Milwaukee County Historical Society

Socialist Party Collection

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Papers, 1897-ongoing
Call Number: Mss - 2016
Bulk: 7.6 cubic feet

Abstract:

This is an ongoing collection of materials of the Socialist Party.  There is a body of material from the Milwaukee and Wisconsin Socialist Party, as well as material from the Socialist Party on a national level.

See Also:

Socialist Party, MSS 0770
Hammer & Tongs Socialist Party bulletin scattered issues 1986-1990

Contents List:

 

Milwaukee/Wisconsin

Box

Folder

 

State executive committee minutes and programs of action, 1956, 1962, 1964, 1969-71.

1

1

Announcements, mailings, flyers, pamphlets, 1966-98

1

2

National Convention, Milwaukee 1938, 1973, 1975.

1

3

Annual Picnic Programs and Flyers, 1916-1969. (not inclusive)

1

4

Minstrel/Winter Shows & Miscellaneous Programs, 1915-16, 1921-1923

1

5

Minstrel/Winter Shows & Miscellaneous Programs, 1924-1926, 1929-1930, 1932-1933

1

5A

Newsletter, 1962-1971

1

6

Socialist Observer, 1970-2000

1

7

The Wisconsin Commonwealth, Feb. 1948 - April 1949

1

8

Newsletters, Miscellaneous
- Bulwark Young People’s Socialist League, Oct.- Nov. 1946.
- Milwaukee Socialist, April 1938
- Midwest Observer, 1954 - 1956
- Public Record, Feb. 1943
- The Coming Nation, Aug. 19 & 26, 1916

1

9

Publications/Newspapers.
- Facts 1928 no. 4, Aug. 1929.
- The Socialist Tribune April 1976-March 1977.
- Year 1970: A Brotherhood of Man! (2 copies)
- What Prosperity Costs Milwaukee, n.d.
- The Vanguard, May 1908
- The Progressive, Aug. 1952
- The Socialist Campaigner, 1946
- Der Sozialismus wie er kommen wird, 1912
- Political Action, 1911-1912 (bound)
- The Social-Democratic Herald: It’s Origin, Growth and
     Equipment, 1906
- History of the Milwaukee Social-Democratic Victories (2
copies), 1911

1

10

Victor Berger’s Testimony in Fight for Seat in Congress, 1919 (poor condition)

1

11

Constitutions & By-Laws

1

12

Campaign Manuals, Flyers, etc., 1904-ca. 1968

1

13

Public Enterprise Committee, 1947-1969

1

14

State Conventions, 1968-1978

1

15

Miscellaneous.

1

16

 

National

Box

Folder

 

Mailings, announcements, platforms, 1926, 1928, 1964-92.

1

17

Pamphlets, brochures, ballots, 1908-2000.

1

18

Campaign Books, 1900, 1908, 1912, 1914

1

19

National Conventions-Proceedings, Reports, etc., 1908-1912, 1921,  1936-1940

2

20

National Conventions-Proceedings, Reports, etc., 1960-1982

2

21

Newsletters/Journals:
- Boys and Girls Own Page, Sept. 1936 - Dec. 1937
- Bread & Butter, Jan. - March 1947
- California Socialist, April 1976.
- Challenge! (Young People’s Socialist League), Oct. 1943
- New World, Feb. 1936
- The Commonwealth, April 1928
- The Comrade, April 1903
- Common Sense, Oct. 1935; Jan. 1936
- Socialist Call, Fall 1960; Summer 1961; Spring 1962

2

22

Publications/Newspapers.
- Socialist Tribune (Los Angeles), Jan. 1969 - Jan. 1970 (not
inclusive)
- Socialist Tribune, 1983-1984
- Moscow News Oct. 1, 1966, Nov. 12, 1966.
- Socialist Review Sept. 1937, Oct/Nov 1937, Jan/Feb 1938, Mar/Apr
1939.
- New America, Sept. 5, 1960;  Nov. 30, 1968; Sept. 29, 1969.
- The Call, Dec. 1956
- Public Ownership, Aug. 1919
- Revitalize the Labor Movement, n.d.
- Life and Deeds of Uncle Sam, by Oscar Ameringer, 1912
- Socialism, What it Is and What it Seeks to Accomplish, by Wilhelm
Liebknecht
- What’s So and What Isn’t, by John M. Work, 1916
- The Debs Caucus: A Party Within a Party by R. W. Tucker, 1970
- The ABC of Socialism (2 copies) by Fred Henderson, n.d.
- Bibliography on the History of American Socialism by Virgil
Vogel, 1977
- The McCarran Act: Fact and Fancy by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,
1963
- What Socialism Is and Is Not by Norman Thomas, reprinted 1977
- What Socialism Is & Is Not by Jim Barak, 1977
- Socialist Handbook, 1937
- Socialist Year Book and Labour Annual, 1913

2

23

Miscellaneous.

2

24

Songbooks.

2

25

Socialist Labor Party: publications & miscellaneous, ca. 1934-1941

2

26

Independent Socialist League, Admission into Socialist Party, 1958

2

27

Red Falcons of America
-  Newsletters, Manuals, 1935-1937

2

28

Continental Congress of Workers and Farmers for Economic Reconstruction
- Proceedings, minutes, resolutions, 1933

2

29

Social Democratic Party 6th & 13th Ward/Branch 11/Branch 2? Minutes, 1897-1908

2

Loose

Social Democratic Party 6th & 13th Ward/Branch 11/Branch 2? Membership Dues, 1897-1908

2

Loose

Proceedings, International Conference of the Labour and Socialist International, Paris, August 1933 (in French, German, and English)

2

Loose

Social Democratic Party-Ward Recruitment Book, 1905

3

Loose

8th Ward Branch, Socialist Party of Milwaukee-Minutes, 1935-1938

3

Loose

Social Democratic Party, 20th Ward Branch-Minutes, 1906-1912

3

Loose

Local #1, Waukesha-Combination Account Book, 1920-1925

3

Loose

Account Book, 1932-1939 (Unidentified Branch)

3

Loose

 

Oversize Items

Location

 

Scrapbook, Clippings, 1904-1905 (Primarily “Social Democratic Column” by E.H. Thomas)

EW Shelf 20

Scrapbook, Campaign Clippings, 1934-1938

EW Shelf 20

Charters for Day Branch of Milwaukee (1910)

OS LG “S”

Charters for Day Branch of Milwaukee (ca. 1914) of Social Democratic Party

OS LG “S”

Charters for West Side German Branch (1911)

OS LG “S”

Charters for South Side Women’s Branch (1905)

OS LG “S”

Charters for Victor L. Berger Circle (1932); Hillquit Junior Circle (1934); & Marxian Circle (1934) of the Young People’s Socialist League

OS SM “S”

 

Pamphlets
-arranged alphabetically
-Categories include: anti-war, conscription, draft, government, justice, pacifism/peace, socialism, taxes, technocracy, war
-See full listing in Research Library

EW Shelf 20-23