Educational Cooperative Publishing Company of Montana records, 1937-1967
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Educational Cooperative Publishing Company of Montana
- Title
- Educational Cooperative Publishing Company of Montana records
- Dates
- 1937-1967 (inclusive)19371967
- Quantity
- 7 linear feet of shelf space
- Collection Number
- MC 40 (collection)
- Summary
- The People's Voice was a weekly newspaper published in Helena, Montana, by H.S. "Cap" Bruce, and later by Harry L. Billings. Records consist primarily of general correspondence (1937-1966); and subject files (1930s-1960s) on a wide variety of topics, including Montana politics, farmers unions, labor, state government, and public utilities.
- Repository
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Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov - Access Restrictions
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Collection open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Historical Note
The People's Voice, a cooperative newspaper, was founded in 1939, by H.S. "Cap" Bruce with the backing of farm coop and labor leaders. Bruce, a veteran newspaperman, saw the need for an independent state-wide paper after the established press failed to report adequately on the 1937 state legislature's defeat of liberal measures. Bruce's newly formed Educational Co-operative Publishing Company bought a press and, in December 1939, began publication of The People's Voice . The Voice covered both local and national issues, taking strong stands on the issues of public power, protection of public lands, establishment of farmers' cooperatives, the abolition of capital punishment, minimum wage, and other labor union concerns. In spite of its small circulation, the paper's political influence was considerable. In November 1948, associate editor Harry L. Billings, assisted by his wife Gretchen, succeeded Bruce as managing editor. After Billings retired in 1968, Bennett Hansen took over the Voice's management, but financial difficulties forced the paper to cease publication shortly thereafter.
Content Description
The records include general correspondence (composed in part of incoming and outgoing correspondence without reciprocal response), pertaining to a wide range of political issues. The majority of correspondence during the period of Billings' editorship was arranged in the various subject files. There are also a few financial, legal, and organizational records of the company.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.
Preferred Citation
Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.
Administrative Information
Return to TopDetailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection
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General Correspondence
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Description: A.A. AlvordDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
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Description: A (correspondents include Carl Ahlgreen; Anaconda labor unions; A.E. Anderson)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
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Description: M.K. BeadleDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
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Description: Robert BrownDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
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Description: Ernest BurnsDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
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Description: B (correspondents include Sam Bechtold; Edward Bloom; Harry Boullion; Carl Bowlds; Bozeman labor unions; A.N. Brooks; Butte Miners Union #1)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
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Description: Clarence ChamberlainDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
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Description: E.W. ChapmanDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
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Description: O.F. ClarkeDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
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Description: C-D (correspondents include Cascade County Trades and Labor Assembly; Clifford G. Cate; Tom D. Caverly; John Clark; F.L. Darland; Frank B. Dexter)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10-11
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Description: Leif EricksonDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12
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Description: E (correspondents include Hugh Egan)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
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Description: Farmers Union (Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
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Description: Farmers Union: local officesDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
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Description: Farmers Union Central ExchangeDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
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Description: Farmers Union Grain Terminal AssociationDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17
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Description: Stanley J. FentonDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 18
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Description: Frank FinneganDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 19
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Description: F (correspondents include Farm Labor Council; Harrison J. Freebourn; L.D. French)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 20
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Description: W.S. GoodDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 21
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Description: G (correspondents include Frank A. Gallagher; J.B. Garrison; William E. Grove)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22
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Description: H.H. HessDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 23
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Description: H-J (correspondents include O.K. Hansen; Hardin labor unions; Havre labor unions; Helena labor unions; Thomas Horsford; Oscar Horsford; W.G. Hunter; Art H. Jones)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24-26
