Skip to main content

Box 1

 Container

Contains 92 Results:

News Service, April 14-28, 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 66
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "WDL Helps Organize Citizens Committee on Wall Street Strike"; "Murray Backs WDL Plan for Commission to Combat Slave Labor"; "WDL Spokesman Testifies Against Draft and UMT"; and others.

Dates: April 14-28, 1948

News Service, May 5-26, 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 67
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Goldsborough Ruling Against Miners Called Erroneous"; "Four Freedoms Have Become Four Fears for DiGiorgio Strikers"; "Truman Asked to Veto Appropriation Bills with Anti-Labor Riders"; "Protest Shooting of Farm Strike Leader"; and others.

Dates: May 5-26, 1948

News Service, June 2-30, 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 68
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Blackjacked Sharecropper Sues Landlord for $100,000"; "Indonesians Free From Bail"; Jim Crow Housing Trust Dissolved"; and others.

Dates: June 2-30, 1948

News Service, July 21, 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 69
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Fifty-Nine Spanish Loyalists in Russian Concentration Camp"; "WDL to Help Sharecropper Cash U.S. Check"

Dates: July 21, 1948

News Service, August 11-28, 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 70
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "WDL Pressing Damage Suit of Ousted Negro Sharecropper"; "UN Action Urged on Sadistic Murder of 22 Asturians by Franco Militia"; and others. Also includes document "Indalecio Prieto Asks Can You Still Cry Out at Horror and Atrocity- Then Read of a New Guernica" International Solidarity Committee circa 1948

Dates: August 11-28, 1948

News Service, September 15-December 29, 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 71
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Police Book Censorship Protested by 146 Ministers from 28 States"; "WDL Wins First Round in Suit of Ousted Sharecroppers"; "Urge Halt of Illegal Entry of Mexicans to Work Under Slave Conditions"; "Jersey Judge Holds Swimming Pools Not Covered by Civil Rights Law"; and others.

Dates: September 15-December 29, 1948

News Service, October 13, 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 72
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Landlord Charged With Legal Responsibility for Assault on Sharecropper"; "WDL Joins Drive to Halt General Motors Control of Michigan Education"; "Free two Indonesian Seamen Who Refused Jobs on Dutch Munitions Ships"

Dates: October 13, 1948

"Slave Labor Hearings Planned" [press release], December 15, 1948

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 79
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: December 15, 1948

News Service, March 9, 1949

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 73
Scope and Contents

Includes headlines such as: "Forced Labor Commission Finds Worldwide Slavery"

Dates: March 9, 1949

"Army Voids Black Mark Against G.I. Instructor" [press release], July 21, 1954

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 80
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 21, 1954