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Libby Scheier fonds File
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Parents

File consists of a manuscript for an article by Celia Scheier about a trip to Cuba, a newspaper clipping featuring a photo of Celia Scheier, and a newspaper clipping about children of socialist parents.

Joseph Schwartz, aka "Yossi"

File pertains to Joseph "Yossi" Schwartz, Scheier's ex-husband, and includes birthday cards, poetry, a horoscope chart, and four photographs taken by Schwartz.

Correspondence : personal

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence. Correspondents include Yossi Schwartz, Celia Scheier, Michael Scheier and Julie Frankel, Barbara Gowdy, Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, Beverly Daurio, Susan Swan, David Johnson, Phyllis Webb, and Jennifer Duncan.

Correspondence : business

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence and memoranda and copies of some outgoing correspondence pertaining to the publication of her writing, her role as managing editor of "Tomorrow", and her work as an instructor at York University. Some poems submitted for publication are included in the file, as well as York University Department of English minutes and other mailouts. Correspondents include David Schanoes of Arsenal Magazine, K.K. Richardson, Dorothy Livesay, Joan Pierson, CARAL, and various York University faculty members, union representatives and department heads.

Leftist publications

File consists of issues of socialist publications collected by Scheier, including "Socialist Workers Party International Information Bulletin", "Socialist Workers Internal Information Bulletin", "Socialist Workers Party Discussion Bulletin", "Education for Socialists", "Intercontinental Press", "Revolutionary Marxist Papers", "The Fall of Allende and the Triumph of the Chilean Counterrevolution" (Spartacist League); "Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter", "Young Spartacus", "Women and Revolution" (Spartacist League).

Buffalo : Stony Brook Leaflets

File consists of draft reports and papers written by Scheier pertaining to her involvement with the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Stony Brook, New York, while a graduate student at SUNY.

Political papers, essays and correspondence

File consists of correspondence and copies of correspondence exchanged between Yossi Schwartz, John Sharpe and others in the international socialist movement, as well as as open letters, Trotskyist League of Canada meeting minutes, statements and reports, Spartacist bulletins, and a draft paper by Scheier entitled "What is the Histadrut?".

Political misc.

File consists of notes, contact lists, Interim Secretariat (Trotskyist League of Canada) meeting minutes and notes, interview transcripts, Trotskyist League of Canada press releases, minutes and form letters from the National Black Work Consultative Fraction.

Posters in Hebrew

File also includes Spartacist League notices for talks by James Robertson (21-22 Jan. 1971), D.L. Reissner for International Woman's Day, and Joseph Seymour at Columbia University.

Political events

File consists of draft letters written by Scheier pertaining to her involvement with the Trotskyist League of Canada.

Drafts of resignation from Trotskyist League

File pertains to Scheier's membership and involvement in the Trotskyist League of Canada and the Spartacist League. Included are draft letters of resignations from both organizations, correspondence from members of the Spartacist League, a paper by Scheier entitled "The Spartacists - a rightist-sectarian tendency", and correspondence from members of the Trotskyist League of Canada.

Political endgame

File consists of draft writing by Scheier regarding the end of her membership in the Spartacist League and Trotskyist League of Canada, as well as minutes from meetings of the Trotskyist League of Canada.

Spartacist essay

File consists of drafts of Scheier's paper on her experience with the Spartacist League, as well as notes and correspondence sent to Larry Seigle about the paper.

"Expulsion" letter from Trotskyist League

Item is a letter from John Masters of the Political Bureau of the Trotskyist League of Canada rejecting Scheier's resignation and expelling her, and Yossi Schwartz, from the organization. Scheier is addressed by her code name, Lerner, in the letter.

Israel trip

File consists of publications written in Hebrew, as well as a pamphlet in English entitled "Peace now: better a land of peace than a piece of land" and handwritten notes by Scheier.

Reflection

File consists of four issues of "Reflection", the annual literary journal of Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, New York. She was a literary editor for the 1963 issue and a poetry contributor for the 1962, 1963 and 1964 issues.

Histadrut documents

File pertains to Scheier's research about the Histadrut and includes her handwritten notes and copies of related encyclopedia entries.

Material for article

Files consists of Scheier's handwritten notes on her socialist research, possibly used in the writing of an article.

Grenada and misc. Caribbean/Central America

File consists of research material pertaining to labour and socialist politics in Grenada and Jamaica, collected by Scheier, including issues of "Forward: Newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist League, Jamaica", "West Indian Digest", "Socialist Affairs", "International Internal Information Bulletin", as well as the constitution of the Canada-Grenada Friendship Society and a document entitled "An Introduction to the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada".

Essays on the left

File consists of research materials collected by Scheier on communist movements, as well as copies of correspondence and translated articles by Socialist Workers Party (SWP) members and articles about racism in Boston schools.

Talk : blacks and women

File consists of Scheier's typescript and handwritten notes on black workers and women in socialist movements.

Portfolio material

File consists of samples of Scheier's published non-fiction and business writing and publications for which she worked as an editor.

Resume

File consists of Scheier's resume and a cover letter regarding a part-time editor position with the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.

Publications by Michael Scheier and Julie Frankel

File consists of three children's books created by Scheier's brother Michael and sister-in-law Julie Frankel for Scholastic Book Services: "Me by Me: My Own Book" , "My Autograph Book", "The Wacky, Fractured Teenage Survival Book".

Writers' Union : general

File consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, pamphlets and brochures, notes, a constitution, reports, and informational guides.

Women and Words conference

File consists of incoming correspondence and a copy of Scheier's letter to Betsy Warland, a program, and articles pertaining to this conference, organized by the West Coast Women and Words Society, held in Vancouver in July 1983.

Women and Words Conference : workshop on creativity and childbearing

File consists of drafts of two essays by Scheier, entitled "Creativity and Motherhood" and "Motherhood is Not the End of Everything", as well as a correspondence exchanged with Betsy Warland, draft speaking notes for a workshop presentation by Scheier on creativity and childbearing/childrearing,and a paper entitled "The Power Politics of Motherhood: a feminist critique of theory and practice" by Helen Levine and Alma Estable.

Women and Words : post-conference

File consists of a report on the 1984 annual general meeting, the constitution and by-laws of the West Coast Women and Words Society, a notice for the first general meeting of the West Coast Women and Words Society (14 Sept. 1983), and a mailing list.

Women and Words planning committee, Ontario

File pertains to meetings of the Women and Words Ontario planning committee in 1983 and Scheier's participation as a committee member. Records in this file include Scheier's meeting and speaking notes, meeting agendas and minutes, reports and correspondence.

"Pro-Choice News" : copies

File consists of issues of this Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) publication from spring 1985 to fall/winter 1987-88.

"Pro-Choice News" : graphic material

File consists of photocopies or clippings of pro-choice cartoons and illustrations, a birth control poster for men produced by the London Family Planning Association, and photographs of Morris Manning and Lasha Morningstar, accumulated by Scheier for possible use in "Pro-Choice News".

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