Box 1
Law practice,
Racine.
Correspondence, legal briefs, and clippings relative to Mr.
Cranefield’s private law practice in Racine, 1932-35. Some materials deal with strikes at the
J.I. Case Company. Mr. Cranefield
was legal counsel for the strikers.
Mr. Cranefield’s defense of Samuel Herman show his early interest
in political liberty. Material is
arranged chronologically within the files.
1.
General correspondence and legal briefs, 1932-35.
2.
J.I. Case Company strike. Correspondence, 1934-35.
3.
Clippings, 1934-35.
National Labor
Relations Board.
Office files, telegrams, and correspondence of Mr.
Cranefield’s office as Regional Attorney of the National Labor Relations
Board. This material includes
separate files on Ford and General Motors cases before the Board in the 1940s
and an investigation of espionage at Timkin Axle Company in 1941. Files on individual corporations follow
the general file, and material is arranged chronologically within the files.
1-Box
4-7.
General correspondence, 1935-48.
8.
N.L.R.B. Decision against Ford, 1940.
9-10.
Ford cases. Correspondence and office files,
1940-42.
11.
General Motors cases. Correspondence and office files, 1945-48.
12.
General Motors reply to U.A.W.-C.I.O. Brief regarding Wage Demands, November
7, 1945.
13-14.
Timkin Axle Company Case. Correspondence and office files, 1941.
15.
Material on Frank H. Bowen,
Regional Director, N.L.R.B., Detroit
16.
Clippings, 1937, 1939.
17-18.
Letters on leaving N.L.R.B., December, 1948.
La Follette Subcommittee
Office files and correspondence
giving a good picture of the activities of the N.L.R.B. personnel in Detroit
who were assigned to the Subcommittee as Investigators. Included are subpoenas issued on
Pinkerton’s and General Motors regarding anti-union spies. Material is arranged chronologically
within each file.
1-Box
19.
General correspondence, 1936-39.
20.
Pinkerton’s Detroit office investigation, Correspondence
and office files, 1936-37.
1.
Pinkerton’s
Detroit office investigation, Correspondence and office files, 1936-37.
2. Chrysler
Corporation investigation, Correspondence and office files, 1936-37.
3-5. General Motors investigation,
Correspondence and office files, 1936-37.
Legal
Department, U.A.W.
Material dealing with
Mr. Cranefield’s association with the U.A.W. as Associate General Counsel
and General Counsel. Of particular
interest, and most complete, are the files on the assassination attempts on
Victor and Walter Reuther. Materials
are arranged chronologically within the files, individual subject files
following the general file.
2-Box
6. General
Correspondence and memorandum, 1954-60.
7. Reuther Brothers
Shootings – Memoranda from Heber Blankenhorn, 1950.
8-10. Reuther Brothers Shootings – Office
files, 1951-52, 1954.
11. Briggs Manufacturing
Co. case. Legal brief and records,
1956-57.
12. Winstead, Ralph –
Clippings on his death, 1957.
13. Retirement as General
Counsel – Letters and telegrams, 1963.
Boxes 2-3
Speeches,
articles, speech notes.
Speeches,
speech notes, and articles. The
majority and most informative are those dealing with the National Labor
Relations Act, although Mr. Cranefield’s remarks on a number of subjects
are included. Materials are
arranged alphabetically by subject matter.
2-Box
14. Anti-trust laws –
making unions subject to them, speech,
May 4, 1956.
15. Blankenhorn, Heber
– tribute to, undated.
16. Campaign speech for
municipal judgeship of Racine County, Wisconsin, April 3, 1933.
17. J.I. Case Company
strike – speech, May 10, 1935.
18. Civil and political
liberties – speech to Stanley Nowak Testimonial Dinner, April 15, 1956.
19. Closed shops –
opposition to proposed State law banning, undated
20. Contract negotiations
and contract bar rules, speech, July 31, 1958.
21. Foreign aid to Franco
Spain – withdrawal of support for, speech, February 4, 1953.
22.
Labor Law –
“Legal Frontiers 1961,” speech, Sept. 16, 1960.
23. Loyalty, Security, and
Cross-Examination, speech, June 23, 1955.
1. National Labor
Relations Act – progress in labor’s right to organize, speech,
January 25, 1940.
2. National Labor
Relations Act – summary and evolution, speech, March 5, 1940.
