Charles H. Kerr Company records, 1885-1999.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Jones, Mother, 1837-1930

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Union activist Mother Jones was born Mary Harris in Ireland and immigrated to the United States. She was a school teacher and married George Jones and had four children. By 1867, Jones had lost her family to a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the 1870s, "Mother" Jones began her long involvement in the labor struggle, by participating in various strikes such as the Pittsburgh Labor Riots (1877), the Western Virginia Anthracite Coal Strike (1902), and the Colorado Coal Field and A...

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...

Charles H. Kerr Company

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Chicago labor and socialist publishing house founded in 1886 by Charles Hope Kerr. The firm is best known for its editions of socialist classics, including the first American Enlish language edition of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, and its periodical, the International Socialist Review. Kerr authors included such well-known radicals as Eugene Debs, Mother Jones, Jack London, Mary E. Marcy, Joe Hill, Clarence Darrow, Sen Katayama, Antonio Labriola, V.I. Lenin, Frederich Engels...

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 ...

Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928

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Socialist Party of the United States of America

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Kerr, Charles H., 1860-1944

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Wysocki, Alfred

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Seidel, Emil 1910-2001

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Giganti, Joe.

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Vogel, Virgil J.

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Virgil J. Vogel was a professor at Truman College, who specialized in American Indian history, the history of medicine, and the origins of American place names. In the early 1980s, Vogel was involved in the revitalization of the Charles H. Kerr Company, a publisher of leftist political tracts, based in Chicago since 1886. From the description of Virgil Vogel papers, 1936-1990. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 717316756 Chicago professor and author of books on Am...

Rosen, Burton.

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Proletarian Party (U.S.)

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Keracher, John.

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Sheridan, Jack.

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Reitman, Ben L. (Ben Lewis), 1879-1942

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Hobo, physician and anarchist, Ben Reitman (1879-1942) was an advocate for the disadvantaged in Chicago and throughout the country. Reitman left school at age ten to become a hobo. He tramped around the U.S., panhandling and riding the rails until he returned to Chicago and took a job as a laboratory boy. In 1900, he was admitted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Reitman started a private practice on Chicago's South Side in 1904. He continued to champion the causes of hobos and the unem...

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...

Tresca, Carlo, 1879-1943

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Carlo Tresca (1879-1943), was an Italian-born anarchist, who emigrated to the United States in 1904. He was a labor organizer, including with the Industrial Workers of the World, a journalist, and editor, notably of Il Proletario, the official newspaper of the Italian Socialist Federation, and of Il Martello, an anti-fascist newspaper. An opponent of both fascism and Stalinism, he was assassinated in New York City in 1943. From the guide to the Carlo Tresca "Autobiography" (typescrip...

Carwardine, William H. (William Horace), 1855-1929

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Abrams, Irving S., 1891-1980

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Rosemont, Franklin.

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