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Title: Right wing machine
Date(s): 1978
Contributor(s): AFL-CIO (Sponsor), Maurer, Fleisher, Zon & Anderson, Inc. (Producer)
Description: Film released by the AFL-CIO Committee on Public Education (COPE) highlighting the right-wing threat to the labor movement through political action groups. Mentions Richard Viguerie, Joseph Coors, Ronald Reagan, and organizations such as the John Birch Society, the Conservative Caucus, and the National Association of Manufacturers. George Meany appears at the end of film. Live-action and animation.
Collection ID: National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1973.418)
Hagley ID: FILM_1973418_FC135
Collection: National Association of Manufacturers

Title: Interview with J. Edgar Rhoads, 1969 April 14 [audio](part 6)
Date(s): 1969-04-14
Contributor(s): Rhoads, J. Edgar (interviewee), Wilkinson, Norman B. (interviewer), Pizor, Faith (interviewer)
Description: Rhoads describes the effects of the Great Depression on the company, improvements made to leather products, and employing African Americans. He also discusses changes in the company's buildings throughout the years. Rhoads recounts his civic endeavors, including working with the Boy Scouts, with the YMCA, and with various engineering and nature groups. He also describes how he sought to use the manpower of conscientious objectors, such as Quakers, to serve the country in other ways during...
Show moreRhoads describes the effects of the Great Depression on the company, improvements made to leather products, and employing African Americans. He also discusses changes in the company's buildings throughout the years. Rhoads recounts his civic endeavors, including working with the Boy Scouts, with the YMCA, and with various engineering and nature groups. He also describes how he sought to use the manpower of conscientious objectors, such as Quakers, to serve the country in other ways during wartime. He describes his impressions of World War I and World War II in detail, including his relief efforts in Germany. He also discusses his own education.
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Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_91213_Rhoads_part6
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: Interview with J. Edgar Rhoads, 1969 April 14 [audio](part 5)
Date(s): 1969-04-14
Contributor(s): Rhoads, J. Edgar (interviewee), Wilkinson, Norman B. (interviewer), Pizor, Faith (interviewer)
Description: Rhoads describes the effects of the Great Depression on the company, improvements made to leather products, and employing African Americans. He also discusses changes in the company's buildings throughout the years. Rhoads recounts his civic endeavors, including working with the Boy Scouts, with the YMCA, and with various engineering and nature groups. He also describes how he sought to use the manpower of conscientious objectors, such as Quakers, to serve the country in other ways during...
Show moreRhoads describes the effects of the Great Depression on the company, improvements made to leather products, and employing African Americans. He also discusses changes in the company's buildings throughout the years. Rhoads recounts his civic endeavors, including working with the Boy Scouts, with the YMCA, and with various engineering and nature groups. He also describes how he sought to use the manpower of conscientious objectors, such as Quakers, to serve the country in other ways during wartime. He describes his impressions of World War I and World War II in detail, including his relief efforts in Germany. He also discusses his own education.
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Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation interviews on the history of the DuPont Company Powder Yard (Accession 1970.370)
Hagley ID: 1970370_91213_Rhoads_part5
Collection: Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley

Title: June Croll at Jobless March
Date(s): 1931-07-07
Contributor(s): Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (originator)
Description: This photograph shows June Croll, a representative of the Communist-affiliated National Textile Workers Union, speaking at a Jobless March that occurred in New York City on July 7, 1931. The march, organized by members of the American Workers' Communist Party and the Unemployment Council of Greater New York, as well as other representatives of the popular front coalition, were calling for the city to do more to address unemployment during the Great Depression.
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials, Series II. Nation's Business photographs (Accession 1993.230.II)
Hagley ID: PC20110425_424
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs, videos, and publications

Title: It's Your Business: Labor: 1981 Agenda
Date(s): 1981-01-27
Description: Episode #75. Virginia Sherwood hosts a discussion surrounding the labor movement's reaction to President Ronald Reagan's victory and its strategies and priorities in 1981. Guests are Congressman John Erlenborn (Republican - IL), Congressman Paul Simon (Democrat - IL), Jay Foreman (Vice President - United Food and Commercial Workers Union), and Dr. Richard Lesher (President - U.S. Chamber of Commerce). Includes advertisements for The Wall Street Journal, Nation's Business, Washington Report,...
Show moreEpisode #75. Virginia Sherwood hosts a discussion surrounding the labor movement's reaction to President Ronald Reagan's victory and its strategies and priorities in 1981. Guests are Congressman John Erlenborn (Republican - IL), Congressman Paul Simon (Democrat - IL), Jay Foreman (Vice President - United Food and Commercial Workers Union), and Dr. Richard Lesher (President - U.S. Chamber of Commerce). Includes advertisements for The Wall Street Journal, Nation's Business, Washington Report, and Amway.
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Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1993.230)
Hagley ID: VID_1993230_ep75
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs, videos, and publications

