Title: Detroit Revolutionary Movements Collection Type: Papers Date: 1968‑1976 (Predominantly, 1970‑1974) Size: 8 linear feet ID#: 874 OCLC: |
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Scope & Contents
The Detroit Revolutionary Movements Collection was placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs by General Gordon Baker and Ronald Glotta in January of 1978 and opened for research in December of 1979. Additional material was received from Mr. Glotta in March of 1981 and opened in March of 1982 as Part 2 of the collection.
Series I of this collection consists of the papers donated by General Baker, who worked in Chrysler Corporation's Dodge Main Plant. They are mainly concerned with the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW).
Series II is comprised of papers donated by Ronald Glotta, a Detroit attorney. These papers relate to the Eldon Revolutionary Union Movement (ELRUM) at Chrysler's Eldon Avenue plant and other Revolutionary Union Movement groups; workmen's compensation cases; social service workers' organizing activities in Detroit; the National Lawyers Guild; the Motor City Labor League; the Control, Conflict, Change Book Club; and mass party movements in Detroit and elsewhere, particularly the Communist League and Communist Labor Party.
Ronald Glotta's law firm, Glotta, Adelman and Dinges, was established with a revolutionary objective. The members actively participate in the revolutionary groups which they counsel and represent in arbitration and in the courts.
A more detailed introduction to the Series may be found in CONTENTS below. These descriptions are further elaborated with pertinent historical information, series descriptions and lists of major correspondents and subjects before the container inventory for each series and/or subseries. In addition to the Reuther’s standard lists of key Subjects, Correspondents, Index to Correspondents, and Related Collections--you will find expanded coverage of:
Black dissidents within the UAW
Black radical
Chrysler Corporation
Communist League
Communist Labor Party
Corruption of union officials
Detroit radical activity, 1960's-1970's
Detroit unemployment
Drugs: political and economic aspects
Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Eldon Revolutionary Union Movement
Industrial pollution
James Johnson, Jr. case
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Motor City Labor League
National health care
National Lawyers Guild
Old Left vs. New Left
Plant safety
Poverty
Racial and ethnic antagonism within plants
Racial discrimination in jobs
Rank-and-file movements
Shop floor conditions
UAW Local 3
UAW Local 961
UAW unresponsiveness to worker grievances
Wildcat strikes
Workmen's compensation law
Michael Adelman
William J. Beckham
Kenneth Cockrel
David Dellinger
Bernadine Dohrn
Peter Franck
Ronald Glotta
William B. Gould
Art Hughes
Donald Jackson
Frank Joyce
Alicia Kaplow
Emil Mazey
George Merrelli
Victor Rabinowitz
Ronald Reosti
Rachel Scott
Jordan U. Sims
H. John Taylor
Leonard Woodcock
Joseph A. Yablonski
A few photographs received with the collection have been transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Collection and a number of publications have been placed in the Archives Library.
Newspapers
Changeover (MCLL)
Closer to It (Akron, Ohio)
Criterion (UAW Local 961)
Daily World (CPUSA)
Fifth Estate (Detroit, Michigan)
El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia (Denver, Colorado)
Grass Roots (National Publication for the Peoples' Parties)
Guardian (independent radical)
Hammer and Sickle (League for Proletarian Revolution)
Inner City Voice (Sauti) ‑ (Detroit, Michigan)
The Journey (MCLL, CCC)
Marxist‑Leninists Unite!
People's Tribune (CL, CLP)
People's Voice (Detroit, Michigan)
R.P.M. (Detroit Organizing Committee)
Region Two Observer (Michigan Education Association)
The Southern Patriot (Southern Conference Educational Fund)
The Spark (Detroit, Michigan)
Workers' Power (International Socialist)
Newsletters
Black Student Voice
CADRUM (Cadillac)
DRUM (Dodge)
DRUM (Dodge Truck)
DRUM (Ford)
Eldon Wildcat (Detroit Revolutionary Organizing Committee)
ELRUM (Chrysler, Eldon Ave.)
