Social Security, American Council, American Council on Public Affairs, American Farm Bureau Federation, American Guernsey Cattle Club, American Institute for Economic Research, The American Legion, American Political Science Association, American Sugar Cane League, Americana Corporation concerning Lauck's article on United Mine Workers of America, Thomas R. Amlie, Dr. James W. Angell, Charles P. Anson, "Atlantic Monthly," Paul H. Appleby, Leon Ardzrooni (about the death of Thorstein Veblen), Mr. O.M. Armstrong, and Robert W. Arthur.
Correspondents include: Jacob Baker, Kent Baker, Bank of the Manhattan Company, Mary Barclay, A. K. Barnes, Joseph L. Barnett, Gerald Barradas, Barron's (The National Financial Weekly), John Barth, Mrs. Everett Boughton, Mrs. Robert Bennett Bean, Grant L. Bell, William H. Bell, Harold F. Berg, Nelson N. Berry, S. D. Berry, Jacob Billikoph, Margaret G. B. Blachley, James E. Black, Honorable William Harman Black, Amy Blankenhorn, Heber Blankenhorn, Dr. Thomas C. Blaisdell, Jr., Ellis P. Block, John A. Bohn, E.W.G. Boogher, Book-of-The-Month Club, Inc., Judge Julian F. Bouchelle, Basil Nicholas Helenagoras Bousios, Fenton Bradford, C. Daniel Bremer, Samuel Bristol, G.L. Broaddus, St. Claire Brookes, The Brookings Institution, Herbert Bruce Brougham, E. Kirk Brown, Law Offices of Brown and Brown, H. Russel Brand, Carl P. Brannin, Selig C. Brez, P.F. Brissenden, Professor Leslie Buckler, Raymond Leslie Buell, John Bullock, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Bureau of Applied Economics, The Bureau of National Affairs, Harold B. Butler, John E. Burton, J.C. Byars, Herman B. Byer, and Reverend James A. Byrnes.
Correspondents include: [Cadle], Jessie L. Campbell, R. Granville Campbell, The Capital News Company,Sophia Carey, Harry J. Carman, J.D. Carneal and Sons Inc., Caroline County Library Committee, M.D. Carrel, Samuel McCrea Cavert, The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Mrs. Charlotte Chrestien, The Christian Science Publishing Society, Citizens' Council for Total Defense, Brice Claggett, V.M. Clapp, Clark, Dodge and Company, Brokers, Evans Clark, Victor S. Clark, W. A. Clark, Pauline Clarke, J. William Claudy, Thompson Clayton, Dr. Rudolph A. Clemen, Walt Clyde, The Clerk of the Stafford Court House, E.J. Coil, Kenneth Colegrove, George P. Comer, Department of Commerce, Commodity Research Bureau, Inc., Common Council for American Unity, Ellen Commons, Congressional Intelligence, Inc., Consolidated Vultee American Aircraft Corporation, Dr. P. S. Constantinople, W. Dewey Cooke, Edward L. Corbett, James Corbett, John M. Corbett, Council Against Intolerance in America, Council of Young Southerners, Frederick C. Croxton, Cosmos Club, Morgan Cunningham, and Curles Neck Dairy.
Correspondents include: Oscar H. Darter, Henry David, Elmer Davis, Shelby Cullom Davis, William H. Davis, Len De Caux, Kenneth de Courcy, De Jarnette State Sanatorium, Lud Denny, United States Department of Commerce, Marshall E. Dimock (U.S. DoJ), District Unemployment Compensation Board, Edward J. Donohue, Frank P. Douglass, Law Offices of Drain and Weaver, David Dubinsky, Allan Dunlap, Arthur Dunn, Robert W. Dunn, and C. A. Dykstra.
Correspondents include: Joseph B. Eastman, Economic Policy Committee, C. Vernon Eddy, J. A. Efpokito, Gerald Egan, Electric Home and Farm Authority, and Charles T. Estes.
Correspondents include: P. T. Fagan, Reverend Richard M. Fagley, Ruth Ansell Farley, The Farmers and Merchants State Bank, The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Federal Works Progress Administration for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, First Bancredit Corporation, First National Bank of Boston, The First National Bank of Keyser, Fjell Line of Great Lakes Transatlantic, Inc., Ralph Fleharty, R. D. Fleming, Courtney Fletcher, Duncan U. Fletcher, M. S. Flint, Frank H. Fljozdal, Fitzgerald Flourney, Hon. Edward J. Flynn, John T. Flynn, Foley, Food Research Institute of Stanford University, B.C. Forbes (Forbes Magazine), R. D. Forbes, Forbes and Myers, Foreign Policy Association, Clark Forman, Fortune, The Forum, Major B. Foster, Founders General Corporation, Mrs. M. N. Fox, Jerome Frank, Frank Brothers, Lafayette Franklin, Franklin Press, Franklin Simon Company, T. McCall Frazier, Free Lance-Star, W. R. Freeman, Paul Comly French, John P. Frey, Elisha M. Friedman, Ruth Friedson, and R. S. Fritter.
Correspondents include: Domenico Gagliardo, George B. Galloway, O. Max Gardner, Honorable Leslie C. Garnett, William Edward Garnett, Stanley Garrison, H. Dymoke Gasson, Paul W. Gates, Gayle Motor Company, Theodore Geiger, Phyliss Geisler, General Elevator Co., General Motors Corporation, Alfred Giardino, Clinton S. Golden, Clem Goodman, Henry J. Goodman & Co., C. O'Connor Goolrick, John T. Goolrick, Mary K. Gorman, Frank P. Graham, Sally Nelson Gravatt, Walter C. Graves Jr., H. A. Gray, Lanier Gray, H. B. Greybill, Myra Moore Griffith, J. Cleveland Grigsby, Sarah Groomes, Guthrie Lithograph Company, and Walter B. Guy.
Correspondents include: Ernst Haberstadt, Max Haleff, Ford P. Hall, Fred W. Hall, F. S. Hall, Edward W. Hamilton, H. E. Hamilton, Hampden-Sydney College, Hugh S. Hanna, Charles Hansel, William Hard, Harper and Brothers, Emma Harris, Owen Harris, Harvard College Library, Leon Henderson, S.J Henry, Warren F. Hickernell, R. G. Hilldrup, Otto Hillsman and Co., Mary W. Hillyer, S. H. Hines Company, David Hirsh and Son, H. C. Holdridge, Hoover War Library, Herbert Hoover, Harry L. Hopkins, Welly K. Hopkins, Dr. W. E. Hotchkiss, Curtis Hubbard, J.S. Hughes, W. A. Hull, and Thomas Lomax Hunter.
Correspondents include: Major William W. Inglis, Institute of American Meat Packers, Institute of World Economics, International Bank, International Statistical Bureau, Inc., Interstate Bankers Corporation, Investment Bankers Association of America, and Irving Trust Company.
Correspondents include: Gardner Jackson, Meyer Jacobstein, Jjell Lines, Thomas Jefferson (typescript copy of letter, June 11, 1807, concerning newspapers and histories), J. M. Johnson, Honorable Jessie Jones, Roberts W. Jones, N.Y. Journal of Commerce, and The Jury Commission.
Correspondents include: Evelyn Kane, Kappa Sigma House Association, Inc., Augustine B. Kelley, Leon H. Keyserling, Susan M. Kingsbury, Dr. George E. Kingsley, Richard Kirby, John H. Klingenfeld, and Oscar Koppel.
Correspondents include: LABOR, Ladies' Garment Workers Union, (William H. Lamar), Sophia J. Lammers, H. Lamson, Richard V. Lancaster, Thomas Larkin III, Joseph P. Lash, David Lasser, Howard Lee, Joseph N. Leinbach, Albert H. Levene, Robert E. Levine, Charles T. Libby, David E. Lilienthal, The Lincoln National Bank of Washington, Ernest K. Lindley, Geo. W. Linkins, Co., Irving Lipkowitz, Henry T. Lipman, Thomas E. Lodge, Stephen M. Loebl, Norman Lombard, W. C. Looker, Jr., Edward Lynch, and Barrow Lyons.
Topics include: American Legion Convention (1945); Committee for Industrial Organization Procedure and Policy (1935-1936); C.I.O. A.F.L. (1940); Congressman Martin and Mr. MacDougall (1939 March 3); Farmington Conference- War Time Organization Planned by the Administration (1939); Fixation of Coal Prices, Memos Relative to (1939); Fortune Magazine's Conferences or Round Tables (1939); Income Tax Returns of Lewis, J. L. (1940-1941); The Inner Circle (1942 Feb 11); Inter-American Bank (1940); Lindberg on "Preparedness" (1940); Missouri Pacific Bonds (1941-1942); National Defense to Post-War Planning (1942-1945); Oil and Gas on a Basis of Equality with Coal (1939); A Plan for Economic Democracy - Article written by Major Holdridge (1939); A Plan for Solving the Economic Crisis by Dr. R.H. Von Liedtke (1937-1941); "Prohibiting" Strikes for the Emergency Period (1940); James L. Simpson "Plan for Maintenance of Economic Balance and Security" (1940); The Townsend Plan and Mr. Ivan Towanski (1942); Union Shop and Mr. Leland Olds (1941 November 14); United Mine Workers Suggested Program (1934-1935); War Against Unemployment and Poverty (1940 January 10); Threatened Competition of Natural Gas with Coal (1944 December 5); and Big Inch Pipe Lines and the Rural Electrification Administration (1946 January 14).
Correspondents include: Bishop Francis J. McConnell, William MacDonald, Ernst D. MacDougall, Donald MacMillan, W. C. MacQuown, R. A. Magowan, Edward C. Maguire, Elizabeth M. Maher, Mason Manghum, Maxwell J. Mangold, Bank of the Manhattan Company, Basil Manly, L. C. Marshall, Thomas O. Marvin, Maryland and District of Columbia Industrial Union Council, Maryland Title and Investment Company, Lucy Randolph Mason, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, The Bank of Mathews, Inc., Honorable Maury Maverick, Herbert Mazo, Charles McCarthy, Summerfield A. McCarteney, Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Wm. P. McGinn, Edw. F. McGrady, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company-Inc., Ernest D. McIver, Dr. Archibald McLeish, Thomas P. McTigue, Honorable James M. Mead, Richard R. Mead, Royal D. Mead, D. J. Meserole, Eugene Meyer, Jr., Francis Pickens Miller, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ward B. Miller, H. A. Millis, The Milwaukee Journal, Mine Official's Union of America, John J. Minor, George Minnigerode, William Mitch, Wesley C. Mitchell, R. C. L. Moncure, Jr., Monroe and Berry, C. D. Montague, Jean Montgomery, Monthly Labor Review, Robert Morey, Charles S. Morgan, H. W. Morgan, Marie Morris, J. H. Muirhead, Honorable Karl E. Mundt, and Gorham Munson.
Correspondents include: William R. Nagel, Leonard Nairn, Dr. Philip Curtin Nash, Nash Floor Service, A. Nash Tailoring Company, Natalie, Inc., The Nation, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Association of Manufacturers, National Association of Retired Federal Employees, The National Bank, National Bank of Orange, National Bank of the Republic, National Bank of Washington, National Bituminous Coal Commission, National Broadcasting Company, Inc., National Bureau of Economic Research, National Catholic Welfare Conference, National Child Labor Committee, National Citizen's Council For Defense, The National City Bank of New York, National Cold Steam Company, National Consumers' League, National Council for Prevention of War, National Defense Mediation Board, National Electric Light Association, The National Encyclopedia, National Labor Relations Board, National Lawyers Guild, National Life Insurance Company, National Planning Association, National Resources Planning Board, National Policy Committee, National Press Club, National Recovery Administration, National Resources Board, National Sharecroppers Week, National Window and Office Cleaning Company, National Women's Trade Union League of America, Nation's Business, Nation's Commerce, J. S. Naylor, Donald Nelson, New America, The New Republic, Newsweek, W. S. Newton, The New York Times, George W. Norris, Cecil C. North, The Northern Neck Mutual Fire Association of Virginia, Claudian B. Northrop, and Harold Bernard November.
