Material documenting Stanley Lathen’s labor and political activities in Vallejo, California. This collection contains information on unions for retail clerks, plasterers, butchers, and builders in the Vallejo area as well as on labor’s relationship to local and state politics and commitment to community projects, such as the AFL Ball Park. Also included are brief letters to and from politicians Lathen supported, including Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Estes Kefauver, Edmund "Pat" Brown, and Alan Cranston.