“Over one year ago the Library acquired a fine collection of over 4000 titles on the Communist Party of the United States of America (C.P.U.S.A). This acquisition had not been announced because the material was completely disorganized and some of it was brittle and needed repair. The collection consists of works published by and about the Communist Party and its front organizations, books, pamphlets, newspapers and mimeographed reports. One lot of material is the archive of an important party functionary, containing internal party materials dating from the late 1920’s to the early 1930’s. This person was a director of various workers and training schools and his file includes items used in the Lenin Training School in Moscow, where English-speaking leaders of the Communist Parties were given instruction. There are quite a few materials relating to activity in unions and the unemployment crisis, consisting in part of shop papers and regional party publications. A rare item is a Questionnaire for Party Leaders and a colorful Foster item issued in a limited edition only for friends of the late William Z. Foster. Included among the serials and The Call Magazine of 1917-18, issued on the eve of the formation of the CPUSA; Class Struggle, 1917-1919, a rare theoretical Marxian periodical edited by Fraina and Lore; Coastwise Unity, 1935-46, issued by the Communist Party Dock Unit; International Press Correspondence, 1929-1938, one of the most important single sources for the study of the documentary history of the Communist International and its parties in various countries; The Hearst Worker, 1936, published by the ‘Communist Party Nucleus in the Hearst Plant.’” (The University Library. Michigan State University. Number 15, September, 1961.)