These include: American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born; American Council on Public Affairs; Atlantic Charter League; J.M. Artman, editor of "The American Citizen"; Representative Thomas R. Amlie; Thurman Arnold, Department of Justice (concerning Frank B. Kellogg statement about the anti-trust Sherman Act); and John B. Abel.

Correspondents include: Alfred L. Bernheim, The Labor Bureau; A.A. Berle banking proposal; Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, Social Justice Commission; Kent Baker, editor of "Sphere" with article sent to him by Lauck, "Industrial Reconstruction" attached; David Burdett (conventional economics versus social economics); and G.P. Bronisch, Loyal Americans of German Descent

Correspondents and topics include: Lauck memorandum to Charles H. Chase, (in light of the prospect of a lengthy war and its impact on social and economic reform) informing him of his decision to drastically reduce expenditures by having only one employee to maintain the office (1942); "Strife and the Worker" proofs by John F. Cronin; Helen A. Cole, "The Liberal Worker"; W.S. Clement and his "The Ben Franklin Plan"; Ben V. Cohen, National Power Policy Committee; and the Council for Social Action, Ferry L. Platt, Jr. concerning farm issues.

Correspondents and topics include: Dr. Paul H. Douglas, University of Chicago; Hardy C. Dillard, Institute of Public Affairs, including a letter from John L. Newcomb; Frederic A. Delano, Chairman National Resources Advisory Committee; and a letter to John Dewey.

Correspondents and topics include: Arthur Eggleston, San Francisco Chronicle; Peter Edson, NEA Service; A.E. Edwards concerning the Wagner Labor Relations Act; J.G. Frain; and Charles Flato.

Correspondents and topics include: Alfred C. Gaunt, including "Smaller Business Lifts Its Eyes"; Toshi Go, Foreign Affairs Association of Japan; and A.E. Grassby, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Correspondents and topics include: Hubert Herring; Sidney Hillman; Fred S. Hall concerning the Industrial Expansion Act (multiple letters); B.W. Huebsch, The Viking Press, and his concern over the pamphlet "A New Social Order"; S.L. Hoover and his question about the Keller Bill and the Association; John Edgar Hoover; and F.J. Hall, editor of "The United States News" about numbers of unemployed and other issues (multiple letters).

Correspondents and topics include: Meyer Jacobstein about the Reconstruction Act; and Paul Kellogg.

Correspondence includes: letters to Robert M. LaFollette, Jr.; League for Abundance: League for Industrial Democracy; Harold Loeb; and Dr. Jack Levin.

Correspondents and topics include: secretary of Attorney General Frank Murphy; Darwin J. Meserole, National Unemployment League; Francis P. Miller; Emily Fogg Mead; Homer L. Mead; Lewis E. Meyers; Judge Julian W. Mack; Bishop Francis J. McConnell; George F. Milton, editor "The Chattanooga News"; Senator James M. Mead; and letter to Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress.

Correspondents and topics include: Bishop Francis J. McConnell; James W. Miller; Vito Marcantonio; Otto Mayer; Robert E. Mathews concerning the "sit down strike" by investment bankers and industrialists in May 1940; and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., letter to.

Correspondence includes: "The New Republic"; Douglas Newman, Secretary of the Barradas League; Dr. C.A. Norman; memorandum concerning Senator Norris' presidential qualifications; and Representative Mary T. Norton.

Correspondents and topics include: William Owen; Ernest Minor Patterson; Representative Claude Pepper; Justice Justine Wise Polier; and Jacob S. Potofsky.

Correspondents and topics include: Judge Samuel I. Rosenman; Representative Robert L. Ramsay; Right Reverend Msgr. John A. Ryan.

Correspondents and topics include: John Saxton; Guy Emery Shipler; Edwin S. Smith; William Simkin; B.M. Schnapper concerning the history of the Wagner Act; Ray Scott concerning the "Fundamental Significance of our Present Day Labor Movement"; and Porter Sargent.

Correspondents and topics include: Ordway Tead, Harper and Brothers; and Dr. Robert H. Tucker.

