Register of the Marx Lewis papers

Finding aid prepared by Rebecca J. Mead.
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Title: Marx Lewis papers
Date (inclusive): 1907-1988
Collection Number: 88029
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 26 manuscript boxes (10.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, bulletins, newsletters, press releases, resolutions, trial transcripts, pamphlets, and clippings, relating to the 1919 trial of Victor Berger under the Espionage Act; Socialist Party internal politics, especially during the mid-1930s; post-World War II opposition to communism within American trade unions; and anti-communist activities of the Council Against Communist Aggression and its successor organization, the Council for the Defense of Freedom.
Creator: Lewis, Marx, 1897-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

Boxes FH2 and FH6 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1988.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Marx Lewis Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note.

1897, December 28 Born, Brooklyn, New York
1917-1919, Secretary to Representative Meyer London
1919-1920 Associate Editor, New York Call
1923-1929 Secretary to Representative Victor Berger
1929-c. 1934 Lawyer, Washington, D.C.
1934-1938 Executive Secretary, United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
1938-1939 Deputy Treasurer, City of New York
1939-1949 Executive Vice President, United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
1949-1960 General Secretary-Treasurer, United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
1950- Chairman, Council Against Communist Aggression (subsequently known as the Council for the Defense of Freedom)
Marx Lewis was a member of the Board of Directors of the League for Industrial Democracy; he was Chairman of the National Legislative Committee, Liberal Party of New York State for l4 years, as well as a member of its State Executive and Trade Union Committees; and he was on the Labor Advisory Committee of the National Labor Service, American Jewish Committee.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Anti-communist movements -- United States
Subversive activities -- United States
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
Socialism -- United States
Labor unions -- United States
Labor unions and communism
Socialist Party (U.S.)
Berger, Victor L., 1860-1929
Council for the Defense of Freedom (U.S.)

 

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1926-1977.

Scope and Contents note

Clippings, biographical sketches, and miscellany. Arranged chronologically.
box 1, folder 1

Clippings, biographical sketches, and miscellany; includes material relating to the 1949 presidential inaguration.

 

CORRESPONDENCE FILE, 1916-1986

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memorandum, miscellany, clippings, and letters to the editor by Marx Lewis and Norman Thomas. NOTE: Includes letters neither to nor from Marx Lewis; most of these were generated primarily by Arthur McDowell, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Council Against Communist Aggression. Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
box 1, folder 2

General, 1928-1984

box 1, folder 3

Berle, Adolph, 1960-1969

box 1, folder 4

Borin, V.L., 1962-1965

box 1, folder 5

Bridges, Harry, 1962

box 1, folder 6

Buckley, William F., Jr., 1960-1964

box 1, folder 7

Bundy, McGeorge, 1965

box 1, folder 8

Cherne, Leo, 1966

box 1, folder 9

Civiletti, Benjamin R., 1977

box 1, folder 10

Darrow, Clarence, 1933-1934

box 1, folder 11

Debs, Eugene V., 1916

box 1, folder 12

DeToledano, Ralph, 1964

box 1, folder 13

Dodd, Thomas J., 1960-1966

box 1, folder 14

Douglas, Paul, 1958-1966

box 1, folder 15

Emmet, Christopher, 1960

box 1, folder 16

Ernst, Morris, 1970-1972

box 1, folder 17

Green, William, 1952. Includes clippings and a letter from Alex Rose

box 1, folder 18

Hard, William, 1946-1947

box 1, folder 19

Harriman, Averell, 1954

box 1, folder 20

Helms, Jesse, 1986

box 1, folder 21

Hornbeck, Stanley, 1957-1966

box 1, folder 22

Irvine, Reed, 1971-1973

box 1, folder 23

Johnson, Lyndon B., 1960-1968

box 1, folder 24

Judd, Walter, 1960-1976. Includes a prospectus

box 1, folder 25

Kampelman, Max, 1963

box 2, folder 1

Kennedy, Edward, 1967

box 2, folder 2

Kennedy, John, 1961-1962

box 2, folder 3

Kennedy, Robert, 1961-1968

box 2, folder 4

Kornfeder, Joseph Z., 1963

box 2, folder 5

Labin, Suzanne, 1962-1964

box 2, folder 6

LaGuardia, Fiorello, 1932-1947. Includes an unpublished letter to the editor by Marx Lewis

