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Box 1

 Container

Contains 92 Results:

News Service, March 2-April 14, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Victor Reuther Attacks WMC for Illegal Draft"; "Opposition to Postwar Conscription Increasing in Labor Movement"; "Union Backs Farm Laborers Fighting Gov't Eviction'; "Stetin Proposes Four Point Manpower Plan"; "Press Fight Against Labor Draft Slavery"; and others

Dates: March 2-April 14, 1945

"Church Leader Wins Labor's Rights Award", March 12, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 76
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 12, 1945

News Service, May 3, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Peonage Widespread in Florida, Milgram Reports"; and "Compulsory Military Training"

Dates: May 3, 1945

News Service, May 11, 1945-July 25, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Peace-Time Military Conscription and the Democratic Potential"; "Labor Leaders Urge Campaign Against Conscription Threat"; "Appeal to Labor to Halt Sharecropper Eviction"; 'Sheriff Stand by While Planter Beats Cropper"; "Veteran Testifies Against Postwar Military Training"; and others.

Dates: May 11, 1945-July 25, 1945

News Service, August 2-August 29, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Labor Baiters Get Setback"; "Senator Brien McMahon Hits BBH Anti-Labor Bill"; "WDL Asks Truman Act Against Army Strikebreaking Exercises"; "Sharecropper Asks $6,000 for Beating By Planter: Half-Blindness Resulted"; and others

Dates: August 2-August 29, 1945

News Service, September 6-September 27, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Unionists Protest Denial of Pardon to Framed Labor Lawyer"; "WDL Asks U.S. Probe of Murder Threat to Union Organizers"; "Burton's Quick Ok by Senate Protested: WDL Says Truman Appointee Anti-Labor"; and others

Dates: September 6-September 27, 1945

News Service, October 4-October 18, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Elevator Strikers' Demands Upheld by WDL Church Committee"; "WDL Acts Against Anti-Semitism in Patterson Press"; "An Analysis of the Ball-Burton-Hatch Bill"; "WDL Again Asks Repudiation of O'Donnell Column"; and others.

Dates: October 4-October 18, 1945

Press Release, November 1, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 77
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Framed Labor Lawyer Freed"; "Breaking up of Interracial Service Denounced by Minister"; "WDL Scores Truman Attempt to Push Through Conscription"; and others.

Dates: November 1, 1945

Press Release, November 8, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 78
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Schwellenbach Urged to Oppose New Smith Bill"; "WDL Seeks Action Against Army Officers Who Gave Strikebreaking Drill"; and "Negro Ball Players Offered Aid in Getting Redress Under State FEPC"

Dates: November 8, 1945

News Service, November 22-December 27, 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Republican House Leader Urged to Back FEPC"; "WDL Asks End of Prison Discrimination"; "Truman Condemns Transit Strikers for Refusal to Arbitrate But Mum of General Motors' and Wards" No to Union Arbitration Offer"; "Anti-Picketing Ordinance Against GM Strikers Draws WDL Protest"; "WDL Denounces Truman on Anti-Strike Law"; and others.

Dates: November 22-December 27, 1945