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Inventory of the Catholic Labor Institute Collection

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Box and Folder List

Series 1: Subject Files 1944-2003

Physical Description: 1.0 document boxes

Series Description

This series consists of subject files that Patrick W. Henning created as director of the Catholic Labor Institute (CLI). There are also subject files related to the early work of the CLI under Reverend Thomas F. Coogan and Reverend Joseph V. Kearney in the 1940s and 1950s, which Henning probably preserved. For example, the materials in folder 1 came from a file folder labelled in pencil "Institute History," which Henning may have kept for his own reference or to preserve the history of the CLI or both.

Materials in this series include newspaper clippings on labor issues in Los Angeles and California or the CLI, pamphlets for training programs and classes of the CLI, press releases, correpsondence, the newsletter of the CLI ("The Mediator"), speeches, and photographs.

Box 1, Folder 1

General Subject File 1944-1986

Physical Description: 1.0 folder

Scope and Contents note

Father Joseph V. Kearney and Reverend Thomas F. Coogan incoming and outgoing correspondence, The Mediator (Catholic Labor Institute newsletter), memorandum and registrants list re National Catholic Social Action Conference, radio script

Box 1, Folder 2

"Institute History" 1957-1962

Physical Description: 1.0 folder

Scope and Contents note

Photographs of annual Labor Day mass and breakfast, with Cardinal James Frances McIntyre, Burton Chace, and "Father Kearney." Catholic Labor Insitute pamphlets. Speech of Reverend Thomas F. Coogan.

Box 1, Folder 3

Cardinal Roger Mahoney Subject File 1975-1991

Physical Description: 1.0 folder

Scope and Contents note

Catholic Labor Institute pamphlets. Cardinal Roger Mahoney statement re disturbance at California Agricultural Labor Board. Patrick W.Henning incoming and outgoing correspondence with Cardinal Roger Mahoney. Newspaper clippings re Roman Catholic social policy.

Box 1, Folder 4

General Subject File 1971-1989

Physical Description: 1.0 folder

Scope and Contents note

Catholic Labor Institute press release. Notes (by Patrick W. Henning?). Newspaper articles (copies). 38 black and white 8x10 photographs, including Tom Bradley, Archbishop Timothy Manning, Cardinal John Francis McIntyre, and Cardinal Roger Mahony. Patrick W Henning outgoing correspondence with Cardinal Mahony. Catholic Labor Institute pamphlets.

Box 1, Folder 5

Correspondence with Cardinal Roger Mahony 1989

Physical Description: 1.0 folder

Scope and Contents note

Catholic Labor Institute confidential memorandum re Cardinal Roger Mahony. Patrick W. Henning incoming and outgoing correspondence with Cardinal Roger Mahony, especially re cemetery workers' unionization. Copy of California State Assembly Bill 1100, with supporting material.

Box 1, Folder 6

Citizenship Class 1956

Physical Description: 1.0 folder

Scope and Contents note

Photograph, newspaper clipping re Catholic Labor Institute citizenship class.

Box 1, Folder 7

General Subject File 1958-2003

Physical Description: 1.0 folder

Scope and Contents note

Copies of Mediator, Catholic Labor Institute newsletter. Reverend Joseph V. Kearney incoming correspondence. Newsletter and flyer from "Capitol Ministries," private, conservative religious organization at California state legislature.

Box 1, Folder 8

"CLI Industrial Homework" 1958-1990

Physical Description: 1.0 folder

Scope and Contents note

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, Catholic Labor Institute position paper re industrial homework. Meeting minutes, newsletter, list of directors re Catholic Social Action Conference.

Box 1ov

Series 2: Oversized Photographs 1954-1962

Physical Description: 1.0 oversized document boxes

Scope and Contents note

This series consists of seven panoramic photographs of the annual Labor Day breakfasts that the Catholic Labor Institute held in Los Angeles, at such hotels as the Biltmore and the Statler. The photographs are all found in Box 1ov.

Box 2ov

Series 3: Catholic Labor Institute Album 1945-1953

Physical Description: 1.0 oversized document boxes

Scope and Contents note

This series consists of an album, found in box 2ov, of photographs, correspondence, flyers and pamphlets, and newspaper clippings documenting the activities of the Catholic Labor Institute (CLI) and Reverend Thomas F. Coogan from 1945 to 1952. Perhaps Reverend Joseph V. Kearney assembled it. Of special interest is the correspondence and CLI flyer denouncing the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (UE) Local 1421, dominated by Communists, in its bid to lead the union at Standard Coil.

Also included are loose newspaper articles from Roman Catholic newspapers ( The Tidings and The Southern Cross) on the activities of Roman Catholic Church in labor issues in Southern California.

Box and Folder List

Series 1: Subject Files

Series 2: Oversized Photographs

Series 3: Catholic Labor Institute Album