IWW Records, 1905-1960
Collection Number: 5210

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


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
IWW Records, 1905-1960
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5210
Abstract:
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.
Creator:
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Quanitities:
9.61 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Russian

Biographical / Historical

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 union which waged campaigns for improved working conditions, wages and hours of work, as well as workers' control in mines, mills, lumber camps and factories.

Include pamphlets, official union bulletins, and miscellaneous publications.
The publication files include materials pertaining to union structure, politics, organizing activities, history, strikes, legal cases relating to the union, the imprisonment of union members, and the general subjects of socialism, economics, freedom of speech, and industrial revolution. Pamphlets were prepared by various union members and committees, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, William D. Haywood, William Trautmann, and Vincent St. John, There are, in addition, pamphlets written by prominent socialists, academicians, public figures, and social action agencies, including Daniel De Leon, Paul F. Brissenden, Max Eastman, and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Also, bulletins and union newspapers (1922-1953).
Open to researchers in keeping with repository rules.
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS

Preferred Citation

IWW Records #5210. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 5177 mf: Industrial Workers of the World Miscellany on Microfilm 5210 G: IWW Graphics 5863 mf: Department of Justice Investigative Files on Industrial Workers of the World, Part 1 on Microfilm

SUBJECTS

Names:
Brissenden, Paul F. (Paul Frederick), 1885-1974.
Brue`re, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1876-1964
Chaplin, Ralph (Ralph Hosea), 1887-1961.
De Leon, Daniel, 1852-1914.
Dosch, Arno
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 1890-1964
Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928.
Hill, Joe, 1879-1915
St. John, Vincent
Trautmann, William (William Ernst), b. 1869
American Civil Liberties Union
Industrial Workers of the World
Industrial Workers of the World. Centralia Publicity Committee
Industrial Workers of the World. General Defense Committee
Industrial Workers of the World. Joint Amnesty Committee
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 8 (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 100 (New York, N.Y.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 103 (New York, N.Y.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 110 (Middle West)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 120 (Spokane, Wash.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 210 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 211 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 212 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 213 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 214 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 215 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 216 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 217 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 218 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 219 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 220 (Mont.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 230 (Calif.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 300 (Chicago, Ill.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 330
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 400 (Chicago, Ill.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 440 (Chicago, Ill.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 510
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 520 (Chicago, Ill.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 573 (Detroit, Mich.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 600 (Chicago, Ill.)
Industrial Workers of the World. Local 1000 (Paterson, N.J.)
Ku-Klux Klan
Workers' Prison Relief Committee (Paterson, N.J.)
Subjects:
Anarchism and anarchists -- United States
Criminal syndicalism -- United States
Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- Research
Syndicalism -- United States
Centralia Massacre, 1919.
Labor violence -- United States
Strikes and lockouts -- Iron mining -- United States
Strikes and lockouts -- Miners -- United States
Strikes and lockouts -- Textile industry -- United States
Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- United States
Building trades -- Labor unions -- United States
Lumbermen -- Labor unions -- United States
Machinery industry -- Labor unions -- United States
Metal-workers -- Labor unions -- United States
Miners -- Labor unions -- United States
Petroleum workers -- Labor unions -- United States
Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States
Textile workers -- Labor unions -- United States
Labor unions -- United States -- Social action
Labor unions -- United States -- Social activity
Labor unions -- United States -- Songs and music

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. IWW General Administrative Documents
Box 1 Folder 1
General Executive Board. Minutes, Releases, Statements
1908-1924
Box 1 Folder 2
Proceedings, Reports
1906-1925
Box 1 Folder 3A
Proceedings
1923-1924
Box 1 Folder 3B
Proceedings (Photocopies)
1923-1924
Box 1 Folder 4
Financial reports
1922-1953
Box 1 Folder 5
Correspondence, Form Letters, Questionnaires
1917-1924, 1942
Box 1 Folder 6
Referendums and related documents
1917-1950
Mapcase Folder 20
Referendums
1917-1950
Box 1 Folder 10
Membership lists and related documents
1910-1912
Box 1 Folder 9
General Strike Bulletin
1923
Box 7 Folder 2
Miscellaneous Manuscripts - Memos, Autobiographies, Recollections
1923-1961
Mapcase Folder 21
One Big Union Organizational Chart posters
Undated
Scope and Contents
Contains multiple undated iterations of the "One Big Union" (and "One Great Union") oversized organizational chart posters.
Mapcase Folder 21
The Rebel Girl (Joe Hill song) poster
undated
Scope and Contents
Published by the Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University.
