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The labor movement in California prior to 1883

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Description: The bound typewritten copy of the thesis covers the history of labor in California from before statehood to the 1880s. Cross discusses in detail the following subjects: Indian labor and the Spanish missions; the increase of population during the Gold Rush; the eventual growth of business and the labor movement in California; labor unions including the National Labor Union, the Workingmen's Party of California, and the Workingmen's Party of the United States; labor leaders such as Dennis Kearney and San Francisco Mayor I. S. Kalloch; riots, demonstrations and strikes related to labor disputes; and the issue of Chinese labor. The copy has handwritten edits by the author as well as notes glued onto the pages.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1909.
Call number: mssHM 66769
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Labor Clippings

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Approx. 15 items: collection of LAT articles and material from other sources on the relations [antipathy) between labor and the "open shop" LAT of the era. Of note are: 16 yellow sheets with a chronology of LAT articles, with quotes, relating to labor activities, strikes, etc.; a copy of a reprinted letter, 1892, from M.H. de Young of San Francisco to Harrison Gray Otis; related material.

mssLAT

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C.C. Williams' Workingmen's Party of California and U.S. census materials

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Five documents and letters relating to C.C. Williams' activities with the Workingmen's Party of California, The Peoples Advocate, and the United States Census in San Francisco and Stockton, California. The collection includes a history of the Workingmen's Party of California (WPC), probably written by Williams, which references the Party's political activities, the "Chinese question," and the election of Dennis Kearney as Party president. It also includes a summary of charges from the WPC against Williams and W.E. Peyton accusing them of violating their pledge to the WPC and committing "acts unbecoming a member" by publishing the "Daily Three o'Clock" newspaper, which was "in the interests of the New Constitution Party" and against the WPC. Also included are a letter from Eliot Lord of the Department of the Interior, Census Office, authorizing C.C. Williams as an agent of the Tenth Census (1880), a sheet of Chinese characters used by Williams when he served as deputy assessor of San Francisco, and a memorandum of agreement for the establishment of "The Peoples Advocate" newspaper (1879).

mssHM 72916-72920

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List of foreigners in California prior to 1840

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List of names of British subjects and citizens of the United States who resided in Alta California prior to 1840 with places of residence, profession, and date of arrival if it could be ascertained. The register notes that there were French, German, Portuguese, Italians, natives of the Sandwich Islands and foreigners of color in residence. Also noted was the fact that subjects of Spain and citizens of South American Republics were not classified as foreigners. One 13 page list is alphabetical. The other 20 page list is chronological by date of arrival with an alphabetical list.

mssHM 47356

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Van Dalsem, Newton. "The Bellamy Movement in Southern California:" [speech] (1950, Mar. 27)

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The majority of the collection is related to Marvin Sanford and his work in socialism, labor unions, and communism. The collection is comprised of 72 manuscripts, most of which are typescripts of articles by various socialist writers including Daniel De Leon, Samuel A. DeWitt, Edward Keating, Gustavus Myers, Emil Seidel, and Norman Thomas. Also included are articles and research notes written by Marvin Sanford. There are 88 pieces of correspondence, most of which are written to Marvin Sanford and chiefly deal with socialism and politics in California. Authors of correspondence include DeForest Sanford, Charles Pierce LeWarne and the World Socialist Party of the United States. The ephemera is comprised of newspaper clippings, and copies of Sanford's publications "Free Society," "The Searchlight," and "The Voice of Militant Labor." The entire collection covers socialism, communism, and union and labor issues, but more specifically the following topics and people are discussed: Edward Bellamy, cooperative societies including the Llano Colony, Eugene V. Debs, Ricardo Flores Magón, the Industrial Workers of the World, Jack London, and Thomas Mooney.

mssSanford

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Reform Movements: Socialism and Labor - Women and Women's Rights

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There are 631 manuscripts, 525 of which are by Caroline Severance. These include speeches, poetry, essays, articles, notebooks, commonplace books, miscellaneous notes, and a 347-page unpublished autobiography by Caroline Severance entitled "Own Story." The majority of the 10,634 pieces of correspondence is made up of family letters; only 232 letters are written by Caroline Severance. The rest of the correspondence is made up of letters written to Caroline Severance by over 1,700 different authors. The collection contains 9,007 pieces of ephemera, which is made up of address books, appointment books, brochures, business papers, greeting cards, legal documents, newspaper clippings, postcards, fliers, brochures, programs, notebooks, photographs, and financial papers of the family. The manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera cover the following subjects: African American women suffrage and clubs, Susan B. Anthony, Jessie Benton Frémont, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Julia Ward Howe, child labor reform, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Fröbel and the Kindergarten movement, Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, Helen Modjeska, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, dress reform, suffrage, temperance, Unitarianism, women's rights, women's clubs, and the history, politics and social life of 19th and 20th century Los Angeles, California.

mssSeverance

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Labor Clippings

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Approx. 25 items: LAT clips and copies, reports and timelines on labor issues in Los Angeles, California and the nation. Items of note: 16-pp. (yellow sheets) headed "SG Chron labor 1911-33 (post-bombing), appears to be headlines and quotes from news stories and editorial comments; 3-pp. stapled, "S.F. Chronicle" (9/9/1914), "Otis tells of the open shop...Los Angeles publisher takes stand..." ; 14-pp. copy of Thesis presented to Claremont Colleges, 1929, by John Homer Williams, "The Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion" ; booklet reprinted from LAT material originally published 10/1/1929 (the 19th anniversary of the Times Building bombing), titled "Lest we forget...the Forty-year war for a Free City, a history of the open shop in Los Angeles."

mssLAT

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