Industrial Workers of the World. Series 4. Miscellaneous documents, 1909-1971.

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Industrial Workers of the World. Series 4. Miscellaneous documents, 1909-1971.

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Consist primarily of clippings (1911-1922); leaflets and bulletins pertaining to union organizing, unemployment, strikes, prisoners, attacks on union members by the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations, court cases, criminal syndicalist laws, prison conditions, strikes in Lawrence, Paterson, Butte, the Mesaba Iron Range, Wheatland, and Hopfields, in various mines, mills and factories, the Centralia Massacre, interorganizational conflict, freedom of speech, civil rights, and labor violence; letters of union staff and members, including those in prison; and reports and articles by Robert Bruère, Paul F. Brissenden, Arno Dosch, and the American Civil Liberties Union regarding prisoners, socialism, and the union. Also, sheet music, legal documents, and a file of memorabilia.

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Ku-Klux Klan.

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Brissenden, Paul F. (Paul Frederick), 1885-1974

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Research project conducted from 1928 to 1936, directed by Paul F. Brissenden, professor of economics, Columbia University, assisted by Cleon O. Swayzee, and funded by the Columbia University Council for Research in the Social Sciences. By systematically analyzing 1000 New York State court cases from 1898 to 1929 in which injunction relief was sought to settle labor disputes, researchers attempted to derive historical judicial policy on injunction usage (in contexts of in...

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Dosch, Arno.

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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...