KARL BAARSLAG COLLECTION
 
 
 
 
                                Scope and Content
 
                This is a collection of radical documentation and literature including minutes of
        the National Maritime Union, 1938-1943; minutes, reports, and printed material of
        the American Radio Telegraphists Association, 1935-1943; Communist Party
        minutes, 1928-1929, and scattered documents from other years; random radical
        newspapers and serials including The-Daily Worker, The Militant,, New America.
        and Socialist.
 
        Inclusive dates are 1927-1962 (ca.) The size is 3 linear feet.
 
 
 
 
                                        Biographical Note
 
11-25-1900,
        Born, Grand Rapids, Michigan
 
1915,
        Built own ham transmitter and receiver
 
        Completed grade school and two years high school
 
        Western Union messenger, Post Office special delivery boy,
 
        Day laborer; laborer on railroad construction;
 
        Surveyor; railway mail clerk; factory office worker.
 
1919
        Went to sea as a recruit in the wartime U.S. Shipping Board, Sea Training Bureau
        on the old U.S.S. Meade, Dorothy Bradford, Gov, Dingley, Minnesota, etc,
 
1920
        Took up radio at the old Marconi school in Elm Place, N.Y.
 
1921-25
        Clerk in Brooklyn General Post Office
 
        Early organizer of Local #253, National Federation of Post Office Clerks in Brooklyn.
 
1925-39
        Returned to sea, sailed continuously on yachts, freighters
        and an occasional passenger ship as radio officer or deck officer/radio officer.
 
1937-40
        Helped found and became general chairman of Radio Officers' Union (A.F.L.)
 
1936-45
        Commissioned Officer, U.S.N.R.
 
1941-45
        Active Duty, U.S. Navy(Lt.. Commander)
 
        12-7-41
                Administrative Assistant to the District
                Communications Officer in the Phil. NavyYard.
 
        12-7-41-May 1944
 
                Office of Naval Intelligence, Washington, D.C.
 
        May  1944-45
 
                Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee
                of SHAEF, Brussels & Germany, Special U.S.
 
                Navy Representative, Staff Marshal Montgomery,
                21st Army Group,
 
1947-54+
 
        Counter-subversive specialist, American Legion
 
1957
 
        Asst. to General Armstrong, First National Strategy Seminar
        for reserve officers at War College, Washington, D.C.
 
        Author:
                        SOS to the Rescue, 1935

Coast Guard to the Rescue, 1937
                        Robbery by Mail, 1938
                        Islands of Adventure, 1940
                        History of National Federation of P.O. Clerks, 1945
                        Numerous magazine articles, etc.
                        Pamphlet: COMMUNIST TRADE UNION TRICKERY EXPOSED
                        Manual for Survival., 1971 Church League of America
 
 
 
 
                                Folder List
 
Box                     Contents
        1
                        National  Maritime Union Minutes
 
                                November 1937; February-March, 1938
 
                                April-May, 1938
 
                                June, July, August, September, 1938
        2
                                October, November, December, 1938
 
                                1939
 
                                1940
 
                                1941 - July, 1942
 
                                1943
        3
                        American Radio Telegraphists Association
 
                                Reports, Brief, Lists - 1927-34
 
                                1935:
 
                                        Minutes
 
                                        ARTA (Official Organ)
 
                                        Reports
 
                                        Statements
 
                                        Corres. Paul Rothman to Jack Delaney   (1ltr.)
 
                                        Leaflets
 
                                1936:
 
 
                                        Bulletins
 
                                        Minutes
 
                                        Leaflets
 
                                        Corres.  Brock to Baarslag  (1 ltr.)
 
