Emily Kaiyala collection, 1915-1935.

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Emily Kaiyala collection, 1915-1935.

Personal correspondence, IWW membership cards, poetry, photographs, books, and other labor union materials. Includes material relating to the death of Frank Little.

3 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8079036

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Atzel, Emily Kaiyala Hayes, 1903-1981

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Emily Kaiyala Hayes Atzel was born in Ironwood, Mich., on 17 Nov. 1903, the daughter of Finnish immigrants Jakko and Susanna Kaiyala. She and her parents moved to Butte, Mont., in 1904. In 1921 she married Ed Hayes, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. The couple moved to Chicago in 1923 where Emily went to work as a secretary at the IWW national headquarters. In the 1930s she separated from Ed Hayes and moved to Aberdeen, Wash. There she met and married Oscar Atzel, and the couple m...

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...

Little, Frank, -1917

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