Industrial Workers of the World series 1. Central organization files, 1905-1971.

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Industrial Workers of the World series 1. Central organization files, 1905-1971.

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Consist chiefly of printed administrative materials from the IWW central office, and documents of various regional, strike and prison defense committees. The IWW administrative documents include proceedings, reports, minutes and memoranda of the General Executive Board, general conventions and membership meetings (1906-1925); leaflets; membership lists; a union organizational chart; financial statements (1922-1953); balloting materials for general referenda, and constitutional amendments (1920-1950); legal documents pertaining to criminal cases, and the imprisonment of union members; correspondence of union members with the American Civil Liberties Union concerning alleged political prisoners; and memoranda, bulletins, and published materials regarding union politics, the IWW union structure and social action (1925-1971). Additionally, bulletins, memoranda, leaflets and pamphlets, routine correspondence between IWW staff and prisoners, and financial records. Also, statements of various local, regional, prisoner, strike, and defense committees, including the Emergency Joint Branch of Portland, Oregon; committees in Everett, Wash.; California; the Mesaba Iron Range; New York; and the Northwest District; Workers Prison Relief Defense Committees; and the Centralia Publicity and Joint Amnesty Committees. Documents generally pertain to police and vigilante attacks against IWW members and organizers; IWW strikes, organizing campaigns and defense tactics; and analyses of the IWW's program of action (1916-1933).

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Industrial Workers of the World. Centralia Publicity Committee.

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Industrial Workers of the World. Joint Amnesty Committee.

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Industrial Workers of the World

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American Civil Liberties Union

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