WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
WHMC stores the original collection off site. Please allow 3 business days for retrieval.
The microfilm of the collection remains on site and open for research at the WHMC St.
Louis office during normal office hours.
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Wheeler donated the records of the Socialist Party of St. Louis and Missouri in 1972.
The Socialist Party of Missouri became one of the best organized state-wide chapters of the American Socialist Party, especially active during the 1930s and 1940s. Missouri contained strong pockets of rural socialism and consequently, the Party considered the state an important region for socialist activity. The Socialist Party Records reflect this activity.
See also: sl 184 Camp Solidarity, Inc., 1937-
SERIES DESCRIPTION
1: Administrative Files, Folders 1-39
2: Activities, Folders, 40-79
3: Publications, Folders, 80-94
4: Addenda, Folders, 95-98
Oversize Material: Framed photograph of Socialist National Emergency Convention held in St. Louis. April 8-14, 1917
Boxes 12 and 13 contain the microfilm reproduction of the collection.
Oral History Tapes
T-217-David Thayer Burbank
T-436-David Cohen
T-225-Edward Petrikovitsch with Doris & Maurice Wheeler
T-226-Edward Petrikovitsch
T-356-Norman Thomas
T-268-Harry Von Romer
T-273-Harry Von Romer
T-225-Edward Petrikovitsch with Doris & Maurice Wheeler
FOLDER LIST
SERIES 1: ADMINISTRATIVE FILES
Folder 1. Constitutions, 1933-1935
2. Party Charter, 1946
3. General Committee Minutes, 1914, 1919
4. General Committee Minutes and Reports, 1932-1934
5. General Committee, Executive Committee and Annual Convention Minutes and Reports, 1934
6. State Executive Committee Convention and Central Branch Minutes and Reports, 1935
7. State Executive Committee Minutes and Reports, 1936-1937
8. National Convention Proceeding, 1940
9. National Action Committee and National Executive Committee Minutes, 1945
10. National Action Committee, National Executive Committee Minutes, 1946
11. National Action Committee, National Executive Committee Minutes, 1947,
1956
12. Correspondence, 1933
13. Correspondence, January-May 1934
14. Correspondence, June-July 1934
15. Correspondence, August-September 1934
16. Correspondence, October-December 1934
17. Correspondence, January-February 1935
18. Correspondence, March-April 1935
19. Correspondence, May 1935
20. Correspondence, June 1935
21. Correspondence, July-September 1935
22. Correspondence, October-December 1935
23. Correspondence, January 1936
24. Correspondence, February-March 1936
25. Correspondence, April-September 1936
26. Correspondence, October-December 1936
27. Correspondence, 1937-1938
28. Correspondence, 1944-1951
29. Circular Letters, 1945-1950
30. Financial Reports, 1932-1936
31. Financial Correspondence, Pamphlet and Book Orders, 1933
32. Financial Correspondence, Pamphlet and Book Orders, 1934
33. Financial Correspondence, Pamphlet and Book Orders, 1935
34. Financial Correspondence, Pamphlet and Book Orders, 1936-1937
35. Financial Correspondence, Pamphlet and Book Orders, 1948
36. Financial Correspondence, Pamphlet and Book Orders, Undated
37. Applications for Local Organizations of Branch Charters Reorganization Correspondence, 1934-1935
38. Membership Lists, 1933-1935
39. Biographical Sketches of Socialist Party Members
SERIES 2: ACTIVITIES
40. Civil Liberties, Correspondence, Reports, Press Releases, 1933-1937
