Essays, 1933

This series consists of two handwritten drafts of essays. The first pertains to workers' difficulty in finding employment in the United States during the Depression. The second describes the Mexican Regional Confederation of Labor, whose constitution, though based on Marx's idea of class struggle, was not, according to Mills, based the emancipation of labor from the slavery of wages. These essays were written on the backs of letters from Arnold Petersen, National Secretary of the Socialist Labor Party; Martin Carr, of W. & J. Knox Net and Twine Company; and on the back of a bulletin from the Commission on Governmental Efficiency and Economy, located in Baltimore, Maryland.