box 2, folder 7

Levine, Isaac Don, 1961-1965

box 2, folder 8

Lewis, Alfred Baker, 1929-1963

box 2, folder 9

Lodge, John D., 1964

box 2, folder 10

Lovestone, Jay, 1962-1965

box 2, folder 11

Mayers, Henry (Cold War Council), 1963-1965

box 2, folder 12

Meany, George, 1954-1965

box 2, folder 13

Mondale, Walter, 1969

box 2, folder 14

Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, 1960-1961

box 2, folder 15

Mundt, Karl, 1959-1969

box 2, folder 16

Nixon, Richard (Rosemary Woods), 1969

box 2, folder 17

Nunn, Sam, 1983

box 2, folder 18

Philbrick, Herbert A., 1960-1966

box 2, folder 19

Pound, Roscoe, 1960

box 2, folder 20

Randolph, A. Philip, 1960

box 2, folder 21

Rauh, Joseph L., Jr., 1960

box 2, folder 22

Regnery, Henry, 1965-1986

box 2, folder 23

Reuther, Victor G., 1963

box 2, folder 24

Robertson, Walter, 1954

box 2, folder 25

Roosevelt, Edith Kermit, 1965

box 2, folder 26

Roosevelt, Elliott, 1966

box 2, folder 27

Roosevelt, James, 1966

box 2, folder 28

Russell, Charles Edward, 1933-1935

box 2, folder 29

Scott, Hugh, 1960

box 2, folder 30

Sinclair, Upton, 1960

box 2, folder 31

Singlaub, John (U.S. Council for World Freedom), 1985

box 2, folder 32

Sprague, O.M.W., 1933-1934

box 2, folder 33

Steele, Peter, 1963

box 2, folder 34

Stevenson, Adlai, 1960

box 2, folder 35

Stewart-Smith, D.G. (Foreign Affairs Circle), 1963-1965

box 2, folder 36

Swarup, Ram (Asian People's Anti-Communist League), 1963-1965

box 2, folder 37

Symms, Steve, 1986

box 2, folder 38

Thomas, Norman, 1928-1984. Including clippings, memorandum, a letter to the editor by Norman Thomas, and miscellany

box 2, folder 39

Times (New York). Includes Arthur Krock, Hanson Baldwin, and Abe H. Raskin, 1962-1964

box 2, folder 40

Wayne, John, 1960-1970

box 2, folder 41

Weyl, Nathaniel, 1960-1964

box 2, folder 42

White, William S., 1966

box 2, folder 43

Wolfe, Bertram, 1972-1977. Includes a clipping

box 2, folder 44

Yorty, Samuel, 1962

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1923-1986.

Scope and Contents note

Typescripts and printed copies by Marx Lewis, and related material, including correspondence, a newsletter, a circular, letters to editors, an interview, and a report. Arranged chronologically.
box 2, folder 45

Typescripts, circular, newsletter, correspondence, printed copies, letters to editors, interview, and a report

 

COUNCIL AGAINST COMMUNIST AGGRESSION, 1950-1987

Scope and Contents note

Speeches (by William Green, Paul Douglas, Bertram Wolfe, Arthur McDowell, Thomas Dodd, Christopher Emmet, Herbert Philbrick and others), reports, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, press releases. Arranged by physical form, and chronologically thereunder.
 

General. Speeches (by William Green, Paul Douglas, Bertram Wolfe, Arthur McDowell, Thomas Dodd, Christopher Emmet, Herbert Philbrick and others), reports (by Marx Lewis and others), memoranda, press releases, pamphlets, clippings, newsletters (written by Marx Lewis and others), position statements, book reviews, and miscellany; includes material relating to the dismissal of Povl Bang-Jensen from the United Nations. SEE ALSO: SUBJECT FILE, part of which was apparently collected in the course of the Council's activities

box 3, folder 1-5

1951-1958

box 4, folder 1-6

1959-1967

box 5, folder 1-5

1968-1983

 

Correspondence. Includes letters to Arthur Kohlberg, Dean Acheson, Rebecca West, William Henry Chamberlin, Charles Percy, Ronald Reagan, Moise Tshombe, John M. McCormack, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Fulbright, David Brinkley, Francis Walter, George Sokolsky, Victor Lasky, Thomas Kuchel, C. Dickerman Williams, Eugene McCarthy, Lawrence Fertig, John Foster Dulles, Milton Eisenhower, and William O. Douglas). Other individualized correspondence is included in the CORRESPONDENCE FILE

box 5, folder 6

1950-1955

box 6, folder 1-4

1956-1964

box 7, folder 1-3

1965-1987

 

SOCIALIST PARTY, 1921-1955

Scope and Contents note

Memoranda, agenda and minutes, resolutions, notes, printed articles, reports, statements, membership material, press releases, circulars, flyers, vote tallies, clippings, financial material, a copy of the New York State Socialist Party constitution, and fragments of an undated narrative, probably by Marx Lewis, describing the split in the New York State Socialist Party between left-wing and right-wing factions. Arranged by physical form.
 