41. Communist Party, Correspondence, 1934-1939
42. Communist Party, Correspondence, 1934-1941
43. Communist Party Newsclippings, 1933-1938
44. Left Wing Groups, Flyers, Circular Letters and Literature, 1933-1948
45. Education Committee Correspondence, and Committee Reports, 1933-1950
46. Educational Material, Articles, Reports, 1934, 1947
47. Plays, Skits and Carnival Material, 1934-1936
48. Socialist Organizers' Summer Schools, 1934-1935
49. Socialist Organizers' Summer Schools, 1935-1944
50. Interparty Elections, 1932-1951
51. State and National Elections, 1909-1914
52. State and National Elections, 1932-1935
53. State and National Elections, 1936-1937
54. State and National Elections, 1938, 1944
55. State and National Elections, 1946-1950
56. Poll Worker Law Suit, 1951-1955
57. Legal Disputes Over Election Laws, 1938-1941
58. Labor Unions, 1933-1938
59. Labor Unions, n.d.
60. Labor Union Periodicals, 1935-1938
61. Labor-Social Work Committee, Minutes and Memos, 1945
62. St. Louis Labor Education Project Reports, 1939-1950
63. American Workers Union, 1934-1935
64. Boot and Shoe Workers Union, 1935
65. Gas House Workers Union, 1935
66. The Illinois Worker, 1935
67. International Pocketbook Workers Union, 1935-1936
68. Labor Non-Partisan League, 1936-1938
69. Labor Welfare Conference, 1945
70. Southern Tenant Farmers Union, 1935
71. Unemployed and Relief Workers of America Convention, 1935
72. Unemployed Citizens League, 1934
73. Warehouse Workers Strike, 1935
74. Workers Alliance of America, 1934-1935
75. Political Rallies, Reports, 1934
76. Political Rallies, Permits, 1933-1936
77. Political Rallies, Permit Rejection, 1933-1934
78. Red Falcons of America, 1935-1936
79. Young People's Socialist League, 1933-1935
SERIES 3: PUBLICATIONS
80. Flyers, Handouts and Leaflets, 1931-1933
81. Flyers, Handouts and Leaflets, 1932-1937
82. Pamphlets, 1939-1940
83. Reports and Position Papers, 1944
84. Resolutions, n.d.
85. Missouri Socialist, 1935-1937
86. The Missouri Rebel, 1935
87. The Call to Action, 1933
88. The Bulletin, 1935-1937
89. United Socialist Drive, 1934
90. Socialist Periodicals, 1934-1956
91. Socialist Party Bulletin, 1956-1957
92. Labor and Socialist Press, 1935-1936
93. Newspaper Clippings, 1932-1939
94. Newspaper Clippings, 1940-1951
SERIES 4: ADDENDA
95. Julius Deutsche Lecture in St. Louis, 1934
96. Edward Petrikovitsch Correspondence to and from Norman Thomas and others, 1928-1964
97. Solidarity Slants, Newsletter of Camp Solidarity, 1950-1961
98. Proceedings of the Emergency Convention of the Socialist Party of America at St. Louis, 1917, (in UM-St. Louis Library special collections, HX 89 S75 1917)
MICROFILM REPRODUCTION OF COLLECTION
Roll 1: folders 1-9
Roll 2: folders 10-18
Roll 3: folders 19-28
Roll 4: folders 29-37
Roll 5: folders 38-48
Roll 6: folders 49-59
Roll 7: folders 60-73
Roll 8: folders 74-81
Roll 9: folders 82-85
Roll 10: folders 86-98
INDEX
Aft, Local 420, f. 62
Ahner, A.A., f. 64
Alfonso, Marianne, f.12
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, f. 62
American Workers' Union, f. 63
Armstrong, William Tyree, f. 23
Anderson, Douglass B. f. 39
Anti-Fascism, f. 80-84
Barber, Frederick Arthur, f. 17
Becker, Bill, f. 23
Beimiller, Andrew J. f. 12
Board of Education, f. 23
Boot and Shoe Workers Union, f. 64
Bradley, E.J., f. 62
Brandt, William M., f. 62
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, f. 62
