James G. Newbill research materials on Yakima Valley labor history 1909-2001
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Newbill, James G.
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James G. Newbill is a labor historian and teacher from Yakima, Washington. His article, “Farmers and Wobblies in the Yakima Valley, 1933” was based on the research materials included in the collection. It was published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, April 1977 and in the Good Fruit Grower, September 1996. From the guide to the James G. Newbill research materials on Yakima Valley labor history, 1909-2001, (University of Washington Libraries Special Collections) ...
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...
Litchman, Mark M., 1887-1960.
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Lawyer, labor advocate, and socialist of Seattle, Washington. Mark M. Litchman, born in 1887, was a Seattle lawyer. He defended prospective deportees from deportation (1918-1920, 1931); defended the Seattle Union Record newspaper against sedition charges (1919-1920); defended members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) incarcerated at Yakima (1933); and represented Haverty in International Stevedoring Company v. Haverty, leading to the abolition of the fellow-se...