Correspondents include: Charlton Ogburn, William F. Ogburn, J. G. Ohsol, Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Organization Committee of Social Union, Inc., Mary O'Shaughnessy, William Owen, and John W. Owens.
Correspondents include: Pabst Post-War Employment Awards, A. H. Packard, C. C. Packard, Florence E. Parker, The Parker Corporation, Julius H. Parmelee, Col. Samuel Pascoe, Leo Pavolsky, M. W. Paxton, Jr., Walter Phipes, George Curtis Peck, Ferdinand Pecora, William R. Pendergast, Willis Pepoon, Fred W. Perkins, Thomas W. Perry, Charles E. Persons, Samuel B. Pettengill, Julius I. Peyser, L. W. H. Peyton, David A. Pine, David W. Pipes Jr., Fort Pipes, W. G. Pitero, P.M., Justine Wise Polier, Shad Polier, Wm. T. Powers, Richard T. Pratt, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Evelyn Preston, Harry B. Price, James H. Price, Provisional Committee Toward A Democratic Peace, and Public Affairs Committee.
Correspondents include: Railway Age, Ransdell Inc., Mervyn Rathborne, Stephen Rauschenbush, Carl Raushenbush, The Readers Club, Philip M. Riefkin, Charles S. Robb, James Robb, Newell W. Roberts, D. B. Robertson, Mr. Robey, John M. Robinson, Leland Rex Robinson, Josephine Roche, Rockbridge National Bank, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Harry L. Rogers, Paul V. Rogers, William N. Rogers, Henry Romeike, Incorporated, Samuel Romer, Walter A. Romer, Leon H. Rouse (with William Green), Rouss Library, Frances Rowe, and Harold J. Ruttenberg.
The original letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt to W. Jett Lauck were transferred to the UVA Special Collections Franklin D. Roosevelt papers, on February 6, 2005.
Correspondents include: Russell Sage, Lewis D. Sampson, Samuel L. Samuel, Dr. David J. Saposs, Saturday Evening Post, Marshall Schaffer, D. M. Schnapper, L. B. Schnapper, Joseph Schneider, G. Luther Schnur, James T. Shotwell, H. L. Schuh, Montgomery Schuyler, Louis J. Schwab, Henry Herman Schwartz, Ray Scott, Charles Scribner's Sons, Seaboard Air Line Railway Company, Joel Seidman, Shaw-Walker, Chester Shepard, Chester Sheppard, R. T. Shields, Silcox Memorial Fund, Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, Sidney Simon, Richard C. Simonson, John F. Sinclair, Anthony Wayne Smith, C. Archer Smith, Edwin S. Smith, Nelson Lee Smith, S. Granville Smith, Vernon D. Smith, Bernard A. Smyth, H. M. Snead, Jr., Social Union, Inc., The Society for the Advancement of Management, Inc., John E. W. Sohl, L. W. Sorrell, Southern Conference for Human Welfare, Southern Maryland Trust Company, Mr. Sovey, Alexander Spencer, Sphere, R. B. Spindle, George L. Sprague, Saint Albans, Margaret S. Stables, William H. Stafford, Stafford County, Standard Oil Company, Stanford University Library, Louis Stark, State Loan Company, State Teachers College, Henry M. Stephenson, STEEL, Steel Workers Organizing Committee, A. A. Steele, Jean Stephenson, Jos. G. Stephenson, Boris Stern, Harold Stern, E. R. Stettinius, W. M. Steuart, Harry H. Stockfeld, W. L. Stoddard, Benjamin Stolberg, Irving Stone, N. L. Stone, William T. Stone, Chas. G. Stott and Co., Inc., Paul A. Strachan, David Strain, Ralph Strathmore, Nathan Straus, John Studebaker, Ralph G. Sucher, Arthur E. Suffern, Superintendent of Documents (Government Printing Office), Elmer Swack, Paul E. Switzer, Alois P. Swoboda, and Mr. Sydenstricker.
The original letters from Upton Sinclair to W. Jett Lauck were transferred to the UVA Special Collections Upton Sinclair papers on February 6, 2005.
Correspondents include: Ivan Tarnowsky, Tax Policy League, Ordway Tead, Tennessee Valley Authority (Representative Noble J. Gregory), Percy Tetlow, Dorothy Thompson, TIME MAGAZINE, Daniel J. Tobin, John H. Tolan, The Travelers Insurance Company, Beverly Tucker, Henry Saint George Tucker, Earl R. Turner, and The Twentieth Century Fund.
The original letters from William H. Taft to W. Jett Lauck were transferred to the UVA Special Collections William H. Taft papers on February 6, 2005.
Correspondents include: Alfred P. Wagner, Gordon Wagner, Robert F. Wagner, Thomas C. G. Wagner, J. Forest Walker, Allan E. Walker and Company, George A. Wallace, J. Raymond Walsh, August G. Walters, James N. Walton, James P. Warburg, Dr. Harry E. Ward, R. D. Ward, Ward and Paul, Caroline F. Ware, A.L. Warthen, Charles Washington, Washington and Lee University, "Washington Post," James R. Wason, Elton Watkins, Ralph J. Watkins, Claude S. Watts, Marie Watts, Charles F. Weaver, H. B. Wells, (George) P. West, A. O. Wharton, Ross Wheat, Burton K. Wheeler, William M. Wherry, Hugh A. White, Ralph J. White, W. A. White, T. Y. Wickham, Dorothy G. Wiehl, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Allan H. Willett, Williams Company, Willis and Willis, Corwin Willson, J. Alfred Wilner, Elsie Cobb Wilson, D. O. Wilson, H. Hazen Wilson, Nelson Wilson, The H. W. Wilson Company, John G. Winant, J. Wise, James Waterman Wise, S. S. Wise, William P. Witherow, J. S. Withrow, Nathan Witt, Laurence C. Witten, Benedict Wolf, World Fellowship, Inc., World Study Tours, and Thomas H. Wright.
Scope note for correspondence files. There has been no attempt to make an exhaustive list of the correspondents in each folder. Most letters were routine correspondence from people seeking information about the group; copies of their publications, speeches, and other educational materials; questions about membership in the group from interested individuals; requests for individuals to become sponsors, members or leaders in the group; leaders of other like-minded organizations; union leadership (often about the lack of funds available to support the American Association for Economic Freedom); or people wanting information about pertinent upcoming legislative bills. Attention on the lists of correspondence is focused particularly on political and public figures, editors, and the legislative and social issues of the day.
These include: American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born; American Council on Public Affairs; Atlantic Charter League; J.M. Artman, editor of "The American Citizen"; Representative Thomas R. Amlie; Thurman Arnold, Department of Justice (concerning Frank B. Kellogg statement about the anti-trust Sherman Act); and John B. Abel.
Correspondents include: Alfred L. Bernheim, The Labor Bureau; A.A. Berle banking proposal; Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, Social Justice Commission; Kent Baker, editor of "Sphere" with article sent to him by Lauck, "Industrial Reconstruction" attached; David Burdett (conventional economics versus social economics); and G.P. Bronisch, Loyal Americans of German Descent
Correspondents and topics include: Lauck memorandum to Charles H. Chase, (in light of the prospect of a lengthy war and its impact on social and economic reform) informing him of his decision to drastically reduce expenditures by having only one employee to maintain the office (1942); "Strife and the Worker" proofs by John F. Cronin; Helen A. Cole, "The Liberal Worker"; W.S. Clement and his "The Ben Franklin Plan"; Ben V. Cohen, National Power Policy Committee; and the Council for Social Action, Ferry L. Platt, Jr. concerning farm issues.
Correspondents and topics include: Dr. Paul H. Douglas, University of Chicago; Hardy C. Dillard, Institute of Public Affairs, including a letter from John L. Newcomb; Frederic A. Delano, Chairman National Resources Advisory Committee; and a letter to John Dewey.
Correspondents and topics include: Arthur Eggleston, San Francisco Chronicle; Peter Edson, NEA Service; A.E. Edwards concerning the Wagner Labor Relations Act; J.G. Frain; and Charles Flato.
Correspondents and topics include: Alfred C. Gaunt, including "Smaller Business Lifts Its Eyes"; Toshi Go, Foreign Affairs Association of Japan; and A.E. Grassby, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Correspondents and topics include: Hubert Herring; Sidney Hillman; Fred S. Hall concerning the Industrial Expansion Act (multiple letters); B.W. Huebsch, The Viking Press, and his concern over the pamphlet "A New Social Order"; S.L. Hoover and his question about the Keller Bill and the Association; John Edgar Hoover; and F.J. Hall, editor of "The United States News" about numbers of unemployed and other issues (multiple letters).
Correspondents and topics include: Meyer Jacobstein about the Reconstruction Act; and Paul Kellogg.
Correspondence includes: letters to Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.; League for Abundance: League for Industrial Democracy; Harold Loeb; and Dr. Jack Levin.
Correspondents and topics include: secretary of Attorney General Frank Murphy; Darwin J. Meserole, National Unemployment League; Francis P. Miller; Emily Fogg Mead; Homer L. Mead; Lewis E. Meyers; Judge Julian W. Mack; Bishop Francis J. McConnell; George F. Milton, editor "The Chattanooga News"; Senator James M. Mead; and letter to Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress.
Correspondents and topics include: Bishop Francis J. McConnell; James W. Miller; Vito Marcantonio; Otto Mayer; Robert E. Mathews concerning the "sit down strike" by investment bankers and industrialists in May 1940; and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., letter to.
Correspondence includes: "The New Republic"; Douglas Newman, Secretary of the Barradas League; Dr. C.A. Norman; memorandum concerning Senator Norris' presidential qualifications; and Representative Mary T. Norton.
Correspondents and topics include: William Owen; Ernest Minor Patterson; Representative Claude Pepper; Justice Justine Wise Polier; and Jacob S. Potofsky.
Correspondents and topics include: Judge Samuel I. Rosenman; Representative Robert L. Ramsay; Right Reverend Msgr. John A. Ryan.
Correspondents and topics include: John Saxton; Guy Emery Shipler; Edwin S. Smith; William Simkin; B.M. Schnapper concerning the history of the Wagner Act; Ray Scott concerning the "Fundamental Significance of our Present Day Labor Movement"; and Porter Sargent.
Correspondents and topics include: Ordway Tead, Harper and Brothers; and Dr. Robert H. Tucker.
Correspondents and topics include: an appreciation of Frank P. Walsh upon his death on May 2, 1939; Matthew Woll, American Federation of Labor; Thomas H. Wright, New America; Harry F. Ward; and Nathan Witt; and N.A. Zonorich.
Includes leases, workman's compensation insurance, correspondence, and unemployment compensation.
These include: "Policies and Objectives of the American Association of Economic Freedom," "Shrinkages and Hoardings of Purchasing Power Accentuate Current Business Recession," "Hoardings-Taxes Proposed to Stimulate Flow of Credit and Goods and Revival of Business," "Approaches Toward a Concerted Program of Fundamental Economic Reconstruction in the United States," various drafts of suggestions for the programs, principles and objectives of the organization, "Sugar Control," "American Labor's Broadcast to Great Britain," "American Economic Situation of 1937-1938," "Unemployment Insurance," "Industrial Espionage," "Bank-Holding Companies," several on social service foundations, "Economic Freedom in America," "Industrial Reconstruction Act of 1939" press release draft, "Capitalism in Crisis," "Prospective Labor Surpluses," "Increased Man Hour Productivity and Technological Unemployment," monopoly, and "Petroleum Quota Controls."