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Description: A.E. KathanDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 27
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Description: K (correspondents include J.G. Kalbus; Mrs. J.H. Keenan; E.R. Kindler; Chester Kinsey; Albert H. Kruse)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 28
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Description: Joe LarsonDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 29
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Description: Gonius LaursenDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 30
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Description: L (correspondents include H.A. Lambert; Edward P. Leonard; Howard M. Lyman)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 31
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Description: Archie McLeodDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 32
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Description: William McMurphyDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 33
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Description: Mc (correspondents include M.A. McClain; George S. McKenna)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 34
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Description: Robert W. MackieDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 35
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Description: D.L. ManningDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 36
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Description: James W. MastersonDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 37
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Description: Ambrose G. MeasureDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 38
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Description: F.C. MetzgerDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 39
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Description: Lee MetcalfDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 40
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Description: E.G. MillerDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 41
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Description: George MonahanDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 42
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Description: M (correspondents include Paul Mathis; Ted Maxwell; Mrs. Frank Meldrum; Sam W. Mitchell; George H. Montgomery)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 1 / 43
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Description: William J. NelsonDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
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Description: N (correspondents include Edward J. Nichols; Northern Montana Beetgrowers' Association)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
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Description: Edward O'ByrneDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
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Description: O (correspondents include S.W. Oliver; Curtis B. Owen)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
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Description: J.M. PetersonDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
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Description: N.A. PetersonDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
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Description: P.C. PetersonDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
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Description: William J. PriestDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
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Description: P-R (correspondents include G.E. Paulson; Pearl Assurance Company; William Poppler; R.H. Rebal; W.H. Reed; A.F. Robson; George W. Ruffcorn)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9-11
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Description: John SeverovicDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
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Description: Bentley SinclairDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
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Description: Sam SpiegelDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
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Description: Hays StarksDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15
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Description: S-T (correspondents include Mary Sathre; Melvin L. Schneider; Albert Simons; T.P. Taylor)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 16-17
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Description: United Mine Workers of AmericaDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 18
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Description: U-V (correspondents include U.S. Resettlement Administration; Joseph Vanek)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 19-20
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Description: E.J. WightDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 21
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Description: Charles H. WolffDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 22
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Description: WDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 23
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Description: Form letter thanking subscribers to stock of companyDates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 2 / 24
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Description: A.E. AndersonDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 25
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Description: Robert BrownDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 26
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Description: Ernest BurnsDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 27
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Description: B (correspondents include Graeme B. Baker; Arthur Beckstrom; F.E. Bergren; Peter Berimen; Blaine County Farmers Union; Patricia Brennan)Dates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 28
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Description: Clarence ChamberlainDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 29
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Description: O.F. ClarkeDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 30
