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Title: Walton D. Phillips Pamphlet collection
Date (inclusive): 1903-1966
Creator:
Phillips, Walton D.
Extent:
8.27 Cubic Feet
(36 boxes)
Collection number: larc.pam.0003
Accession number: 1988/071
Repository:
Labor Archives and Research Center
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
San Francisco State University
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132-1722
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu
Extent:
8.27 Cubic Feet
(36 boxes)
Abstract: The Walton D. Phillips Pamphlet Collection contains printed material such as pamphlets, booklets, and assorted newsletters
published by labor organizers, leftist political groups, and unions in the first half of the 20th century in the United States.
Topics include class struggle, strike strategy, racism and anti-semitism, socialism and anarchism, capitalism, labor unions,
and other issues related to organized labor. Groups such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Communist Party of
the United States of America (CPUSA), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU),
and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are heavily represented in this collection. There are also substantial materials
related to political prisoners and the Red Scare, including the political trials of Tom Mooney and Earl Browder.
Physical Location: Materials are stored offsite; requires advance notice.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives and Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the Labor Archives and Research Center 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], Walton D. Phillips Pamphlet Collection, larc.pam.0003, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco
State University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Walton D. Phillips in 1988, accession number 1988/071.
Arranged as received.
The Walton D. Phillips Pamphlet Collection contains printed material such as pamphlets, booklets, and assorted newsletters
published by labor organizers, leftist political groups, and unions in the first half of the 20th century in the United States.
Topics include class struggle, strike strategy, racism and anti-semitism, socialism and anarchism, capitalism, labor unions,
and other issues related to organized labor. Groups such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Communist Party of
the United States of America (CPUSA), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU),
and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are heavily represented in this collection. There are also substantial materials
related to political prisoners and the Red Scare, including the political trials of Tom Mooney and Earl Browder.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Pamphlets
Communist trials -- United States.
Socialist literature
Socialists -- United States.
Labor -- California -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945.