Onni Kaartinen papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: IHRC1152

Staff Only

Abstract

Papers of Onni Kaartinen consist of his personal copy of a play script of Ajan Laulu (Song of the Ages), a Finnish American proletarian musical written by Aku Paivio (music by Frank Lindros).

Dates

Creation: 1940

Language of Materials

Finnish

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS

Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.

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HISTORICAL SKETCH

Onni Kaartinen, a second generation Finnish American, was an activist and leader in the Finnish American Communist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. From 1937 to 1943 he seved as national secretary of the Finnish American Mutual Aid Society, the Finnish Affiliate of the International Workers Order. In the 1940s he also served as editor of the Tyomies in Superior, Wis. and Eteenpain in New York City. He was active in the cultural life, especially the theater, of the New York City Finnish Labor Temple, the 126th St. Finnish Communist hall.