Box 1
Contains 92 Results:
Workers Defense League Tenth Anniversary Journal, 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
Press Service, August 10, 1942-December 28, 1942
Press Service, January 4-April 12, 1943
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.
"N.Y. Hotel Bars Negro Union Organizer UAW-CIO, With WDL Aid, Gets Criminal Summons for Hotel Manager" [press release], March 29, 1943
Press Service, May 3-September 7, 1943
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
News Service, July 19-September 27, 1943
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.
News Service, October 11-December 27, 1943
News Service, 1944
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.
News Service, January 19-February 16, 1945
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