Box 17

Scope and Contents 1946-1947, [1950] 1952. Correspondence with several people including Jack Barbash, staff Director of the United States senate Subcommittee on Labor Management Relations; Martin P. Catherwood, Dean of the Industrial and Labor Relations School; Jacob Seidenberg, Industrial and Labor Relations graduate research assistant; and R.W. Fleming, Director of the Industrial Relations Center at the University of Wisconsin, about Konvitz's direction of a study of the use of the injunction in labor...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with various people including Jack Barbash, Dean Catherwood, and Jacob Seidenberg relative to the study of the use of the injunction in labor disputes by courts in certain areas of New York state. The project included a quantitative study of the court records of New York and Kings Counties with the purpose of uncovering all the labor injunctions which were litigated from 1935 to June 1950. Also, the project included a study of the impact of the injunctions on collective...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Joseph Dye, Industrial and Labor Relations research assistant, relative to the study of labor injunction cases in Niagara and Erie Counties. Konvitz also wrote letters to several labor attorneys in these counties introducing Dye and asking them to grant Dye an interview in order to ascertain their views as to the efficiency of the Little Norris-La Guardia Act in New York State. Konvitz explained that Dye's study was being conducted independently of the United States...

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Routine correspondence with persons at the Institute for the Future, and Konvitz's participation in the Institute surveys.

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Correspondence with Arthur I. Waskow, Peace Research Institute Fellow

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence from Oscar I. Janowsky, Chairman of the Provisional Academic Council of the Jewish Museum, asking Doctor Konvitz to join the Council, which is sponsored by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (October 31, 1949). Correspondence with Doctor Louis Finkelstein, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary and President of the Institute for Religious and Social Studies, about Finkelstein's criticisms of Konvitz's paper, "Judaism and the Democratic Ideal," which...

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[1947-1963] 1965. Correspondence with Professor Philip G. Frank, Harvard University and President of the Institute for the Unity of Science; other members of the Board of Trustees; and persons involved in the affairs and activities of the Institute.

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1947-1952, 1962-1963, 1965, 1967, 1969-1973, 1975- 1976. Correspondence with members of the Board of trustees of the Institute; and other persons regarding the Institute's financial affairs.

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1950, 1952, 1960, 1962-1971. Correspondence with various people regarding the activities and financial affairs of the Institute. Correspondence with Professor Charles Morris, University of Florida and President of the Institute, relative to its future. It was decided to merge the Institute with the Minnesota Center for Philosophy (December 1, 1966). Related correspondence and materials.

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Bank account statements and cancelled checks