mailer regarding continued work in support of President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice; support of Pepper-Geyer Bill; and "defense of individual workers wherever they are the victims of brutality or community violence" in the aftermath of the execution of Odell Waller, October 3, 1942

The Workers Defense League Collection (1938-1954) contains 295 items consisting of newsletters; press and news releases; memoranda; mailers; and other documents generated by the Workers Defense League. Included in this collection are issues of News Bulletin; Last-Minute News; Workers Defense Bulletin; Press Service; and News Service as well as single sheet press releases, a copy of the tenth anniversary journal, memoranda, and documents related to the Odell Waller case, in which Waller, a Black sharecropper, was executed for fatally shooting his white landlord in self-defense. Other topics covered in the press and news releases include: Pepper-Geyer Anti-poll tax bill; railroad hearings; Austin-Wadsworth Bill; manpower bill; conscription; union rights; pay cuts; Tee Davis case; Indonesian deportees; the Private Levy case; Taft-Hartley Act; anti-lynching; conscientious objectors; peonage; immigration; and other subjects.