Mary E. Gallagher collection on the I.W.W. and various labor and Socialist leaders, circa 1919-1955.

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Mary E. Gallagher collection on the I.W.W. and various labor and Socialist leaders, circa 1919-1955.

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Part I - primarily articles, clippings and photographs relating to Eugene V. Debs, Lena Morrow Lewis, Honore J. Jaxon, Workers' Defense League, Byron Kitto, Douglas Robson, and others, and including also a letter from Debs, June 10, 1919, and two from Upton Sinclair, 1920; a collection of labor songs; I.W.W. pamphlets; issues of various labor magazines; pamphlets on California syndicalism law; and a play written by Miss Gallagher based on the Tom Mooney case. Includes bound typescript copy of "Spartacus" by Douglas Robson (in box 3), and other materials by Robson (in box 2). Part II - Negative microfilm: newspaper clippings; list of convictions, 1919-1926, under the syndicalism law, compiled by Claude Erwin; copy of Governor Olson's pardon of Wallace I. Fruit, June 20, 1940.

Part I: 3 boxes (2.2 linear feet)Part II : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 558:5) and positive.Play by Mary Gallagher, "The long years passing" : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 558:4) and positive.

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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...

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942

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Thomas J. Mooney was born on December 8, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Indiana and Massachusetts. A molder by trade, Mooney first came to California in 1908, permanently settling in San Francisco in 1910. There he became involved in the work of the Socialist party and various labor organizing activites. In 1916, Mooney and Warren K. Billings were wrongfully convicted of the Preparedness Day bombing of July 22. Mooney's plight became a cause amongst labor until his eventual release and ...

Gallagher, Mary, 1883-1965

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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...

Robson, Douglas S.

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