Title: Ganley-Wellman Collection Genre: Papers Dates: 1945-1953 Size: 2 linear feet ID#: 308 OCLC: |
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The papers of Nat Ganley and Saul Wellman were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in 1969 and were opened for research in 1993.
Nat Ganley, born Nathan Kaplan in 1919, was an active Communist most of his life, serving early in the Communist youth movement and in the 1940s on the National Committee of the Communist Party. Ganley was active in the labor movement too, helping to organize the National Textile Workers in New England; later in Detroit he helped found UAW Local 155 and edited its newspaper. He used the name Ganley upon moving to Detroit in 1934 hoping to hide his identity from area employers. He was convicted in 1954 for violation of the Smith Act but a U.S. appeals court later overturned the ruling upon a rehearing ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court. Ganley died in 1969.
Saul Wellman, Ganley's friend, also was active in the Michigan Communist Party. Wellman, a Spanish Civil War veteran, worked to promote Communism within Detroit auto plants. He, too, was tried under the Smith Act. Wellman remained active in left-wing politics in Detroit into the 1970s.
The Ganley-Wellman Collection contains clippings, reports, speeches, lecture notes, and election material relating to the Communist Party of Michigan, Detroit, and the national organization--mostly in the 1940s. The college lecture material deals with the relationship between labor and Communism and Marxist-Leninist theory on dialectical materialism and political economy.
Communist Party in WWII
Labor and Communism
African-Americans and Communism
Smith Act
Nat Ganley has a separate collection under his name.
General files, 1945-53, Boxes 1-4
Contents |
[Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] |
1. Auto industry and economy, 1940-50
2-3. Browder Period, 1943-45
4. Callahan Bill, 1947-48
5. Communist Party; Appearances before and corresp. with government and other organizations, 1945-51
6. Communist Party; Expulsions, 1947-52
7. ; Fight for Party Legality, 1946-52
8. ; Organization, 1943-50
9. ; Press, 1946-51
10. ; States, 1948-53
11. ; Vigilance, 1950
12-13. ; Detroit Elections, 1949-50
14. ; Detroit Elections, 1953
15. ; Michigan Activities, 1945-59
16.; 1946-54
17. ; Michigan Conventions, 1946-52
18. ; Michigan Meetings, 1946-50
19. ; Michigan in post-WWII years, 1950-53
20-23. ; Michigan radio speeches, 1945-47
24. ; Michigan struggle for trade union unity
1. Communist Party; Michigan television and radio post, 1947
2. Communist Party; Michigan in WWII years, 1943
3-5. Communist Party, U.S.A.; Conventions and Committee meetings, 1946-50
6. Communist Party, U.S.A.; pre-WWII years, 1938
7. ; WWII years, 1945
8. ; post-WWII years, 1946-53
9. Contract and economic struggles, 1949
10. Detroit Street Railway, 1945
11. Dialectical and Historical Materialism; course notes, 1949
12. Dialectical Materialism; course outline, 1949
13. Educational Material, 1941-51
14-15. Educational and theoretical material; race and slavery, 1947-53
16. Educational work, 1946-49
1. Educational material, 1950-51
2. Elections, 1948
3-4. ; 1950-53
5. Emphasis bulletins, 1948-49
6. Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1945-46
7. Fascism and civil rights, 1940-51
8. Force and Violence, 1943-52
9. Ford material, 1947-52
10. General Motors material, 1944-48
11-12. Labor, 1945-51
13. Marxism-Leninism; course outlines, n.d.
14. Michigan School of Social Science; bulletins, 1948-50
15. Mundt-Nixon bill, 1948
16. National groups, 1944-50
17. Negro organizations, 1944-52
18. Negroes; general, 1945-51
19. Negroes; specific struggles, 1948
20. Negroes; work and white chauvinism, 1948-53
21-24. Political Economy; advanced course notes, 1949-50
1-2. Post-WWII years; non-C.P. material, 1945-50
3. Rent gouging, 1942
4. Rosenberg case, 1953
5. Shop papers; non-Michigan, 1950-51
6-7. Smith Act, 1949
8-10. ; 1951-53
11. Taft-Hartley Act, 1947-50
12. Trucks Bill, 1952
13. Un-American Committee, 1946-53
14. Unemployment, 1945-48
15. Veterans, 1945-47
16. Wage Theory for Collective Bargaining, 1949
17. Walter-McCarran Act, 1951-53
18. Worker's School; outlines, 1938-39
19. World War II; non-C.P. material, 1945
20. Women, 1946-51
21-22. Youth, 1941-53