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Description: Communist Party of the United States of America, Butte DistrictDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 31
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Description: C (correspondents include Cascade County Trades and Labor Assembly; Frank Cimrhakl [sp?]; Margaret Colton; Thomas C. Colton;Dates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 32
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Description: Elmer DenaneyDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 33
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Description: H.O. EkernDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 34
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Description: Leif EricksonDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 35
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Description: Farmers Union (Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America)Dates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 36
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Description: Farmers Union: local officesDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 37
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Description: Farmers Union Central ExchangeDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 38
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Description: F-G (correspondents include Farmers Union Elevator Company; Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association; Farmers Union Oil Company; Arlie Foor; Great Falls Mill and Smeltermen's Union #16)Dates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 39-40
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Description: H.H. HessDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 41
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Description: H-L (correspondents include Mark Hampton; R.A. Harbo; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers #122; International Union of Operating Engineers #377; J.B.C. Knight; Labor; Richard Lake; H.A. Lambert; Mina S. Lampell; Laundry Workers, Cleaners and Dyers #19; O.B. Lovely; Howard M. Lyman)Dates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 42-45
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Description: D.L. ManningDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 46
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Description: James E. MurrayDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 47
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Description: M (correspondents include M.A. McClain; George S. McKenna; Guy Miller; Montana Workers' Alliance; George H. Montgomery)Dates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 48
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Description: Edward O'ByrneDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 49
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Description: William J. PriestDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 50
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Description: P-Z (correspondents include Donald C. Peterson; Bert Replogle; A.W. Ricker; John Severovic; H.S. Sylvester; Teton County Farmers Union; United Mine Workers of America; U.S. Farm Security Administration; Edith H. Wall; C.L. Waring; Joe Zuncich)Dates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 2 / 51-57
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Description: A-B (correspondents include Walter Aitken; Minnie Beadle; Albert V. Bielles; Butte Miners Union #1)Dates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 58-59
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Description: E.B. CoolidgeDates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 60
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Description: C-E (correspondents include Cascade County Trades and Labor Assembly; Community Hospital [cooperative hospital in Elk City, Oklahoma]; Cut Bank Pioneer Press; H.O. Ekern)Dates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 61-62
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Description: Farmers Union (Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America)Dates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 63
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Description: Farmers Union: local officesDates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 64
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Description: Farmers Union Central ExchangeDates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 65
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Description: Farmers Union Grain Terminal AssociationDates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 66
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Description: F (correspondents include Farmers Union Market, Nashua; Farmers Union Oil Company; Federated Press news service; Arlie Foor)Dates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 67
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Description: W.S. GoodDates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 68
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Description: G-L (correspondents include Leo Garnet re events in Finland; Angeline Golubin; A.I. Harris; Helena Postmaster; Ben Hollenback; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; International Labor Defense enclosing poem by Kyle Pugh; Mrs. Lars Kalsta; H.A. Lambert; Jerome Locke)Dates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 69-73
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Description: D.L. ManningDates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 74
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Description: James E. MurrayDates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 75
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Description: M (correspondents include W.Y. Maloney; F.C. Metzger; Montana Farmers Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company; Montana Progressive Council; Montana State University Teachers Union)Dates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 2 / 76
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Description: National Youth Administration (Richard Lake)Dates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
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Description: Edward O'ByrneDates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
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Description: P-R (correspondents include Frank Polutnik; Red Lodge Workers' Alliance)Dates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3-4
