Herman Lazard Midlo COLLECTION
(Mss
107)
Inventory
Earl K.
Long Library
March
2000
Contents
Summary
Biographical
Note
Series,
Subseries, and Descriptions
Container
List
Index
Terms
Procedures
for Requesting Special Collections Materials
Summary
Size: 6 linear
feet
Geographic
locations:
Inclusive dates: 1916-1964,
1978
Bulk dates: 1936-1944
Summary: Legal records of
Herman L. Midlo, consisting of legal files for the United Transport Workers
Union of America, Local 206, C.I.O., the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society,
and other clients, involving immigration and civil liberties. Included are briefs, petitions, affidavits,
depositions, demurrers, photographs, correspondence, agreements, clippings, a
taped interview, and miscellaneous pamphlets.
Source: Gift, 1978
Access: No
restrictions
Copyright: Physical
rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library,
Citation: Herman
Lazard Midlo Collection, Earl K. Long Library,
Biographical Note
Herman Lazard Midlo was born July 6,
ca. 1900, in
Note: For Midlo's letters to his
daughter, Dr. Gwendolyn M. Hall, see Gwendolyn M. Hall Collection in the
Michigan Historical Collection, Bentley Historical Library,
Series, Subseries, and Descriptions
Files
pertaining to general cases undertaken by Herman Midlo (e.g., workman's
compensation and civil liberties).
Included are correspondence, briefs, petitions, clippings, depositions,
demurrers, affidavits, miscellany.
Series II. Naturalization
and Immigration Cases, 1926-1943
Files
pertaining to immigration and naturalization cases. Included are correspondence, depositions,
petitions, petitions, immigration forms, photographs, miscellany.
Series III. Labor Relations Cases, 1937-1947
Files
pertaining to miscellaneous labor relations cases. Included are correspondence, petitions,
notes, newspapers, magazines, miscellany.
Series IV. Organization
Files, 1930, 1936-1964
Files
pertaining to organizations in which Mr. Midlo had an interest. Included are correspondence, newsletters,
publications, miscellany.
Series V. Angelina
Treadway Files, 1938-1944
Files
pertaining to the Angelina Treadway shooting, which occurred in Violet,
Series VI. United
Transport Workers
Files
pertaining to the United Transport Workers Union of America, Local 206,
C.I.O. Included are correspondence,
affidavits, time records, petitions, decisions, orders, agreements, statements,
and miscellany.
Series VII.
Files
pertaining to Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. Included are affidavits, briefs,
correspondence, petitions, miscellany.
Series VIII. Miscellany
Subseries
VIII.1: Miscellany
Subseries VIII.2: Publications
Pamphlets
and serials arranged alphabetically by title.
Container List
Series
I. General Cases, 1916-1947
Files
pertaining to general cases undertaken by Herman Midlo (e.g., workman's
compensation and civil liberties).
Included are correspondence, briefs, petitions, clippings, depositions,
demurrers, affidavits, miscellany.
(Note: Except where file folders lacked descriptive title designations,
Mr. Midlo's file names were maintained.)
107-4 n.d.,
107-5 n.d., 1937,
107-6
107-7
107-8 n.d.,
107-9 n.d.,
107-10 n.d.,
107-11
107-12 n.d.,
107-13 n.d.,
107-14 n.d.,
107-15 n.d.,
107-16 n.d.,
107-17 n.d.,
107-18 n.d.,
107-19 n.d.,
107-20 n.d.,
1938,
107-21 n.d.,
Series
II. Naturalization and Immigration
Cases, 1926-1943
Files
pertaining to immigration and naturalization cases. Included are correspondence, depositions,
petitions, petitions, immigration forms, photographs, miscellany. (Note: Except where file folders lacked
descriptive title designations, Mr. Midlo's file names were maintained.)
107-30 n.d.,
107-31 n.d.,
February 1939 -
107-32 n.d.,
107-33
107-34 March
1940 -
107-35 n.d.,
107-36 n.d.,
107-37 n.d.,
1941,
Series
III. Labor Relations Cases, 1937-1947
Files
pertaining to miscellaneous labor relations cases. Included are correspondence, petitions,
notes, newspapers, magazines, miscellany.
(Note: Except where file folders lacked descriptive title designations,
Mr. Midlo's file names were maintained.)
107-59 n.d.,
107-60 n.d.,
107-61 n.d.,
107-62 n.d.,
Series
IV. Organization Files, 1930, 1936-1964
Files
pertaining to organizations in which Mr. Midlo had an interest. Included are correspondence, newsletters,
publications, miscellany. (Note: Except
where file folders lacked descriptive title designations, Mr. Midlo's file names
were maintained.)
107-22 n.d.,
107-23
107-24 n.d.,
October 1930,
107-25 n.d.,
107-26 n.d.,
107-27 n.d.,
107-28 n.d.,
February 1936 -
107-29 n.d.,
Series
V. Angelina Treadway Files, 1938-1944
Files
pertaining to the Angelina Treadway shooting, which occurred in Violet,
107-1 n.d.,
107-2 n.d.,
107-3 n.d.,
Series VI.
United Transport Workers
Files
pertaining to the United Transport Workers Union of America, Local 206,
C.I.O. Included are correspondence,
affidavits, time records, petitions, decisions, orders, agreements, statements,
and miscellany. n.d.,
107- 63
107-64 n.d.,
107-65
107-66 n.d.,
107-67
107-68 n.d.,
November 1939 -
107-69 June
1941,
107-70 n.d.,
107-71 August
1941 and
107-72
107-73
107-74 n.d.,
107-75 December
1941. Spot Cash Wholesale Grocer of
107-76 n.d.,
107-77
107-78
107-79 December
1941,
107-80
107-81
107-82 n.d.,
Series
VII.