Correspondents and topics include: an appreciation of Frank P. Walsh upon his death on May 2, 1939; Matthew Woll, American Federation of Labor; Thomas H. Wright, New America; Harry F. Ward; and Nathan Witt; and N.A. Zonorich.

Includes leases, workman's compensation insurance, correspondence, and unemployment compensation.

These include: "Policies and Objectives of the American Association of Economic Freedom," "Shrinkages and Hoardings of Purchasing Power Accentuate Current Business Recession," "Hoardings-Taxes Proposed to Stimulate Flow of Credit and Goods and Revival of Business," "Approaches Toward a Concerted Program of Fundamental Economic Reconstruction in the United States," various drafts of suggestions for the programs, principles and objectives of the organization, "Sugar Control," "American Labor's Broadcast to Great Britain," "American Economic Situation of 1937-1938," "Unemployment Insurance," "Industrial Espionage," "Bank-Holding Companies," several on social service foundations, "Economic Freedom in America," "Industrial Reconstruction Act of 1939" press release draft, "Capitalism in Crisis," "Prospective Labor Surpluses," "Increased Man Hour Productivity and Technological Unemployment," monopoly, and "Petroleum Quota Controls."

These include: participation in management, monopoly, the "Industrial Reconstruction Act of 1939," "Leaders on the No. 1 Problem," "Federal Administrative Court Bill," "Occupational Groupings," "National Labor Relations Act and Board," "Full Employment Bill," "Senator Claude Pepper," "Senator Lewis B. Schellenbach," and starting a American Association of Economic Freedom Bulletin."

These include: "Threatened Crucial Developments," "Anti-democratic philosophies," "Churchill's anticipations, 1932-1939," "Mussolini," "Hitlerism and Nazism," "Profits of Leading Corporations, 1936-1939," notes on People's Lobby Conference, and Ickes [speech] on business sabotage of defense.

These titles include: "Can Unemployment be Ended?"; "Challenge to American Democracy"; "Civil Liberties and the National Labor Relations Board"; "Cure by Shock," "Democracy and Economic Planning"; "Economic Reconstruction"; "Fundamental Significance of Our Present Day Labor Movement"; "Next Step in Democratization"; "A New Magna Carta" "A New Social Order"; "Preparedness for Peace," "Problems of the National Labor Relations Board."

The "Post-War Reconstruction Bill" is foldered separately.

Included are: "Thirty Million Jobs" by Arthur Dunn; Roundtable: "Labor's role in Post-War Reconstruction"; "Freedom from Want" by Mr. Walton; "Nineteenth Century Prophecy of Order" by Harry Frease; "The Moral Issue" by Lowell Mellett; "A Banking System for Capital and Capital Credit" by A.A. Berle, Jr.; "Suggested Housing Program for National Defense Purposes" by the Congress of Industrial Organizations; and "A Primer of Current Economics" [1933].

Included are: Fight for Freedom, Friends of Democracy, and the Gillette Resolution.

These include memoranda, news clippings, an article by George B. Galloway on "The Imperative of Planning," replies, and a speech by W. Jett Lauck.

Includes separate folders on news clippings, some containing criticisms and investigations; problems of the board; and the testimony of John L. Lewis.

Clippings include Wendell Willkie, democracy versus absolutism, banker opinion, national debt, U.S. Attorney General, pump priming the economy, monopolies, religion and democracy, communism, and capitalism and democracy.

Included are: Peace Conditions; People's Congress for Democracy and Peace; Plenty for All League; People's Lobby; Pressure Groups, Attitudes of; Pension Plan – "Uncle Fred's Automatic Pension Plan"; Progressives, Conference of; Social Union; Tax-Exempt Bonds; Women in Trade Unions; and Young Democrats.

These include: "Foreign Competition After the War," "The Artificial Dye Industry in the War," and "Business and the War."

Includes: "Secretary Kennedy Gives Union Views on How Hard-Coal Freight Rates Affect Miner" (December 15, 1933); "The N.R.A. and Collective Bargaining" Catholic Welfare Council (September 17, 1934); address before the National Conference on Economic Security (November 14, 1934); and "Organized Labor and the N.R.A." Catholic Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (November 27, 1934).

