Reel 8

Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...