Files
pertaining to Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. Included are affidavits, briefs,
correspondence, petitions, miscellany.
n.d.,
107-38 n.d.,
107-39
107-40 n.d.,
107-41 n.d.,
107-42 n.d.,
107-43 n.d.,
November 1938 -
107-44 n.d.,
February 1937 -
107-45 n.d.,
107-46 n.d.,
107-47 n.d.,
107-48 June
1940,
107-49 n.d.,
June 1941,
107-50 n.d.,
107-51
107-52
107-53 n.d.,
107-54 n.d.,
107-55
107-56 n.d.,
107-57
107-58
Series
VIII. Miscellany
Subseries
VIII.1: Miscellany
107-83 Included
are a brief (Carl Braden v. U.S.), two note cards, and postage stamp
collection. n.d.,
Subseries VIII.2: Publications
Pamphlets
and serials arranged alphabetically by title.
107-84 American
Civil Liberties
The
Bill of Rights in War: A Report pm American Democratic Liberties in War-Time,
June, 1942.
Clearing
of the Main Channels. 35th Annual Report.
Conscience
and the War: A Report on the Treatment of Conscientious Objectors in World War
II.
"Memorandum
on the Constitutionality of the Selective Service Act." [
Eternal
Vigilance: The Story of Civil Liberty, 1937-1938.
Freedom
in Wartime: A Report of the American Civil Liberties
Freedom,
Justice, Equality: Report on Civil Liberties, January 1951 - June 1953.
In
Defense of Our Liberties: A Report of the American Civil Liberties
In
the Shadow of Fear: American Liberties, 1948-49.
In
the Shadow of War: The Story of Civil Liberty, 1939-1940.
Liberty
is Always Unfinished Business. 36th Annual Report.
107-84 Our
Uncertain Liberties:
"Report
of
Security
and Freedom: The Great Challenge. 30th Annual Report.
The
Supreme Court and Civil Liberties: How Far Has the Court Protected the Bill of
Rights? By Osmond K. Fraenkel. 3d rev. ed.
What
Freedom for American Students?: A Survey of the Practices Affecting Student
Activities and Expression.
107-85 International
Labor Defense. 1937-1942.
Equal
Justice: Year Book of the Fight for Democratic Rights, 1936-1937. Prepared by
Louis Colman.
I.L.D.
National Conference,
"Legislative
Memorandum #2, 1940: Passage of H.R. 6724, Ostensibly for Deportation of Alien
Spies, Saboteurs, Narcotics."
"Memorandum
on Power of Congressional Investigating Committees."
"Memorandum
to: Members of the House of Representatives of the
"The
Right to Distribute Leaflets: Decisions of the
107-85 You've
Got a Right: Defending Democracy. By
Sasha Small.
107-86 Miscellaneous
pamphlets and serials. 1928-1953.
Community
Employment Problems under Defense.
Democracy
for
Due
Process in a Political Trial: The Record vs. the Press.
Harpers
Magazine 173 (November 1936).
Harvard
Law Review 60 (October 1947). 2 copies.
Jehovah's
Servants Defended.
The
Lodge of Washington and His Masonic Neighbors. [
The
Melish Case: Challenge to the Church. [
National
Labor Policy: A Symposium of Three Statements . . . Presented at
Economic and Business Foundation,
New
Republic (January 16, 1950). Special issue: The State of the
Organized
Labor in the
Petition
of Members of the American Bar to the President of the
107-86
Preserve
the Olympic Ideal: A Statement of the Case against American Participation in
the Olympic Games at
Race
Bias in Housing. By Charles Abrams. [
The
Reflections of a Jew at a Catholic Retreat. By Louis H. Yarrut.
"Selective
Service Regulations: Points of Interest to Attorneys Representing Conscientious
Objectors." [S.l.: s.n.], 1940.
Two
Years Against the Gestapo.
107-87 National
Lawyers Guild. 1938-1947.
The
Constitutional Right to Advocate Political, Social and Economic Change: An
Essential of American Democracy. An Analysis of Proposed Federal Legislation
and Executive Order 9835.
The
Courts and Progress.
The
Lawyer as a Peacemaker.
107-88
Brief
History of the American Labor Movement.
Deportation
of Certain Aliens.
107-88 Deportation
of Criminal Aliens. Extension of
Remarks of Hon. David I. Walsh of
Immigration
Laws and Rules of
Judge
J. Warren Madden,
National
Labor Relations Board. "AFL and
Indistrial Units." [
National
Labor Relations Board. "The
Appropriate Unit Rule." [
National
Labor Relations Board. "Coercion
from any source." [
Remarks
of Hon. John H. Overton . . . [et al.] in the Senate of the
Report
on Economic Conditions of the South. Prepared for the President by the National
Emergency Council. [
Un-American
and Subversive Activities: Minority Views on S. 2311. Remarks of
Hon. William Langer of
Subseries
VIII.3: Tapes
107-89 Tape. Interview of Mr. Midlo by Dr. Joseph Logsdon,
Mr. Clive Hardy, and Mr. David Wells.
Index Terms
American Civil Liberties
Labor—
Law—
Midlo, Herman Lazard
Treadway, Angelina
United Transport Workers