Industrial Workers of the World. Series 3. Publications, 1905-1960, bulk 1917-1927.

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Industrial Workers of the World. Series 3. Publications, 1905-1960, bulk 1917-1927.

Include pamphlets, official union bulletins, and miscellaneous publications. The publication files include materials pertaining to union structure, politics, organizing activities, history, strikes, legal cases relating to the union, the imprisonment of union members, and the general subjects of socialism, economics, freedom of speech, and industrial revolution. Pamphlets were prepared by various union members and committees, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, William D. Haywood, William Trautmann, and Vincent St. John. There are, in addition, pamphlets written by prominent socialists, academicians, public figures, and social action agencies, including Daniel De Leon, Paul F. Brissenden, Max Eastman, and the American Civil Liberties Union. Also, bulletins and union newspapers (1922-1953).

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Cornell University Library

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Trautmann, William b. 1869.

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

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...

Eastman, Max, 1883-1969

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Roving editor of Reader's Digest. From the description of Letters, 1945-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145430278 Eastman, the brother of Crystal Eastman, translated Russian writings into English. From the description of Letter, 1968. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007545 Author. From the description of Papers, 1892-1968. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 40833141 From the description of Letters, 1943-1960....

Brissenden, Paul F. (Paul Frederick), 1885-1974

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Research project conducted from 1928 to 1936, directed by Paul F. Brissenden, professor of economics, Columbia University, assisted by Cleon O. Swayzee, and funded by the Columbia University Council for Research in the Social Sciences. By systematically analyzing 1000 New York State court cases from 1898 to 1929 in which injunction relief was sought to settle labor disputes, researchers attempted to derive historical judicial policy on injunction usage (in contexts of in...

St. John, Vincent, 1876-1929

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Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928

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De Leon, Daniel, 1852-1914

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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...