These include: participation in management, monopoly, the "Industrial Reconstruction Act of 1939," "Leaders on the No. 1 Problem," "Federal Administrative Court Bill," "Occupational Groupings," "National Labor Relations Act and Board," "Full Employment Bill," "Senator Claude Pepper," "Senator Lewis B. Schellenbach," and starting a American Association of Economic Freedom Bulletin."
These include: "Threatened Crucial Developments," "Anti-democratic philosophies," "Churchill's anticipations, 1932-1939," "Mussolini," "Hitlerism and Nazism," "Profits of Leading Corporations, 1936-1939," notes on People's Lobby Conference, and Ickes [speech] on business sabotage of defense.
These titles include: "Can Unemployment be Ended?"; "Challenge to American Democracy"; "Civil Liberties and the National Labor Relations Board"; "Cure by Shock," "Democracy and Economic Planning"; "Economic Reconstruction"; "Fundamental Significance of Our Present Day Labor Movement"; "Next Step in Democratization"; "A New Magna Carta" "A New Social Order"; "Preparedness for Peace," "Problems of the National Labor Relations Board."
The "Post-War Reconstruction Bill" is foldered separately.
Included are: "Thirty Million Jobs" by Arthur Dunn; Roundtable: "Labor's role in Post-War Reconstruction"; "Freedom from Want" by Mr. Walton; "Nineteenth Century Prophecy of Order" by Harry Frease; "The Moral Issue" by Lowell Mellett; "A Banking System for Capital and Capital Credit" by A.A. Berle, Jr.; "Suggested Housing Program for National Defense Purposes" by the Congress of Industrial Organizations; and "A Primer of Current Economics" [1933].
Included are: Fight for Freedom, Friends of Democracy, and the Gillette Resolution.
These include memoranda, news clippings, an article by George B. Galloway on "The Imperative of Planning," replies, and a speech by W. Jett Lauck.
Includes separate folders on news clippings, some containing criticisms and investigations; problems of the board; and the testimony of John L. Lewis.
Clippings include Wendell Willkie, democracy versus absolutism, banker opinion, national debt, U.S. Attorney General, pump priming the economy, monopolies, religion and democracy, communism, and capitalism and democracy.
Included are: Peace Conditions; People's Congress for Democracy and Peace; Plenty for All League; People's Lobby; Pressure Groups, Attitudes of; Pension Plan – "Uncle Fred's Automatic Pension Plan"; Progressives, Conference of; Social Union; Tax-Exempt Bonds; Women in Trade Unions; and Young Democrats.
"The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. Created in 1935 by John L. Lewis, who was a part of the United Mine Workers (UMW), it was originally called the Committee for Industrial Organization but changed its name in 1938 when it broke away from the American Federation of Labor.[1] It also changed names because it was not successful with organizing unskilled workers with the AFL.[2]
The CIO supported Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal Coalition, and was open to African Americans. Both the CIO and its rival the AFL grew rapidly during the Great Depression. The rivalry for dominance was bitter and sometimes violent. The CIO (Congress for Industrial Organization) was founded on November 9, 1935, by eight international unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
In its statement of purpose, the CIO said it had formed to encourage the AFL to organize workers in mass production industries along industrial union lines. The CIO failed to change AFL policy from within. On September 10, 1936, the AFL suspended all 10 CIO unions (two more had joined in the previous year). In 1938, these unions formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations as a rival labor federation. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 required union leaders to swear that they were not Communists. Many CIO leaders refused to obey that requirement, later found unconstitutional. In 1955, the CIO rejoined the AFL, forming the new entity known as the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)." This summary was taken directly from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Industrial_Organizations
Topics include: Conferences; Corporation Notes and Memoranda; Kennedy Statement on General Motors Inquiry; Production Costs by T.C. Gordon Wagner; Ratio of Pay Rolls to Returns to Stockholder;Salaries of Officials; and Annual Reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission, 1935 and 1937.
Subjects include: Agreements; Decisions; the Willard E.Hotchkiss Decision in Tar Barrel Case; Negotiations for New Agreements; News clippings; Publications; Report of Homer Martin to the International Executive Board; and a Statement Submitted to Roosevelt by Union Representation.
According to Wikipedia, "The Commission on Industrial Relations (also known as the Walsh Commission) was a commission created by the U.S. Congress on August 23, 1912 to scrutinize US labor law. The commission studied work conditions throughout the industrial United States between 1913 and 1915. The Chairman was Frank P. Walsh, a labor lawyer and activist from Kansas City, Missouri.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Industrial_Relations
These include: "Foreign Competition After the War," "The Artificial Dye Industry in the War," and "Business and the War."
Includes: "Secretary Kennedy Gives Union Views on How Hard-Coal Freight Rates Affect Miner" (December 15, 1933); "The N.R.A. and Collective Bargaining" Catholic Welfare Council (September 17, 1934); address before the National Conference on Economic Security (November 14, 1934); and "Organized Labor and the N.R.A." Catholic Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (November 27, 1934).
Includes: Statement concerning the Wagner-Lewis Economic Security Bill before the Senate Committee on Finance (February 21, 1935); Commencement Address (June 3, 1935); "Education and the Parochial School System" (August 19, 1935); "The Trade Union and Recovery" (Labor Day, 1935); and "Unemployment Insurance, Old Age Pensions, and Housing Legislation" at the White House Conference on Economic Security (December 30, 1935).
Includes: Labor Day address (September 1937); article "The United Mine Workers of America" for the "American Encyclopedia" (December 2, 1938); address to the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission on the Competition of Natural Gas (April 1940); and a request for Lauck to send his analysis and recommendations concerning a letter from A.J. Altmeyer, Chairman of the Social Security Board, and two other enclosures pertaining to the Associated Gas and Electric Company, New York City (1942 March 27 and 1943 January 23).
Includes: a radio speech supporting Hoover in the election (1928); and a statement at the Hearing on a Code for the Bituminous Coal Mining Industry before the National Recovery Administration (1933 August 10).
Includes: "Labor and the National Recovery Administration" at the Meeting of the American Academy of Political Science, Philadelphia (1934 January 6); "Labor's Part in Industrial Recovery" at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club luncheon (1934 October 4); Speech for the International Labor Conference, not delivered (1934 October); and a radio address "The Employee in the Changing World" under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Council (1934 December 7).
Includes: Statement by Lewis before National Recovery Administration Hearings on Employment Provisions of Codes of Fair Competition (1935 January 30); "The American Federation of Labor and the National Recovery Administration" prepared for the "Annals," Philadelphia but never delivered (1935 March 11-12); The United Mine Workers of America and the National Recovery Act" Madison Square Gardens (1935 March-May 23); and Statement of Approval for the Wagner Housing Bill in the "United Mine Workers Journal" (1935 June 1).
Includes: "The Case for Industrial Unionism" (November 12, 1935); radio address "The Future of Organized Labor" (November 28, 1935); and article for "Liberty Magazine" on industrial unionism (1935 December 20).
Includes: a speech on Industrial Unionism before the Cleveland Auto Council (January 19, 1936); "The Teacher and His Relation to Labor" for the American Federation of Teachers Convention (June 19, 1936); a radio address "Industrial Democracy in Steel" (July 6, 1936); and an article "Through Organization Industrial Democracy Dawns for Sleeping Car Porters" celebrating the eleventh anniversary of the organization (July 15, 1936).
Includes: a political campaign statement about [Alf M.] Landon (August 1, [1936]); the draft of a Radio Address on Steel Organization (August 11, 1936); article "Labor Looks at Education" (August 17, 1936) appearing in the October 36 issue of "The Teacher"; article "Towards Industrial Democracy" (August 24, 1936) in appearing in the October 1936 issue of "Current History"; and two speeches supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt for President (August 18 and September 19, 1936).
Includes: radio address "Labor and the Future" (September 3, 1936); "Horizontal Versus Vertical Unionism" in "Wharton School Magazine," University of Pennsylvania (September 8, 1936); an article for the "The National Young Democrat" on the Social Security Act (September 1936); and a radio address "Roosevelt and the Future" (October 18, 1936).
Includes: article "The Next Four Years" for the "The Nation" (November 4, 1936); an article "Committee for Industrial Organization and Economic Recovery" for the "Business Review of New York University"(November 17, 1936); "the Future of American Labor" in "The American Spectator" (November 19, 1936); articles on "The Next Four Years in Labor" in "The New Republic" (November 25 and December 9, 1936); "The Future of Wages" for the "Cleveland News" Symposium (December 7, 1936); "Organized Labor and the Student Union" (December 23, 1936); "The Need of the Hour for American Labor" for the "Progressive Salesman Magazine" (December 24, 1936); radio address "Adapting Union Methods to Current Changes- Industrial Unionism" (December 31, 1936); and an unpublished article written for "Redbook" (1936).
Includes: "The Meaning of Industrial Unionism" for the "Christian Front" (January 13, 1937); "The Struggle for Industrial Democracy" for "Common Sense" (March 1937); an address delivered at an Anti-Nazi Mass Meeting in Madison Square Gardens (March 15, 1937); article "The Origin and Objectives of the C.I.O." for the "San Francisco Chronicle" (May 11, 1937); and a radio address "Labor and Supreme Court" (May 14, 1937).
Includes: "Technology and Labor" in "Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineering News" (September 3, 1937); Labor Day address "Labor and the Nation" (September 3, 1937); "Progress of Committee for Industrial Organization" in the "Wharton Review" (October 21, 1937); "Effect of Moderate and Gradual Wage Increases on Prices and Living Costs" in "The Annalist" (November 12, 1937) a reply to an article by A.T. Shurick on July 30, 1937; and the [Steel Workers Organizing Committee] address "The Deplorable and Indefensible Attitude of Big Business (December 13, 1937).
Includes: Address for British Broadcasting Corporation "Struggle of Labor in America" (March 15, 1938); "Labor and the Law" (April 14, 1938); "Organized Labor and the Future of Democracy" published in the "St. Louis Post Dispatch" (December 11, 1938).
Includes: Statement for Survey Associates (January 3, 1939); and "Labor Looks South" in "Virginia Quarterly Review" (Autumn 1939).
Includes: article on "What Does Labor Want?" (February 29, 1940); "The Heritage of American Youth" (March 1940); "Obligations of American Citizenship" (April 3, 1940); "Foreword" to Mr. Thomas' Testimony before the Temporary National Economic Committee (May 23, 1940); and a Labor Day Speech (August 29, 1940).
Includes: Extension of Library Service to Union for City and State Employees (May 28, 1941); Statement to be issued by Lewis on the Decision of the National Mediation Board on Union Shops (November 13, 1941); and "The New Solid South" (December 17, 1941).
Includes: Testimony of Mr. Steinbugler (March 2, 1935); the "Most Impressive Point Developed by the Hearings" (March 2, 1935); untitled Memorandum (July 30, 1936); "Report on the Progress of the Hearing on the Coordination of Minimum Prices before the Bituminous Coal Division (September 16, 1939); "Proposed Labor Policy for the War Period," various memoranda (September 11-November 13, 1939); an analysis of Professor Green's Proposal about pricing and distributing manufactured products (June 3, 1940); and Notes on the Last Ten Years (January-May, 1940).