Mapcase Folder 21
Education, Organization, Emancipation poster
undated
Box 17 Folder 12
Buttons
Undated
Box 17 Folder 13
Vietnam War Protest Flyers
1971
Box 17 Folder 11
Joe Hill. Photocopy of Headquarters Painting
Undated
Box 17 Folder 10
Honor Cesar [Chavez]: Vote NO on Proposition O. leaflet
1993
Box 17 Folder 9
Contracts
1984
Box 16 Folder 11
Joe Hill IWW Song Writer
1979
Box 16 Folder 10
IWW songs
1990
Box 16 Folder 3
Convention Minutes
1993-1994
Box 16 Folder 2
Preamble and Constitution (Photocopies)
Undated
Box 16 Folder 1
Constitutions
1946-1978
Box 9 Folder 5
IWW Membership, Withdrawal, Clearance Cards
1923
Box 9 Folder 4
Photographs
Undated
Box 9 Folder 1
IWW Stickerettes
1910-1920
Box 7 Folder 5
IWW Newspapers and Bulletins
1920-1931
Series II. Political Prisoner Defense Committees
Box 1 Folder 11
Political Prisoners Handbills and Event Flyers
1920-1933
Box 2 Folder 1
Centralia Publicity Committee
1919-1927
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 2
Emergency Joint Branch, Portland
1925
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 3
Everett Prisoners' Defense Committee - Attack on IWW
1916
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 4
General Defense Committee
1918-1933
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 5
General Defense Committee, California
1922-1925
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 6
General Defense Committee, California, California Branch, Bulletin
1923-1924
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 7
General Defense Committee, California Branch, Financial Reports
1922-1924
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 8
General Defense Committee, Defense News Service
1922-1925
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 9
General Defense Committee, Northwest Branch
1923
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 10
Joint Amnesty Committee - memos on political prisoners
1923
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 11
Mesabi Iron Range Strike, Release and Defense Committee Leaflet
1916
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 12
Minnesota Iron Range Strikers Defense Committee Leaflet
1916
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 13
New York Defense Committee
1919
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 14
Northwest District Defense Committee
1919
Scope and Contents
Original
Box 2 Folder 15
Workers Prison Relief Committee Introduction on Political Prisoners
1916
Box 6 Folder 1
American Civil Liberties Union, Correspondence 1924, "Legal History of Free Speech in the U.S.", 1925, 5 pages - report
1924-1925
Box 6 Folder 2-3
Appeal, Petition, Indictments, Statement to U.S. Attorney General, Court Cases
1917-1923
Box 6 Folder 4
Documentation Concerning Prisoners
1922-1925
Series III. Local Documents
Box 4 Folder 1
Philadelphia Local 8, 1920, Marine Transport Workers Bulletin
1920
Box 4 Folder 2
New York City, Local 100, Marine Transport Workers Leaflet
1921
Scope and Contents
"Why We Lost the Last Strike and How We Can Win the Next One"
Box 4 Folder 3
New York City, Local 103, Workers International Industrial Union Leaflet
1920
Scope and Contents
"Assaulting the Workers' Political Rights"
Box 4 Folder 4
Midwest Local 110, Agricultural Workers, Minutes
1921-1925
Scope and Contents
Includes 1921 by-laws and rules of order of Local 110.
Box 4 Folder 5
Midwest Local 110, Agricultural Workers Bulletins and Financial Statements
1920-1936, 1921-1925
Box 4 Folder 6
Spokane, Washington Local 120, Lumber Workers, Bulletins, Minutes, Leaflets
1924-1944, 1925
Box 4 Folder 7
Montana Locals 210-220, Metal and Coal Workers, Bulletin
1923
Scope and Contents
September 1, 1923
Box 4 Folder 8
California Local 230, Oil Workers Financial Statements
1923-1924
Scope and Contents
Also includes resolution discussing charges against Tom Doyle, Joe Fisher, James Morris, Vern Smith, and FJ Gallagher for material published in the Pioneer and calling for charges, trial, and potential expulsion from the IWW.
