The story of a rebel : San Francisco : oral history transcript / Warren Knox Billings ; tape recorded interview conducted in 1957 by Corinne L. Gilb, for the Oral History Project, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley, 1957.

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The story of a rebel : San Francisco : oral history transcript / Warren Knox Billings ; tape recorded interview conducted in 1957 by Corinne L. Gilb, for the Oral History Project, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley, 1957.

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Notes on his background and early life; work in New York; radical labor activities in San Francisco; trial and conviction with Tom Mooney for the San Francisco Preparedness Day Parade bombing, July 22, 1916; defense efforts, including the California Supreme Court hearings; commutation of sentence by Governor Olson; subsequent activities.

Transcript : xvii, 375 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.

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