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John Herling Papers Has Been Underwritten by a Gift from the Estate of John Herling John Herling Collection Papers, 1911-1991 (Predominantly, 1930s-1970s) 52 linear feet Accession # 1259 DALNET # OCLC # John Herling was born April 14, 1905 in New York City. Between 1928, when he graduated from Harvard, and 1934, he worked for the League for Industrial Democracy, where he met his first wife, Mary Fox Herling. During this period he was also employed as a research assistant for Norman Thomas and as publicity director for Thomas's presidential campaigns in 1928, 1932, and 1936. Mary Fox Herling died in 1978 and Mr. Herling subsequently married Alice Wolfson. Mr. Herling's interest in journalism began when he worked as a copy boy for the old New York World. Throughout the 1930s John Herling worked for the United Features Syndicate and Time, Inc., and spent a year with The March of Time in New York City. From 1939 to 1940 he served as director of the Children's Crusade for Children, an organization which assisted war refugees in Europe. In 1941 he accepted a position as director of the Labor and Social Relations Division of the Office of Inter-American Affairs. During 1946 Mr. Herling was a special correspondent in Europe, writing articles and radio transcripts for “Voice of America.” Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s he served as a White House correspondent and syndicated columnist for several newspapers specializing in labor affairs and lectured abroad for the Labor Affairs section of the State Department. In 1947 Mr. Herling purchased Chester Wright's Labor Letter and promptly changed the name to John Herling's Labor Letter, which he edited and published until 1990. In addition to the Labor Letter , Mr. Herling authored several books, including Strikes Under the New Deal, The Great Price Conspiracy, and The Right to Challenge. At the time of his death on February 3, 1994, he was writing a history of the UAW. The John Herling Collection contains personal and professional correspondence, reference material, and numerous publications by John Herling. Related material may be found in the Mary Fox Herling Collection. The cost of processing the John Herling papers has been underwritten by a gift from the estate of John Herling. PLEASE NOTE: Folders are computer-arranged alphabetically within each series in this finding aid, but may actually be dispersed throughout John Herling Collection - 2 - several boxes in the collection. Note carefully the box number for each folder heading. John Herling Collection - 3 - Important subjects in the collection: AFL-CIO American Friends for German Freedom David Beck Children's Crusade for Children James R. Hoffa Hungary--Revolution, 1956 International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America International labor activities John F. Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy Labor movement--Latin America Labor leaders--United States Labor movement--United States Socialism Socialist Party (U.S.) Southern Tenant Farmers Union Norman Thomas Trade-unions and communism UAW--History United Mine Workers of America United Steelworkers of America United States--Office of Inter-American Affairs--Labor and Social Relations Division "Voice of America" radio broadcast World War, 1939-1945--Refugees Important correspondents in the collection: Austen Albu Reinhold Niebuhr McAlister Coleman Joseph L. Rauh George C. Edwards, Jr. Walter Reuther Dorothy Canfield Fisher Nelson Rockefeller Clayton Fountain Carl Shier Mary Fox Herling Norman Thomas Robert F. Kennedy Matthew Woll Non-manuscript material: A number of posters, buttons, audio tapes, and photographs have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection. Labor-related photographs include those depicting the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, a miner’s strike in West Virginia, and the West Virginia Unemployed League during the 1930s. A large quanitity of books and serials, including issues of John Herling’s Labor Letter, have been transferred to the Archives Library. John Herling Collection - 4 - Contents 52 storage boxes Series I, Subject Files, 1911-1991, Boxes 1-32, p. 4 Series II, Professional & Personal Files, 1922-1991, Boxes 33-52, p. 23 John Herling Collection - 5 - Series I Subject Files, 1911-1991 Boxes 1-32 Box-folder Folder heading 25-32 Abel, I. W.; “The Integrity of American Labor,” 1966 25-9 ACEN News, 1956-57 31-7 ACTU (Assn. of Catholic Trade Unionists); clippings, article, 1945, 1958 21-16 thru 17 ADA (Americans for Democratic Action), 1979-80, 1982 32-21 ADA; comments by Terry Herndon, 1982 24-27 ADA newsletter, 1978 19-20 Affirmative action, 1970 1-8 AFL Conference of International Officers; proceedings report, 1955 30-48 AFL Convention; digest of proceedings, 1952 1-9 AFL Labor Policy Survey, 1945 32-38 AFL-CIO; Alternatives to AFL-CIO Foreign Policy, n. d. 19-31 AFL-CIO biographical sketches, 1973 30-8 AFL-CIO centennial, 1981 19-36 AFL-CIO; clippings, 1965-67 1-6 thru 7 AFL-CIO; clippings, press releases, 1956-78 30-5 AFL-CIO; convention, 1981 23-11 AFL-CIO COPE (Committee on Political Education), 1973 15-1 AFL-CIO COPE