Factional Dispute within Local 445, IUMMSW

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).

Documents regarding the history of the non-ferrous metals industry in the western United States.