SHORT HISTORY OF COMMITTEE

The Committee on Philanthropic Labor of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) formed a Economic Order sub committee in the early '30's. In 1937, the Yearly Meeting authorized Representative Committee to establish a separate Social Order committee to cooperate with the corresponding committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox). A Committee on Economic Problems was appointed in 1938 with Clair Wilcox, Economics professor at Swarthmore College, as Chair.

In the ten years of its existence, Economic Problems had a number of sub committees, including Industrial Relations, Community, Economic and Social Research, and a joint sub committee on the visitation of Meetings.

David S. and Mary Richie's program of Weekend Workcamps began in 1940 and was sponsored jointly by the Arch Street group and the American Friends Service Committee. Richie himself was named Executive Secretary of the Committee on Economic Problems in 1944. Three years later, the Committee on Economic Problems and the Social Order Committee (Arch Street) combined their efforts, and in 1948 were finally merged as a joint committee.

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Includes minutes, 1938-1944, and miscellaneous papers, 1937-1947.

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Restrictions

Access

Collection is open for research. Access is through microfilm, if available.

Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

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SEARCHING IN OUR ON-LINE CATALOGUE FOR RELATED MATERIALS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in TRIPOD, the joint on-line catalog of Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

Earlier/Later Committee Names

Subjects:

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Administrative Information

Accession information

Deposit

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: These records may only be consulted at Swarthmore (SW), and are not available through inter-Library loan.

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