FRUM (Ford)
JARUM (Chrysler, Jefferson Ave.)
The Recorder (Region 1, UAW)
Spear (LRBW)
Washington Weekly
Pamphlets
The Adventures of Bro. James Anthony (Black Student United Front)
The Great Flint Sit‑Down Strike Against General Motors, 1936‑1937 by Walter Linden (Progressive Labor Party)
Letters from Prison (Martin Sostre Defense Committee)
The Opium Trail: Heroin and Imperialism (Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars)
Organization in the Workplace (Sojourner Truth Organization)
A Pentagon Papers Digest (Indochina Information Project)
Problems of Revolutionary Strategy by Le Duan (Association of Vietnamese Patriots in Canada)
A Unionist's Guide to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Urban Planning Aid, Inc.)
Working Conditions in G.M.: A Bird's Eye View by Jchn Anderson (UAW)
Magazines
Party Organizer (CPUSA, 1931)
Peking Review (People's Republic of China)
Radical America
AAAFA Afro‑American Alliance for Action
A/P (or A & P) Agitation and Propaganda ‑ Agit‑Prop
BEDC Black Economic Development Conference (earlier NBEDC National
Black Economic Development Conference)
BLM Black Liberation Movement
BWC Black Workers' Congress
CC Central Committee (MCLL) or Continuations Committee
CCC Control, Conflict, Change Book Club
CETA Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
CFF Crusade for Freedom
CL Communist League
CLP Communist Labor Party
CPSU Communist Party Soviet Union
CPUSA Communist Party U.S.A.
DFT Detroit Federation of Teachers
DGH Detroit General Hospital
DLCC Detroit Local Continuations Committee (or LCC)
DRUM Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
DUC Detroit Unemployed (or Unemployment) Council
EC Executive Committee
ELRUM Eldon Revolutionary Union Movement
EWSC Eldon Workers Safety Committee
FN(P) Freedom Now (Party)
FPCC Fair Play for Cuba Committee
GAD Glotta, Adelman and Dinges (law firm)
GADTDM Glotta, Adelman, Dinges, Taylor, Davis, and Middleton (law firm)
Health PAC Health Policy Advisory Center
IBA International Black Appeal
ILD International Labor Defense
IPC Indochina Peace Campaign
IS International Socialists
JARUM Jefferson Avenue Revolutionary Union Movement
LCC Local Continuations Committee (or DLCC)
LDC Labor Defense Coalition
LRBW League of Revolutionary Black Workers
MAC Memb rship Action Committee
MCC Motor City Coalition
MERUM Mound Road Engine Plant Revolutionary Union Movement
M‑L Marxist‑Leninist
MTLA Michigan Trial Lawyers Association
NAM New American Movement
NCA National Conference of Artists
NEB National Executive Board (NLG)
NIC National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People
NLG National Lawyers Guild
NOC National Organizing Committee
OC Organizing Committee
OG On Guard (Committee for Freedom)
OL October League
OPEIU Office and Professional Employees International Union
P & A Program and Administration Committee (NLG)
PPT People's Peace Treaty
PT Peoples Tribune (CLP)
PWOC Philadelphia Workers Organizing Committee
RAFT Rank and File Team (USWA)
RAM Revolutionary Action Movement
RU Revolutionary Union
SDS Students for a Democratic Society
TURF Teamsters United Rank and File
UAW United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of
America
UFW United Farm Workers
UNC United National Caucus (UAW)
USCP U.S. Communist Party
USDL U.S. Dept. of Labor
USNA U.S. of North America
USWA United Steel Workers of America
UU Uhuru, Uhuru
WCDSS Wayne County Dept. of Social Services
WEU Welfare Employees Union
WSU Wayne State University
WUPA Workers United for Political Action
WUPES Workers United for Political and Economic Survival (CCC successor)
YCL Young Communist League (CLP)
Contents
16 manuscript boxes
Part 1
Series I, Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), 1968‑1972,
Box 1: To Series
Papers, mainly handbills and policy statements, donated by General Baker dating from the formation of DRUM at the Chrysler Corporation Dodge Main plant, Hamtramck, Michigan, in 1968. There is some material on elections in which DRUM candidates ran for UAW posts and also some on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
Series II, Boxes 2-15: To Series
Series II consists of papers donated by Ronald Glotta. This series is divided into six subseries by subject.
