Marx Lewis Papers, 1907-1988

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Descriptive Summary Title: Marx Lewis Papers, Date (inclusive): 1907-1988 Collection number: 88029 Creator: Lewis, Marx, 1897-1990. Collection Size: 26 manuscript boxes (10.8 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, California 94305-6010 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. Language: English. Access Collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Marx Lewis Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1988. Accruals Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the

Register of the Marx Lewis 88029 2 Papers, 1907-1988. collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid. Access Points Berger, Victor L., 1860-1929. Socialism--United States. World War, 1914-1918--United States. Socialist Party (U.S.) Trade-unions and communism. Anti-communist movements--United States. Council for the Defense of Freedom (U.S.) United States--Politics and government. World War, 1914-1918. Subversive activities--United States. Trade-unions--United States. Biographical Note. 1897, December Born, Brooklyn, New York 28 1917-1919, Secretary to Representative Meyer London 1919-1920 Associate Editor, New York Call 1923-1929 Secretary to Representative Victor Berger 1929-c. Lawyer, Washington, D.C. 1934 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.

Box No. 1. Biographical File, 1926-1977. Scope and Content Note Clippings, biographical sketches, and miscellany. Arranged chronologically.

Box No. 1-2. Correspondence File, 1916-1986. Scope and Content 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 No. 2. Speeches and Writings, 1923-1986. Scope and Content 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 No. 3-6. Council Against Communist Aggression, 1950-1987. Scope and Content 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.

Box No. 7-10. Socialist Party File, 1921-1955. Scope and Content 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.

Box No. 10-12. Victor Berger File, 1907-1967. Scope and Content 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.

Box No. 12-16. Subject File, 1918-1988. Scope and Content 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 No. 17-26. Increment (1989 Dec.), 1933-1988. Scope and Content 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.

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1926-1977.

Box 1., Folder 1 Clippings, biographical sketches, and miscellany; includes material relating to the 1949 presidential inaguration. CORRESPONDENCE FILE, 1916-1986

Box 1., Folder 2 General, 1928-1984 Folder 3 Berle, Adolph, 1960-1969 Folder 4 Borin, V.L., 1962-1965 Folder 5 Bridges, Harry, 1962 Folder 6 Buckley, William F., Jr., 1960-1964 Folder 7 Bundy, McGeorge, 1965 Folder 8 Cherne, Leo, 1966 Folder 9 Civiletti, Benjamin R., 1977 Folder 10 Darrow, Clarence, 1933-1934 Folder 11 Debs, Eugene V., 1916 Folder 12 DeToledano, Ralph, 1964 Folder 13 Dodd, Thomas J., 1960-1966 Folder 14 Douglas, Paul, 1958-1966 Folder 15 Emmet, Christopher, 1960

Folder 16 Ernst, Morris, 1970-1972 Folder 17 Green, William, 1952. Includes clippings and a letter from Alex Rose Folder 18 Hard, William, 1946-1947 Folder 19 Harriman, Averell, 1954 Folder 20 Helms, Jesse, 1986 Folder 21 Hornbeck, Stanley, 1957-1966 Folder 22 Irvine, Reed, 1971-1973 Folder 23 Johnson, Lyndon B., 1960-1968 Folder 24 Judd, Walter, 1960-1976. Includes a prospectus Folder 25 Kampelman, Max, 1963 Box 2., Folder 1 Kennedy, Edward, 1967 Folder 2 Kennedy, John, 1961-1962 Folder 3 Kennedy, Robert, 1961-1968 Folder 4 Kornfeder, Joseph Z., 1963 Folder 5 Labin, Suzanne, 1962-1964 Folder 6 LaGuardia, Fiorello, 1932-1947. Includes an unpublished letter to the editor by Marx Lewis Folder 7 Levine, Isaac Don, 1961-1965 Folder 8 Lewis, Alfred Baker, 1929-1963 Folder 9 Lodge, John D., 1964 Folder 10 Lovestone, Jay, 1962-1965 Folder 11 Mayers, Henry (Cold War Council), 1963-1965 Folder 12 Meany, George, 1954-1965 Folder 13 Mondale, Walter, 1969 Folder 14 Mowrer, Edgar Ansel, 1960-1961 Folder 15 Mundt, Karl, 1959-1969 Folder 16 Nixon, Richard (Rosemary Woods), 1969 Folder 17 Nunn, Sam, 1983 Folder 18 Philbrick, Herbert A., 1960-1966 Folder 19 Pound, Roscoe, 1960 Folder 20 Randolph, A. Philip, 1960 Folder 21 Rauh, Joseph L., Jr., 1960 Folder 22 Regnery, Henry, 1965-1986 Folder 23 Reuther, Victor G., 1963 Folder 24 Robertson, Walter, 1954 Folder 25 Roosevelt, Edith Kermit, 1965 Folder 26 Roosevelt, Elliott, 1966 Folder 27 Roosevelt, James, 1966 Folder 28 Russell, Charles Edward, 1933-1935 Folder 29 Scott, Hugh, 1960 Folder 30 Sinclair, Upton, 1960 Folder 31 Singlaub, John (U.S. Council for World Freedom), 1985 Folder 32 Sprague, O.M.W., 1933-1934 Folder 33 Steele, Peter, 1963 Folder 34 Stevenson, Adlai, 1960 Folder 35 Stewart-Smith, D.G. (Foreign Affairs Circle), 1963-1965 Folder 36 Swarup, Ram (Asian People's Anti-Communist League), 1963-1965 Folder 37 Symms, Steve, 1986 Folder 38 Thomas, Norman, 1928-1984. Including clippings, memorandum, a letter to the editor by Norman Thomas, and miscellany Folder 39 Times (New York). Includes Arthur Krock, Hanson Baldwin, and Abe H. Raskin, 1962-1964 Folder 40 Wayne, John, 1960-1970 Folder 41 Weyl, Nathaniel, 1960-1964 Folder 42 White, William S., 1966 Folder 43 Wolfe, Bertram, 1972-1977. Includes a clipping Folder 44 Yorty, Samuel, 1962 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1923-1986.