Box 4 Folder 9
Chicago Local 300, Metal and Machinery, Leaflets, form letter
1923
Box 4 Folder 10
Chicago Local 310, General Construction Workers Bulletin
1925
Box 4 Folder 11
Chicago Local 310, General Construction Workers Bulletin
1925
Box 4 Folder 12
Chicago Local 310, General Construction Workers Bulletin
1925
Box 4 Folder 13
Local 330, Building Construction Workers
1924
Box 5 Folder 1
Chicago Local 400, Agricultural Workers, Bulletin
1918-1919
Box 5 Folder 2
Local 410, Textile Workers, Leaflets
1921
Box 5 Folder 3
Chicago Local 440, Metal and Machinery Workers, Newsletters, Bulletins, Minutes
1922-1945
Box 5 Folder 4
Chicago Local 440, Metal and Machinery Workers, Newsletter
1945
Box 5 Folder 5
Local 450, Oil Workers pamphlets
Undated
Scope and Contents
Spanish
Scope and Contents
Contains "Oil Field Workers Unite!" leaflet and pamphlet in Spanish titled "La Desocupacion y la Maquinaria" by J.A. MacDonald.
Box 5 Folder 6
Washington Local 500, Lumber Workers, Bulletin, Financial Statement
1918
Box 5 Folder 7
New York Local 510, Marine Transport, Leaflets, Bulletin, Minutes
1923
Box 5 Folder 8
Chicago Local 520, Railroad Workers, Bulletin, Minutes
1923-1945
Mapcase Folder 19
Railroad Workers Bulletin, RRWIU No. 520 of IWW
1925-02-15
Scope and Contents
No. 1
Box 5 Folder 9
Detroit Local 573, construction Workers, Bulletin, Leaflet, Minutes
1918-1920
Box 5 Folder 10
Chicago Local 600, Railroad Workers, Bulletin
1918
Scope and Contents
December 10, 1918
Box 5 Folder 11
Butte, Montana Local 800, Metal, Mine workers, By-laws, financial statements, leaflets
1918-1920
Box 5 Folder 12
New York Local 1000 Textile Workers, Leaflets, Minutes
1920
Box 5 Folder 13
Miscellaneous Local Documents
1923
Series IV. General Organization Bulletins
Box 16 Folder 4
General Organization Bulletin
1931-1979
Box 16 Folder 5
General Organization Bulletin
1991-1993
Box 16 Folder 6
General Organization Bulletin
1994
Box 16 Folder 7
General Organization Bulletin
1995-1997
Box 16 Folder 8
General Organization Bulletin
1998-1999
Box 1 Folder 8
General Organization Bulletin
1953
Box 1 Folder 7
General Organization Bulletin
1951-1952
Box 3 Folder 6
General Organization Bulletin
1949-1950
Box 3 Folder 5
General Organization Bulletin
1948
Box 3 Folder 4
General Organization Bulletin
1946-1947
Box 3 Folder 3
General Organization Bulletin
1943-1945
Box 3 Folder 2
General Office Bulletin, Special
1924
Box 3 Folder 1
General Office Bulletin
1923-1924
Series V. Publications
Box 10 Folder 1
American Civil Liberties Union. "The Issues in the Centralia Murder Trial." New York, 1920. 8 pages.
1920
Box 10 Folder 2
American Civil Liberties Union. "Justice to the I.W.W." New York, 1920. 7 pages.
1920
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 3
American Civil Liberties Union. "A Strike is Criminal Syndicalism - In California." New York, 1931. 12 pages
1931
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 4
American Civil Liberties Union. "The Truth about I.W.W. Prisoners." New York, 1922
1922
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies.
Box 10 Folder 5
Barnett, Eugene. "A Souvenir from the Washington State Penitentiary." no publisher, no date, 22 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 6
Brissenden, Paul F. "Justice and the I.W.W." 31 pages.
1920-1922
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 6
Brissenden, Paul F. "Justice and the I.W.W." 31 pages
Undated
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 10 Folder 6
Brissenden, Paul F. "Justice and the I.W.W." 31 pages
1920
Scope and Contents
Second edition
Box 10 Folder 6
Brissenden, Paul F. "Justice and the I.W.W." 31 pages
1922
Box 10 Folder 7
Bruere, Robert W. "Following the Trial of the I.W.W." Reprinted from the New York Evening Post, 1918. 39 pages
1918
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies.
Box 10 Folder 8
Bureau of Industrial Research. "Agriculture: The World's Basic Industry and Its Workers." Chicago, Illinois no date. 64 pages.
1920
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 10 Folder 9
Cannon, James P. "The I.W.W.: The Great Anticipation." New York: Pioneer Publishing, 1956. 44 pages
1956
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 10
Chaplin, Ralph. "The Centralia Conspiracy: Murder or Self Defense." Chicago: I.W.W.
1919
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 10 Folder 11
Chapman, C.H. "Lessons in Economics: A Textbook for Workers." Chicago: I.W.W. Educational Bureau, no date 37 pages
1922
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 10 Folder 12
Chumley, L.S. "Hotel, Restaurant, and Domestic Workers." no date. 40 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 13
Cole, James Kelly. "Revolutionary Writings." Chicago, I.W.W., no date. 85 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 14
Costello, E.J. "The Shame That is Kentucky's: The Story of the Harlan Mine War." 1932. 27 pages.
