Jay Lovestone Papers

The collection is divided into six series: Correspondence, Foreign Files, Speeches, Writings and Reports, Miscellaneous, Personal Paraphernalia, and Financial Documents. Spanning Lovestone's work as the Director of the ILGWU's International Relations Department, as well as Director of the AFL-CIO's Department of International Affairs, these papers include correspondence with individuals and organizations with considerable interest in the growth of trade unionism abroad. The Correspondence Series consists of general correspondence, files, and documents that are arranged alphabetically by either individual or organization. This series occupies the bulk of the collection. It includes correspondence to and from Lovestone, as well as clippings and articles. The individuals and organizations contained within the correspondence reflects the international nature of Lovestone's work, including material to and from Europe, Africa, and Asia, while not all of the material is in English. There is correspondence to both national and international organizations, as well as the U. S. Department of Labor and the State Department. Individuals that Lovestone communicated with include consulate generals, diplomats, labor attaches, labor leaders (both national and international), senators, and congressmen. There is substantial information from organization of which Lovestone was involved, including the AFL-CIO and The Atlantic Council of the United States (of which Lovestone was a director). Notable individuals in the collection that Lovestone communicated with include Irving Brown (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions representative to the U.N.), Harry Goldberg (Department of International Affairs at the AFL-CIOletters and reports regarding missions to various countries), Dale Good (labor attach at the United States Embassy in Germany), Fritz Heine (senior figure in the German Social Democratic Party), Lane Kirkland, George Meany, Walter Reuther, Bayard Rustin, and Philip Taft, and important ILGWU leaders such as Sol Chaikin, David Dubinsky, Roy Godson, Mark Staar, Louis Stulberg, and Charles Zimmerman.



The remaining series contain foreign files which contain reports, notes from trips to various countries regarding delegation visits, and reports that were written and compiled by individuals and sent back to Lovestone; speeches presented at conferences and meetings as well as drafts of chapters and reports; general reports, many to the Free Trade Union Committee of the Labor League for Human Rights, of which Lovestone was executive secretary, as well as "News from the AFL-CIO" and a typed copy of Theodore Draper's "The Roots of American Communism"; notes business cards and collected letters and documents; and receipts, invoices, and expense reports.