Papers, 1917-1923.

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Papers, 1917-1923.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145770925

Correspondence of a prominent New York communist mainly relating to her work as an organizer for the Workers Defense Union to secure justice for political prisoners, anarchists, labor agitators, and others accused of subversion during World War I.

0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6839859

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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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...

Workers' Defense Union

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