90 linear feet.
10 linear inches of photographs.
Inventory.
An organization of the Catholic lay apostolate for young working people; it had parallel organizations for men and women, a national headquarters, and local groups of leaders who would meet to read scripture, discuss and judge what they had observed in the workplace or neighborhood, and decide how to act to make their community more Christian, according to the teachings of papal encyclicals urging Catholic social action.
Correspondence of national headquarters with local YCW groups all over the United States; subject files, training courses, answers to survey questionnaires, financial records, reports, inquiry programs, manuals, mimeographed material, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and papers of national chaplain Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand and Caroline Pezzullo, president of the women's YCW, 1949-1953; with material on civil rights, credit unions, labor unions, Catholic Action, and the international Jocist (Young Christian Workers) movement founded by Canon Joseph Cardijn.
Gift of Patty Crowley and Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand.