Industrial Workers of the World Miscellany on Microfilm, 1906-1939
Collection Number: 5177 mf

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Industrial Workers of the World Miscellany on Microfilm, 1906-1939
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5177 mf
Abstract:
Includes materials related to the labor troubles at Centralia and Everett, Washington. Originals at the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Creator:
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Quanitities:
0.33 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The papers of the Industrial Workers of the World consist of publications by or about the union and its varied activities. The first reel is devoted to its labor periodicals. Included, among others, are The Industril Worker, January 1906-June 1907 (with frequent articles by Eugene Debs), Luber Workers Bulletins from various locals and The General Construction Workers Bulletin.
The second reel contains 69 publications, addressed primarily to immigrant and minority groups and written in English and various foreign languates; 62 publications dating from the 1920s and 1930s, produced by the General Defense Committee, which attended to the legal and financial needs of workers imprisoned on charges related to radical activities; 17 pamphlets produced by various trades unions within the IWW; and 31 pamphlets by Debs, DeLeon, Trautmann and others.
The third reel is devoted to pamphlets about the Centralia case. They deal with events and aftermath of Armistice Day, November 11, 1919, in Centralia, Washington, when an exchange of gunfire between enion members and a hostile crowd resulted in the death of Lt. Warren Grimm, the lynching of one worker, the eventual trial of eleven members of the IWW, and the conviction of eight for second degree murder.
There is no separate printed guide to the collection, but lists of the publications on reels two and three precede the texts on the film.
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Preferred Citation

Industrial Workers of the World Miscellany on Microfilm #5177 mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Materials

Related Collections: 5210: IWW Records 5210 G: IWW Graphics 5863 mf: Department of Justice Investigative Files on Industrial Workers of the World, Part 1 on Microfilm 6046: Archives Union File (AUF)
SUBJECTS

Names:
Industrial Workers of the World
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Reel 1
Labor periodicals.
Reel 1 1
The Industrial Worker
 1906-1907
Scope and Contents
January 1906-June 1907 (with frequent articles by Eugene Debs)
Reel 1 2
Lumber Workers Bulletins
Scope and Contents
From various locals
Reel 1 3
The General Construction Workers Bulletin
Reel 1 4
Miscellaneous unnamed publications
Reel 2
Miscellaneous publications.
Reel 2 1
Publications addressed primarily to immigrant and minority groups
Scope and Contents
Sixty-nine miscellaneous publications, written in English and various foreign languages
Reel 2 2
Publications produced by the General Defense Committee
 1920-1939
Scope and Contents
Sixty-two publications, dating from the 1920s and 30s. The General Defense Committee attended to the legal and financial needs of workers imprisoned on charges related to the radical activities
Reel 2 3
Pamphlets produced by various trades unions within the IWW
Scope and Contents
Seventeen pamphlets
Reel 2 4
Pamphlets by Debs, De Leon, Trautmann and others.
Scope and Contents
thirty-one miscellaneous pamphlets
Reel 3
Centralia case.
Reel 3
Pamphlets about the Centralia case.
Scope and Contents
They deal with the events and aftermath of Armistice Day, November 11, 1919, in Centralia, Washington, when an exchange of gunfire between union members and a hostile crowd resulted in the death of Lt. Warren Grimm, the lynching of one worker, the eventual trial of eleven members of the IWW, and the conviction of eight for second degree murder.