SOL AXELROD COLLECTION, 1935-1970

Summary:Material collected by Sol Axelrod (born 1922), who lived in Roosevelt as a teenager and visited it frequently as an adult.

Includes material photocopied from the ILGWU Archives in New York City, annotated to illustrate Axelrod's thesis that David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, was single-handedly and intentionally responsible for the failure of the cooperative factory at Roosevelt.

Includes correspondence between Dubinsky and Elias Lieberman, ILGWU counsel, and correspondence between Dubinsky and Resettlement Administration officials, dating from the period 1935 to 1938, as well as complaints made against Workers' Aim Cooperative for paying workers less than union wages and for underselling merchandise. Also contains copies of a scrapbook kept by Axelrod in which are articles and newspaper clippings about Roosevelt, photocopies of photographs of Roosevelt, a translation of the Yiddish diary of settler Jacob Rearson copied from the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and an interview with Sol Axelrod conducted by his daughter, Susan. (0.33 cubic feet)