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Description: Sam SpiegelDates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
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Description: S-Y (correspondents include Sheep Shearers' Union of North America #1; G.C. Threet; U.S. Farm Credit Administration; U.S. Farm Security Administration; United Mine Workers of America; Valier Cooperative Society; Thomas H. Wright; Yellowstone County Trades and Labor Assembly)Dates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6-11
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Description: A (correspondents include Walter Aitken; Allied Printing Trades Council; American Federation of Teachers; American Youth Congress re Emergency Peace Mobilization; Parker T. Anderson; Ella V. Archer)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
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Description: John W. BonnerDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
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Description: B (correspondents include Charles Banderob; M.J. Beck; Peter Bokma; Brandtjen and Kluge re printing press; A.R. Brewer; O.A. Brotherman; Gottlieb Brummer; Butte Miners Union #1; L.L. Buchanan; Harry L. Burns)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
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Description: Paul CannonDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 15
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Description: E.B. CoolidgeDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 16
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Description: C-E (correspondents include Florence Cady; Cascade County Trades and Labor Assembly; Thomas C. Colton; Walter P. Coombs; G.W. Crossley; F.L. Darland; Jasper DeDobbeleer; C.V. Dooley; I.E. Duncan; Hugh Egan; H.O. Ekern; Frank E. Ellsworth; Equity Cooperative Association of Harlem)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 17-19
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Description: Farmers Union (Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 20
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Description: Farmers Union: local officesDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 21
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Description: Farmers Union Central ExchangeDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 22
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Description: Farmers Union Grain Terminal AssociationDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 23
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Description: Frank FinneganDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 24
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Description: Sam C. FordDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 25
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Description: F (correspondents include Farmer Labor Political Federation; Farmers Union Elevator Company; Farmers Union Live Stock Commission Company; Farmers Union Oil Company; Farmers Union Trading Company; Federal Labor Union #18741; Flathead Voters Council; Mary E. Friday)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 26
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Description: W.S. GoodDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 27
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Description: GDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 28
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Description: H.H. HessDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 29
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Description: H-J (correspondents include Herbert H. Haight; Oscar Horsford; C.S. Horton; George E. Hurd; Idaho Public Utilities Commission; Bertina Johnson)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 30-32
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Description: [A.E.] Kathan-for-Governor ClubDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 33
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Description: K-L (correspondents include Kalispell Trades and Labor Council; J.C. Keenan; R.D. Kenney; The Kenosha Labor; Chester Kinsey; George J. Ladwig; Lake County Farmers Union Egg Cooperative; Richard Lake; H.A. Lambert; A.F. Lamey; Jerome G. Locke; Jens L. Larson; Howard M. Lyman)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 34-35
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Description: Mc (correspondents include John H. McGuffey; J.C. McIntire; J.E. McKenna)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 36
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Description: D.L. ManningDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 37
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Description: Mike MansfieldDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 38
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Description: F.C. MetzgerDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 39
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Description: James E. MurrayDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 40
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Description: M-N (correspondents include Montana Industrial Accident Board; Montana Licensed Liquor Dealers Association; Montana Progressive Club; Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Ruth Reardon; Margaret Nagle; A.L. Nicholls; Catherine Nutterville)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 41-42
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Description: Edward O'ByrneDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 43
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Description: O (correspondents include Oscar L. Olvrud)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 44
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Description: J.M. PetersonDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 45
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Description: P-R (correspondents include [West] Powell for Railroad Commissioner Club; Bert Replogle; Peter Rorvik; William W. Ruffcorn)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 46-47
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Description: Sam SpiegelDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 48
