Show trace history of labor in in america result of work of years soon to be given to world documents of the hie labor movement in I 1 america have been gathered at the university of wisconsin into a library of historical value the proceedings i of labor union meetings trade agree ments menta and other literature including i writings of radical groups have been accumulated during the lost last twenty years at a cost of nearly mast of the material in this collection which to Is the foremost of its kind in the united states has been published in the eleven volume documentary history story of american industrial society and the two volume history of american labor compiled by prof john R commons university of at wisconsin econ economist and others among the lute interesting resting documents sire are bund hundreds reds of personal papers and manuscripts of stephen pearl fearl andrews culled called the first american anarchist some bonie of the andrews papers indicate that he was the first farst american to invent a shorthand method of writing also andrews attempt to construct a universal language la Is hurled buried in the musty documents as well as of its ills unpublished writings A special librarian has been employee I 1 oyei since 1924 to collect and catalogue contemporary documents ond and to secure other missing documents to alil in the gap of fugitive material which came into existence after 1890 mrs anna campbell davia the librarian spent much time in various sections of the country collecting and copying documents from 1009 to 1918 1018 the american bureau of Indu industrial I 1 research headed by professor commons spent in collecting the documents for sev eral years yeara after 1918 little work was waa done but work was resu resumed nied nearly two years ago and more than was expended a large part of come from university appropriations bradu graduate ate students in economics are studying the material |