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James H. Maurer Socialist Labor Leader
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Apr 15, 2004 11:59am |
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| News Date | Thursday, April 15, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When Jim Maurer wrote his autobiography during the 1930's, he looked back over more than half a century of feverish work on behalf of the American working man, and he regretted not a moment of it. He was old and ill when he wrote, and as he put it, he was "on the sidelines watching keenly." But his mind was still alert; his ideas had changed very little, and of course be gloried in the fact that he had lived to see his beloved Reading in the bands of a Socialist Administration. As be looked back across the years, Maurer thought he saw that much of the social progress which had occurred could be attributed to the Socialist movement. Therefore, it was with a feeling of great satisfaction and accomplishment that he entitled his book It Can Be Done.
Maurer was an important figure in the American labor movement, but he is little known and unfortunately it is quite likely that a full scale biography will never be written. His personal papers, which no doubt would have been a gold mine of information on the Socialist and labor movements, have been lost, as have the records of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor for the period before 1930. Other major collection's which might be thought to contain a great deal of relevant material have proved quite disappointing. These include the Socialist Party Collection at Duke University, the Tamiment Institute Library of New York University, and the various major labor collections such as those at Cornell and Wayne State Universities. In all of these archives there is only enough Maurer material to whet the appetite of the serious scholar.
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