Includes: Statement concerning the Wagner-Lewis Economic Security Bill before the Senate Committee on Finance (February 21, 1935); Commencement Address (June 3, 1935); "Education and the Parochial School System" (August 19, 1935); "The Trade Union and Recovery" (Labor Day, 1935); and "Unemployment Insurance, Old Age Pensions, and Housing Legislation" at the White House Conference on Economic Security (December 30, 1935).

Includes: Labor Day address (September 1937); article "The United Mine Workers of America" for the "American Encyclopedia" (December 2, 1938); address to the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission on the Competition of Natural Gas (April 1940); and a request for Lauck to send his analysis and recommendations concerning a letter from A.J. Altmeyer, Chairman of the Social Security Board, and two other enclosures pertaining to the Associated Gas and Electric Company, New York City (1942 March 27 and 1943 January 23).

Includes: a radio speech supporting Hoover in the election (1928); and a statement at the Hearing on a Code for the Bituminous Coal Mining Industry before the National Recovery Administration (1933 August 10).

Includes: "Labor and the National Recovery Administration" at the Meeting of the American Academy of Political Science, Philadelphia (1934 January 6); "Labor's Part in Industrial Recovery" at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club luncheon (1934 October 4); Speech for the International Labor Conference, not delivered (1934 October); and a radio address "The Employee in the Changing World" under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Council (1934 December 7).

Includes: Statement by Lewis before National Recovery Administration Hearings on Employment Provisions of Codes of Fair Competition (1935 January 30); "The American Federation of Labor and the National Recovery Administration" prepared for the "Annals," Philadelphia but never delivered (1935 March 11-12); The United Mine Workers of America and the National Recovery Act" Madison Square Gardens (1935 March-May 23); and Statement of Approval for the Wagner Housing Bill in the "United Mine Workers Journal" (1935 June 1).

Includes: "The Case for Industrial Unionism" (November 12, 1935); radio address "The Future of Organized Labor" (November 28, 1935); and article for "Liberty Magazine" on industrial unionism (1935 December 20).

Includes: a speech on Industrial Unionism before the Cleveland Auto Council (January 19, 1936); "The Teacher and His Relation to Labor" for the American Federation of Teachers Convention (June 19, 1936); a radio address "Industrial Democracy in Steel" (July 6, 1936); and an article "Through Organization Industrial Democracy Dawns for Sleeping Car Porters" celebrating the eleventh anniversary of the organization (July 15, 1936).

Includes: a political campaign statement about [Alf M.] Landon (August 1, [1936]); the draft of a Radio Address on Steel Organization (August 11, 1936); article "Labor Looks at Education" (August 17, 1936) appearing in the October 36 issue of "The Teacher"; article "Towards Industrial Democracy" (August 24, 1936) in appearing in the October 1936 issue of "Current History"; and two speeches supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt for President (August 18 and September 19, 1936).

Includes: radio address "Labor and the Future" (September 3, 1936); "Horizontal Versus Vertical Unionism" in "Wharton School Magazine," University of Pennsylvania (September 8, 1936); an article for the "The National Young Democrat" on the Social Security Act (September 1936); and a radio address "Roosevelt and the Future" (October 18, 1936).

Includes: article "The Next Four Years" for the "The Nation" (November 4, 1936); an article "Committee for Industrial Organization and Economic Recovery" for the "Business Review of New York University"(November 17, 1936); "the Future of American Labor" in "The American Spectator" (November 19, 1936); articles on "The Next Four Years in Labor" in "The New Republic" (November 25 and December 9, 1936); "The Future of Wages" for the "Cleveland News" Symposium (December 7, 1936); "Organized Labor and the Student Union" (December 23, 1936); "The Need of the Hour for American Labor" for the "Progressive Salesman Magazine" (December 24, 1936); radio address "Adapting Union Methods to Current Changes- Industrial Unionism" (December 31, 1936); and an unpublished article written for "Redbook" (1936).

Includes: "The Meaning of Industrial Unionism" for the "Christian Front" (January 13, 1937); "The Struggle for Industrial Democracy" for "Common Sense" (March 1937); an address delivered at an Anti-Nazi Mass Meeting in Madison Square Gardens (March 15, 1937); article "The Origin and Objectives of the C.I.O." for the "San Francisco Chronicle" (May 11, 1937); and a radio address "Labor and Supreme Court" (May 14, 1937).