                                        Port Log
 
                                1937:
 
                                        Minutes
 
                                        Resolutions
 
                                        Leaflets
 
                                        POSTAL TELEGRAPH WORKER
 
                                        Statements
 
                                        Article by Beulah Amidon
 
                                        Reports
 
                                        COMMUNICATIONS JOURNAL
 
                                        ARTA (Official Organ)
 
                                        Assignments
 
                                        Point-to-Point Cables
 
                                        PACIFIC COAST LONGSHOREMAN
 
                                1938,
 
                                        Jan-June,
 
                                                Leaflets
 
                                                Convention Resume
 
                                                Minutes
 
                                                Campaign Literature
 
                                                Lists
 
                                                NEW YORK LOCAL NEWS
 
                                                Convention Proceedings
 
                                                RANK AND FILE PILOT OF NMU
 
                                                ARTA (Official Organ)
 
                                                A.R.T.A. NEWS BULLETIN
 
                                                Resolutions
 
                                                Reports
        4
                                        July-Dec,
 
                                                Reports
 
                                                ACA MARINE BULLETIN
 
                                                Bulletins
 
                                                Minutes
 
                                                A.R.T.A. NEWS BULLETIN
 
                                                ARTA (Official Organ)
 
                                                Rules
 
                                                Convention Report
 
                                1939:
 
                                        ARTA (Official Organ)
 
                                        Leaflets
 
                                        Minutes
 
                                        Notices
 
                                        Petitions
 
                                        Reports
 
                                        Bulletins
 
                                        Rules
        5
                        Maritime Union Promotional Literature
 
                                1939-43 and n/d
 
                                        Minutes
 
                                        Marine By-laws
 
                                        Resolutions
 
                                        Lists
 
                                        Leaflets
 
                                        Brief Historical Summary, etc.
 
                        Communist Party
 
                                1927-1928
 
                                        Articles
 
                                        Minutes of POLBURO
 
                                        Central Executive Committee Plenum,
 
                                        December 1928 - pp. 141-807
 
                                1929 – Minutes
 
                                1929-1946 -
 
                                        Promotional Literature
 
                                        Bulletins, Reports, Statements, Outline of
                                                Party History, Policy Memorandum, etc.
 
                                Undated
 
                                        Thesis on Tasks of the Y W (C) L, Needle Trades
 
                                        Resolution, Activity Questionnaire, articles
 
                                        Reports, etc.
 
                        AWARE, Inc. (An Organization to Combat the Communist
                                Conspiracy in Entertainment Communications)
 
                                1953-55
 
                                        Publications, Notices, News Releases,
 
                                        Constitution & By-laws, Clippings, etc.
        6
                                1956 & n/d
 
                        PRINTED MATERIAL
 
                                Undated
 
                                        SEARCHLIGHT, No.  1-3, Weekly Bulletin
 
                                1938
 
                                        NMU Rank & File,  3-1-38 to 6-10-38
                                1935-51
                                        Commercial Radio, May, Jul-Aug., 1935
 
                                        Party Organizer,  Feb. 1938
 
                                        National Lawyers Guild Quarterly, Dec. 1938, April 1939
 
                                        Commercial Telegraphers' Journal, Feb., July 1939;
                                                Jan. 1940, Feb. 1940
 
                                        MSG, Oct-Nov. 1945, Jan-Feb., Jul-Aug. 1946
 
                                1950-52
 
                                        Alert, Apr. 1950, Nov. 9, 30, 1950
 
                                        The Challenge, Jan. 1951
 
                                        Counter-Action, Mar. 1951-Jan. 1952
 
                                        Index to testimony of Walter S. Steele before
                                                Comm. on Un-American Activities, May 1951
 
                                1954
 
                                        Summary of Activities of Carnegie Corp. of NY,
                                                July 9, 1954
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                                1955
 
                                        IRI Intelligence Summary - Worldwide Communist
                                        Propaganda Activities in 1954, Jan. 31, 1955
 
                                        Problems of Communism, May-Oct. 1955
 
                                        State of NY Legislative Document - Report of the
Joint Legislative Comm. on Charitable &
Philanthropic Agencies & Organizations,
                                        Mar. 31, 1955
 
