Files on the Western Federation of Miners and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, 1893-1955.

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Files on the Western Federation of Miners and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, 1893-1955.

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Documents regarding the history of the non-ferrous metals industry in the western United States. Consist of union governance documents (constitutions and collective agreements) and publications. Also, correspondence, tapes of radio broadcasts, reports and other documents regarding the history of the non-ferrous metals industry; union organizing and strikes; the murder, imprisonment, persecution, and deportation of aliens and striking miners; court trials of William "Big Bill" Haywood and other WFM miners (1903-1907); rivalry between the WFM and the Industrial Workers of the World; the secession of the Ansonia Brass Workers from the IUMMSW (1947-1948); the split between the CIO and the IUMMSW (1947-1952); and the Butte, Montana miners rank and file revolt (1955).

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