General. Memoranda, agenda and minutes, resolutions, notes, printed articles (by Norman Thomas, Max Eastman and others), reports, statements, membership material, press releases, circulars, flyers, vote tallies, clippings, financial material, a copy of the New York State Socialist Party constitution, and fragments of an undated narrative by Marx Lewis (?) describing the split in the New York State Socialist Party between left-wing and right-wing factions

box 7, folder 4-5

Damaged material. Photocopies included below

box 8, folder 1

Undated

box 8, folder 2-4

1928-1935 July

box 9, folder 1-2

1935 Aug.-1955

 

Labor and Socialist Press Service (bulletin)

box 9, folder 3

Damaged material. Photocopies included below

box 9, folder 4-5

1933-1935 May

box 10, folder 1-2

1935 June-1936

box 10, folder 3

Correspondence. Includes Clarence Senior, Adolph Germer, and G. August Gerber, 1921-1936

 

VICTOR BERGER FILE, 1907-1967

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, legal brief, speeches and statements, biographical material, chronology, reports, notes, memoranda, clippings, reports, draft legislation, transcripts, flyers, and miscellany. Most of this material relates to the effort to obtain Victor Berger's congressional salary for his widow, Meta Berger. Arranged by physical form.
 

General

box 10, folder 4

Non-printed material. NOTE: Much of this material was written by Marx Lewis in an effort to obtain Victor Berger's congressional salary for his widow, Meta Berger. Legal brief, statements (by Bertrand Russell, Karl Kautsky and others), biographical material, chronology, reports, notes, memoranda on draft legislation, and miscellany, 1923-1934

box 10, folder 5

Printed material. Clippings (including some material relating to the career of Meta Berger), reports, draft legislation, statement, flyers, and miscellany, 1907-1967

 

Correspondence

box 10, folder 6

General. Includes Henry Allen Cooper and other congresspersons, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1927-1937

box 10, folder 7

Berger, Meta. Includes correspondence with others, 1924-1944

box 11, folder 1

Berger, Victor, 1924-1929

box 11, folder 2

Kautsky, Karl, 1931

box 11, folder 3

Welles, Doris Berger and Elsa (Berger) Edelman, 1926-1944

box 11, folder 4

Statement. Victor Berger to colleagues in Congress, 1919 April

 

Transcripts

box FH6

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1918 Oct., Vols. I-II

Access

Box FH6 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.

Separated Materials

Box 11:5 was removed and placed in Box FH6 for mold remediation treatment.
box 11, folder 6

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1918 Oct., Vols. I-II

 

U.S. Congress, 1919

box 12, folder 1-2

General. Excerpts and notes by Marx Lewis, apparently intended for use in the preparation of a book

box 12, folder 3-4

Hearings, Vols. I and II

 

SUBJECT FILE, 1918-1988

Scope and Contents note

Speeches, correspondence, newsletters, clippings, pamphlets, flyers, reports, printed articles, legal briefs, circulars, position statements, election materials, transcripts, draft legislation, press releases, interviews, notes, book reviews, biographical sketches, and resolutions. Arranged by subject.
box 13, folder 1

General. Printed articles (by Jay Lovestone, Elliott Abrams and others), speech, transcripts, and conference material, 1933-1984

box 13, folder 2

Africa. Speeches, clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, flyer, reports, and printed articles, 1964-1968; primarily relates to South Africa

box 13, folder 3

American Association for the Advancement of Atheism. Clippings and a legal brief, 1926-1927

box 13, folder 4

American Labor Party. Press release, clippings, circulars, position statements, and election materials, 1939-1944

box 13, folder 5

Christian Anti-Communist Crusade. Correspondence, newsletters, flyers (including a memorandum by Victor Reuther), press release, and clippings, 1959-1985

box 13, folder 6

Communism and anti-communism. Pamphlets, flyer, speech (by George Meany), educational material, and printed articles, 1961-1985