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Description: S-U (correspondents include E.B. Shipman; W.H. Smith; J.T. Sparling; Spokane Bank for Cooperatives; J.L. Strong; Townsend National Recovery Plan; U.S. Agricultural Adjustment Administration; U.S. Post Office Dept.)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 49-51
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Description: Burton K. WheelerDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 52
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Description: W-Y (correspondents include Western Newspaper Union; Bon Whealdon; John Q. Wilson; Yellowstone County Trades and Labor Assembly; Frank W. Young)Dates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 53-54
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Description: Unidentified and anonymousDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 3 / 55
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Description: A-B (correspondents include Walter Aitken; Association for Maintenance of Free Enterprise in Montana; F.A. Banderob; Barber Telephone Company; Brandjen and Kluge; Stanley Brooks; Butte Youth Council)Dates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1-2
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Description: E.B. CoolidgeDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
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Description: C-E (correspondents include Chinese Relief Committee; Communist Party of the United States of America, Montana District; Walter P. Coombs; Wayne Coster; Gordon Crandell; F.L. Darland; Gladys E. Erhard)Dates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4-6
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Description: Farmers Union (Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America)Dates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7
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Description: Farmers Union: local officesDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
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Description: Farmers Union Central ExchangeDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
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Description: Farmers Union Grain Terminal AssociationDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
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Description: Sam C. FordDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
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Description: F (correspondents include Farmers Co-op Oil and Supply Company; Farmers Union Education Service; Farmers Union Grain Company; Farmers Union Live Stock Commission Company; Farmers Union Oil Company)Dates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
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Description: W.S. GoodDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
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Description: G-J (correspondents include P.J. Gilfeather; C.S. Horton; International Association of Operating Engineers #377; International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Committee on Cooperation; Berger Johnson)Dates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 14-17
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Description: A.E. KathanDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 18
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Description: K-Mc (correspondents include Elia Kaneff; L.F. King; League for Efficiency in Government; Jerome G. Locke; Rose M. Lucero; Hobart McKean; George S. McKenna)Dates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 19-21
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Description: Mike MansfieldDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 22
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Description: M-N (correspondents include Molt Farmers Elevator Company; Northwest Cooperative Society)Dates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 23-24
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Description: William J. PriestDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 25
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Description: P-R (correspondents include Power Farmers Elevator Company; John Reagen re National Youth Administration programs; Peter Rorvik)Dates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 26-27
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Description: Hays StarksDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 28
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Description: S-V (correspondents include Joseph St. Marks; E.B. Shipman; Charles E. Smith; W.H. Smith; Southern Tenant Farmers Union; John Stahlberg; Harry B. Syverud; United Pension Movement of Montana; R.F. Vanek)Dates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 29-32
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Description: Burton K. WheelerDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 33
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Description: W (correspondents include Western Newspaper Union; Bon Whealdon enclosing poem on Indians; S.P. Wilson)Dates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 34
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Description: Unidentified and anonymousDates: 1941Container: Box/Folder 4 / 35
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Description: Frank FinneganDates: 1942Container: Box/Folder 4 / 36
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Description: Charles P. JacobsenDates: 1942Container: Box/Folder 4 / 37
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Description: William McMurphyDates: 1942Container: Box/Folder 4 / 38
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Description: James E. MurrayDates: 1942Container: Box/Folder 4 / 39
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Description: M (correspondents include Daniel S. McCorkle re conditions at Warm Springs State Hospital; Montana Workers Alliance; also includes May Day flyer)Dates: 1942Container: Box/Folder 4 / 40
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Description: Park County Trades and Labor CouncilDates: 1942Container: Box/Folder 4 / 41
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Description: V-W (correspondents include George B. Vaughan; George Wieglenda)Dates: 1942Container: Box/Folder 4 / 42-43
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Description: Unidentified and anonymousDates: 1942Container: Box/Folder 4 / 44