1932
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 15
DeLeon, Daniel. "The Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World." Glasgow, Scotland: Socialist Labour Press, 1905. 31 pages.
1905
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 10 Folder 16
DeLeon, Daniel. "The Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World." Address delivered at Union Temple, Minneapolis, July 10, 1905. New York: Labor News Company, 50 pages.
1905-07-10
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 10 Folder 17
DeLeon, Daniel and Eugene Debs. "Industrial Unionism." New York: New York Labor News Company. 10 pages.
1905-1919
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 17
DeLeon, Daniel and Eugene Debs. "Industrial Unionism." New York: New York Labor News Company. 10 pages.
1905
Box 10 Folder 17
DeLeon, Daniel and Eugene Debs. "Industrial Unionism." New York: New York Labor News Company. 10 pages.
1919
Box 10 Folder 18
"Do We Need More Sedition Laws?" New York: American civil Liberties Union, 1920. 22 pages.
1920
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 19
Duff, Harvey. "The Silent Defenders, Courts and Capitalism in California." Chicago, I.W.W. no date. 112 pages
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 10 Folder 20
Dunn, William F. "The Crime of Centralia." Butte: 1919, 16 pages.
1919
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 21
Ebert, Justus. "The I.W.W. in Theory and Practice." 2nd and 3rd edition, Chicago: I.W.W., 124 pages
1920
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 21
Ebert, Justus. "The I.W.W. in Theory and Practice." 2nd and 3rd edition, Chicago: I.W.W., 124 pages
1920
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 10 Folder 21
Ebert, Justus. "The I.W.W. in Theory and Practice." 2nd and 3rd edition, Chicago: I.W.W., 124 pages
Undated
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 10 Folder 22
Brissenden, Paul. "The Launching of the Industrial Workers of the World." Berkley, University of California Press, University of California Publications in Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 1-82.
1913-11-25
Box 10 Folder 23
Ebert, Justus. "The Trial of a New Society." Cleveland, I.W.W., no date. 117 page manuscripts
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 10 Folder 24
What is the IWW? Preamble
1922
Scope and Contents
First, second (2 copies), and third printing.
Box 11 Folder 1
Council of the Churches of Christ in America. "The Centralia Case: A Joint Report on the Armistice Day Tragedy at Centralia." Washington, November 11, 1919. New York, 1930. 48 pages.
1930
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 11 Folder 2
"The Fight for Free Speech." New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1921. 31 pages.
1921
Format: Publication
Box 11 Folder 3
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley. "Sabotage." Cleveland: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, April 1915. 31 pages.
1915
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
April 1915
Box 11 Folder 4
George, Harrison. "The I.W.W. Trial." Chicago: I.W.W., 1918. 208 pages.
1918
Format: Publication
Box 11 Folder 5
George, Harrison. "Is Freedom Dead?" Chicago: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, 1918. 24 pages.
1918
Format: Publication
Box 11 Folder 6
Hanson, Nils. H. "The Onward Sweep of the Machine Process."
1920
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
Bound with Industrial Efficiency and Its Antidote and The Diesel Motor.
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 11 Folder 7
Green, Carhie. "John Neuhaus: Wobbly Folklorist." Illinois, 1960. 217 pages.
1960
Format: Publication
Box 11 Folder 8
I.W.W. "The History of the I.W.W.: A Discussion of Its Main Features." Chicago: I.W.W., no date, 31 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 11 Folder 9
I.W.W. "The General Strike for Industrial Freedom."
1972
Scope and Contents
6 copies
Box 11 Folder 10
Haywood, William D. "Speech of Wm. D. Haywood on the Case of Ettor and Giovannitti." Lawrence, Massachusetts: Ettor-Giovannitti Defense Committee, 1912. 16 pages.
1912
Format: Publication
Box 11 Folder 11
Gustave Herve. "Patriotism and the Worker." Chicago: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, 1912. 32 pages.
1912
Format: Publication
Box 11 Folder 12
I.W.W. "Craft Unionism - Why It Fails." Chicago: I.W.W. 1922. 46 pages.
1922
Format: Publication
Box 11 Folder 13
I.W.W. "Dollars and Steel Against Humanity: Iron Ore Miners Strike." Cleveland, I.W.W., 1916, 12 pages.
