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Contains 92 Results:

Workers Defense League Tenth Anniversary Journal, 1946

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1946

At Least Three Lynchings in 1940, All of Whites, Clendenin Tells Congressman: Urges Support of Federal Anti-Lynching Bill" [press release], July 10, 1940

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 74
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...
Dates: July 10, 1940

Press Service, August 10, 1942-December 28, 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents Includes headlines such as: "Anti-Union Sheriff Accused of WDL of 'Incitement to Violence'; "Campaign Against Poll Tax Gains Momentum"; "Negro Leader Compares Negro Movement with Gandhi's Indian Movement A. Philip Randolph Scores President's Action on FEPC"; "Labor Leaders Hail Soldier Vote Bill as Death Knell for Poll Tax"; "Negro and White Unionists Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Southern Lockout, Workers Defense League Asks Dep't of Justice Investigate Sheriff"; and others. A majority...
Dates: August 10, 1942-December 28, 1942

Press Service, January 4-April 12, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "WDL Branch Assesses Members to Fight Army Jim Crow"; "Randolph Hails Washington FEPC Hearings on Railroads' Job Discrimination"; "National Storm of Protest Against McNutt's Postponement of FEPC Railroad Hearings"; "Arkansas Anti-Labor Bill"; "WDL National Secretary Opposes Austin-Wadsworth Labor Conscription Act"; and others.

Dates: January 4-April 12, 1943

"N.Y. Hotel Bars Negro Union Organizer UAW-CIO, With WDL Aid, Gets Criminal Summons for Hotel Manager" [press release], March 29, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 75
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...
Dates: March 29, 1943

Press Service, May 3-September 7, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Ku Klux Klan Lawyer, Representing U.S. Sugar Corp. Beats U.S. Gov't Peonage Indictments Dismissed"; "Repeal of Oriental Exclusion Act Urged"; "The Kyne Report on Bolivia"; "Bishop McConnell Asks FDR Veto Connally Smith Bill"; "Tolan Committee Urged to Investigate Race Riots"; and others

Dates: May 3-September 7, 1943

News Service, July 19-September 27, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "New Form of Peonage Exposed by President of Southern Tenant Farmers Union"; "WDL Organizes Free Labor in Free America Campaign to Stop the Austin Wadsworth Bill"; "Workers Defense League Joins Campaign for Relase of Kelly Postal"; "McNutt Urged to Consider What Draft of Manpower Would Mean to Americans"; and others.

Dates: July 19-September 27, 1943

News Service, October 11-December 27, 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents Includes headlines such as: "Hosie Warns Race Segregation in Army Cannot Wait Until War's End in Urging Al Levy Case Be Reviewed"; "Army Replies on Levy Case, Says He Had Fair Trial Denies Negro Issue. Workers Defense League Replies to Army With Brief to FDR"; "WDL Asks Labor Back Anti-Poll Tax Bill, Fight White Primary Calls on Sen. Pepper to Publicly Back Repeal Bill"; "Supreme Court Refusal to Hear Minneapolis Smith Gag Act Case Called Dangerous Precedent Against Labor by WDL"; and...
Dates: October 11-December 27, 1943

News Service, 1944

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Labor Leader Challenges Senator on Secret Draft Labor Report"; " Restore Private Levy's Rank, End Army Jim Crow, Noted Negro Labor and Church Leaders Ask FDR"; "Labor Draft Legislation to the Fore Again"; "Deportation of Anti-Imperialist to British Guiana Stopped by WDL"; and others.

Dates: 1944

News Service, January 19-February 16, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Calling for a Democratic Solution to the Manpower Problem"; "WDL Investigation Brings Federal Grand Jury Hearing in Florida"; "Levenstein Exposes Labor Draft as Army Scheme to Take Full Control of Civilian Economy"; "Justice Dept Asked to Probe Florida Mass Arrests"; and others

Dates: January 19-February 16, 1945