Labor violence -- United States

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Transcript of testimony heard in April and May of 1923 before an Illinois House of Representatives Committee consisting of the following members: Frank A. McCarthy (chairman), Thomas Curran, Norman G. Flagg, M.L. Igoe, W.B. Phillips, William L. Pierce, and M.P. Rice; also abstract of testimony and exhibits.

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Includes pamphlets, correspondence, clippings and memorabilia relating to IWW strikes, legal cases and mob action against the IWW, and the activities of prominent IWW leaders, including William Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Joe Hill, and Ralph Chaplin.

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Included are all of the Commission's records housed in the National Archives; these are, however, incomplete and officially described as fragmentary. This collection consists mainly of testimony of witnesses before the Commission in hearings held in Globe, Clifton, and Bisbee, Arizona and in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also included are reports, correspondence, and other general materials of the Commission.

Abstract This project was compiled under the direction of Paul F. Brissenden and financed through the resources of the Columbia University Council for Research in the Social Sciences. Although the project was originally scheduled to be completed in just 18 months, it was approximately eight years before the end was achieved. Prior to 1928, the initial year of the survey, there had been much controversy over the use and effects of the labor injunction against unions in their continuous struggle for...

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Microfilm copy of the reports in the Library of the Wisconsin State Historical Society and the Shelf list of the Reports of the Commission.

Abstract Consist of documents collected by Professor Vernon H. Jensen for his work on the non-ferrous metals industry, specifically, relating to the WFM, the IUMMSW, and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Includes constitutions, collective bargaining agreements, proceedings of concentions and minutes chiefly of the WFM and IUMMSW (1893-1943). Also, documentation relating to the rank and file orevolt of Butte, Montana, Local 1 (1955) and to the rivalry between the IUMMSW and the IWW...