Washington State Library's collection of Industrial Workers of the World records, 1916.

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Washington State Library's collection of Industrial Workers of the World records, 1916.

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It appears that this collection was from the trial for the Everett Massacre in 1916 involving the Wobblies. This collection contains trial evidence which includes: wallets, dues books, posters, pennants, pamphlets, song books, song sheets, newspapers and slogan stickers in 15 different designs. The collection also contains correspondence and financial records. There are copies of the monthly The One Big Union for March, May-November 1919. There is a broadside of the IWW injunction which is a plaintiff's exhibit dated 8 July 1920. The copies of newspapers that are included were plaintiff's exhibits and are very fragile. They include The New Solidarity newspapers covering the events of the Wobblies; Industrialist dated Nov. 10, 1919 in Russian; Rebel Worker dated 15 June 1919. There is a mimeographed copy of the Everett Daily Herald for Nov. 6, 1919 describing the event that caused the trial.

3.5 linear feet (4 boxes)

Washington State Library, Office of Secretary of State

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SNAC Resource ID: 7330715

Washington State Library, Office of Secretary of State

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Washington State Library

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Maud P. Mitchell was born about 1883 in Oregon. She married Chas. R. Mitchell and by 1920 they were living in Chehalis, WA. Charles was an assistant cashier at the bank. Charles had become a banker by 1930. Between 1957 & 1958 Charles passed away. And Maud passed away on 29 May 1960 in Chehalis, WA. From the description of Washington State Library's collection of Maud Mitchell's history of Chehalis and Lewis counties, 1845-1858. (Washington State Library, Office of Secretary of S...

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...

One Big Union

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In 1919 delegates from most union locals in western Canada met at the Western Labour Congress in Calgary and resolved to conduct a referendum among Canadian members to determine if they would be willing to join a revolutionary industrial union to be called the One Big Union. By the end of 1919, a membership of 41,150 was reported in the 101 local units of the OBU which included large parts of the mine, transportation and logging labour force in western Canada. Although by 1923 the union was redu...