{"value"=>"<p>This series documents Guinier's career as Secretary-Treasurer of the United Public Workers union (UPW), his association with the American Labor Party as a candidate for the Manhattan Borough presidency in 1949, and his work in the 1950s and early 1960s with the Harlem Affairs Committee and the Jamaica Coordinating Council. The series consists primarily of correspondence, articles and speeches by Guinier, minutes and reports of UPW's Executive Council, publications and newspapers clippings. The correspondence is scant and relates mostly to the 1947 Loyalty Act and its impact on labor and blacks. A typed report on UPW work in the South entitled \"The Meaning of the South to the Labor and Progressive Movement of the United States\" is also located in the correspondence file.</p> <p>Guinier's articles written during this period and present in this series were published in <em render=\"underline\">March of Labor</em>. <em render=\"underline\">The National Guardian</em> and <em render=\"underline\">New York Teacher News</em>. His speeches usually relate to the campaign for a permanent Fair Employment Practice act in the late 1940s and 1950s, and include his 1948 statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Mundt-Nixon Bill. The Speech file also includes the minutes of a February 1952 UPW executive board meeting with extensive verbatim comments by Abraham Flaxer, Guinier and other participants on the CIO expulsion of radical unions, on African-American unemployment, and the Negro Labor Council.</p> <p>At its peak, UPW membership came from three different constituencies: the Welfare Bureau and other social service agencies in New York City, the Bureau of Engraving in Washington, D. C., and the Silver Workers (non-white labor force) in the Panama Canal Zone. Materials on these three areas are located in extensive printed matter files ranging from 1946 to 1955. Additional printed matter also exists on the 1950 CIO expulsion of the UPW, on the Harlem Trade Union Council, the Negro Labor Committee and the National Negro Labor Council.</p>"}