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Description: Miscellaneous (correspondents include William Scallon; Jay Allen; Farmers Union Oil Company; J.M. Peterson; Raymond E. Graham; Jack C. Toole; Bruce Smith; H.S. Bruce resignation from Farmers Union News; R. Bailey Stortz; Lowndes Maury Jr.; Mrs. J. Poirier)Dates: 1943-1949Container: Box/Folder 4 / 45
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Description: Miscellaneous (correspondents include Bernice Kingsbury; Rocky Mountain Sportsmen's Association; John Jarussi; Lewistown Daily News; Gladys Jones; Joseph S. Smollack; John Morton; B.W. McDowell; Henry Horowitz; George Meany)Dates: 1950-1954Container: Box/Folder 4 / 46
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Description: Miscellaneous (correspondents include Perry S. Melton; Lee Metcalf; Farmers Union Central Exchange; Roland Renne; Virgil Buchanan; Miles Romney; A.L. Libre; Leland Olds)Dates: 1955Container: Box/Folder 4 / 47
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Description: Miscellaneous (correspondents include Lorene McCarthy; Mondell Bennett)Dates: 1956-1957Container: Box/Folder 4 / 48
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Description: Leonard KenfieldDates: 1963Container: Box/Folder 4 / 49
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Description: Miscellaneous (correspondents include Webb Sullivan; Lydia Sullivan)Dates: 1966Container: Box/Folder 4 / 50
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Court Papers
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Description: Miscellaneous (includes notes and brief in State of Montana ex rel. Lewis and Clark County vs. State Board of Public Welfare re distribution of poor funds; notes on State of Montana vs. Alex Marck et al., re gambling)Dates: 1941, 1950Container: Box/Folder 4 / 51
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Financial Records
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Description: Employee tax records (includes correspondence)Dates: 1947-1955Container: Box/Folder 4 / 52
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Description: Miscellaneous (includes timekeeper's weekly report; inventory; cost of publishing)Dates: 1937-1955Container: Box/Folder 4 / 53
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Legal Documents
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Description: Agreement with the Belgrade Journal to buy plantDates: 1938Container: Box/Folder 4 / 54
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Organization
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Description: Miscellaneous (includes annual report; statement of ownership; notice of meeting)Dates: 1940, 1952, 1954Container: Box/Folder 4 / 55
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Photographs and Printed Materials
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Description: List of photographs and printed material transferred to Photo Archives and Library respectively)Dates:Container: Box/Folder 4 / 56
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Subject Files
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Description: American LegionDates: 1947-1952Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
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Description: Anaconda CompanyDates: 1951Container: Box/Folder 5 / 2
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Description: Roy E. Ayers investigation (includes testimony before Select Committee of Twenty-Sixth Legislative Assembly)Dates: 1939Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
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Description: Capital punishmentDates: 1951Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4
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Description: Columbia Valley Administration (CVA)Dates: 1949-1951Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
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Description: Contribution driveDates: 1955Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
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Description: Co-operativesDates: 1947-1967Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
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Description: Frank R. Dryman murder caseDates: 1951Container: Box/Folder 5 / 8
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Description: Elections (clippings: includes both state and national)Dates: 1940-1948Container: Box/Folder 5 / 9-12
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Description: Elections (clippings: includes both state and national)Dates: 1948-1958Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1-6
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Description: Elections (clippings: includes both state and national)Dates: 1958-1960Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1-6
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Description: Elections (clippings: includes both state and national)Dates: 1964Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1-4
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Description: Willard E. Fraser (includes correspondence, speeches, testimony before Missouri Basin Survey Commission, campaign literature, clippings)Dates: 1947-1952Container: Box/Folder 8 / 5
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Description: Gambling (includes correspondence, clippings, petitions, court papers)Dates: 1947-1964Container: Box/Folder 8 / 6
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Description: Gambling (clippings)Dates: 1947-1964Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1
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Description: James Graham (deposition as Secretary of Socialist Party; obituary)Dates: 1909, 1951Container: Box/Folder 9 / 2
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Description: John Hellman trial (re violation of anti-Communist Smith Act)Dates: 1956, 1958Container: Box/Folder 9 / 3
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Description: Highway Commission investigations by Legislative House of Representatives (includes correspondence; House resolution; "Report of Examination, Montana State Highway Commission, December 31, 1958"; invitations for bids; transcript of hearing on state highway through Helena; hearing on alleged reprisals against Horace B. Williams; court papers; press releases; clippings)Dates: 1958-1960Container: Box/Folder 9 / 4-7
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Description: Historical (includes donation of copies of Alfred Myers diaries to Montana State University; "The Government of Montana" by Thomas Payne)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 9 / 8