Includes: Reply to A.T. Shurick suggestions on taxing (November 29, 1940); Response to the foreword of Walt Clyde's book on "Owner Capitalism" (December 4, 1940); suggestions about the National Economic Conference (December 12, 1940); Response to W.C. Graves, Jr. (December 23, 1940); Letter about the Raw Materials National Council (December 27, 1940); Memorandum on Fred G. Clark and the American Economic Foundation (February 20, 1941); H.S. Avery to Edward O'Neal and John L.Lewis on agriculture and farm prices (September 8, 1941); Conrad K. Grieb on need for social reconstruction (October 23, 1941); Letters from Alexander Spencer (October 30 and November 26, 1941); and a manuscript of Albert H. Levene (November 30, 1941).
Includes: Memorandum about Post War Depression (January 7, 1942); a response to S. Ferguson, President of the Hartford Electric Light Company about his proposals about deferred wages (January 13, 1942); W.A Hutton, M.D. letter on post-war finances (January 14, 1942); Thomas Kennedy request for a study on the Cost of Living (January 16, 1942); Request for a response to the document by L.C. Christian on "How Must We Finance the War?" (February 3, 1942); a request for a response to a treatise on our financial system by August Walters (February 5-March 18, 1942); additional R.L. Greene communications (February 12,1942); and H.W. Bailey on labor self-determination (March 9, 1942).
Includes: Digest of the Salient Points of a Report on "Manpower Policy and Labor Relations in the British Coal Industry" (January 5, 1943); a Leo Chabert document on financing the war (April 4, 1943); and memoranda about an executive conference of the Natural Resources Board at Farmington Country Club, Charlottesville, Virginia, previously held around 1939.
Subjects include the National Recovery Administration, "Amalgamation of the Two Enginemen's Brotherhoods," "Russian Recognition and the New Deal," "Future Policies of the National Recovery Administration," Six-Hour Day of the Railroads, "Two Men on the Head End of all Railroad Trains," and Housing.
Subjects include "Benefits of Trade Unionism," "Forbes" article, "Limit on Weekly Work Hours," a letter to Professor Gordon, and "Labor Movement and the Future of America"
Subjects include planks for the Republican Platform, Anti-Strike Legislation, a Rejoinder to the Remarks of Fred Gurley, and "Recommendations to the Board of Investigation and Research"
A checklist of article titles can be found in the first folder. Titles in the order of the list include: "Economics and Christianity"; "The Mysterious Soul of the Steel Corporation"; "The Anthracite Operators Should Concede the Check-off" July 13, 1923; "Industrial Principles and Not Machinery Are Important"; "The So-Called Check-off and Its Significance"; "The Report of the Coal Commission on the Anthracite Industry"; "The Purchasing Power of Wheat and Cotton"; "Private Cars and the Coal Problem"; "Mr. McAdoo's Political Availability"; and "No More Pre-war Standards of Wages and Working Conditions."
Next ten article titles include: "The Radical - His Significance at Present"; "The Soft Coal Problem Again to the Front"; "Labor Banks and Their Ultimate Significance"; "Political Democracy Must be Supplemented by Industrial Democracy"; "Oil and the Southern Pacific"; "The Purchasing Power of the Farmer's Dollar"; "The Truth is Never Unpardonable"; "Private Cars and the Coal Problem"; "The Unique Financial Position of the Pullman Company"; and "Another Manifestation of the Soul of the Steel Corporation."
The next ten article titles include: "Sugar and the Flexible Tariff Provision"; "Conflict or Arbitration"; "The Threatened Boomerang"; "Cooperation for Mutual Benefit or Profit?"; "Secret Police or Conviction for Crime"; "Chairman Butler Emits and Omits"; National Cooperative Grain Marketing Realized"; "The Anthracite Operators Should Concede the Check-off" (possible duplicate); "Regulation of the Anthracite Monopoly" September 1 , 1923; "Why Not Action on Anthracite?" September 11, 1923; and "Can a Living Wage Be Paid to Unskilled Labor?" October 30, 1923.
The next ten article titles include: "The Failure of Industrial Arbitration" October 30, 1923; "Significant Labor Developments During the Coming Year" October 30, 1923; "A Dramatic Migration" concerning African Americans, October 30, 1923; "Unprotected Pullman Passengers" October 30, 1923; "The New Immigration and Its Significance" November 2, 1923; "The Probability of Railroad Legislation" February 7, 1924; "The Industrial Magna Carta" February 23, 1924; "Land Grants to Western Railroads" February 23, 1924; "Increased Efficiency of Labor" February 23, 1924; and "Real Industrial Statemanship February 25, 1924."
The next ten article titles include: "Some Other Matters of Record" June 2, 1924; "The Verdict from Kansas" August 7, 1924; "A Real Test for the Tariff Commission" August 14, 1924; "A Billion and a Half Railroad Merger" August 16, 1924; "Common Sense" August 19, 1924; "President Gompers and a Labor Party" August 19, 1924; "A Significant Precedent in Financing Farmers Cooperative Enterprises"; "Back to the Declaration of Independence" August 21, 1924; "A Costly Labor Policy" August 23, 1924; and "Brass Tacks, The Red Flag, and the Constitution" August 23, 1924.
The final group of articles include: "Industrial Democracy - Our Greatest Problem" August 27, 1924; "The Passing of the Money Gods"; "The Conference Board Reports on Taxation in Wisconsin"; "The Railroad Labor Board"; "The Farmer and the Tariff"; "Visible and Invisible Tax Burdens"; "The Most Helpful Farm Movement"; "Radicals and God's Fools"; "Militant Friends Needed"; "The Unconscious Cruelty of Success" October 24, 1924; and "Another Orgy of Railroad Finance."
While some chapters have no individual date, they likely all come from drafts in 1931 or 1932. It is unclear which version belongs to each draft, and equally unclear which versions the explanatory note references. Chapter VII is largely missing. The name of the book may have eventually changed to "The Need for a Unified Banking System."
W. Jett Lauck was chairman of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Commission, responsible for investigating the state of the anthracite industry and the coal bootlegging situation in Pennsylvania, as well as recommending action.
The United States Anthracite Coal Commission is a different and separate entity than the Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Commission over which Lauck presided (see also, "United Mine Workers of America before the U.S. Anthracite Coal Commission").
For reference, the Ad Interim Report was a report made halfway through the Commission's studies; the Final Report was the last official report of the Commission and contains recommendations; the Complete Report was a compendium of all of the Commission's work and reports (over 500 pages).
Reports include "Anthracite Lands and Deposits," "Anthracite Royalties," and "Control of the Anthracite Industry."
Reports include "Financial Operations of Anthracite Companies" and "Monopolistic Nature of the Anthracite Industry."
These include "Award of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission: Subsequent Agreements, and Resolutions of Board of Conciliation" (July 1, 1936); "A Labor Case With Merit: Editorial Comment on the Case of the Anthracite Mine Workers" (1920); and "Labor Information Bulletin," U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (February 1937).
Proposed Bills include the Anthracite Coal Industry Act; the Anthracite Public Authority Bill; the Cooperative Marketing Bill; the Pennsylvania Anthracite Commission; and Suggestions and Opinions.
Files included under Rates contain, the 1933 Freight Rate Case Excerpts and Statistics; Charts and Tables; General Information (see also Anthracite Institute Statistical Data, Maps, and Drawings, Anthracite Producers Statistical Data, Maps, and Drawings); the Interstate Commerce Commission Data; "Intrastate Rates on Anthracite in Pennsylvania"; and Rate Fixation in 1915.
Reports include: "Combination in the Anthracite Industry," "Comparison of Earnings and Wage Rates in the Anthracite and Bituminous Mines of Pennsylvania," "Exhibits of the Anthracite Operators in Reply to Exhibits Presented by the Anthracite Mine Workers," "Irregularity of Employment in the Anthracite Industry," "Occupation Hazard of Anthracite Miners," "Profits of Anthracite Operators," and "The Relationship Between Rates of Pay and Earnings and the Cost of Living in the Anthracite Industry of Pennsylvania."
Reports include: "Reply of the Anthracite Operators to the Demands of the Anthracite Mine Workers," "The Sanction for a Living Wage: A Compilation of Data From Official and Authoritative Sources," "Summary, Analysis, and Statement," "The Trade Union as the Basis for Collective Bargaining: A Compilation of Sanctions and Experiences," "Trade Unions," and "Wholesale and Retail Prices of Anthracite Coal 1913-1920."
The Wage Reduction Case was brought by William S. Carter, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, originally against the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Atlantic Railway Company, before the United States Railroad Labor Board, but it eventually became a much larger case involving other Brotherhoods and Unions concerning railroad workers and wages.
These exhibits include "Changes in Cost of Living in the United States, 1913-1922," "A Just and Reasonable Wage," and "Monthly Earnings of Sectionmen."
The volume includes exhibits on "Harmful Effects of Low Wages Upon Health and Morals," "The So-called Law of Supply and Demand," "The Just and Reasonable Wage," "Changes in the Cost of Living in the United States, 1913-1922," "Probable Course of Prices," "Comparison of Prices and Living Costs," "Monthly Earnings of Section Men," and "Monthly Earnings of Section Men – Basic Tables."
Includes the following files: Briefs; Construction and Repair of Railroad Equipment; Correspondence on Leasing Out Repair Roads; Minutes of the Philadelphia Hearing; Petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission; Press - Clippings concerning Outside Repair; Press Release Originals; General Electric and Westinghouse; Labor Costs; Louisville to Nashville Railroad; and Miscellaneous.
W. Jett Lauck has also referred to this case as "the Shopman's Case" or the "B.M. Jewell Case." Jewell was the President of the Railway Employees division of the American Federation of Labor.
Note that all exhibits were presented before the United States Railroad Labor Board.
Exhibit 11a includes the section "Financial Mismanagement of the LeHigh Valley Railroad Company" and Exhibit 12 includes the "Summary."
Exhibit tTitles include: "Occupation Hazard of Railway Shopmen"; "Punitive Overtime"; "Industrial Relation on Railroads prior to 1917"; "Standardization"; "The Recognition of Human Standards in Industry"; "The Unity of the American Railway Systems"; "Human Standards and Railroad Policy"; "Seniority Rules of the National Agreements"; "The Sanction of the Eight Hour Day"; "The Work of the Railway Carmen," and "The Development of Collective Bargaining on a National Basis."
Timothy Shea was the Acting President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen between 1919-1922 .
These include: "Pending Railway Legislation"; "The Present Railroad Labor Problem"; "The Future Policy as to the Railroads"; "Compulsory Arbitration"; "Labor Adjustment Boards of the Railroad Administration"; "The Reasonableness of the Requests of Locomotive Firemen"; "Time and One-Half For Overtime"; and "Compulsory Arbitration."
The Six Hour Day Case was also referred to as the 30 Hour Week in the press and in supporting materials. The work was undertaken by Lauck for David B. Robertson, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.
The Sleeping Car Conductors Case files consist of several successive cases arranged in this finding aid roughly in the chronological order in which they occurred.
Exhibits include "An Adequate Basic Wage," "Earnings of Sleeping Car Conductors compared with Changes in the Cost of Living," "Various Factors Indicating Rising Standards of Living in the United States Since 1914," "Compensation of Sleeping Car Conductors compared with other Expenses and Revenue of the Pullman Company," and "General Trend of Wages, 1913-1918, as Compared with Earnings of Sleeping Car Conductors."
Exhibits include "Increased Productive Efficiency of Sleeping Car Conductors and Financial Administration of the Pullman Company," "Increased Labor Productivity," and "Standards of Wage Determination."
This case was brought by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen demanding that a fireman (helper) be employed on all types of power used in railroad service for safety, including diesel and streamline trains.
This file includes information and statistics on Besler Steam Power Trains; the Comparative Costs of Operation; Locomotives in Service; Diesels in Switching Service; Earnings Per Hour; Freight Cars; and General Statistics.
