VIII. SUBJECT FILES [See also Box 214 and map folder], 1890-1992

Arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically. Files on various aspects of politics and economics in countries throughout the world, particularly Latin America, the United States, and Europe. The earlier material (before 1930) was collected by M. Orans and later incorporated by Alexander into his own collection. Document types are primarily newspaper clippings, as well as newsletters, unpublished papers, broadsides, and, to a lesser degree, minutes and correspondence. Subjects documented include large sections on socialism and labor in countries throughout the world, but particularly in the United States. Other topics include agriculture, agrarian reform, anarchism, banking, civil service reform; commodities such as sugar, rubber, and coffee; the cooperative movement, economic development, fishing, foreign relations, forestry, industrialization, investment, petroleum, social security, trade, and women's rights. Within each subject, material is subdivided by country. Of particular interest is the Orans material, the bulk of which dates from 1914 to 1922. Includes flyers announcing socialist meetings, newspaper coverage of socialist candidates from throughout the United States, and clippings from U.S. foreign-language newspapers. Orans may have been preparing a biographical dictionary of socialists because his files include index cards with biographical information about socialist leaders, including a large number of women. He also compiled data on socialists in countries all over the world; for example, he includes a letter from the International Socialist League (S.A.) about the socialist movement in South Africa. Also of interest are files on fascist, radical, and national revolutionary parties in Latin America, and a file on the United Fruit Company in Guatemala from the 1940s through the 1970s. Interspersed among the secondary material are primary documents such as a P.O.U.M. manifesto from 1952 (filed as socialism--Spain--P.O.U.M.). The heading socialism--United States contain minutes and correspondence received by Professor Alexander as a member of the Young People's Socialist League in the 1930s, and as a member of the Socialist Party/Social Democratic Federation until 1980. Several oversize items are stored separately.