Powers Hapgood letters and journal, 1920 Sept.-Nov.

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Powers Hapgood letters and journal, 1920 Sept.-Nov.

As a labor activist and organizer working in Minnesota and Montana mines, along the Northern Pacific Railway line in North Dakota, and in a Billings, Montana, sugar beet factory, Hapgood describes life and working conditions among semiskilled and unskilled laborers and drifters and organizing activities of the Industrial Workers of the World and the United Mine Workers of America.

225 pages.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7314688

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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