The Railway Wage Reduction Case of 1938 was presented before the Emergency Board by W. Jett Lauck on behalf of the Railway Labor Executives' Association.
These charts include: "Anthracite Combination," "The Seven Departments of the Anthracite Industry," "Interlocking Directorates Showing Working Control of Anthracite Operating Companies," and "Profits of Anthracite Combination."
Charts include "Affiliations of Railroads and Banking Houses," "New York Bank Control of Railroads and Railroad Equipment Companies," "New York Bank Control of Coal Mining Companies and Coal Railroads," and "The Geographical Spread of New York Railroad Control."
Exhibits include "Employment and Compensation of Railroad Employees"; "Cost of Living"; "Methods of Reporting Wage and Hour Data"; and "Increasing Output per Worker and Decreasing Wage Cost Per Unit of Output."
Exhibits include: "Trend of Railway Operating Revenues and Total Compensation"; "The Rising Tide of Recovery A Survey of the Leading Business Indices"; "Labor Movement Supports Railway Workers in Resisting a Wage Cut"; "Squandering the Maintenance Dollar"; "Financial Mismanagement through Banker Control of Railroads"; "Training and Skill of Track and Roadway Section Men"; "Average Hourly Earnings in Railroads and Other Industries"; and "Estimated Money Share of Individual Railroads in the Proposed 15 Per Cent Pay Reduction."
Morgan's statements include those on wages; postwar economic conditions, developments, and private bankers' constructive services; and interference and control in corporate managements.
These include "Cost of Living is Increasing," "The Railroad Plea of Poverty," "Labor Versus Materials and Interest," and "The Railroads versus the Public Interest" (printed).
Tables include "Dividend Performance of Anthracite Railroads and Trunk Lines Compared," "Percentage Relationships of Dividends Paid on Stock Dividends to Total Compensation Paid Employees," and "Distribution of Capital Resources."
Most dockets were found together and left as a series. Occasionally dockets were found with their related papers. In those cases, the dockets remain in the their related individual series and were not moved to the Docket series. At this point it is impossible to be sure of the original order by W. Jett Lauck.
This case was a call for amendment to the Tariff Act of 1922. Lauck represented a group of domestic manufacturers, including the Glass Containers Association of America, in putting together an argument for an increase in tariffs on imported glass bottles. It is important to note that Lauck did not represent industry in opposition to labor. The Glass Bottles Blowers Association submitted a brief agreeing with the domestic manufacturers, —but only in opposition to foreign goods making American industry and labor obsolete.
The Grain Marketing Company was created to jointly market the product of three grain companies: Armour Grain Company, Rosenbaum Grain Corporation, and Rosenbaum Brothers. W. Jett Lauck served as Director of Appraisals for this venture, preparing a large report on the valuation of the Grain Marketing Company's properties. This report was reproduced in many, slightly altered formats for different purposes, people, and groups, and these variants are the subject of many folders in the case, which contain significant overlap.
W. Jett Lauck was employed by the John G. Paton Company of New York City to study the report of the Tariff Commission of 1928 as to the costs of production in the maple sugar industry in the United States and in Canada. He then gave his conclusions on the report to the company and as testimony before the Tariff Commission itself.
There are excerpts from the following: the Tariff Commission Stenographer's Minutes (June 1927), Hearings before the House Committee on Ways and Means (January 1929), Hearings before the Senate Finance Committee (June 1929), Debates in the U.S. Senate (January 1930), Remarks of the Honorable Ernest W. Gibson (February 1930), the Roodenburg Report (November 1930), George H. Burr and Company Report (March 1931), R.G. Dun and Company Report (undated), Cary Maple Sugar Company Federal Income Tax Returns (1921-1930), and Cary Testimony (undated).
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration implemented a new tax on paper towels. The reason given was that they competed with typical cotton towels. W. Jett Lauck advised the Paper Towel Manufacturers Association and prepared their case before the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and Congress.
Most dockets were found together and left as a series. Occasionally dockets were found with their related papers. In those cases, the dockets remain in the their related individual series and were not moved to the Docket series. At this point it is impossible to be sure of the original order by W. Jett Lauck.
These include: Agricultural Adjustment Act and Amendment, House Resolution 9439, Orders from the President and National Recovery Administrator, Regulation 81, Regulation 82, and Secretary of Agriculture Regulations.
Some 16,000 textile workers participated in the strike, centered in Passaic, New Jersey and initially organized as the "United Front Committee" by the Workers (Communist Party) before being transferred to the leadership of the American Federation of Labor. W. Jett Lauck served as a consulting economist to the strikers, chairman of the Plenary Committee (also known as The Citizens Committee or the Lauck Committee) representing the strikers and overseeing transition to the American Federation of Labor, economist for the National Committee for Passaic Relief and Defense, and member of the Temporary Committee for Establishment of American Standards of Life for Textile Workers, as well as participated in the case on the floor of the Senate and in Senate Committees.
The index for this case shows that the supporting materials are incomplete. Some materials may have not survived or others may be present in the collection but their direct connection to this particular case has been lost.
This case was between the Franklin Division of the Franklin Typothetae of Chicago and a collection of unions, namely: the Chicago Typographical Union No. 16, Chicago Printing Pressmen's Union No. 3, Franklin Union No. 4, and Bookbinders' and Paper Cutters' Union No. 8 regarding a cut in wages. W. Jett Lauck represented the unions and prepared their case alongside Arthur Sturgis.
Files include the following folders: News clippings; Comparison of Lauck and Mahon Agreements; Final Agreement; General; Hanna Memorandum; Insurance; Saint Louis Public Service Company Union Plan for Cooperation; and Saint Louis Public Service Company Operating Notes.
Files include Pamphlets on Public Utilities, Press on Public Utilities, Press on Governor Roosevelt and Power Utilities, [Union?], and a Report addressed to Frank P. Walsh (1864-1939).
There were two hearings before the United States Tariff Commission related to an investigation into the costs of sugar production. After the January hearings (January 15-24, 1924), other briefs were filed. There was a call for another hearing to be held in March (March 27-28, 1924) after which it was decided that all parties had until April 10th to file more briefs in connection with the hearings. W. Jett Lauck coordinated and prepared documents for many of the parties involved. He also served as a witness for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association.
Includes news about the Bituminous Coal Commission.
This includes the "Report, Findings and Award of the United States Anthracite Coal Commission of 1920."
Files pertaining to Wages include: Wage Demands; Wage Rates of Employees Other Than Contract Miners; Wages, Earnings and Work Conditions in General; Wages in Various Industries 1914 to 1920; and Wages in Various Industries and Occupations: A Summary of Wage Movements 1914-1920.
Mass strikes in both the anthracite and bituminous coal industries in 1922 led to a standstill in production. When the miners and operators failed to reach any agreements, the government abandoned its hands-off approach and attempted to set up commissions to arbitrate the cases. After several failed attempts, both an Anthracite and Bituminous Coal Commission were established to not only arbitrate the current situation, but to investigate its origins in the general history and conditions of the coal industries. W. Jett Lauck was involved with the United Mine Workers of America in both cases to varying degrees. Material is separated into Anthracite and Bituminous, with common material labelled "General."
Some dates are corroborated by list of case exhibits. Where corroboration is not possible, no date has been inferred. Classification as "exhibit" is applied based either on inclusion in a numbered list of exhibits or Lauck's handwritten filing directions.
Letters are presumably from W. Jett Lauck to the "New York Times" Managing Editor and to the President, regarding the establishment of an Arbitration Board.
These three memoranda are to Mr. Lewis, July 8, 1922; one concerning the production of the Central Competitive Field, April 27, 1922; and a third showing the financial connections of the Boston Financial Group and Secretary Mellon.
The two press releases include a letter to the President regarding Arbitration, July 15, 1922, and the UMWA Statement about Mr. Murray's Speech, April 22, 1922.
Items include a "Journal" Communication sent to every member of Congress, 1922; a Letter to Officers and Members, May 25, 1922; and the UMWA Wage Scale Committee proposed wage scale, February 14, 1922.
The History of the Development of the Anthracite Coal Combination contains five sections: Section 1, Early History of Anthracite Consolidations and Combinations; Section 2, Consummation of the Anthracite Combination, 1896; Section 3, Methods by Which Railroads Have Discriminated in Favor of Their Allied Coal Companies and Favored Clients; Section 4, The Influence of the Combination Upon Freight Rates, Shipping Allotments, and Prices; and Section 5, Present Situation as Regards Ownership and Control.
The unnumbered exhibits include "The Coal Controversy" May 1922 and Geological Survey, Weekly Report on the Production of Bituminous Coal, Anthracite, and Beehive Coke, February 11, 1922.
These exhibits include: Exhibit 6: Seasonal Fluctuations in Production and Transportation, June 15, 1921; Exhibit 7: Production, Capacity, Men Employed, Mine Price Per Ton, and Days Lost, 1922, undated; Exhibit 12: Fluctuation in Employment and Earnings of Bituminous Mine Workers, undated; Exhibit 14: Effect of Price Changes Upon Purchasing Power, 1920; Exhibit 16: Chart Showing Production from Union and Non-Union Districts, March 16, 1922.
Memoranda include "Complete Unionization Would be the Greatest Factor in Stabilization of Soft Coal Industry" June 19, 1922, several other miscellaneous undated memoranda for Lewis, plus one on the Earnings of Bituminous Mine Workers for a "Baltimore Sun" Article, March 17, 1922.
Press Releases include: Capital Investment and Profit of Bituminous Coal Mine Operators, June 1, 1922; Letter From Ellis Searles to Secretary Hoover, February 8, 1922; Letter Submitting Explanatory and Statistical Material Supporting the Preliminary Report of the Commission on Investment and Profit in Soft Coal Mining, July 6, 1922; and Press Release: Russell Sage Foundation Report on "The Coal Miners' Insecurity" April 16, 1922.
Morrow's statements were made before the Committee on Labor, April 25, 1922 and before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Hearing on Railroad Rates, Fares, and Charges, January 19, 1922.
Includes Memoranda and Opening Statement on behalf of Anthracite Mine Workers and Research Material and Data.
Statements concern the Request of Anthracite Operators for a Modification of the Wage Scale, before the Anthracite Board of Reference, George Rublee and Frank Morrison, Typescript and Print copies.
The reply concerns the request of Operators for modification of the Wage Scale, and was by John L. Lewis, etc. on behalf of the United Mine Workers, before the Anthracite Board of Reference, George Rublee and Frank Morrison, Proofs and Print copies.
The Anthracite Freight Rate Case files may be part of the previous group but were placed in a separate divider created by the office of Lauck.
Statistics include four categories: General; Anthracite Coal Carrying Railroads, Typed Originals and Carbons; Financial Performance of Coal Companies (clippings and other statistics),Earnings, and Profit; and Salaries of Operator officials, exceeding $10,000 per year.
Note: an assigned car is a rail car specifically designated for the use of a particular shipper, or, in the case of private cars, for the use of a particular railroad for a specific customer.
Lauck also referred to this as the Mahon Case, after President William D. Mahon.
File includes the Opinion of the Majority of the Arbitration Board, Dissenting Opinion, and a Report on a Proposed Pension Plan
These include: "Discipline and Education of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and Standardization of Wages"; "Progress Made in Electrification of Railroads and Economics Effected Thereby"; "The Railway Dollar, What Became of it in 1913"; "Revenue Gains by Representative Western Railroads Available to Compensate Locomotive Engineers and Firemen For Increased Work and Productive Efficiency, 1890-1913"; The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Stokers"; "Miscellaneous Statements in Rebuttal to Exhibits Presented by the Railroads"; "Opposition of Railroads to Enactment of Federal Hours of Service Law and Efforts of Federal Government to Enforce Same."
