Synopis: Flier of "Paul Robeson Sings for I.W.O. Day" from Sunday, October 12, 1941. The I.W.O. sponsored concert took place at the Civilian and National Defense Exposition at Grand Central Palace. The program which was broadcast by radio was clearly sympathetic to the Soviet war effort and featured the American People's Chorus, the Radischev Russian Folk Dances and the Al Moss Singers in addition to Paul Robeson.
Date:
1941-10-12
Creator:
International Workers Order (IWO)
Identifier:
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 49, Folder 16
"In Appreciation of Negro History Week." "The IWO Presents its Annual Bulletin." "Read and Distribute it." "Order Now" costs three cents. Translated Summary: "NEGRO HISTORY WEEK provides the opportunity to emphasize the achievements of the Negro people in terms of the basic issues of these times: the fight for equality and for Negro rights as part of the tasks and struggles for the wellbeing of the American people....THE NEGRO PEOPLE, allies of labor, have been and are a powerful bulwark of progress and democracy. Their historic achievements in art, industry, culture and social advance have strengthened the march of progressive America.... THE UNBREAKABLE UNITY of Negro and white is the burning need of these decisive days when the peoples’ ranks must be solidly formed for the winning of democracy, security and lasting peace, and for the defeat of Jim Crow and anti-Semitism, to end lynching and all forms of discrimination."
Date:
1947-02-09
Creator:
Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order of the I.W.O. (U.S.)
Identifier:
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 49, Folder 16
Brief minutes from February 27, 1948 call for a standing committee to strengthen work in Black lodges as a Society of the IWO. Minutes describe what will be the start of the Douglass-Lincoln Black Section of the IWO, and introduce the role that decorated Spanish Civil War veteran Captain Walter Garland will play in organizing Black lodges. Garland is put in charge of a new Eastern District; Louise Thompson Patterson is put in charge of a new Mid-Western District. Attendees: Sam Milgrom, Louise T. Patterson, Dave Greene, Dick Crosscup, Mason Smith, Gladys Durham, Margaret Wherry, John Middleton, Walter Garland. "Louise Patterson and Walter Garland to arrange tours of all lodges in District with Educational and Recreational features." Mentions need for membership literature.
This text uses the term ‘Negro’ and/or 'Negro Labor' to refer to the concerted efforts made primarily in the 1920s-1940s to fight racial discrimination so as to ensure the fair employment of Black people, in union and other jobs including those in the private sector, civil service, as well as advocacy for the full integration of Black people into the armed services. Black unemployment and under employment were extremely high due to racial barriers. While the term ‘Negro’ might be read as pejorative today, the term was then used in a positive regard, including by Black leftists.
Date:
1948-02-27
Creator:
Patterson, Louise Thompson, 1901-1999
Garland, Walter, 1913-1974
Identifier:
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 5, Folder 2
1948 Printed supplement to Fraternal Outlook for Negro History Week by historian Herb Aptheker "The Meaning of Negro History: fully illustrated with charts and graphics detailing Black racial oppression and accomplishments." A piece by Aptheker called "The Facts of Negro Life in the United States" details "hush lynching." Another piece by Aptheker is "The Causes of Negro Oppression." Aptheker is already working with W.E. B. Du Bois on editing and publishing Du Bois' extensive oeuvre and the IWO editorial calls for backing the 1947 NAACP petition to the U.N. on human rights abuses against the Black community (Du Bois was its editor). A short piece about the IWO notes that it is the only interracial fraternal benefits society, explaining that "the International Workers Order is a federation of national group societies and General Lodges embracing Negro and white members." Albert E Kahn (JPFO President) and Vito Magli (Garibaldi Society) briefly extend greetings in an article titled "The National Groups and the Negro People" and Jesus Colon, head of the Cervantes Society briefly writes about Yankee Imperialism uniting Latin Americans, including those who are Black, with those in the U.S.
This text uses the term ‘Negro’ and/or 'Negro Labor' to refer to the concerted efforts made primarily in the 1920s-1940s to fight racial discrimination so as to ensure the fair employment of Black people, in union and other jobs including those in the private sector, civil service, as well as advocacy for the full integration of Black people into the armed services. Black unemployment and under employment were extremely high due to racial barriers. While the term ‘Negro’ might be read as pejorative today, the term was then used in a positive regard, including by Black leftists.
Date:
1948-02
Creator:
Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003
Identifier:
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 48, Folder 1
Translated Summary: Starting with this issue of "Haym un Dertsiung" [Haim Un Dertziung] we are establishing a special page for and about women. Women's accomplishments and problems will be highlighted. The goal is to acknowledge women as equal members in society and in the struggle (but also to elevate the readers' cultural level, and activate them). Discusses International Women's Day, lauds the equal legal status of women in the Soviet Union, and their contributions to the War effort there. The center box is a profile of Rose Benedick, a member the Hungarian section of the I.W.O. It describes her contributions to the War effort, including working at a bomb factory, driving other workers to and from the factory, teaching courses in first aid, in knitting, giving talks on Hungarian unity, and converting her home into a first aid station, in the event that Gary, Indiana, where she lives, is ever bombed.
Date:
1943-03
Creator:
Youkelson, Rubin
Identifier:
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 43, Folder 11
Translated Summary: Begins, "The nation's bankers and industrialists, who are dragging us closer to the abyss of war, have also decided that the people will bear the cost of war through higher taxes..." "The discontent of women who have to cover the increased cost of living can be heard in every market..." Announces campaign against larcenous pricing for staple goods. [Prior to Hitler invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, the IWO opposed U.S. support of the Allies in World War II.]
Date:
1941-05-29
Creator:
Shavelson (Lemlich), Clara, 1886-1982
Identifier:
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 67, Folder 11
Translated Summary: Announcements include the Women's Conference (Annual Conference of Women's Clubs), suggestions for lodge discussions of the "Role and Work" of Women's Clubs as part of Woman's Month [April], a membership campaign (recruitment to focus on women) that includes holding a Women's Night for installation of women at the lodge), and other issues. Membership cards are mentioned as are the two categories of membershiip, social and insurance. Junion Lodges should be encouraged. Encourages attendence at the [City-Wide] Women's School and Peace Mobilization in Washington (People's Lobby for Peace). [Prior to Hitler invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, the IWO opposed U.S. support of the Allies in World War II.]
Date:
1941-02-21
Creator:
Nelson, Rose, Women's Department Director
Identifier:
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 67, Folder 11
Edited English draft of Yiddish letter to Adam Rayski by June Gordon with a "Copy to Brother Novick." Comments appear to be June Gordon's. Explains importance of foster parent adoption and having the paperwork prepared in France be timely and appropriate. Part of a larger, ongoing correspondence with those at 14 rue de Paradis who are in charge of the Jewish children's home in Andrésy. Written in 1947 apparently prior to 1947-11-05, in which she sent a letter to Rayski confirming that his receipt of children's clothing had indeed been received.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Gordon, June, 1901-1967
Identifier:
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 45, Folder 5
Subject headings include, among others: Membership campaign; the "Day" strike; May Day; Mother's Day; Camp Wo-Chi-Ca; upcoming scheduled events in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, and cultural work (the Bulletin, scrapbooks, reading circles). The Jewish Women's Section of the New York City Committee.
Date:
1941-04-12
Creator:
Rich, Dora
Identifier:
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 67, Folder 11
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