III. Proposals,, 1968-1984,, bulk: bulk 1979-1981

Summary: The records in this series document Eiger's efforts to educate workers about labor, management, and offer general education. This series includes correspondence, leaflets, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and proposals. The proposals in this series were used to obtain grant money for worker education. Eiger and the SMLR were trying to educate workers and union leaders on leadership, worker's benefits, as well as discussing the labor-management relationship so that each side could gain a better understanding of the other's vantage point. The documents related to the PACE (To Educate the People Consortium) program shows exactly the types of programs that Eiger and the SMLR were interested in setting up in order to educate adult students as well as traditional students. This program, in addition to the other types of seminars and courses that the SMLR ran, exemplifies how the SMLR was trying to unite labor and management through a broad means of educational programs.

While all of the proposals focus on teaching labor history, there is one proposal which sought to create documentation of the New Jersey Carpenter's Union. This project recounted the history of the union not only through documents but also through oral history accounts from carpenters in the Union.