box 13, folder 7

Defense and disarmament. Newsletters, correspondence, reports, radio broadcast transcripts, and a speech (by Thomas Dodd), 1960-1985 printed material, 1983-1987

box 14, folder 1

Dialectical Studies Institute. Correspondence, reports, and printed material, 1983-1987

box 14, folder 2

Foreign affairs. Correspondence, speech, clippings, reports, newsletters, and printed articles (by Carl Sagan and others), 1959-1988

box 14, folder 3

Freedom Academy. Newsletters, memoranda (including material relating to a meeting with Arthur Goldberg), draft copies of legislation, correspondence, position statements, reports, speeches, and clippings, 1959-1982

box 14, folder 4

Fulbright, J. William. Pamphlets, clippings, correspondence (by J. William Fulbright and others), speeches (by Senator Fulbright and others), press releases, interview, notes, and newsletters, 1944-1983; primarily relates to foreign affairs, especially in Cuba and Vietnam correspondence, printed articles, and speeches (by Max Kampelman), c. 1969-1988; primarily relates to Russia SEE ALSO: Russia

box 15, folder 1-2

Human rights. Pamphlets, newsletters, clippings, reports, correspondence, printed articles, and speeches (by Max Kampelman), c. 1969-1988; primarily relates to Russia SEE ALSO: Russia

 

Intelligence and internal security

box 15, folder 3

General. Clippings, newsletter, pamphlet, and speeches (by Larry McDonald), 1971-1978; includes material relating to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Communist Party, and the Subversive Activities Control Board

box 15, folder 4

Central Intelligence Agency. Printed article, speeches and statements (by Larry McDonald, Reed Irvine and others), clippings, press releases, executive order, newsletters, book reviews, report, pamphlets, and a hearing transcript, 1974-1987; includes material relating to Philip Agee, and to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

box 15, folder 5

Congressional committees. Fact sheets, letters to the editor, flyers, circulars, clippings, report, biographical sketches, speech, hearing transcript, and newsletters, 1960-1979; relates to both Senate and House Committees on Un-American Activities

box 15, folder 6

Violence and terrorism. Speeches and statements (by Larry McDonald and Frederick Schwarz), clippings, newsletters, hearing transcripts, reports, pamphlet, and a book review, 1974-1986

box 15, folder 7

Journalism. Newsletters, form letter (by Jesse Helms), clippings, and a flyer, 1966-1985

box 16, folder 1-2

Kennedy, Edward. Legal briefs, statements (by Robert Dole, Edward Kennedy and others), clippings, reports (including one by Lawrence Tribe), newsletter, and correspondence, 1982-1985; primarily relates to litigation involving the validity of the 1982 Massachusetts election

box 16, folder 3

League for Industrial Democracy. Correspondence (with Jay Lovestone, Michael Harrington, Jack Valenti, and others), and clippings, 1965; includes material relating to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

box 16, folder 4

Liberal Party of New York State. Correspondence, circulars, biographical material, press releases, resolutions, brief statements (by Marx Lewis and others), and a flyer, 1944-1951

box 16, folder 5

Lippmann, Walter. Clippings, printed articles, notes, correspondence, a letter to the editor (by Marx Lewis), a report, and a book review, 1965-1977; includes material relating to Vietnam

box 16, folder 6-7

Russia. Newsletters, radio broadcast transcripts, correspondence, press releases, printed articles (by Andrei Sakharov and others), speeches and statements, and clippings, 1961-1986. SEE ALSO: Human rights

box 16, folder 8

World War I. Notes relating to a meeting between President Wilson and Meyer London, a serial issue, and clippings (from a scrapbook assembled by Marx Lewis for Meyer London), 1914-1918; includes an article about Meyer London, material relating to the League of Nations, the Bolshevik revolution, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, U.S. intervention in Russia, and domestic war-related issues

 

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

Scope and Contents note

Hearing and broadcast transcripts, reports, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, speeches and writings (by Marx Lewis), speeches and statements (by others), press releases, newsletters, and biographical material. Primarily printed material relating to various subjects, including labor, politics, and radicalism in the United States, foreign relations, religion, defense, communism, and terrorism.
box 17

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

box 18

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

box 19

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

box 20

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

box 21

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

box 22

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

box 23

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

box 24

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

box 25

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

box 26

INCREMENT (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988.

box FH2

Material not yet described

Access

Box FH2 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.