1916
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 11 Folder 14
I.W.W. "An Economic Interpretation of the Job." Chicago, 1923. 61 pages.
1923
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 11 Folder 15
I.W.W. "Ettor and Giovannitti Before the Jury of Salem, Massachusetts, November 23, 1912." Chicago: I.W.W. 1912. 80 pages.
1912
Format: Publication
Box 11 Folder 16
I.W.W. "Evidence and Cross-Examination of J.T. (Red) Doran in the Case of the U.S.A. vs. Wm. D. Haywood et al." no publisher, 1918. 151 pages.
1918
Format: Publication
Box 11 Folder 17
I.W.W. "The General Strike for Industrial Freedom." Chicago, 1933. 48 pages.
1933
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 11 Folder 18
I.W.W. "The General Strike for Industrial Freedom." Chicago, 1946. 48 pages.
1946
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
6 copies
Box 11 Folder 19
I.W.W. "Gompers vs. Haywood." Chicago, no date, 3 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 11 Folder 20
I.W.W. "The Greatest Thing on Earth." Chicago: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, no date, 31 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 11 Folder 21
I.W.W. "The History of the I.W.W." Chicago, no date. 31 pages.
1923
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 12 Folder 1
I.W.W. "Immediate Demands of the I.W.W." Chicago, no date, 14 pages
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 2
I.W.W. "The I.W.W. As Reorganized Under the Emergency Program: The Facts About the Split with Brief Review of Past History and Outline of the Present Situation." Chicago: I.W.W., 1925. 11 pages.
1925
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 12 Folder 3
I.W.W. "The I.W.W. In Theory and Practice." 5th edition. Chicago: I.W.W. 1937. 124 pages.
1937
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
8 copies
Box 12 Folder 4
I.W.W. "The I.W.W.: What It Is and What It Is Not." Chicago: I.W.W., no date, 39 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 12 Folder 5
I.W.W. "Industry and Fraternity." Address by Sidney Strong. Chicago, I.W.W., 1917. 14 pages.
1917
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
Missing
Box 12 Folder 6
I.W.W. "The Lumber Industry and Its Workers." Chicago: I.W.W., no date. 91 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 7
I.W.W. "More Power To You." Chicago: I.W.W., no date, 43 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 8
I.W.W. "More Truth About the I.W.W." Chicago: I.W.W., 1919. 47 pages.
1919
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 9
I.W.W. "On the Firing Line." Spokane, Washington: The Industrial Workers, 1912. 46 pages
1912
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 10
I.W.W. "One Big Union." Chicago: I.W.W., no date, 26 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 11
I.W.W. "One Big Union of ALL the Workers: The I.W.W." Chicago, no date, 31 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 12
I.W.W. "One Big Union of All the Workers; I.W.W." Chicago, 1933. 16 pages.
1933
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 13
I.W.W. "Industrial Unionism: Real and Imitation."
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 14
I.W.W. "One Big Union of the I.W.W." Chicago: 4th edition, 1944. 32 pages.
1944
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
6 copies
Box 12 Folder 15
I.W.W. "Opening Statement of George F. Vanderveer in the Case of the U.S.A. vs. William D. Haywood, et al." Chicago: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, 1918. 102 pages.
1918
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 12 Folder 16
I.W.W. "The Pageant of the Paterson Strike Performed by the Strikers Themselves." New York: The Success Press, 1913. 31 pages.
1913
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 17
I.W.W. "A Plain Statement of Its Structures and Principles." Chicago: I.W.W. 1934, 40 pages.
1934
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 18
I.W.W. "Que es la I.W.W.?" Una Sencilla Exposicion de Sus Principios, Objetos y Metodos." Chicago: I.W.W., no date. 32 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
Spanish
Box 12 Folder 19
I.W.W. "The Revolutionary I.W.W." Chicago: I.W.W., no date. 15 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 20
I.W.W. "The Silent Defense. A Story of the Remarkable Trial of Members of the Industrial Workers of the World held at Sacramento, Calif." Chicago: I.W.W., no date, 47 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 12 Folder 21
I.W.W. "The IWW Program: Education, Organization, Emancipation."
Undated
Box 13 Folder 1
I.W.W. "The Truth About the I.W.W." Chicago, no date. 16 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 13 Folder 2
I.W.W. "Twenty Five Years of Industrial Unionism." Chicago: I.W.W., 1930. 79 pages
1930
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 13 Folder 3
I.W.W. "Unemployment and the Machine." Chicago: 1934. 48 pages
1934
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
8 copies
Box 13 Folder 4
I.W.W. "What is the I.W.W.? A Candid Statement of Its Principles, Objects and Methods." Chicago: I.W.W., no date. 28 pages. (3rd revised edition and 2nd edition)
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
5 copies
Box 13 Folder 5
I.W.W. Building Construction Workers. "A Handbook of the Industry." Chicago: I.W.W., 1923. 38 pages.