All the years but 1933-1935 have an index in the front of the folder.
Note: Diaries on microfilm M-1239-1241; Use of original diaries restricted due to fragile condition.
These "diaries" were used to keep a record of Lauck's activities on behalf of a number of organizations, arranged by date.
File includes Lauck's Civil Service record (1945) and National War Labor Board service (1918).
The 1911 blueprint "General Plan" of the property was prepared by Thomas Meehan and Sons, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Landscape Architects, for Francis T.A. Junkin, Lexington, Virginia. The "Map of Mulberry Hill, Lexington, Virginia," 1926, with surrounding properties, was done by R.E. Witt, Certified Land Surveyor.For a typed description of the property by R.E. Witt and a note by W. Jett Lauck, see Box 224 Folder 4.
The Bureau of Applied Economics, Inc. was a "private, independent, scientific organization, established in 1914 for the purpose of doing research and analytical work in the field of industrial, commercial, banking and general economic activities" according to one of its brochures. It was located in Washington, D.C. "where the governmental departments, commissions and other organzations with their specialists, archives and unrivaled library facilites render such research more effective and productive than any other city in America" according to a page from an unknown directory. Hugh S. Hanna was the Director and W. Jett Lauck was listed as both the Chairman of the Advisory Board and the specialist for money and banking.
One of the chief functions of the Bureau of Applied Econonics was to create publications about importand current issues in the field of labor conditions and industrial relations. These were intended to be brief (50-75 pages) but authoritative and written by a specialist in the subject so that anyone interested in the subject could have access to the gist of all the information in one place and for a low cost.
File includes Monthly Statements, Proofs of Notices, Subscribers and Sales.
File includes Correspondence, Papers, and Table of Contents.
Lauck taught a course on the History of the Labor Movement at the American University.
Student grades were removed from the file and placed in the control folder box for MSS 4742.
The Notes chiefly include Political Science, Sociology, Labor vs Capital, Economics, Constitutional Law, American Government, and Agriculture.
These College Notes are chiefly concerned with the Reciprocity Concept and the Chicago Conference with sections on Cuba and Hawaii; Distribution; Receiverships; Sociology and Tariffs; and Printed Material.
Much of this material is fragmentary or incomplete and it possibly has some material of W. Jett Lauck mixed in.
These photographs include the "Funeral Procession of Stephen Horvath, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1909. Photographs are mostly unidentified and some do not include W. Jett Lauck.
These photographs are mostly unidentified and undated but does includes William Harmon Black and Major Miller Taylor. and his wife.
This file consists of seven oversize photographs, including a Staff Conference; the Immigration Commission, Washington D.C. (1907); three photographs of Lauck with the same two unidentified men; W.D. Mahon; A.A. Mitten; Earl E. Houck; an unidentified man; and an unidentified hearing.
This folder includes four oversize photographs of Public Code Hearings on Bituminous Coal Industry, 1933 August 9; Cigar Manufacturing Industry AAA Code Hearing, 1933 November 22; Structural Steel and Iron Fabricating Industry N.R.A. Hearing, 1933 October 30; and Anthracite Coal Industry, NRA Code Hearing, William H. Davis Deputy Administrator, Washington, D.C., 1933 November 17
Lauck often marked his newspapers and other periodical materials according to subject matter. These clippings are arranged according to his original categorical markings, where possible. Where no markings are discernable, they have been artificially sorted into Lauck's categories or other appropriate topical divisions. They are arranged alphabetically by subject with dedicated, separate folders for subjects with large amounts of material. (Brackets [] denote subtopics or linked topics). Files chiefly consist of news clippings but occasionally there is other printed material or charts, etc.
Topics include Agriculture and Farms, Airlines and Aviation, Argentina, Atlantic Charter—Poland*, Atomic Energy and Weapons (see also, J—Japan), Australia, and the Automobile Industry.
Topics include Bank Fraud, Banking and Bankers, Baruch Report, Big Three, Bretton Woods Agreement—International Monetary Fund, British Elections 1945, British Labor Party, British Labor Reports and the Second World War and Budget.
Topics include Cartels, Chamber of Commerce, Canada, Capital/Capitalism, Charter [U.N.] (see also, S—San Francisco Conference), Chemical Warfare, Cherry Blossoms—Washington D.C., China, The Church (see also, Religion and Faith), Churchill, Winston (see also, People), Comintern, Communist Party, Congress, Cost of Living, and Cuba.
See also, Strikes, U—United Mine Workers.
Topics include Debt, Defense, Deflation, Democracy, Democratic Party, The Depression, Diplomacy, Disease, Driving [Winter], and Dumbarton Oaks Conference.
Topics include Economic Bill of Rights, Economic Development [Committee], Economic Policy (see also, B—Bretton Woods Agreement, Post-War Reconstruction), Economic Rights, Economy of War, Employment (see also, U—Unemployment), Electric Workers, Electricity, and Excess Capacity.
Topics include Farms, Fear, Flooding, Food [Costs] [Rations] [Shortages], Food as Weapon, Foreign Policy, Freedoms, France, Franco, and Full Employment America.
Topics include General Motors [Strike] (see also, Strikes), Germany, G.I. Bill, Gold Standard, Government in Business, Grain Marketing, Great Britain, Growth of Democracy, Hapsburgs, and Hatch-Burton-Ball Bill.
Topics include Industrial Divide, Industry, Inflation/Deflation, and Israel.
Japan [and the Atomic Bomb], Jefferson [And the Declaration of Independence], The Jewish People [in Nazi Germany], Jobs as a Property Right, and Kipling, Rudyard (see also, People).
Topics include Labor [and War], Latin America, League of Nations (see also, World Government), Legal Aid Societies, Lend-Lease, Liberalism, and the Lima Conference, Liquor Problem, and Living Wage.
Topics include Magna Carta, Massachusetts Academy, Meat Industry (see also, Strikes), Middle Class, Monetary Reform, Morale [Poor], and Moving Pictures.
Topics include National Association of Manufacturers, National Income, National Interest, "New Era" 31*, New York State Industrial Survey Commission 28*, New York Transit Strike, Office of Price Administration, and Oil.
Topics include Pacifists, Packing Houses, Thomas Paine, Palestine, Pan-American Union, Patents, Peace, Pennsylvania Labor Act, Philanthropy, Poland, Political Minorities, Population [United States] 1940, Power, The Press, Price Controls, Prisoners of War, Production, Profit-Sharing, Profiteering, Public Service, and Pump-Priming the Economy.
For more clippings on people see also: C—Churchill, K—Kipling, P—Paine, R—Roosevelt, Rural Electrification Administration [Harry Slattery], S—Stalin, and T—Truman.
File contains topics such as: Post-War Deflation, Post-War Europe, and United States Labor, Industry, and the Economy.
Topics include: Race and Racial Strife, Radar, Railways and Railroads, Reciprocity – British Agreement, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Reconversion [and Wages] (see also, Post-War Reconstruction), Re-employment (see also, Post-War Reconstruction), Republican Party, Republican Record, Right Wing Reaction, Roosevelt, Rural Electrification Administration [Harry Slattery], Russians who Fought for Germany in World War II.
Topics include: San Francisco Conference (see also, United Nations), Savings, Sherman Act, Social Security, Socialism, Socialized Medicine, South America, The South [and Politics], The South [and Poll Tax Ban], Southern Revolt, Soviet Union/Russia, Spain, St. Lawrence Seaway, Stalin, Subsidy, Sugar, Supreme Court, Packing the Supreme Court, and Syria.
See also, Coal, G-H—General Motors [Strike], M—Meat Industry, N-O—New York Transit Strike, Steel, and U—United Mine Workers.
Topics include: Tariff Bill, Taxes, Textiles, Third Political Party, Totalitarian States, Troops, Truman [Report], Trusteeships; Unemployment, (see also, E—Employment), Unions, United Kingdom [Britain], United Mine Workers (see also, Coal), Unity, National Virginia, and Virginia Budget Efficiency.
See also S—San Francisco Conference and World Government.
Topics include: Wage Central, Wages, Wagner Health Bill, Wall Street, War, War Aims, War and Capital, War Contracts Settlement, War Cost, War Crimes, War Labor Board, War Production Board, Work Week, World Bank, and World War II [Battles].
This file includes agendas, correspondence, reports, membership, and the tentative program.
Topics include: American Mining Congress Declaration of Policy, disagreements over the NRA code, gasoline and coal, new processes, and the right to strike.
This file includes an "Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia," "The Truth about Coal River Collieries," "West Virginia Coal Fields" (Senator Kenyon), Colorado Coal Fields, and a List of West Virginia Coal Fields.
Includes Houde Engineering Company Memorandum submitted to the National Labor Relations Board, the Hunt Memorandum outlining the Study of Competing Fuels, Lauck's review of "The Coal Industry" by Glen L. Parker, the Keller Bill for the Mississippi Valley on the Relative Importance of Fuels, "Oil-Coal Mixtures as Industrial Fuel" by J.E. Hedrick, and the Coal Cost of Producing Electricity, by J. Leonard Matt in the "New York Herald Tribune."
The Guffey-Snyder Act was officially known as the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935. This law was passed as part of the New Deal and created the Bituminous Coal Commission to set the price of coal. It was ruled unconstitutional and was replaced by the Guffey-Vinson Act in 1937.
The Railroads Financial History material was used in preparation of exhibits for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Case and updated for use in later cases involving railroads.
These news clippings include: British railway strike, credit, Thomas Dew Cuyler article on 1922 strike, Henry Ford's railroad, Gould System, Inadequacies of Railroad Management, Mergers, Nickle Plate Deal, Receiverships and Foreclosure Sales During 1920, and Railroad Retirement Act of 1937.
Publications include: Decisions, Dockets, Announcements, Lawsuits, Orders, and Reports.
Lauck was on staff as an economist and one of the stockholders for this enterprise. Some stationery has the name "The Gallatin Institute of Applied Economics" in the header.
Files include Memoranda from I.A. Rice to W. Jett Lauck, Recommendations, and Rent Law.
Includes a bill on the guaranty of bank deposits legislation and the Glass-Steagall Act (printed).
Banking files include Credit Facilities of the Country, Federal Reserve Board Legal Opinion on Bank Centralization (printed), News clippings, Reform, and the United Labor Bank and Trust Company Dissolution.
Includes files on British wage controversy and the coal industry during World War II, coal industry problems, and the British Coal Mines Act.
Cigar Manufacturing Code of Fair Competition files include Amendments proposed by Abraham Goldbloom and Jett Lauck, including Revisions made by Conference on October 20, 1933; Briefs and Statements (1933); Codes (1933-1934); and Profits and Statistical Data (circa 1929-1933).
These include: Table of Contents, Agents of Concentration and Railroads; Cotton Mills (director); Public Utilities (directors); Concentration of control of Financial and Industrial Resources; Public Utilities (securities), Public Utilities (affiliations), and Public Utilities (summary and tables).
These include: Summary of Banker Control in American Industry; Concentration of Financial Control of Industry; Concentration of Control of the Iron Ore Mining Industry; Report on Public Utilities; Concentration and Control of Money and Credit; Industrials (directors), Agents of Concentration, Coal (statistics), Iron and Steel Report (summary), Industrials (report), Railroads (statistics), Cotton Industry, Coal and Iron Mining; and Concentration of Control of Various Industries (iron, coal, water).
Pujo Committe named after the chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee, Representative A. Pujo of Louisiana.
These files include the Bill by Colonel W.G. Williams (1946); an Inquiry by the Federal Power Commission Control (June 27, 1945); and the Memoranda of Colonel W.G. Williams, 1945-1946).
