The United packinghouse workers of America, civil rights, and the communist party in Chicago

American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 72-84

  Storch, Randi ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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1. "General Statistics For Standard Metropolitan Areas, By Industry," Census of Manufacturers: 1947, Vol. 3 (Washington, D.C.: Government Publishing Office, 1950), 183
2. Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz, Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle For Racial and Economic Equality (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999), 27
3. Theodore Purcell, The Worker Speaks His Mind on Company and Union (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954), 3-4
4. Rick Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997), 7-43.
5. Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor, 168.
6. John Wrublewski is quoted in Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor, 179-180.
7. "Filing Requirements of Taft Hartley," n.d., Box 44, File 10
8. "Assessing the Strike," 9 June 1948, Box 452, Folder 14
9. "Anti-Reds in Packing Union Threaten Revolt," Chicago Daily News, 1 July 1948, Box 50, Folder 7
10. Letter from George Kovacevich to Ralph Helstein, 13 September 1948, Box 50, Folder 7, UPWA Papers, SHSW
11. Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor, 227-245.
12. Purcell, The Worker Speaks His Mind, 64
13. Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor, 237.
14. Helstein, quoted in Roger Horowitz, "Negro and White Unite and Fight!": A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-1990 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997), 221.
15. Randi Storch, "Shades of Red: The Communist Party and Chicago's Workers, 1928-1939" (Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1998), especially 12-77 and 155-195.
16. Harry Haywood, Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist (Chicago: Liberator Press, 1978), 499.
17. James R. Barrett, William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), 226-229
18. Edward Johanningsmeier, Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), 293-313
19. James Ryan, Earl Browder: The Failure of American Communism (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1997), 224-245.
20. Haywood, Black Bolshevik, 543-544.
21. Eugene Dennis quoted in Haywood, Black Bolshevik, 557.
22. G. Lightfoot, "Fluctuation Among Negro Members," The Party Forum (26 May 1949): 2, 4
23. "A New Stage of Negro Liberation Struggle," The Party Forum (22 October 1949): 4.
24. Storch, "Shades of Red," especially 12-77 and 155-195.
25. "New Stage of Negro Liberation Struggle," The Party Forum (22 October 1949): 3.
26. Anti-discrimination Report, 26 April 1952, Box 348, File 14, Proceedings of the 9 Convention of the UPWA
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30. Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor, 241.
31. Ford Bartlett, quoted in Purcell, Worker Speaks His Mind, 210
32. Anthony Masiello, quoted in Purcell, Worker Speaks His Mind, 202.
33. Wilson Warren, "The Limits of Social Democratic Unionism in Midwestern Meatpacking Communities: Patterns of Internal Strife, 1948-1955," in Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth Century Meatpacking Industry, ed. Shelton Stromquist and Marvin Bergman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997), 128-158.
34. "Ex-Communist Tells of Union Infiltration," Chicago Tribune, 5 September 1952
35. "Charge Union Under Thumb of Kremlin Agents," Chicago Tribune, 5 September 1952
36. House Committee on Un-American Activities, Hearings On Communist Activities in the Chicago Area-Part 2, 82d Cong., 2d sess., 1952
37. "Negro Unionist Tells Un-Americans to Hunt Un-Americans in KKK," Daily Worker, 5 September 1952.
38. Haywood, Black Bolshevik, 586-598.
39. Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor, 243-244
40. Gerald Zahavi, "Passionate Commitments: Race, Sex and Communism at Schenectady General Electric, 1932-1954," Journal of American History 83 (September 1996): 514-548.
41. Robert Zeiger, The CIO, 1935-1955 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 347
42. Martin Halpern, UAW Politics in the Cold War Era (Albany: SUNY Press, 1988), 246-248, 267
43. Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 283, 237, 241
44. Harvey Levenstein, Communism, Anti-Communism, and the CIO (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981), 330-340.
45. Herbert Hill, "The Problem of Race in American Labor History," Reviews in American History 24 (1996): 190.
46. Herbert Hill and Nelson Lichtenstein in New Politics 7 (winter 1999): 133-163.