Fred Thompson letter concerning the Work People's College, December 1, 1929.

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Fred Thompson letter concerning the Work People's College, December 1, 1929.

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Photographic copy of a letter describing the Work People's College (Duluth, Minn.), which operated (1914-1940) as a Finnish American Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor school. The letter was written by Fred (Frederick Willard) Thompson, an IWW organizer, economics instructor at the college, and future IWW historian, to socialist labor historian Nathan Fine of the Rand School of Social Science. It contains information on the students, enrollment, programs and curriculum, cooperative organization, and finances of the college.

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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 ...

Fine, Nathan, 1893-

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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...

Work People's College (Duluth, Minn.)

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In 1903, leaders of the Finnish National Lutheran Church of America opened the Finnish People's College and Theological Seminary (Suomalainen Kansan Opisto ja Teologinen Seminaari) in Minneapolis, Minnesota to provide training for clergy and a liberal education for Finnish Americans in general. The college in Minneapolis soon failed and was moved to the Duluth suburb of Smithville, Minnesota where more Finnish Americans had settled. Finnish American Socialists were strong supporters of the schoo...