symposium, 1974 1-5 AFL-CIO; corres., 1955-58 29-39 AFL-CIO delegation to South Vietnam, the Philippines, Korea, Japan; report, 1973 18-6 AFL-CIO; Executive Council member bios, 1973 1-4 “AFL-CIO Executive Council Report on the Disaffiliation of the UAW,” 1968 29-28 AFL-CIO Maritime Committee; “Washington Lookout,” n. d. 15-9 thru 10 AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Dept. convention, 1969 17-26 AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Dept.; convention minutes, 1959 1-3 AFL-CIO merger; clippings, corres., 1955-58 9-4 AFL-CIO; Public Employee Dept., 1980 2-14 thru 16 AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees); clippings, press releases, corres., 1975-79 2-13 AFSCME ; Jerry Wurf statements, clippings, 1975-77 24-21 AFT (American Federation of Teachers), 1970-75 10-11 thru 13 AFT; Albert Shanker, 1975-79 18-37 After the People Vote, 1983 2-9 thru 10 Airline workers; clippings, 1966-78 2-11 thru 12 Alliance for Labor Action; press releases, clippings, 1969 John Herling Collection - 6 - Box-folder Folder heading 22-13 Alliance of Union Women, 1970 29-42 Amalgamated Engineering Union election; clippings, n. d. 32-39 American Assembly; "The Changing World of Work," 1973 19-74 American Communists, n. d. 24-15 American industry, 1962 32-41 American Institute for Free Labor Development; graduation address by Luis Alberto Sanchez, 1962 16-12 American Labor Violence-Its Causes, Character, and Outcome, n. d. 17-2 American Political Science Seminar, 1968 30-12 American Power in the Twentieth Century by Michael Harrington, 1967 27-12 thru 13 American Socialist Monthly, 1936-37 31-14 Americanization angle; clippings, 1985 14-24 Anti-union activities, 1979 1-27 Anti-union activities; clippings, articles, 1978-80 1-26 Antitrust; clippings, 1961-79 1-24 Arbitration; clippings, articles, 1966-81 15-16 thru 17 Arden House; papers presented, 1966 29-46 Are We Saving South Vietnam by Joseph Buttinger, 1955 32-35 thru 36 Argentina; clippings, 1944-47 23-34 Argentina; Elio Filomena, 1946 22-34 Argentina trip, 1947 18-8 Articles, clippings; misc., 1954-83 30-23 Articles; misc., 1940-64 21-26 Association for Union Democracy, 1981 14-9 Atomic energy safety problems, 1958-61 30-16 Austria; clippings, 1946 23-1 Auto & the Workers Movement by the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, 1976 23-40 Automation, 1959 1-23 Automation; clippings, articles, 1956-74 23-3 Automobile industry; clippings, 1970 1-28 Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union; clippings, press releases, 1956-78 1-29 Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union; report, 1956 24-28 Baron Report, 1981 22-33 Berlin Conference, 1959 32-45 Biographies; various people, n. d. 11-16 Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association; negotiations, 1977 20-23 Black caucuses; articles, 1969 32-5 Black Lake, n. d. John Herling Collection - 7 - Box-folder Folder heading 13-19 thru 20 Blacks in America, 1967-81 1-18 thru 20 Blacks in trade unions; articles, clippings, misc., 1960-78 1-21 Blue collar workers, 1967-70 21-30 Bluestone, Barry; speech on labor-management struggles in the late twentieth century at North American Labor History Conf., Oct 1983 19-75 Boletin Latino Americano de la CIO, 1976 19-69 Bolivia; clippings, 1944 19-7 Book reviews, 1969-71 1-22 Boycotts; clippings, 1960-77 19-2 Brandt, Willy, n. d. 19-68 Brazil, 1942-45 19-67 Brazil; clippings, 1942-45 22-26 Briggs Strike; by John Anderson, 1983 32-15 Brigham Young University, 1959 19-4 British labor; clipping, 1962 23-42 Brophy, John: Fighter for Democracy, 1967 24-17 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, 1966 15-3 Building and Construction Trades Conference, 1973 15-2 Building & Wood Workers, International Federation of, 1972 1-15 thru 17 Building trades; clippings, articles, misc., 1966-79 1-13 Butchers; clippings, 1977 24-3 California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, 1976 26-3 thru 4 Canada; labor unions, 1965-69 15-6 thru 8 Canadian Labor Congress; constitutional convention, 1968, 1970 17-18 Canadian labor movement; clippings, 1971 25-13 Capon Springs in the Great North Mountains by E.C. Bruce, 1861 25-19 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1964 27-1 Case Against Increased Import Barriers on Lead and Zinc, 1958 23-25 Castro and the Bankers: The Mortgaging of a Revolution, 1982 30-24 Catholics and the International Labor Organization, 1939 18-33 Central America and labor, 1983 22-31 Chatham Mfg. Co.; employee handbook, 1955 17-30 Cheap and Contented Labor by Sinclair Lewis, 1929 2-8 Child labor; clippings, articles, 1964-81 19-65 Chile; clippings, 1946 19-66 Chile; corres., 1945-46 21-31 Chrysler bailout; newspaper articles, Dec 1979 19-24 CIA, n. d. 17-20 CIO, 1944, 1954 30-46 thru 47 CIO convention; digest of proceedings, 1948, 1950-51 1-14 “CIO Labor Policy Survey,” 1945 22-50 Citizens Council for Community Planning, 1946 John Herling Collection - 8 - Box-folder Folder heading 32-30 Citizenship Educational Service, 1940 19-38 Civil liberties, 1940 19-21 Civil rights, 1970 14-26 Civil rights, 1979 23-39 Civil rights and labor, n.
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