1923
Format: Publication
Box 13 Folder 6
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. "California the Beautiful and Damned." Chicago: I.W.W. General Defense Committee, no date. 31 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 13 Folder 7
I.W.W. Chicago Branch Number 1, General Recruiting Union. "Where Do We Go From Here?" Chicago, I.W.W., no date. 7 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 13 Folder 8
I.W.W. Coal Miners of the World. "Coal Mines and Coal Miners." I.W.W. Education Bureau, 1922. 108 pages.
1922
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 13 Folder 9
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. "Eight Men Buried Alive: The Centralia Case Calls to Every Decent Man and Woman in the State of Washington to Act Quickly." Chicago: I.W.W. General Defense Committee, 1924. 31 pages.
1924
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
4 copies
Box 13 Folder 10
I.W.W. Educational Bureau. "Historical Catechism of American Unionism." Chicago: I.W.W. Educational Bureau, 1923. 95 pages.
1923
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 13 Folder 11
I.W.W. General Construction Workers. "General Construction Workers - Builders of America." Chicago: I.W.W. General Construction Workers, 1922. 22 pages.
1922
Format: Publication
Box 13 Folder 12
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. "An Open Letter to President Harding from 52 Members of the I.W.W. In Leavenworth Penitentiary Who Refuse to Apply For Individual Clemency." Chicago: I.W.W. General Defense Committee, 1922. 28 pages.
1922
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
5 copies
Box 14 Folder 1
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. "Evidence and Cross-Examination of J.T. (Red) Doran in the Case of the U.S.A. vs. Wm. D. Haywood et al." Chicago: I.W.W. General Defense Committee, 1918. 151 pages.
1918
Format: Publication
Box 14 Folder 2
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. "Evidence and Cross-Examination of William D. Haywood in the Case of the U.S.A. vs. Haywood, et al." Chicago: General Defense Committee, no date. 312 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 14 Folder 3
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. "Public Opinion, Where Does it Stand on the Question of Amnesty of Political Prisoners?" Chicago: I.W.W. General Defense Committee, 1923. 32 pages.
1923
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 14 Folder 4
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. "These are the Facts!" Chicago: General Defense Committee, no date. 16 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 14 Folder 5
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. "While Mr. Harding Reviews the Cases of the Politicals, Some Comment for the American People to Think About." Chicago: I.W.W. General Defense Committee, no date. 8 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 14 Folder 6
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. "Will You Help Now?" Chicago: I.W.W. General Defense Committee, 1912. 1 page.
1912
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 14 Folder 7
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. California Branch. "An Open Letter from the I.W.W. to the State's Attorneys of California." San Francisco: General Defense Committee, 1924. 14 pages.
1924
Format: Publication
Box 14 Folder 8
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. California Branch. "To the Beasts - in California as in Ancient Rome." I.W.W. General Defense Committee, 1924. 32 pages.
1924
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 14 Folder 9
I.W.W. General Recruiting Union. "Direct Action." Chicago, 1916? 20 pages
1916
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
1916?
Box 14 Folder 10
I.W.W. New York Defense Committee. "The Persecution of the Radical Labor Movement in the U.S." New York, 1919. 8 pages.
1919
Format: Publication
Box 14 Folder 11
I.W.W. Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union Number 510. "Exposed." Chicago: I.W.W., 28 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 14 Folder 12
I.W.W. Railroad Workers Industrial Union. "A Union For All Railroad Workers." Chicago: I.W.W. 1948-1949 32 pages.
1948-1949
Scope and Contents
4 copies
Box 14 Folder 13
I.W.W. Seattle Joint Branches. "The I.W.W." Seattle, no date. 8 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 14 Folder 14
"'Jersey Justice' at Work: First Decision on the Advocacy of Sabotage in the United States Courts." New York, 1913. 12 pages.
1913
Format: Publication
Box 14 Folder 15
"The 'Knights of Liberty' Mob and the I.W.W. Prisoners at Tulsa, Oklahoma." New York: National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1918. 16 pages.
