Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Joe Hill Case Materials, 1915

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Joe Hill Case Materials, 1915

1915

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) was a leading Irish-American Communist, socialist, feminist, labor organizer, orator, and campaigner for civil liberties. Joe Hill (1879-1915), labor songwriter and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, was convicted of murder after a politically charged trial and executed by the State of Utah on November 19, 1915. The collection contains prison letters to Flynn, a letter to William D. Haywood, Hill’s “My Last Will” (a poem), letters from defense attorney O. N. Hilton, lyrics of a song by Hill for Flynn’s son, Fred (“To Bronco Buster Flynn"), a clippings scrapbook about the case, “Joe Hill Murdered,” and a memorial program.

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Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928

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Hilton, O. N.

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Hill, Joe, 1879-1915

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Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 1890-1964

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an agitator and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a Communist Party (CP) official. Flynn was an organizer in major strikes in Lawrence, Massachusetts and Paterson and Passaic, New Jersey. She saw labor court trials as important extensions of organizing, and participated in trials in Missoula, Montana (1908), and Spokane, Washington (1909-1910). As part of her defense work she created the Workers’ Defense League, an organization to fight for th...

Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...