Includes: "Technology and Labor" in "Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineering News" (September 3, 1937); Labor Day address "Labor and the Nation" (September 3, 1937); "Progress of Committee for Industrial Organization" in the "Wharton Review" (October 21, 1937); "Effect of Moderate and Gradual Wage Increases on Prices and Living Costs" in "The Annalist" (November 12, 1937) a reply to an article by A.T. Shurick on July 30, 1937; and the [Steel Workers Organizing Committee] address "The Deplorable and Indefensible Attitude of Big Business (December 13, 1937).

Includes: Address for British Broadcasting Corporation "Struggle of Labor in America" (March 15, 1938); "Labor and the Law" (April 14, 1938); "Organized Labor and the Future of Democracy" published in the "St. Louis Post Dispatch" (December 11, 1938).

Includes: Statement for Survey Associates (January 3, 1939); and "Labor Looks South" in "Virginia Quarterly Review" (Autumn 1939).

Includes: article on "What Does Labor Want?" (February 29, 1940); "The Heritage of American Youth" (March 1940); "Obligations of American Citizenship" (April 3, 1940); "Foreword" to Mr. Thomas' Testimony before the Temporary National Economic Committee (May 23, 1940); and a Labor Day Speech (August 29, 1940).

Includes: Extension of Library Service to Union for City and State Employees (May 28, 1941); Statement to be issued by Lewis on the Decision of the National Mediation Board on Union Shops (November 13, 1941); and "The New Solid South" (December 17, 1941).

Includes: Testimony of Mr. Steinbugler (March 2, 1935); the "Most Impressive Point Developed by the Hearings" (March 2, 1935); untitled Memorandum (July 30, 1936); "Report on the Progress of the Hearing on the Coordination of Minimum Prices before the Bituminous Coal Division (September 16, 1939); "Proposed Labor Policy for the War Period," various memoranda (September 11-November 13, 1939); an analysis of Professor Green's Proposal about pricing and distributing manufactured products (June 3, 1940); and Notes on the Last Ten Years (January-May, 1940).

Includes: Reply to A.T. Shurick suggestions on taxing (November 29, 1940); Response to the foreword of Walt Clyde's book on "Owner Capitalism" (December 4, 1940); suggestions about the National Economic Conference (December 12, 1940); Response to W.C. Graves, Jr. (December 23, 1940); Letter about the Raw Materials National Council (December 27, 1940); Memorandum on Fred G. Clark and the American Economic Foundation (February 20, 1941); H.S. Avery to Edward O'Neal and John L.Lewis on agriculture and farm prices (September 8, 1941); Conrad K. Grieb on need for social reconstruction (October 23, 1941); Letters from Alexander Spencer (October 30 and November 26, 1941); and a manuscript of Albert H. Levene (November 30, 1941).

Includes: Memorandum about Post War Depression (January 7, 1942); a response to S. Ferguson, President of the Hartford Electric Light Company about his proposals about deferred wages (January 13, 1942); W.A Hutton, M.D. letter on post-war finances (January 14, 1942); Thomas Kennedy request for a study on the Cost of Living (January 16, 1942); Request for a response to the document by L.C. Christian on "How Must We Finance the War?" (February 3, 1942); a request for a response to a treatise on our financial system by August Walters (February 5-March 18, 1942); additional R.L. Greene communications (February 12,1942); and H.W. Bailey on labor self-determination (March 9, 1942).

Includes: Digest of the Salient Points of a Report on "Manpower Policy and Labor Relations in the British Coal Industry" (January 5, 1943); a Leo Chabert document on financing the war (April 4, 1943); and memoranda about an executive conference of the Natural Resources Board at Farmington Country Club, Charlottesville, Virginia, previously held around 1939.

Subjects include the National Recovery Administration, "Amalgamation of the Two Enginemen's Brotherhoods," "Russian Recognition and the New Deal," "Future Policies of the National Recovery Administration," Six-Hour Day of the Railroads, "Two Men on the Head End of all Railroad Trains," and Housing.

Subjects include "Benefits of Trade Unionism," "Forbes" article, "Limit on Weekly Work Hours," a letter to Professor Gordon, and "Labor Movement and the Future of America"

Subjects include planks for the Republican Platform, Anti-Strike Legislation, a Rejoinder to the Remarks of Fred Gurley, and "Recommendations to the Board of Investigation and Research"

A checklist of article titles can be found in the first folder. Titles in the order of the list include: "Economics and Christianity"; "The Mysterious Soul of the Steel Corporation"; "The Anthracite Operators Should Concede the Check-off" July 13, 1923; "Industrial Principles and Not Machinery Are Important"; "The So-Called Check-off and Its Significance"; "The Report of the Coal Commission on the Anthracite Industry"; "The Purchasing Power of Wheat and Cotton"; "Private Cars and the Coal Problem"; "Mr. McAdoo's Political Availability"; and "No More Pre-war Standards of Wages and Working Conditions."

Next ten article titles include: "The Radical - His Significance at Present"; "The Soft Coal Problem Again to the Front"; "Labor Banks and Their Ultimate Significance"; "Political Democracy Must be Supplemented by Industrial Democracy"; "Oil and the Southern Pacific"; "The Purchasing Power of the Farmer's Dollar"; "The Truth is Never Unpardonable"; "Private Cars and the Coal Problem"; "The Unique Financial Position of the Pullman Company"; and "Another Manifestation of the Soul of the Steel Corporation."

The next ten article titles include: "Sugar and the Flexible Tariff Provision"; "Conflict or Arbitration"; "The Threatened Boomerang"; "Cooperation for Mutual Benefit or Profit?"; "Secret Police or Conviction for Crime"; "Chairman Butler Emits and Omits"; National Cooperative Grain Marketing Realized"; "The Anthracite Operators Should Concede the Check-off" (possible duplicate); "Regulation of the Anthracite Monopoly" September 1 , 1923; "Why Not Action on Anthracite?" September 11, 1923; and "Can a Living Wage Be Paid to Unskilled Labor?" October 30, 1923.

The next ten article titles include: "The Failure of Industrial Arbitration" October 30, 1923; "Significant Labor Developments During the Coming Year" October 30, 1923; "A Dramatic Migration" concerning African Americans, October 30, 1923; "Unprotected Pullman Passengers" October 30, 1923; "The New Immigration and Its Significance" November 2, 1923; "The Probability of Railroad Legislation" February 7, 1924; "The Industrial Magna Carta" February 23, 1924; "Land Grants to Western Railroads" February 23, 1924; "Increased Efficiency of Labor" February 23, 1924; and "Real Industrial Statemanship February 25, 1924."

The next ten article titles include: "Some Other Matters of Record" June 2, 1924; "The Verdict from Kansas" August 7, 1924; "A Real Test for the Tariff Commission" August 14, 1924; "A Billion and a Half Railroad Merger" August 16, 1924; "Common Sense" August 19, 1924; "President Gompers and a Labor Party" August 19, 1924; "A Significant Precedent in Financing Farmers Cooperative Enterprises"; "Back to the Declaration of Independence" August 21, 1924; "A Costly Labor Policy" August 23, 1924; and "Brass Tacks, The Red Flag, and the Constitution" August 23, 1924.

The final group of articles include: "Industrial Democracy - Our Greatest Problem" August 27, 1924; "The Passing of the Money Gods"; "The Conference Board Reports on Taxation in Wisconsin"; "The Railroad Labor Board"; "The Farmer and the Tariff"; "Visible and Invisible Tax Burdens"; "The Most Helpful Farm Movement"; "Radicals and God's Fools"; "Militant Friends Needed"; "The Unconscious Cruelty of Success" October 24, 1924; and "Another Orgy of Railroad Finance."

While some chapters have no individual date, they likely all come from drafts in 1931 or 1932. It is unclear which version belongs to each draft, and equally unclear which versions the explanatory note references. Chapter VII is largely missing. The name of the book may have eventually changed to "The Need for a Unified Banking System."