3. National Labor
Relations Act – provisions, speech, undated.
4. National Labor
Relations Act – speech written for Adolph Germer against amendment,
undated.
5. National Labor
Relations Act – collective bargaining provisions, article, November 17,
1939.
6. National Labor
Relations Board – activities of Detroit Regional Office, article, 1945.
7. Picketing –
legal provisions for, speech notes, February 8, 1951.
8. Price Control
– observations on importance of, speech, February 1943.
9. Taft-Hartley Act
– changes in labor relations law, speech notes, November 23, 1948.
10. Union striker tactics
– speech notes, November 6, 1950.
Boxes 3-4
Miscellanea
Personal
correspondence, legal briefs, clippings, and miscellanea concerning Mr.
Cranefield’s activities with the American Civil Liberties Union, the
National Lawyers Guild, and his interest in a number of political liberties
cases. Included are letters to and
from Walter Reuther in the George Crocket, Mine-Mill, and National Lawyers
Guild files regarding those cases and Mr. Cranefield’s U.A.W. office as
General Counsel. Following the
first two files of personal correspondence, materials are arranged
alphabetically by subject matter.
3-Box
11-12. Personal
correspondence, 1936-64.
13. American
Civil Liberties Union, correspondence, 1956.
14. Anti-war
Proclamation and Petition, National Office, Socialist Party, Chicago, May 5,
1917.
15. Arbitration
farce play, “One for you, and One for you,” by Labor Relations Law
Section, State Bar, undated.
16. Crockett,
George, Jr. – Summary Contempt Citation, Investigation reports, 1949-50.
17. Crockett,
George, Jr. – Disbarment proceedings, Correspondence and petition, 1952.
18. Detroit
Committee of Fifty-Six – Petition to sever economic connections with
Germany, 1939.
19. General
Motors – U.A.W. Agreement, February 11, 1937.
20. General
Motors – U.A.W.-C.I.O. Disputes – Report of National
Citizen’s Committee, December 6, 1945.
21. Green-Winston
Clemency Appeals, 1958-59.
22. Grosser,
Philip – Uncle Sam’s Devil’s Island (History of his
imprisonment as a conscientious objector), undated.
22-39. Grosser,
Philip – Transcript of court-martial, 1918.
1.
Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers Union – Correspondence regarding conspiracy charges,
1959-63.
2. National Labor
Relations Act – Remarks on improving its administration, by Stuart
Rothman, Sept. 20, 1962.
3. National Lawyers
Guild – General Correspondence, 1949-55.
4. National Lawyers
Guild – Publications, 1939-53.
5. Reuther, Walter
– Brief, “Purchasing Power for Prosperity,” November 17,
1945.
6. Reuther, Walter
– Brief regarding corporation-union disputes, before the U.S. Senate
Committee on Labor, February 21, 1947.
7. Sobell, Morton
– Committee to Secure Justice, Correspondence 1958-60.
8. Sobell, Morton
– Committee to Secure Justice, Letters appealing for aid, 1959-65.
9. Sobell, Morton
– Committee to Secure Justice, Clippings, reprints, publications,
1958-67.
10. Sobell, Morton –
Committee to Secure Justice, Petition for Re-trial, 1966.
11. Thomas, R.J. –
Radio speech on Homer Martin and union disputes, January 25, 1939.
12. Thomas, R.J. –
Testimonial Dinner Program, Detroit, January 28, 1944.
13. Unfair labor practices
– Brief concerning transfer of jurisdiction to Federal District Courts,
1961.
14. Union Devices for
Practical Immunity – Nonentity and Pre-emption, Brief by Alfred Kamin,
undated.
15. Wellman, Mrs. Peggy
– Signers of plea for clemency in case of, undated.
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Containers-end Containers
Abt, John S., 1-19
Bergman, Walter, 3-13
Blankenhorn, Heber, a
number of letters in 2-7
Crane, Henry Hitt,
3-21
Crockett George W.,
Jr., 3-17
Hoover, J. Edgar,
1-13
Jenkins, David, 4-1
Malin, Patrick
Murphy, 3-13
Morse, Wayne, 1-6,
1-7
Paradise, James C.,
4-1
Rauh, Joseph L., Jr.,
4-1
Reuther, Walter, 4-1
Robb, Dean, 3-17,
3-21
Sobell, Helen 4-7
Wohlforth, Robert,
numerous letters and telegrams in Series III