Subseries A: Chrysler Eldon (ELRUM) and Other Revolutionary Union Movements, 1967‑1975, Boxes 2‑5: To Series
Papers, mainly flyers, open letters, legal papers, meeting notes, grievances, plant files, and correspondence relating to the activities of ELRUM at the Chrysler Eldon Avenue plant, DRUM at the Dodge Main plant, and Revolutionary Union Movement groups at other plants. There is also material on the Eldon Workers Safety Committee and Chrysler Eldon UAW Local 961 elections from 1971‑73.
Subseries B: Workmen's Compensation and Social Service Workers, 1970‑1975, Box 5: To Series
This subseries is made up of papers on workmen's compensation, specifically the case of James Johnson. It also covers attempts to organize social service workers in the Detroit area in the early seventies. This subseries consists mainly of handbills, newsletters and some correspondence.
Subseries C: National Lawyers Guild ‑ 1963‑1974, Boxes 6‑7: To Series
These papers, mainly correspondence and reports, relate to the National Lawyers Guild during the period 1963‑74. There is material on the Detroit chapter, the NLG Labor Committee and the 1972 Detroit National Labor Conference.
Subseries D: Motor City Labor League and Control, Conflict, Change Book Club, 1970‑1976, Boxes 8‑11: To Series
These papers, mainly correspondence, policy statements and reports concern the Motor City Labor League and the Control, Conflict, Change Book Club. The majority of the reports deal with specific topics. There is also material on factional disputes within the League.
Subseries E: New Mass Party Movements, 1970‑1976, Boxes 12‑14: To Series
These papers are concerned with attempts in the early seventies to form a mass party to replace the Communist Party USA. Most of the material is in the form of policy statements, reports, meeting notes and correspondence and relates to Detroit unemployment, the Communist League and the Communist Labor Party.
Subseries F: Other Organizations, Box 15: To Series
This subseries consists of papers and literature from a variety of groups, predominantly those with a radical objective.
Part 2
Series III, Communist Labor Party, 1975‑1980, Box 16: To Series
Papers, mainly newsletters and publicity items, relating to the activities of the Communist Labor Party in promoting a variety of causes and agitating for improved working conditions in a number of industries and occupational groups. There is also material on the election campaigns of General Baker for Michigan state representative in 1976 and 1978.
To Containers [Large file]
Index to Correspondents
Adelman, Michael, 2‑13, 2‑15, 2‑16, 2‑17, 2‑18, 2‑22, 4‑34, 4‑35, 5‑22, 5‑24, 13‑22
Alexander, Gabriel, 2‑36