Box 2., Folder 45 Typescripts, circular, newsletter, correspondence, printed copies, letters to editors, interview, and a report COUNCIL AGAINST COMMUNIST AGGRESSION, 1950-1987

Box 3. 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 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 Folder 6 1950-1955 Box 6., Folder 1-4 1956-1964 Box 7., Folder 1-3 1965-1987 SOCIALIST PARTY, 1921-1955

Box 7. 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 Folder 4-5 Damaged material. Photocopies included below Box 8., Folder 1 Undated Folder 2-4 1928-1935 July Box 9., Folder 1-2 1935 Aug.-1955 Labor and Socialist Press Service (bulletin) Folder 3 Damaged material. Photocopies included below Folder 4-5 1933-1935 May Box 10., 1935 June-1936 Folder 1-2 Folder 3 Correspondence. Includes Clarence Senior, Adolph Germer, and G. August Gerber, 1921-1936 VICTOR BERGER FILE, 1907-1967

Box 10. General 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 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 Folder 6 General. Includes Henry Allen Cooper and other congresspersons, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1927-1937 Folder 7 Berger, Meta. Includes correspondence with others, 1924-1944

Box 11., Folder 1 Berger, Victor, 1924-1929 Folder 2 Kautsky, Karl, 1931 Folder 3 Welles, Doris Berger and Elsa (Berger) Edelman, 1926-1944 Folder 4 Statement. Victor Berger to colleagues in Congress, 1919 April Transcripts Folder 5-6 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1918 Oct., Vols. I-II U.S. Congress, 1919 Box 12., General. Excerpts and notes by Marx Lewis, apparently intended for use in the Folder 1-2 preparation of a book Folder 3-4 Hearings, Vols. I and II SUBJECT FILE, 1918-1988

Box 13., Folder 1 General. Printed articles (by Jay Lovestone, Elliott Abrams and others), speech, transcripts, and conference material, 1933-1984 Folder 2 Africa. Speeches, clippings, newsletters, pamphlets, flyer, reports, and printed articles, 1964-1968; primarily relates to South Africa Folder 3 American Association for the Advancement of Atheism. Clippings and a legal brief, 1926-1927 Folder 4 American Labor Party. Press release, clippings, circulars, position statements, and election materials, 1939-1944 Folder 5 Christian Anti-Communist Crusade. Correspondence, newsletters, flyers (including a memorandum by Victor Reuther), press release, and clippings, 1959-1985 Folder 6 Communism and anti-communism. Pamphlets, flyer, speech (by George Meany), educational material, and printed articles, 1961-1985 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 Folder 2 Foreign affairs. Correspondence, speech, clippings, reports, newsletters, and printed articles (by Carl Sagan and others), 1959-1988 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 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., Human rights. Pamphlets, newsletters, clippings, reports, correspondence, printed Folder 1-2 articles, and speeches (by Max Kampelman), c. 1969-1988; primarily relates to Russia SEE ALSO: Russia Intelligence and internal security 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 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 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 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

Folder 7 Journalism. Newsletters, form letter (by Jesse Helms), clippings, and a flyer, 1966-1985 Box 16., Kennedy, Edward. Legal briefs, statements (by Robert Dole, Edward Kennedy and Folder 1-2 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 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) 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 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 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 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.

Box 17-26 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