These files include: Miscellaneous, including charts - W. G. Williams (1945-1946); Gas and Oil Pipelines, including a proposed letter from Admiral Stuart to President John L. Lewis (October 16, 1944); and the United States Department of the Interior report of Investigations (July 1945).
Constitutional Amendment files include: Action by Organizations (1936-1937); Articles and News clippings (1935-1939); Bills, including those proposed by Benson, Costigan, Ford, Gray, Maas, and Marcantonio (1935-1937); Challenges to the Authority of the Supreme Court to Declare Legislative Acts Unconstitutional, Notes and Memoranda by W. Jett Lauck, Donald R. Richberg, Merle D. Vincent and Henry [Warrum] (1935-1936); and Correspondence and Memoranda about the New York and Washington, D.C. Meetings (1936).
Constitutional Amendment files include: Detroit Conference (1937); History and Comments (1936?); National Committee and Reports from Henry T. Hunt (1936); National Conference about (1936-1937); Recommendations and Suggestions made by President Roosevelt for a Bill to "Pack the Supreme Court" (1937); and Speeches by David J. Lewis and Daniel C. Roper (1935).
Material includes the labor and production costs of cotton, silk and wool goods before and after World War I.
Files include a Memorandum on Major Berry and Conference Plans (1935 November, undated); News (1936-1937); Press Releases (1936-1937); and Summaries and Reports (1936 June-July).
Memoranda topics include the Austrian state railways, the book "Railroad Melons, Rates, and Wages"; the suggestions of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Vice-President Tatnall for railroad improvements; the Cincinnati Southern Railway; and Cooperatives.
These include speeches and statements of Governor Earle, Chief Justice Hughes, British House of Commons, Secretary of State Hull, Secretary Ickes, Robert H. Jackson, Governor Frank Murphy, Senator Norris, Secretary Frances Perkins, Burton K. Wheeler, and Wendell L. Wilkie.
This opinion was given by the General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board.
These files include the first through third versions introduced in the 72nd Congress in 1932, S. 3215, S. 4115, and S. 4412.
These House bills include: H.R. 7250 (a bill creating national mortgage banks); H.R. 7620 (a bill to create Federal Home Loan Banks); H.R. 11340 (a bill to require national banking associations to furnish bonds to protect depositors against loss of deposits); H.R. 11422 (a bill to regulate the value of money, and for other purposes); and H.R. 12280 (an act to create Federal Home Loan Banks).
Eugene Meyer was Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and J.W. Pole was Comptroller of the Currency in 1932.
Includes an article by Lauck, "America's New Immigrants" and reviews of his book with Jeremiah Jenks, "The Immigration Problem. A Study of American Immigration Conditions and Needs."
Includes a Memorandum from Lucius E. Wilson and Research concerning the cotton industry (1890-1912), economic consumption, 1890-1914, prepared by Frances P. Valiant, centers of population (1914), prices (1914), tendencies in real wages (1900-1913), and wages and prices (1912-1914)
The topics include: Agriculture; Anti-Strike Bill; Book Reviews; Bituminous Coal; Child Labor Law; Civil Service Employment, Reclassification and Retirement; Federal Employment; Federal Coal Commission; and Foreign Industry and Labor.
The topics Include: Health; Housing; Immigration; Industrial Accidents; Labor Mobility; Milk Bill; National Industrial Conference; New Jersey Chamber of Commerce; Public Health Service; Punitive Overtime; Racial Question, Commission on ("Negro Wage Earners"); Seaman's Act Revision in Merchant Marine Bill; Soldiers' Adjusted Compensation Legislation; Steamship Business Training; and United States Steel Corporation Pension Fund.
Two of these files focus on Employee Representation - Efficiency through Cooperation, and include "A Report on Workers' Participation in Management" with an appendix, by W. J. Lauck, March 1921.
Companies include: Bethlehem Steel Company, Endicott Johnson and Company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, International Harvester Company, Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and General.
Files include: Distribution of Output of Industry; Foreign Trade; General; Labor; Mass Production and Distribution; Production and Stock Market; and Prosperity.
Labor topics in these files include: Labor and Churches (1922-1937); Labor and Industrial Policy during World War I, Memoranda on (1917-1918); Labor Gazette Program (undated); General material (1914-1920); Labor in Great Britain (1918-1937); Labor Injunctions (1927-1932); Labor Insurance (1928); Labor Legislation and Politics (1928); Labor Organizations (1910-1929); Labor Policies (1928); and Labor Problems (1919).
Additional Unemployment topics include: Joint Committee on Unemployment; Press; Social Effects of Unemployment, Statistics; and the Wagner Bills.
Interstate Commerce Commission files include: Decision on Freight Rates in Anthracite Case; Five Per Cent Case; Hearing on Rates on Grain, etc.; Operating and Wage Statistics; and Petition concerning the "Inefficiency of Railroad Employees."
Additional Interstate Commerce Commission files include: Rules on Locomotive Inspection; Rules of Practice; Rules governing Classification of Steam Railway Employees; and Seasonal Variation of Railway Operating Income.
Additional files include: Labor Conditions, including mining accidents; Manufacturers; and Monthly Production of Pig Iron in the United States.
Journeymen Stone Cutters of America files include: Affidavits and Letters on Indiana Situation; Agreements; Amalgamation (Knoxville Wage Scale); Arts and Crafts Industry - Mr. M. W. Mitchell; Bloomington and Bedford Names and Local Vote; Cast Stone Industry Code; Limestone Code; Limestone Code Statement for Hearings and Suggested Complaint to the National Labor Board; the Marble Manufacturing Code, President Mitchell; Press Releases and Miscellaneous; the Sandstone Code and Statement by M.W. Mitchell, President of the Journeymen Stone Cutters' Association of North America.
Additional Labor Costs files include: Bituminous Mine Workers; Book Paper Industry; Canned Salmon; Canned Vegetable Industry; Coal; Construction; Copper Production and Sale; Cotton Industry; Cotton, Silk, and Wood Goods Production Before and After World War I; and Fertilizer Industry.
Additional Labor Costs files include: Hide and Tanning Industries; Leather and Shoe Industries; Pig Iron; Railroads, including Eastern, Operating, Southern, and Western; Relation to Prices; Shoe Industry; Steel Production in the United States; Sugar Profiteering; Summary; Various Industries; and Women's Muslin Underwear Industry.
The Living Wage subtopics include: The Case for a Living Wage; Cost; Cost of Rearing Children; Department of Labor; Effects; Fair Labor Standards Act (Bills, Interpretations, Regulations, etc.); Farmers; and General Press (1 of 2 folders).
Living Wage subtopics include: General Press (2 of 2 folders); Harmful Effects of Low Wages; Lauck Statements; Miscellaneous; National War Labor Board; Practicability (2 folders); Request for a Ruling from the United States Railroad Labor Board on the Living Wage; "Sanction for a Living Wage"? Quotation Verification Work for Lauck's book with that title; Statement of the National War Labor Conference; and an Undated Essay on "The Just and Reasonable Wage."
These documents include the Charter, Constitution, General Plans of Work, Explanation and Comment, Outline of Organization and Scope of Work at the Outset, By-Laws, Suggestions and Notes on Separate Trust Fund, and an article "Employee Ownership" by Thomas E. Mitten.
Mitten Management topics include: Labor Cooperation in Australia; Organized Labor in New Orleans; Personal News clippings; Press; and Strikes in Philadelphia and Buffalo.
Literature includes the New York Advertising Club Plan, Memoranda and Principles, etc., which also includes articles by Fred Brenckman and Isador Teitelbaum.
Items include the Conscription of Property Senate Bill 1579 and Consumer Division of Defense, Labor, and Steel.
These files include a report of the Iron Ore Committee, a copy of the "National Natural Resources Act," and the Report of the Planning Committee for Mineral Policy.
These bills include the Bill for Stabilization and Conservation of Natural Gas and Petroleum and the Cole Bill (H.R. 7372) Petroleum Conservation Act.
Files include General; a Brief; Mr. McGinn's Statement; General Producers Company, Mr. Taylor and John L. Lewis; and Sinclair Company - Maintenance of Retail Prices.
Apparently Lauck used his work with the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company as a basis for his book, "Political and Industrial Democracy, 1776-1926."
Includes files on the following companies: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Bank of Italy; Boston Consolidated Gas Company; Chicago Surface Lines; Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Plan; Columbia Conserve Company; Comparison of Fundamentals; Comparative Plans; Dennison Manufacturing Company; Dutchess Bleachery; Employee Representation and the Union (PRT); Employee Stock Ownership (PRT); Endicott-Johnson Company (PRT); Filene; Ford Motor Company; International Harvester Company; Investment Bankers and Cooperative Plans; Louisville Railway Company; Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen; and Milwaukee Electric Power and Light Company.
Includes files on the following companies: Nash Tailoring Company; New Cooperative Plan; Packard Piano Company; Pennsylvania Railroad; Peoples Gaslight and Coke Company; Philadelphia Convention; Printz-Biederman Company; Southern Railway; Standard Oil Company; Summary with 1939 clipping; and Union Recognition Case.
Includes news clippings about the Electric Bond and Share Company, Power Authority of New York and others.
Includes a speech by Frank P. Walsh before the Public Ownership League of America and a Research Bulletin on the Potomac Electric Power Company of Washington.
These files include ones for Analysis, Bradstreet's, Dun's, General, and Government Control of Prices.
Profiteering files include those on: Address of the President; Agricultural Supplies; Articles by W. Jett Lauck and others (2 folders); Banks; Memorandum to Judge W.H. Black; Building Material; Coal; and Copper.
Profiteering files include: Corporate Earnings and Government Revenues (3 folders); and Corporations, Profits of (3 folders).
Profiteering files include: Industries, various, (3 folders); Manly, Basil M. - Survey of American Industrial Conditions; Meat Packing; Metal Trades; Miscellaneous Industries; 1921; Petroleum; Post War Profits; and Press Statements (2 folders).
Profiteering files include: Railroads During and After the War (American); Railroad Equipment; Shoes and Clothing; Speeches in Congress; Steel; Sugar; Summary; and War Contracts.
Includes the following filers: the Chicago Memorandum; Pending Work file; press release about the need for co-ordination of transportation facilities; press or news clippings; and railroad employee insurance.
Files include a draft of a letter to President Roosevelt and a memorandum on Russia from Lauck.
Russia or Soviet Union files include: "The Red Trade Menace"; Research by Dunlap; Social and Economic Conditions, chiefly clippings, including concessions, the cotton case, credit, political and propaganda (2 folders); and Trade Mission.
Files include: "The Agricultural Situation in the United States"; "Labor Banking Movement in the United States, Analysis of"; "Membership of Labor Unions"; and "Report of the Negro in Industry".
Files include: Proposal for Cotton Purchase from the United States (3 folders); "Recent Shifts in Industry"; "Report of the Railroad Situation in the U.S."; Research – Miscellaneous; and Tariffs.
Files include: Anderson, Paul E. – Reports and Memoranda; Ballantine's Report [on Transportation by Waterway as Related to Competition with the Rail Carriers in the United States]; Commodity Studies, including livestock, potash, green coffee, grains, and rubber; Correspondence; and Department of Commerce Outline.
Files include: Digest of Hearings and Reports; Electric Generation Capacity, U.S.A.; Extent of Railway Operations; News clippings, including article from "The New Republic"; Notes and Outline; and Panama Canal Traffic effect upon Railroad Rates.
This file includes a Railway Labor Executives' Policy statement, statement of the Baltimore Association of Commerce, and a paper about the "Effect of the Proposed Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Deep Waterway on the Coal Industry."