Baldwin, Roland, 2‑14, 2‑15
Beckham, William J., 2‑18
Bennett, John H., 2‑18
Bingham, Stephen, 6‑3
Bish, James F., 5‑36
Bluestone, Irving, 4‑19
Brooks, Jerome H., 2‑13, 2‑15
Burton, Charles, 2‑16, 2‑18
Castle, Joann, 11‑9
Chomsky, Noam, 10‑16
Claydon, John, 6‑18
Cloke, Kenneth, 6‑1
Cockrel, Kenneth V., 5‑22,6‑14, 6‑19
Davis, Hugh M., Jr., 6‑14
Dean, Max, 5‑24, 14‑30
Dellinger, David, 11‑14
Diehl, Richard A., 15‑4
Diggs, Charles, 14‑19
Dohrn, Bernadine, 6‑1
Donner, Frank J., 6‑2
Doyle, Mary, 6‑3
Edwards, James, 3‑26
Engelbrecht, Harry, 2‑14
Fidlow, Michael, 5‑22
Fillion, John A., 6‑19
Forman, James, 12‑26
Franck, Peter, 6‑3, 6‑18
Franklin, James R., 2‑15
Froines, John, 11‑14
Genesta, George,9‑2
Georgakas, Dan, 13‑22
Gibbons, Harold,6‑18, 6‑19
Glotta, Ronald, 2‑18,3‑22, 4‑34, 5‑22, 6‑1, 6‑3, 6‑14, 6‑18, 6‑19, 8‑10, 8‑11, 8‑13, 8‑14, 9‑2, 13‑21, 13‑22, 13‑26, 14‑5, 14‑19,14‑30
Goodman, Ernest, 7‑20
Gould, William B., 2‑22
Granucci, Anthony F. 6‑1
Greenblatt, Bob 11‑14
Haessler, Lucy, 8‑10
Healy, Dorothy, 10‑16
Hein, Hilda, 11‑14
Herman, Irving M., 2‑13, 2‑14, 2‑15
Hodgson, James D., 2‑16, 2‑18
Holsey, Frederick A., 5‑22
Hughes, Art, 2‑14, 3‑26
Jackson, Donald, 4‑36
Johnson, Karen, 14‑30
Jolly, Homer, 3‑26
Joyce, Frank, 11‑14, 12‑2, 12‑7, 12‑10
Kaplow, Alicia, 6‑1, 6‑2, 6‑3, 6‑8
Kenyatta, Muhammad, 10‑16
Kitch, Randy, 14‑30
Leeds, Wini, 6‑3, 6‑19
Lewis, Carolyn, 14‑19
Liska, Ed, 4‑36
Lobenthal, Dick, 14‑19
Logan, James H., 6‑19
Lurie, Leonard J., 2‑17, 2‑18
Lynd, Staughton, 10‑16
Marzani, Carl, 12‑2
Mazey, Emil, 2‑18, 4‑36
McKinnon, Frank D., 2‑17, 2‑18
Meier, Bill, 14‑30
Merrelli, George, 2‑15, 4‑17
Middleton, Diane L., 6‑3
Miner, T. W., 2‑36
Moy, Richard, 4‑35
Naydon (Neydon) Ann, 2‑16, 2‑17, 2‑18
Pack, Sid, 11‑14
Pipp, Frank, 3‑22
Pitts, Aaron, 4‑34
Polsgrove, C., 2‑14, 3‑26
Rabinowitz, Victor, 6‑1, 7‑20
Rasmussen, Ruth, 2‑15, 3‑22, 3‑27
Ravitz, Justin C., 6‑14
Reilly, Ro, 12‑7
Reosti, Ronald, 2‑14, 2‑15, 4‑34
Richardson, Elroy, 2‑16, 4‑1
Roraback, Catherine G., 6‑18
Ross, Ray, 2‑16
Rossen, Jordan, 6‑18
Rutledge, Charles, 9‑28
Sanderson, Leland, 11‑11
Sargeant, Lydia,S11‑14
Scott, Rachel, 5‑22, 14‑30
Seitz, Eric, 6‑2, 6‑8
Sims, Jordan U., 2‑15, 2‑16, 2‑17, 2‑18, 4‑1, 5‑22
Singham, Neville Roy, 14‑5
Small, Janet, 6‑18
Solenberger, Peter, 11‑11
Stickgold, Marc, 6‑1, 6‑14
Summers, Clyde W., 6‑18, 6‑19
Surkin, Marvin, 13‑22, 13‑26
Taylor, Harry John, 2‑14, 2‑16, 2‑17, 2‑18, 3‑26, 5‑2, 5‑22
Thodis, John G., 2‑15, 3‑27
Thomas, Edward, 2‑16
Thomas, J. C., 5‑22
Thompson, Russel, 2‑15
Toomer, Daniel, 2‑16
Utter, Lloyd D., 2‑14, 3‑26
Valenciano, Debi, 13‑26
Walker, Doris Brin, 6‑2
Webster, Barbara, 12‑7
Woodcock, Leonard, 2‑15, 2‑16, 2‑17, 2‑18, 5‑22
Yablonski, Joseph A., 6‑18