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Guide to the Simon Julius Lubin Papers, 1912-1936
BANC MSS C-B 1059
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Collection Title: Simon Julius Lubin Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1912-1936
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 1059
Creator:
Lubin, Simon Julius, 1876-1936
Extent:
Number of containers: 5 boxes, 2 cartons
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence, biographical sketches, articles and addresses, reports, clippings, etc., relating primarily to his service
with the State Commission of Immigration and Housing and its investigation of IWW sabotage activities during World War I,
agricultural labor camps, and the 1913 Wheatland hopfield riot. Some later material relates to the Pan American Reciprocal
Trade Conference.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Simon Julius Lubin Papers, BANC MSS C-B 1059, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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Title: Simon Lubin Society Papers,Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-B 409.
Simon Julius Lubin was born in Sacramento on November 27, 1876. He began his long career of social and civic service, after
graduation from Harvard University in 1903, as a settlement worker in Boston's South End House. In 1904 he lived in the lower
east side of New York City, studying social problems. Returning to California in 1906, he took over the management of the
store his father, David Lubin, founded with Harris Weinstock in Sacramento.
He achieved state-wide recognition in 1912 when he was appointed by Governor Hiram W. Johnson a member of the State Immigration
Commission which was to investigate the immigration problems anticipated with the opening of the Panama Canal. He drafted
a bill to create a permanent Commission of Immigration and Housing, which was approved by the Legislature in 1913. The Governor
appointed him president of the new Commission which included also, as members, Mrs. Mary Gibson, the Reverend Father Edward
J. Hanna, Paul Scharrenberg and Arthur B. Fleming. The Commission was entrusted with two major problems, the welfare of the
immigrant and the related problem of his housing, and also handled special assignments such as investigations of the 1913
Wheatland hop field riot; the IWW activities during World War I and the vice conditions in Sacramento in 1918; the improvement
of agricultural labor camps; and the development of housing legislation. In 1923 Lubin resigned from the Commission, at the
request of Governor Friend W. Richardson, after a disagreement over the Governor's dismissal of Commission member Paul Scharrenberg.
Lubin continued his career as civic leader, organizing the Sacramento Region Citizens Council in 1926 and the Pan American
Reciprocal Trade Conference in 1930, and serving as director of the Department of Commerce of California, 1932-1934, and special
commissioner of the National Labor Board in 1932.
He died on April 15, 1936.
These papers were given to the Bancroft Library by his family, some ca. 1947, with additions in 1953. Covering the period
1912-1936, they relate primarily to his service with the Commission of Immigration and Housing, and consist of correspondence,
clippings, reports, biographical sketches, and articles and addresses. There is very little material after 1923, and this
is concerned primarily with the Pan American Reciprocal Trade Conference.
A Key to Arrangement and list of the more important correspondents in the collection follow.