1918
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 14 Folder 16
Koettgen, Ewald. "One Big Union in the Textile Industry." Cleveland: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, no date. 14 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 14 Folder 17
Korinsky, Philip. "Industrial Unionism and Revolution." New York: The Modern Press, no date. 47 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 14 Folder 18
"Labor Scrapbook, the New Ear, the I.W.W. Trial, A Second Runnymede." Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, no date. 31 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 14 Folder 19
Lewis, Austin. "Proletarian and Petit-Bourgeois." Chicago: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, no date. 47 pages. And Russell, Charles Edward. "What Comes of Playing the Game." 13 pages and Nearing, Scott. "Those Who Own and Those Who Work." 14 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 14 Folder 20
MacDonald, J.A. "Unemployment and the Machine." Chicago: I.W.W. 1925. 94 pages and 1934 edition 45 pages.
1925-1934
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 14 Folder 21
Magnes, Judah L. "Amnesty for Political Prisoners." New York: National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1919. 23 pages.
1919
Format: Publication
Box 14 Folder 22
Marcy, Mary E. "Shop Talks on Economics." Chicago: I.W.W., 1921. 37 pages.
1921
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 14 Folder 23
Monoldi, Peo. "Why Building Workers Must Organize in the One Big Union." Chicago, no date. 16 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 14 Folder 24
National Civil Liberties Bureau. "Ol' Rags An' Bottles." New York: National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1919. 7 pages.
1919
Format: Publication
Box 14 Folder 25
National Civil Liberties Bureau. "The Truth About the I.W.W.: Facts In Relations to the Trial at Chicago by Competent Industrial Investigators and Noted Economists." New York, 1918. 55 pages.
1918
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
5 copies
Box 14 Folder 26
"Strike Strategy."
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
Author: National Rank and File Movement.
Format: Publication
Language: English.
Box 15 Folder 1
One Big Union Club. "History of '400' A.W.O. The One Big Union Idea In Action." New York: 1939. 23 pages.
1939
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 15 Folder 2
One Big Union Club. "Why One Big Union?" New York, 1936. 10 pages.
1936
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 15 Folder 3
Perry, Grover H. "The Revolutionary I.W.W." Cleveland: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, 1916. 11 pages. And "How Scabs Are Bred." 4 pages. And Williams, B.H. "The Constructive Program of the I.W.W." 9 pages.
1916
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 15 Folder 4
"The Right to His Day in Court: Shall Lawyers Defend Those Deemed to be Adversaries of Our Government." New York: National Civil Liberties Bureau, 1919. 11 pages.
1919
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 5
IWW Pamphlets, Foreign Languages.
1920-1933
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
missing
Box 15 Folder 6
Troutmann, W.E. "Why Strikes Are Lost; How to Win." Chicago: IWW.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 7
St. John Vincent. "Industrial Unionism and the I.W.W." New Castle, Pennsylvania: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, no date. 16 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 8
St. John, Vincent. "The I.W.W.: Its History, Structure, and Methods." New Castle, Pennsylvania: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, 1911. 23 pages. (Also 1917 - 32 pages; 1919 - 47 pages.)
1911-1919
Scope and Contents
1911, 1917, 1919
Box 15 Folder 9
Sinclair, Upton. "Letters to Judd, An American Workingman." Gerard, Kansas, 1949. 64 pages.
1949
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 10
Slim, T-Bone. "Starving Amidst Too Much." Chicago: I.W.W. Foodstuff Workers, 38 pages.
1933
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 11
Smith, Walker C. "Their Court and Our Class." Seattle, Washington. 16 pages.
1917
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 12
Smith, Walker C. "Was It Murder?" I.W.W. Centralia Committee, 1919. 47 pages.
1919
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
4 copies
Box 15 Folder 13
Woodcock, George. "New Life to the Land." London: Freedom Press.
1942-08
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 14
Solow, Herbert. "Union Smashing In Sacramento." New York: National Sacramento Appeal Committee, 1935. 31 pages.
1935
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 15
Tamiment Institute Library. Library Bulletin. Number 25. "The State of Idaho vs. William D. Haywood," January-February 1960. New York, 1960. 18 page mimeo.
1960
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 16
Tompkins, George R. "Truth About Butte: A Little History for Thoughtful People." Butte, Montana: 1917. 32 pages
1917
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 17
Trautmann, William E. "Handbook of Industrial Unionism and analysis of the Preamble by A.S. Edwards." Chicago: I.W.W., no date. (2 editions) 32 pages and 34 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 18
Trautman, William E. "One Big Union: An Outline of a Possible Industrial Organization of the Working Class, with Chart." Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, no date. 31 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 19
Trautmann, William E. "One Great Union." Detroit: I.W.W., Literature and Education Bureau, no date. 31 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 20
"The Truth About the I.W.W. Prisoners." New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1922. 47 pages.
