Scope and Contents Included in this collection is vast research about the Socialist workers movement with extreme focus on the Progressive Miners of America union including newspaper clippings, articles, interviews, and archival research. There is also extensive research about the people involved with the Progressive Miners of America and their spouses and other similar feminist/feminine auxiliary unions primarily the Illinois Women’s Auxiliary; this research also used similar means as listed...

Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal papers of Ralph Stone relating to his time as a professor of history at Sangamon State University. It includes newsletters, brochures, correspondence, notes, and other publications relating to activist and cooperative organizations, and notes, scholarly articles, correspondence, and reproductions of original sources relating to Stone’s research in labor history. It is divided into three series: Activist Groups and Publications, Cooperative...