Show h trace hace ace history of labor in america result of work of years soon to be given to world documents Docu documents mints of te labor movement in america have be beta M gathered at the university of wisconsin into a library of historical value the proceedings of labor union meetings trade agreements and other literature including writings of radical groups have been accumulated during the last twenty years at a cost of nearly most of the material in this collection which Is the foremost tore moat of its kind hind in the united states has been published in the eleven volume documentary history of american industrial society and the two volume history of american labor compiled by prof john R commons nt f wt aia era among A nong the interesting documents aro hundreds of personal papers and manuscripts of stephen peart pearl andrews called the first american anarchist some of the andrews papers indicate that he was the first american to invent a shorthand method of writing also andrews attempt to construct a universal language Is burled lo in the musty documents as well as much of hla his unpublished writings A special librarian has been employed since 1024 1924 to collect find catalogue contemporary documents and to secure acure other missing documents to 1111 in the gap of fugitive material which came into existence after 1800 mrs airs atna arna campbell davis the librarian spent much time in various sections of me country collecting and copying documents from 1000 to 1918 the itu fill reau of industrial research headed bended by professor commons spent in collecting the he documents for several eral years after 1918 little work was wan done but work was resumed nearly two years ago and more than was waa expended a large part of which came from university appropriations Grad graduate students in economics are studying the material |