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Description: Hitler Bill (re HB 65 authorizing appointment and removal of state employees by Governor)Dates: 1937Container: Box/Folder 9 / 9
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Description: John Birch Society (includes "The John Birch Society: a Soiled Slip is Showing," by Alan Cranston, re racism and anti-Semitism in the Society)Dates: 1966Container: Box/Folder 9 / 10
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Description: John F. Kennedy assassination (clippings)Dates: 1963Container: Box/Folder 10 / 1
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Description: Korean War and China (clippings)Dates: 1950-1951Container: Box/Folder 10 / 2
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Description: Labor history (includes "Labor in America," term paper by John G. Billings; minutes of Montana State Federation of Labor conventions; Great Falls Typographical Union; Big Bill Haywood; "Labor Laws of the State of Montana")Dates: 1939-1956Container: Box/Folder 10 / 3
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Description: Labor unions (includes correspondence from local unions; form letters)Dates: 1933-1953Container: Box/Folder 10 / 4-5
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Description: Letters of opinion ("I love you too letters")Dates: 1948-1954Container: Box/Folder 10 / 6
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Description: Liquor (includes "Survey of Liquor Problem in Montana," by Lucy T. McLemore; circulars by Montana Licensed Liquor Dealers Association; circular by Employees of Montana Liquor Control Board; court opinion; report of Special Investigating Committee of 26th Legislative Assembly; proposed bill to limit Liquor Control Board to wholesale business only)Dates: 1936-1955Container: Box/Folder 10 / 7
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Description: Jerome G. Locke (re Montana MVA Association; Missouri Valley Authority; Livingston Enterprise; obituaries)Dates: 1952-1954Container: Box/Folder 10 / 8
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Description: Marias River Irrigation Project (includes "The Marias Irrigation Project History," by W.T. Cowan; "The Big Water Gyp in Montana" re 160 acre limit on irrigated farms; Tiber Dam, etc.)Dates: 1904-1951Container: Box/Folder 10 / 9
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Description: Harvey M. Matusow case (includes text of Matusow's affidavit withdrawing accusations against Clinton Jencks of Mine-Mill Union, re continued Communist Party membership)Dates: 1955Container: Box/Folder 10 / 10
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Description: Miles City Star (re 1948 election)Dates: 1948Container: Box/Folder 10 / 11
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Description: Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union (includes "A Review of Montana's 1947 State Legislature," by William Mason; Mine-Mill District #1; union election circulars' Clinton Jencks controversy; factional fight with Steelworkers Union; union publications)Dates: 1947-1956Container: Box/Folder 10 / 12
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Description: Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union strikesDates: 1951Container: Box/Folder 11 / 1
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Description: Missouri Valley Authority [MVA] (includes correspondence with Jerome G. Locke; Regional Committee for MVA; clippings)Dates: 1944-1951Container: Box/Folder 11 / 2
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Description: Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell court martial (includes "The Saga of Billy Mitchell," by Jack Pearl re military air power)Dates: 1956Container: Box/Folder 11 / 3
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Description: The Montana Corporation (includes articles of incorporation; clippings)Dates: 1958-1959Container: Box/Folder 11 / 4
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Description: Montana development (includes correspondence and other materials re Knowles Dam, Paradise Dam and Yellowtail Dam; speeches by E.O. Sowerwine; legislative bills; State Planning Board newsletters; clippings)Dates: 1958-1959Container: Box/Folder 11 / 5
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Description: Montana Industrial Health Committee (re drive to cover silicosis and other industrial illnesses under Workmen's Compensation Act; includes correspondence, proposed legislation, petitions, clippings; also includes "Directory of Labor Organizations in Montana"; history of Farmers Union Oil Company; Constitution and By-laws of International Brotherhood of Bookbinders #101; brochure on Educational Co-operative Publishing Company of Montana)Dates: 1952Container: Box/Folder 11 / 6-7
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Description: Montana power development (re Columbia Valley Administration, power transmission lines, public power, hydro-electric dams, Rural Electric Association; includes correspondence, speeches, minutes)Dates: 1946Container: Box/Folder 11 / 8
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Description: Montana State Dept. of Labor (re bill creating Dept. of Labor as separate entity)Dates: 1951Container: Box/Folder 11 / 9
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Description: Montana State Laboratory Building [Cogswell Building] (to house laboratories of Highway Commission, Water Conservation Board, Board of Health, Food and Drug Division, Industrial Hygenic Division, Sanitary Engineering Division, and Livestock Sanitary Board)Dates: 1946Container: Box/Folder 11 / 10
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Description: Montana State Training School and Hospital, Boulder (includes minutes of Governor's Committee on Mental Health; The Roundup, May, 1951; clipping on overcrowding)Dates: 1951, 1953Container: Box/Folder 12 / 1
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Description: Montana State University, Missoula (re controversy with Montana Kaiman; speech at Charter Day Convocation)Dates: 1949-1950, 1966Container: Box/Folder 12 / 2
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Description: Montana State University, Missoula: drinking (clippings)Dates: 1955Container: Box/Folder 12 / 3
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Description: Montana State University, Missoula: equestrian classDates: 1957Container: Box/Folder 12 / 4
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Description: Montana State University, Missoula: family housing projectDates: 1954Container: Box/Folder 12 / 5