1922
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 21
Varney, Harold Lord. "Industrial Communism - The I.W.W." no publisher, no date. 24 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 15 Folder 22
Varney, Harold Lord. "The One Big Union - As It Is." no publisher, no date. 16 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 23
Walklin, Frank. "A Fair Trial? A Record of the Prejudice and Passion that Dominated the Legal Profession and the Press in the Famous Centralia Labor Case." no publisher, 1920. 15 pages.
1920
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 24
"The War on the Colorado Miners." New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1928. 12 pages.
1928
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 25
Williams, B.H. "Eleven Blind Leaders or 'Practical Socialism' and 'Revolutionary Tactics'." New Castle, Pennsylvania: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, 1910. 29 pages.
1910
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 15 Folder 26
Thoreau. "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience." London: Peace News.
1963
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
Introduction by Gene Sharp.
Box 15 Folder 27
Williams, George. "The First Congress of the Red Trade Union International at Moscow, 1921." Chicago: I.W.W., no date. 60 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 28
Woodruff, Abner E. "The Advancing Proletariat: A Study of the Movement of the Working Class from Wage Slavery to Freedom." Cleveland: I.W.W. Publishing Bureau, 1914 and 1919. 32 pages.
1914-1919
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 15 Folder 29
Woodruff, Abner E. "The Evolution of Industrial Democracy." Chicago: I.W.W., no date. 45 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Scope and Contents
3 copies
Box 15 Folder 30
"Workers of the World Unite!" Chicago, no date. 36 pages.
Undated
Format: Publication
Box 15 Folder 31
Thompson, Fred. "World Labor Needs a Union." Chicago: IWW
1969
Mapcase Folder 19
New Unionist newspaper
1931-05-23
Scope and Contents
Vol. 2n, No. 36
Mapcase Folder 19
Industrial Worker newspaper
1948-1971
Scope and Contents
Contains: Vol. 24, No. 33, W.N. 664 (1948 November 13), Vol. 26, W.N. 972 (1954 October 1), Vol. 67, No. 5 W.N. 1286 (1970 May), Vol. 68, No.1, W.N. 1294 (1971 January), Vol. 68, No. 4, W.N. 1297 (1971 April)
Box 17 Folder 7
Unions and Racism
1980
Box 17 Folder 6
A Union?
1976
Box 17 Folder 5
The Unemployed and the IWW
undated
Box 17 Folder 4
A Metal Worker's Guide: Health and Safety On the Job
1976
Box 17 Folder 3
One Big Union for Workers
1957
Box 17 Folder 2
Leaflets
1990-1997
Box 17 Folder 1
Leaflets
1945-1967
Box 16
IWW pamphlet
Undated
Box 17 Folder 8
Workers' Guide to Union Organizing
1994
Box 9 Folder 3
Non-IWW Publications
1912-1927
Box 7 Folder 1
Leaflets
1919-1969
Series VI. Clippings
Box 18
Clippings scrapbook
1923
Box 8 Folder 1
Clippings
1911-1912
Scope and Contents
Topics include IWW organizing in Hawaii, Autralia, and lumberjacks.
Box 8 Folder 2-3
Clippings
1912-1913
Scope and Contents
Topics include Lawrence, MA textile workers strikes, Ford auto workers, and lumberjacks.
Box 8 Folder 4
Clippings
1914
Scope and Contents
Topics include the Wheatland hop riots, Kansas, North Dakota, Australia, Ford Motor Co, migrant labor, and textile locals.
Box 8 Folder 5
Clippings
1915
Scope and Contents
Topics include Elizabeth Gurley Flynn trial in Paterson, NJ, Wheatland hop riot trial, direct action and other IWW tactics, the Socialist Labor Party (SLP), Australia, Sioux City, Colorado, and unemployment.
Box 8 Folder 6
Clippings
1911-1916
Box 8 Folder 7
Clippings
1916
Box 8 Folder 8
Clippings
Box 9 Folder 6
Clippings
1912-1923
Box 9 Folder 7
Clippings
1918
Box 9 Folder 8
Clippings
1918-1923
Box 9 Folder 9
Clippings
1917-1921
Box 9 Folder 10
Clippings, Voice of the People and Weekly People
1913
Box 7 Folder 3
Newspapers Clippings
1917-1925
Scope and Contents
Many clippings concern the trial of Bill Haywood and his subsequent exile to Russia.
Box 7 Folder 4
Newspaper Clippings
1918-1923
Box 7 Folder 6
Newspaper Clippings
1907-1946
Box 9 Folder 2
Clippings
1913-1927