Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection of IWW publications and ephemera, 1905-2005, bulk 1905-1935 .

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926

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Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. Early in his political career, Debs...

Council for Union Democracy.

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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...

Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928

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Rosemont, Franklin.

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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is a Chicago based labor organization founded in 1905. From the description of Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection of IWW publications and ephemera, 1905-2005, bulk 1905-1935 . (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 191734026 ...

Hill, Joe, 1879-1915

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St. John, Vincent, 1876-1929

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Rosemont, Penelope

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Marcy, Mary, 1877-1922

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Industrial Workers of the World. General Defense Committee

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Brundage, Slim, 1903-1990

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Chicago house painter, writer, and founder and self-proclaimed "janitor" of the College of Complexes, a Near North Side forum where speakers and the audience debated controversial topics and read poetry. During the late 1920's Brundage frequented the Dill Pickle Club, where he may have worked for a time. With this club's 1932 closing Brundage founded the first College of Complexes which lasted only a few months. He then started a hobo college, the Knowledge Box (1936-193...

Woodruff, Abner E.

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Thompson, Fred, 1900-1987

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IWW organizer. Born in St. Johns, New Brunswick in 1900. From the description of Frederick W. Thompson papers, 1912-1986, (bulk 1962-1985). (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32320972 ...

Chaplin, Ralph, 1887-1961

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Poet, writer, labor editor. From the description of Correspondence, with Agnes Inglis, 1936-1951. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34367755 Labor leader, poet, and songwriter; joined I.W.W. in 1913 and became chief publicist and agitator; divided his time between commercial art and editing labor papers, working in various cities in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America; spent time in Leavenworth Prison (Kan.) for his anti-World War I activities; spent last years i...

Cortez, Carlos, 1923-2005

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Carlos Cortez (1923-2005) was an artist, poet, printmaker, photographer, songwriter and lifelong political activist. His support for the working man was likely encouraged by his parents: his German mother was a socialist pacifist and his father was a Mexican Indian organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the Wobblies. Cortez himself was a member of the IWW for nearly sixty years. Cortez began his art career drawing cartoons in 1948 for Indu...