The file includes articles by Lester Velie ("Lean Years for the Rails"), Harold D. Kootz ("The Railroad Crisis"), and one about new types of equipment; a speech by Harry S. Truman on railroad financing; a memorandum about railroads serving the Great Lakes ports; and a memorandum to Robertson about the position of Western railroad presidents concerning the waterway prior to 1933-1934.
Reports include: "Analysis of its effects upon railroad and coalmining industries" by W. Jett Lauck; "Coordination of Transportation Agencies" [by W. Jett Lauck?]; Report of Railroad Coordinator's Freight Traffic Report, including freight rate increases and petroleum pipeline rates; and Report of the Railroad System, Beneficial Effects of project upon.
This committee was chaired by Congressman Joseph B. Shannon, (1867-1943), a Democrat from Kansas City, Missouri.
Files for this committee include: General (2 folders); Papers submitted by J.W. Garrow and White; the Report, both Typescript and Printed (2 folders); Uniform Manufacturers Association Statement; United States Chamber of Commerce Presentation; and Vouchers and Expenses submitted by W. Jett Lauck.
Files include Awards, Decisions, and Authorizations (printed) and Exhibits prepared for the Board by Lauck and associates.
Socialism files include; "What it is and what it is not" and History in the United States.
Files include: "Compilation of the Social Security Laws"; Correspondence with Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong (Chief of Staff for Social Security Planning of the Committee on Economic Security; Correspondence with Pauling C. Gilbert; Directory of State Employment Security Officials; and Draft Bills for State Unemployment Compensation.
Files include: H.R. 4142 (Lewis Bill); H.R. 7260 (Social Security Act); Information Primer on the Committee on Economic Security; Inventory of Job Seekers Registered at Public Employment Offices; and League of Nations Staff Pension Fund.
Files include: Major Migratory Routes in the United States; Memoranda to Mr. Kennedy; National Women's Trade Union December Bulletin; Newspapers; and "Old Age Insurance."
Files include: Pamphlets and Print Materials; Preliminary Report on Occupations of Job-Seekers in 43 States; "The Problem of Insecurity" (Committee on Economic Security); Radio Address of Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor; and Recommendations of the Social Security Board Federal Advisory Council.
Files include: "Social Security Act and War Manpower Commission" and Social Security Board Federal Advisory Council Binder of Documents (2 folders).
Files include: Social Security Board Federal Advisory Council Meeting (June 1940); Social Security Board Federal Advisory Council Meeting (October 1942); "Social Security in Defense and After"; Statements on the Wagner-Lewis Economic Security Bill; Thrift and Security Foundation, Inc.; "Two Special Reports on Social Legislation" (Business Advisory Council); United Mine Workers of America Proposed Retirement Plan; and Vocational Training Program for National Defense.
Topics include: Mineral production, "A Working Economic Plan for the South," Washington and Lee as a Southern institution, and the Southern Commercial Congress (all printed).
File includes memoranda to John L. Lewis and suggestions by Katharine Pollak, federal regulation and steel codes.
Topics include a file on Arbitrations, including Portland, Maine; Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway; Boston Elevated Railway Company; and Cumberland County Power and Light Company. Other railway topics include: District of Columbia; "Low Fares" article by Louis B. Wehle; the Mahon Case; and a Report by Delos F. Wilcox.
P.J. Morrin was the general president of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Iron Workers; Jett Lauck was the economic advisor for the same organization.
Files include: "The Bridgemen's Magazine," Vol. XXXIII, Nos. 11 and 12; Conferences; H.R. 7596 (To License and Regulate Inter-State Coal Corporations); H.R. 12285 (Ellenbogen's Bill); H.R. 12499 (Wood's Steel Bill); Lauck Notes and Memoranda; and Lists of Materials Prepared in Connection with Iron Workers.
Files include: P.J. Morrin Exhibits I (a), II, and III-VIII; P.J. Morrin's Report as Labor Advisor to Chairman of the Labor Advisory Board and his Statement Before the National Recovery Administration; Possible Projects – Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California and United States Courthouse, New York City; Statement of William P. McGinn to Deputy Administrator; and "Summary and Objectives of Proposal for New National Recovery Act Legislation."
Files include: the Fair Tariff League; Press, including the French situation; and Wood Pulp, Woolens and Worsteds (2 folders).
Taxation files include: "Conclusions and Constructive Suggestions as to Tax Revision" by David B. Robertson; News clippings, Printed Material and Press Releases (2 folders); and Notes and Drafts.
Files include: copies of clippings at back of folder; Charts used by Isador Lubin in his Testimony; and Notes by W. Jett Lauck and associates.
Topics include: "Dynamics of Transport"; "How Transport has Shaped the Pattern of National Development"; "Objectives of Public Policy"; "Problems of Interest Groups"; "Problems of National Defense"; Problems of Rate Levels and Rate Relationships"; "Problems of Regulatory Policy"; "Problems of Transportation Policy – Review of Basic Issues and Alternative Solutions"; "Problems of Transport Coordination"; "What Lies Ahead in Transportation"; and "What the Transportation System Looks Like Today."
Files include information about the 1922, 1934, 1940 (2 folders), and 1946 Conventions.
Wage files include: American Federation of Labor; Articles, Bibliography on Wage Cutting and on a Saving Wage; Disease; Earnings in Ohio; "A Fair and Reasonable Wage"; and Minimum Wage (2 folders).
Wage files include: Productive Efficiency Theory; Productivity; Railroad; Rates; Real Wages; Regulation; Report on "Wages and Hours of Labour in Canada" and Report of Australian Royal Commission; Standard of Living; Various Industries (2 folders); Wage Adjustments; White Collar Workers; Women; and Works Project Administration.
Topics include: the wartime control of labor (France), War Labor Conference Report (February 25, 1918), "Labor Policies and the War, War Profits Bill, war and labor, and war tax law.
Materials include: a pamphlet "Negro Women in Industry in 15 States," and other printed material from the Department of Labor and the Women's Bureau.
Titles include: "American Institute for Economic Research Monthly Bulletin" (1944) and "Automotive War Production" (1945).
Titles include: "Babson's Washington Reports" (1938-1939); "Bank of the Manhattan Company of New York (1946); and "The Bulletin" from the International Typographical Union (1945-1946).
Titles include: "California Safety News" (1919); "Common Sense" (1944); and "Congressional Daily" (1941, 1944-1946).
Titles include: "Economic Notes" (1939); and "The Economic Outlook" (1940, 1944).
Titles include: "Foreign Commerce Weekly" (1941) and "Foreign Policy Bulletin" (1943, 1946).
Titles include: "Human Events" (1947); "International Post-War Service Statistical Bureau" (1943); and "International Statistical Bureau Foreign Letter" (1943-1944).
Titles include: "National Bureau of Economic Research" (1933-1934); "The National Grange" (1932); "People's Lobby Bulletin" (1945); "Private Newsletter" (1934); and "Propaganda Analysis" (1939).
Titles include: "Report of the Mexico City Bureau" (1940); and "The Southern Patriot" (1945-1946).
Titles include: "United Business Service" (1941); United Construction Workers News (1946); "Washington Review" from Chamber of Commerce, U.S. (1940, 1943); and "The Yardstick Catholic Tests of a New Social Order" (1941-1942, 1944).
Includes booklets on "Diplomatic List" (1925); National Policy Committee booklet, "Implications to the United States of a German Victory" (1940); "The Storm Washington D.C. January 27-28, 1922; "The Story of the Globe" (undated); andClifford Thorne (undated).
Includes: National Association Real Estate Boards (1924); National Monetary Association (1923, undated); "National Transportation Institute Freight Rates and Prices, 1867-1923" (1923); New Jersey Teacher Retirement and Pensions (1919); and New School for Social Research (1920).
Includes: Railroads (1944); Remedial Loan Societies (1928); and Remington Rand Inc. (1935).
Includes: Schools (1928-1929); Sperry Corporation (1936); Standard Oil Company (1922); and Standard Statistics Company (1925).
Includes: Virginia State Chamber of Commerce (1924-1930); and "A Brief History of Taxation in Virginia," by Edgar Sydenstricker (1915).
Arranged alphabetically by last name of authors or speakers with subjects noted, if appropriate.
Includes: Senator George D. Aiken (1941), Thurman Arnold on "Labor Against Itself" and Antitrust Law Enforcement (circa 1941, undated).
Includes Samuel Brodbelt with a letter to Lauck, February 1, 1940.
Includes: Charles H. Chase on Trade Credit Banking (1934); John Corbin on National Planning (1932).
Includes: Maurice R. Davie, "What Shall We Do About Immigration? (1946); Eleanor Davis "The Future of Personnel Administration in the US" typescript (undated); Edward T. Devine, "American Labor's Improved Status Since 1914" (1928); and Wallace B. Donham, "National Ideal and Internationalist Idols" (1933).
Includes: Marriner S. Eccles (1939); Irving Fisher "The Debt - Deflation Theory of Great Depressions" (1933); and Harry Emerson Fosdick sermon "A Christian Conscience about War" (1925).
Includes: Walter Graves, Jr., an open letter concerning Hitler and the British Isles (1941); Senator Pat Harrison (1925); W.P. Harvey, articles on living wage, and capital and labor (undated); Leon Henderson on Use of Small Loans for Medical Expenses (1930), and Alice Hosteler article on Producer-Consumer Relations (undated).
Includes: Benjamin A. Javits, (1933-1934); Jefferson Institute, including an address by Daniel C. Roper (1934); George L. Knapp on Senator Edward P. Costigan of Colorado (undated); and Dr. Julius Klein, "The Business Trend Since 1921" (1927).
Includes: J.C. Laughlin, "Demand and Prices," August 1932; William M. Leiserson, "Labor Past as Key to Labor Future," February 10, 1944; Max Lerner, "Revolution in Ideas," 1939; Alexander Levene, "Modification of the Antitrust Laws and Purchasing Power" (1932); and John L. Lewis "Problems of Organized Labor" (1936).
Includes samples of his articles with a biographical summary up to 1933.
Includes: William G. McAdoo, about William Jennings Bryan (1925); Leifer Magnusson, about the International Labor Organization and the American Federation of Labor (undated); Maury Maverick on "How Solid is the South?"(1943); Claudius T. Murchison, "A Great Deal, Some of It New" (1934); Reinhold Niebuhr, "Jerome Frank's Way Out" (undated); Edwin G. Nourse, "The Nature and Future of Private Enterprise" (1941); Frances Perkins, speech press release, 1936; Gifford Pinchot, "Wages, Margins and Anthracite Prices" and "Business and Government in the Economic Crisis," (1923-1931).
Includes: Jackson H. Ralston "Superficiality of International Law," 1922; Donald R. Richberg and his Labor Plan (1944); John D. Rockefeller, Jr., "Considerations Concerning Labor Standards," 1922; Daniel C. Roper, "Regimentation and Recovery" and "Trade and Commerce in Perspective,"1934; and Dr. John A. Ryan, "Organized Labor Today" (1926).
Includes: Alexander Sachs on Problems of National Recovery (1937); David J. Saposs, "Current Anti-Labor Activities" (1938 April 11); Louis G. Silverberg "Law and Order: Social Menace" (1938); Upton Sinclair, "An open Letter to the President" (undated); Isidor Teitilbaum (undated); and Lawrence Todd (August 1933).
Includes: Henry A. Wallace, speeches (1937-1942); Sidney Webb "Four Weeks in England" (1919); Carl I. Wheat, California Railroad Commission, (1927); William Allen White, "A Yip From the Doghouse" (1937); Honorable Roy O. Woodruff "War Frauds" speech, 1922; and Owen D. Young speeches (1930-1932).
Includes "Economic Planning" (undated); "When President's Play Politics" (1938); and fiction pieces written for magazines like "Ken" (undated).