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Collection Inventory
Series I Biographical Materials 1949-1965
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Scope and Content Notes: Newspaper clippings from the 1950s and a copy of a job application completed by Fleckenstein contain biographical information. The application was made to the Federal Anti-Poverty Program in 1965. There are two photographs of Fleckenstein. The bulk of the material is contained in series II and III.
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Box 1
Series II Unemployment and Union Organizing, 1936-1948
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Scope and Content Notes: Fleckenstein's unemployment and union organizing centered around his association with the WAI, Workers Alliance of Indiana, and his efforts to organize Toy and Novelty Workers, a campaign by the CIO beginning in 1937. In 1937, the Toy and Novelty Workers Organizing Committee of the United Novelty Workers Local Industrial Union #718 filed a suite against the Wayne Novelty Company of Decatur, Indiana. There are many letters concerning this case from January 19, 1937 to August 8, 1939, as well as newspaper clippings and handbills. An effort was also made to organize labor for political action. Folder 5 focuses on several elections in Illinois.
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Workers Alliance of Indiana and WPA Materials, 1936-1939
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Toy and Novelty Workers, 1937-1939
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Toy and Novelty Workers, 1937
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Political Action, 1936-1948
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Series III Memberships 1936-1938
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Scope and Content Notes: Memberships is comprised of mimeograph circular letters to the Fort Wayne Branch form the National Office of the CPO Communist Party (Opposition), ICLL Independent Communist Labor League ,and ILLA Independent Labor League of America, all versions of the Communist Party in the United States during the 1930s. Materials concern state conventions, recruiting drives, national training schools and summer labor institutes, booklists and correspondence from the Literature Departments of the CPO and ICLL. There are also announcements and coordination efforts for speakers' tours, as well as 1937 reports on the Spanish Civil War. Other circulars that deal with similar Communist groups in Europe relate to the International Communist Opposition and anti-fascist refugee relief appeals. From 1939, there are circular letters and committee reports for the YCAW Youth Committee Against the War. There are also program materials from the National Youth War Congress in Chicago in 1939. A mimeographed songbook contains
Songs from a Warless World. The series concludes with constitutions, resolutions and statements from 1934 to 1936 from the CPO, ICO, and ILLA. Small documents, such as membership cards are placed in their own Folder 21.
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CPO Communist Party (Opposition), 1936
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ICLL Independent Communist Labor League, 1936-1937
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ICLL National Office Circular Letters to Ft. Wayne, 1935-1936
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ICLL Spanish Civil War Materials, 1937
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ICLL Training Schools, 1936-1938
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ICLL and CPO Literature Departments, 1936-1938
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ICLL National Office Circular Letters to Ft. Wayne, 1937-1938
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ILLA Independent Labor League of America, 1938-1939
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ICLL and ILLA Circular Letters, 1938-1940
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ICLL Circular Letters regarding the International Communist Opposition, 1936-1938
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IRA International Relief Association, 1936-1938
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Workers Age, 1936-1938
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ILLA Financial Records at Ft. Wayne Branch, 1938-1939
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YCAW Youth Committee Against the War, 1939-1940
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Constitutions, Resolutions, and Statements, 1934-1939
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Membership Cards, 1935-1947
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Series IV Correspondence, 1935-1947
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Scope and Content Notes: Fleckenstein kept eight separate folders of correspondence from friends and colleagues from 1936 to 1947. Topics generally discuss organizational and theoretical issues.
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Austin, Joe, 1936-1939
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Ayers, Lou, 1936-1947
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Benjamin, D., 1936-1940
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Kaufman, Joe, 1936-1942
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Lovestone, Jay, 1935-1939
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Miles, George F., 1935-1939
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Rasmussen, Hugo, 1938-1939
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Various Associates, 1937-1939
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Series V Miscellaneous Publications and Newsletters 1934-1938
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Scope and Content Notes: Miscellaneous Publications and Newsletters, contains U.S. publications concerning the Fair Labor Standard Act of 1938 and a few lone printed newsletters.
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Fair Labor Standard Act 1938 and Related Materials, 1938
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Miscellaneous Newsletters, 1934-1939
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UAW Education Department Poster
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