                                        The Fulton Lewis Jr. Report on the Fund for the
Republic, August 1955
 
                                        Proceedings of 6th Annual Meeting of All-American
Conference, Nov. 4 and 5, 1955
 
                                        For a Lasting Peace, For a People's Democracy
                                        Bucharest.  Organ of the Information Bureau
                                        of the Communist & Workers' Parties, Dec. 23,
                                        1955 & Jan. 20, 1956
 
                                1956-1957-58
 
                                        News Release from International Research on
                                        Communist Techniques, Inc., April 14, Sept. 9,
                                        1956, Sept. 5, 1957, and Sept. 29, 1958
 
                                        Towards Freedom, Proceedings of the 8th Annual
                                        Conference organized by Russian anti-Communist
                                        weekly "Possev" in Frankfurt, Germany, Sept. 1956
 
                                        International Research on Communist Techniques,
                                        Inc. - Reports on 3 Years of Steady Growth
                                        Nov. 1954 - Nov. 1957
 
                                        Two Worlds in Conflict, June 1957
 
                                        International Research on Communist Techniques, Inc.
                                        June, Jul-Aug., Sept-Oct., 1957
 
                                        Report of Chairman, Americanism Committee, Post 581
                                        American Legion, Sept. 16, 1957
 
                                        Closer Up, Don Bell Reports, Feb. 21, 1958
 
                                1959
 
                                        Jan.-July
 
                                                The Anti Communist 1st Quarter, 1959
 
                                                National Strategy Seminar for Reserve Officers
 
                                                        Curriculum, July 12-25, 1959
                                                        Roster, July 12-25, 1959
                                                        Dimension of Local Action    July 1959
 
                                                        First Week 13-18 July 59
                                                        Summary of Lecture by Frank R. Barnett
13 July 59
 
                                                        The Role of the Military in Non-Military
 Warfare  by Thomas C. Darcy 23 July 59
 
                                                        Text of panel contribution  Role of the Mili-
                                                        tary in Non-Military Warfare 23 July 59
 
                                                        Text of Remarks, Mr. Howard L. Boorman
                                                        "World Battle Report: The USSR & its
Satellites" 16 July 59
        8
                                        July-December
 
                                                National Strategy Seminar for Reserve Officers
 
                                                        Text of Remarks by Thomas Phillips  on
                                                        "Military Situation--Where we Stand?"
14 July 59
 
                                                        Text of Remarks by Brutus Coste,
 "World Battle Report: The East & Its
Satellites" 16 July 59
 
                                                        Text of Remarks by Dr. Stefan T.
Possony on "The Military Front:
20 July 59
 
                                                        Text of speech delivered by Walter H.
Judd  on "The Basic Themes."
 
                                                        Text of Remarks by Paul H. Douglas  24 July 59
 
                                                        Remarks by Allen W. Dulles  24 July 59
 
                                                National War College, n/d
 
                                                National Guardian, July-Aug. 1959
 
                                                The Worker, Aug. 9, 1959
 
                                1960
 
                                        Fair Play, July 8,1960
 
                                        New Horizons for Youth, November, 1960
 
                                1961
 
                                        New Horizons for Youth, Jan., Feb., 1961
 
                                        The Worker, Jan. 15 & Jan. 22, 1961
 
                                        People's World, Jan. 21, 1961
 
                                        New America, April 21, 1961
 
                                1962
 
                                        New America, Mar. 9, Apr. 6, 20, Sept. 14, Oct. 15,
                                                Nov. 10, 1962
 
                                        National Guardian, Sept. 17, 1962
 
                                        New Horizons for Youth, Nov.-Dec. 1962
 
                                1963
 
                                        New America, Jan. 15, May 12, 31, Jun. 18, Jul. 1o, 1963
 
                                        People's World, March 30, 1963
 
                                1964
 
                                        Social Questions Bulletin, Jan. 1964
 
                                        National Guardian, April 25, 1964
 
                                        New America, April 28, June 16, Nov. 16, 1964