Morris Hillquit (1869-1933) papers 1895-1944 [microform]

Format:

Microformat

Language:

English

Physical Description:

10 reels.

Other Title:

Hillquit, Morris (1869-1933) papers

Place of Publication:

1895-1944

Summary:

Morris Hillquit was born Morris Hillkowitz in Riga, Latvia, and immigrated to the United States in 1886, settling in New York. Hillquit worked in several factories before completing law school. He was active in the Socialist Labor Party and later in the Socialist Party of America, serving as legal adviser and national chairman (1929-1933). Hillquit helped to found the United Hebrew Trades (1888), the Yiddish weekly Arbeiter Zeitung (1890), and in 1905 the Rand School of Social Science, where he served as a director and trustee until his death. He wrote extensively on socialist philosophy and labor problems. Hillquit aided in major strikes in New York's garment industry in 1909-1910, serving as a member of the first Board of Arbitration established under the "Protocols of Peace," and served as counsel for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from 1914 until his death. The collection documents Hillquit's personal, professional, and political activities. It includes correspondence, writings, minutes, clippings, scrapbooks, transcripts of speeches and debates, condolence correspondence, and research notes from Nina Hillquit's biographical writings on her father and other socialist leaders. The original papers are in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Register available.

Local Notes:

Mf number 029

OCLC:

732881579