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Description: Montana State University, Missoula: Dr. James Ford resignation as Dean of School of JournalismDates: 1954-1955Container: Box/Folder 12 / 6
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Description: Montana State University, Missoula: miscellanyDates: 1954Container: Box/Folder 12 / 7
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Description: Montana State Federation of Labor (includes proceedings; resolutions; reports; correspondence with affiliated unions; financial records; legislative summaries)Dates: 1912-1957Container: Box/Folder 12 / 8
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Description: Montana State Federation of Labor: essay contest (topic "Do We Need Labor Unions in a Democracy?")Dates: 1948Container: Box/Folder 12 / 9
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Description: Montana State Federation of Labor: Executive Board (includes report, correspondence, resolutions, minutes)Dates: 1928, 1946-1951Container: Box/Folder 12 / 10-11
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Description: Montana State Federation of Labor: nominationsDates: 1950, 1952Container: Box/Folder 12 / 12
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Description: Montana. Subversive and Un-American Activities, Interim Committee to InvestigateDates: 1948-1951Container: Box/Folder 12 / 13
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Description: James E. MurrayDates: 1948-1951Container: Box/Folder 12 / 14
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Description: National Youth AdministrationDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 12 / 15
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Description: Nurse licensingDates: 1952Container: Box/Folder 12 / 16
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Description: James F. O'ConnorDates: 1940Container: Box/Folder 12 / 17
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Description: Oil issues (primarily correspondence with other states; also includes transcript of hearing on natural gas prices, 1955; court cases; proposed legislation)Dates: 1952-1956Container: Box/Folder 12 / 18
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Description: Oil issues (printed material)Dates: 1951-1955Container: Box/Folder 13 / 1
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Description: Paradise Dam (correspondents include Committee for Paradise Dam, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, John R. Garber, Frances Logan; also includes printed material, articles, etc.)Dates: 1957Container: Box/Folder 13 / 2-3
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Description: Peace (includes excerpt from letter from Jeannette Rankin re World Pacifist Conference in India; article by Andre Fontaine "Raise Your Boy To Be a Soldier")Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 13 / 4
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Description: Power producers (re Production for Use Committee)Dates: 1929-1944Container: Box/Folder 13 / 5
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Description: Public power projectsDates: 1949-1950Container: Box/Folder 13 / 6
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Description: Public utility districtsDates: 1957-1959Container: Box/Folder 13 / 7
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Description: Public utility districts (printed material)Dates: 1957-1959Container: Box/Folder 14 / 1
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Description: Railroad mergers (printed material)Dates: 1960Container: Box/Folder 14 / 2
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Description: Rural Electrification Administration contract wagesDates: 1948-1950Container: Box/Folder 14 / 3
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Description: Red Lodge coal char plant (re production of coal by-products by Koal Krudes Company; also includes "Results of Continuous Coal Charring Operations," by John W. Goodenbour [MS thesis, Montana State College])Dates: 1955-1956Container: Box/Folder 14 / 4
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Description: William Scallon (printed material)Dates: undatedContainer: Box/Folder 14 / 5
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Description: Technical Engineers and Architects, Association ofDates: 1945-1946Container: Box/Folder 14 / 6
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Description: Treasure State Industries, Inc.Dates: 1958-1959Container: Box/Folder 14 / 7
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Description: United States. Securities and Exchange CommissionDates: 1958Container: Box/Folder 14 / 8
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Description: Voting techniques: Legislative session (printed material and roll calls)Dates: 1957Container: Box/Folder 14 / 9-10
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Writings
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Description: Drafts of People's Voice articles by othersDates: 1940-1941, 1953Container: Box/Folder 14 / 11
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Miscellany
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Description: Miscellaneous (includes legislative bills, legislative expenses, minutes of Montana Progressive Council meeting, Rocky Mountain Sportsmen's Association resolution, circulars, cartoon)Dates: 1935-1950Container: Box/Folder 14 / 12-13
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Clippings
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Description: Miscellaneous (includes items from Missoula Times; statement of Finnish Workers Federation on Soviet "mutual assistance pact"; "Report of Special Investigating Committees of the 26th Legislative Assembly")Dates: 1939, 1958, undatedContainer: Box/Folder 14 / 14
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Agriculture--Societies, etc.--Montana
- Electric power--Montana
- Electric utilities--Montana--Law and Legislation
- Labor and laboring classes--Montana
- Newspaper publishing--Montana
- Petroleum industry and trade--Montana
- Public utilities--Montana--Regulation
- Strikes and lockouts--Copper mining
- Trials (murder)--Montana
- Universities and Colleges--Montana
- Veterans--Societies, etc
Corporate Names
- Educational Cooperative Publishing Company of Montana (creator)
Geographical Names
- Butte (Mont.)--Industries--Mines and mineral resources
- Helena (Mont.)--Periodicals
- Helena (Mont.)--Politics and government
- Marias River Valley (Mont.)
- Red Lodge (Mont.)
