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Title: Marx Lewis Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1907-1988
Collection number: 88029
Creator:
Lewis, Marx, 1897-1990.
Collection Size: 26 manuscript boxes (10.8 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, bulletins, newsletters, press releases,
resolutions, trial transcripts, pamphlets, and clippings, relating to the 1919 trial of
Victor Berger under the Espionage Act; Socialist Party internal politics, especially
during the mid-1930s; post-World War II opposition to communism within American trade
unions; and anti-communist activities of the Council Against Communist Aggression and its
successor organization, the Council for the Defense of Freedom.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Marx Lewis Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1988.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Berger, Victor L., 1860-1929.
Socialism--United States.
World War, 1914-1918--United States.
Socialist Party (U.S.)
Trade-unions and communism.
Anti-communist movements--United States.
Council for the Defense of Freedom (U.S.)
United States--Politics and government.
World War, 1914-1918.
Subversive activities--United States.
Trade-unions--United States.
| 1897, December 28 | Born, Brooklyn, New York |
| 1917-1919, | Secretary to Representative Meyer London |
| 1919-1920 | Associate Editor, New York Call |
| 1923-1929 | Secretary to Representative Victor Berger |
| 1929-c. 1934 | Lawyer, Washington, D.C. |
| 1934-1938 | Executive Secretary, United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union |
| 1938-1939 | Deputy Treasurer, City of New York |
| 1939-1949 | Executive Vice President, United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union |
| 1949-1960 | General Secretary-Treasurer, United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union |
| 1950- | Chairman, Council Against Communist Aggression (subsequently known as the Council for the Defense of Freedom) |
Marx Lewis was a member of the Board of Directors of the League for Industrial Democracy;
he was Chairman of the National Legislative Committee, Liberal Party of New York State
for l4 years, as well as a member of its State Executive and Trade Union Committees; and
he was on the Labor Advisory Committee of the National Labor Service, American Jewish
Committee.