Title: Workers' Council Series No. 3 / Where the Trouble Really Lies
Date(s): 1936
Contributor(s): National Urban League (originator), National Urban League. Worker's Bureau. (originator)
Collection ID: Pam 2001.796
Hagley ID: PAM_2001_796
Collection: National Urban League publications, 1930-1960

Title: The The emerging role of worker centers in union organizing: an update and supplement
Date(s): 2017, 2017
Contributor(s): Manheim, Jarol B., 1946- (author)
Hagley ID: Pam_2020_0118_1
Accession: on1151660571
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs, videos, and publications

Title: Negro Membership in American Labor Unions
Date(s): 1930
Contributor(s): National Urban League (originator), National Urban League. Department of Research and Investigations (originator)
Collection ID: E185.8 .N465 1930
Hagley ID: E185_8_N465_1930
Collection: National Urban League publications, 1930-1960

Title: Workers' Council Series No. 3 / White vs. Black Workers : A Tragedy
Date(s): 1936
Contributor(s): National Urban League (originator), National Urban League. Worker's Bureau. (originator)
Collection ID: Pam 2016.0165
Hagley ID: PAM_2016_0165
Collection: National Urban League publications, 1930-1960

Title: Workers' Council Series No. 3 / Can We Afford to Strikebreak?
Date(s): 1936
Contributor(s): National Urban League (originator), National Urban League. Worker's Bureau. (originator)
Collection ID: Pam 2016.0167
Hagley ID: PAM_2016_0167
Collection: National Urban League publications, 1930-1960

Title: Workers' Council Series No. 3 / The 'Friends' of Negro Workers
Date(s): 1936
Contributor(s): National Urban League (originator), National Urban League. Worker's Bureau. (originator)
Collection ID: Pam 2016.0166
Hagley ID: PAM_2016_0166
Collection: National Urban League publications, 1930-1960

Title: Workers' Council Series No. 3 / Employers vs. Labor, a Football Game
Date(s): 1936
Contributor(s): National Urban League (originator), National Urban League. Worker's Bureau. (originator)
Collection ID: Pam 2001.797
Hagley ID: PAM_2001_797
Collection: National Urban League publications, 1930-1960

Title: Workers' Council Series No. 3 / Any New Deal can be the Same Old Deal
Date(s): 1936
Contributor(s): National Urban League (originator), National Urban League. Worker's Bureau. (originator)
Collection ID: Pam 2016.0162
Hagley ID: PAM_2016_0162
Collection: National Urban League publications, 1930-1960

Title: Confusion of terms : our nation's greatest barrier to unity of economic thought
Date(s): 1943
Contributor(s): Clark, Fred G. (Fred George), 1890-1973 (author)
Description: In addition to other positions and roles, Clark was the founder and general chairman of American Economic Foundation, a post that he held from its founding in 1939 up until a month before his death in 1973. Clark, and the Foundation by extension, promoted free market economic policies and an unregulated commercial sector, and argued that much of the divide between labor and management could be attributed to semantic differences and a misunderstanding of economics.
This speech was presented...
Show moreIn addition to other positions and roles, Clark was the founder and general chairman of American Economic Foundation, a post that he held from its founding in 1939 up until a month before his death in 1973. Clark, and the Foundation by extension, promoted free market economic policies and an unregulated commercial sector, and argued that much of the divide between labor and management could be attributed to semantic differences and a misunderstanding of economics.
This speech was presented as part of a campaign directed at labor union representatives in northeast Ohio, which aimed to convince them that labor and management shared similar interests in pursuing industrial production.
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Collection ID: PAM
Hagley ID: PAM_08044117
Collection: Hagley Library Published Collections

Title: Molly Maguires
Date(s): 1932
Contributor(s): Bimba, Anthony (author)
Description: Contents: The Real Molly Maguires; Conditions in the Antrhacite Fields; Early Organizations of the Anthracite Miners; The Long Strike of 1875; The Life and Death Struggle in Pennsylvania; The Trials; Peace Once More Reigns; Conclusions.
Collection ID: HD5325 M6B61
Hagley ID: mollymag_bimba
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets