International Labor Press Association, 1952-1964

Summary: This series includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, publications, questionnaires, and reports as related to the functioning of each of the organizations such as, the International Labor Press Association, New Jersey Printers' League, and the New Jersey Labor Herald.

This series documents Herrmann's national involvement with the International Labor Press Association. Materials in this subseries document the International Labor Press Association's code of ethics as well as containing their constitution. Additionally there are materials from a journalistic awards contest that the International Labor Press Association held from 1957-1962, and convention materials, memos, and newsletters.

This series also documents the efforts of Herrmann and his colleagues in the New Jersey Printers' League to prohibit prisons from using inmates as cheap, non-unionized laborers to undercut the prices of mainstream publishers and printers.

Included also is a detailed record of the New Jersey Labor Herald, a labor newspaper that Herrmann edited from 1939 until his death in 1965. Herrmann oversaw all of the daily functions of his paper from soliciting subscriptions to authoring articles and right down to choosing the pictures that made the front page. Some of the photographs which were used in the newspaper are included in this series. The Subject Files subseries contains an A-Z collection of files on people, events, organizations, and places throughout the United States that had an effect on the labor population. Most, if not all of these files were used for research for articles printed in the New Jersey Labor Herald. The Subscriptions subseries consists of major companies who either subscribed to the New Jersey Labor Herald, ran advertisements in the paper, or both. Lastly, the Who's Who in New Jersey subseries consists mainly of questionnaires which Herrmann gathered in order to create a cache of files on the people and organizations in New Jersey who had an impact on the labor population in both New Jersey and the United States.