The Bulletin, f. 88
Burbank, David Thayer, f. 12, 24, T-217
Burt, Roy E. f. 24, 39
The Call to Action, f. 87
Camp Solidarity, f. 97
Civil Liberties, f. 97
Cohen, David, f. 12, 40
Communication Workers of America, Southern Division #20, f. 62
Communist Party, f. 12, 41
Company Unions, f. 12
Continental Congress of Workers and Farmers, f. 12
Cooperative Voters and Consumers Alliance of Missouri, f. 44
Daily Strike Bulletin, f. 65
Duemler, George, f. 12, 17, 23
Deutsche, Julius, f. 95
Education Work, f. 17-49
Eisman, Alfred H., f. 12
Elections, f. 50-57
Farmers Committee for Thomas and Nelson, f. 23
Federal Employment Policies and Practices, f. 63-74
Federation for Economic and Political Education, f. 44
Finances, f. 30-36
Fleischmann, Harry, f. 23, 39
Flynn, E.J., f. 17
Friends of Abraham Lincoln Brigade, f. 23
Gas House Workers Union, f. 62, 65
Gilmartin Aron S., f. 23
Haan, Mattie De, f. 17
Hamilton, John, f. 62
Hargis, A.L., f. 17
Harris, Herbert, f. 23
Hodges, Joseph G., f. 23
Hoehn, Gottlieb, f. 62
Holgridge, General H.C. , f. 39
Hoops, Walter, f. 95-97
Hoopes, Darlington, f. 39
IBEW, f. 62
ILGWU, f. 62
The Illinois Worker, f. 66
International Pocketbook Workers Union, f. 67
Joint Council of Women's Auxiliary of St. Louis, f. 62
Jones, Charles, f. 39
Kovaka, George, f. 17, 23
Labor Education, f. 62
Labor and Socialist Press Service, f. 92
Labor and Union Groups, f. 63-74
Labor Non-Partisan League, f. 68
Lechner, Martin, f. 12, 17, 23
Levine, Esther, f. 23
Levitas, S.M., f. 12
Liederman, Robert, f. 12
Lipscomb, Bruce, f. 17, 23
Lynching, f. 12
League of Industrial Democracy, f. 95-97
League of Youth Action for World Peace, f. 44
Marshall, Robert F., f. 39
McDowell, Arthur, G., f. 23
Men and Women's Independent Progressives Clubs, f. 12
Meyer, W.C., f. 12
Milton, Henry, f. 44
The Missouri Rebel, f. 85
National Action Committee, f. 9-11
National Convention Proceedings, f. 8
National Student League, Washington University, f. 44
O'Hare, Kate Richards, f. 82
Petrikovitsch, Edward, f. 96, T-225
Political Rallies, f. 75-77
Preisler, Doris, f. 12, 17, 23, 30, 44
Preisler, Paul, f. 12, 23, 30, 44
Racism, f. 121
Rasmussen, Paul, f. 17
Red Falcons of America, f. 78
Rogers, Ward, f. 17
Ryder, Mary, f. 62
St. Louis Education Committee for Independent Political Action, f. 44
St. Louis Labor Education Project, f. 62
St. Louis League of Women Shoppers, f. 44
Saunders, Robert, f. 12, 23, 39
Scabs, f. 17
Scott, Howard, f. 44
Segregation, f. 12
Sender, Tony, f. 39
Senior, Clarence, f. 12, 17, 23
The Sharecroppers Voice, f. 70
Snow, Thad, f. 23
Social Problems and Lecture Bureau, f. 23
Socialist Party, f. 1-98
Socialist Party Bulletin, f. 91
Solidarity Slants, f. 97
Southern Tenant Farmers Union, f. 70
Strikes, f. 17
Taussig, Mary C. f. 23
Teachers' Union, f. 17
Technocracy, f. 44
Thayer, Mrs. Frances, f. 12
Third International, f. 12
Thomas, Norman, f. 12, 23, 39, T-356
Thomas, Mrs. Norman, f. 23
Tracer, Frank, N., f. 23
Trotskyites, f. 23
Unemployed and Relief Workers of America, f. 71
Unemployed Citizens League, f. 12, 72
Unions, f. 63-67
United Socialist Drive, f. 89
University of Missouri-St. Louis, f. 58-62
Von Romer, Harry, f. 6, 7, T-268
Warehouse Workers, f. 17, 73
Wheeler, Doris, f. 12-16, 23, 45-59, T-225
Workers' Alliance of America, f. 17, 74
Workers' Defense League, f. 23
Young People's Socialist League, f. 12, 79
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