Industrial Workers of the World collection, 1916-1922
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1475
- Bib ID:
- 7072761 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 0.5 linear feet (1 box and 1 oversize poster)
- Language(s):
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English
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- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
A small collection of poems, broadsides, fliers, publications, manuscripts, and letters.
Arrangement
Not organized.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Industrial Worker of the World Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2008-2009-M105: Source of acquisition--[source of acquisition]. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--11/30/2002.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Papers processed PTL 8/8/2012.
Revision Description
2012-08-09 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Biographical / Historical
The Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), also known as the "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905.
Subject Headings
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Box 1 Folder 1
"International Solidarity" Broadside in Russian and English, 1917
Box 1 Folder 2
"The Can Opener" Volume 1, No. 3 October 28, 1917. Manuscript in pencil with illustrations 8 pages. Fragile
Box 1 Folder 3
Photograph of I.W.W. Headquarters "Raided November 15, 1919"
Box 1 Folder 4
"Co-Operative Corridors Jail Jazzpaper" Volume 1, No. 5 April 13, 1918. Manuscript in pencil with illustrations 16 pages. Fragile
Box 1 Folder 5
"The Can Opener" Volume 1, No. 6 November, 1917. Manuscript in pencil with illustrations 10 pages. Fragile
Box 1 Folder 6
"Industrial Union Manifesto" [recto] and "One Big Union: The Structure of the Industrial System" [verso, circular chart]. William D. Haywood, General Secretary Treasured, 1001 West Madison Street, Chicago, Ill (folded), 1001
Box 1 Folder 7
Circular letter from the General Defense Committee re. the pamphlet "Shall Freedom Die", undated 1p., undated
Box 1 Folder 8
Unionismo Industrial por Vincent St. John Traduccion de A.V.A. Pamphlet, 16 p annotated
Box 1 Folder 9
Why One Big Union Club? Flyer, October, 1935 Fragile, brittle, October, 1935
Box 1 Folder 10
Card "Open the Doors of Freedom" Poem by William Goodhue
Box 1 Folder 11
Card: "A Call to Sinn Feiners" Poem by Joe Kennedy
Box 1 Folder 12
Industrial Workers of the World Tenth Convention Ball, Chicago November 25, 1916 Advertising pamphlet, 16p.
Box 1 Folder 13
The Will of the People Says "Let Them Go Free!" Pamphlet 4p.
Box 1 Folder 14
To the Public. And Particularly the Working Man and Women of this Vicinity Flyer, broadside.
Box 1 Folder 15
"Monster Protest Meeting Against the Hanging of Tom Mooney", March24, 1918. Flyer
Box 1 Folder 16
"The Producer's Age" A Weekly Magazine for Workers, July 20, 1921. Broadside
Box 1 Folder 17
I.W.W.. General Defense Committee. Flyer, signed L.S. Chumley, undated
Box 1 Folder 18
Broadside regarding "The Producers", June 5, 1921.
Box 1 Folder 19
The Preacher and the Slave and My Wandering Boy. Printed songs
Box 1 Folder 20
Fill the Jails Pamphlet by Better America Federation of California, 1921
Box 1 Folder 21
The One Big Union. Membership cards (2), signed by Jesse Kennedy
Box 1 Folder 22
I.W.W. logo on card
Box 1 Folder 23
High-Brow Stuff vs. The Dinner Pail . Pamphlet, 8p.
Box 1 Folder 24
"The Douglas Co. Jail Jinx" Volume I, No 1. Manuscript (extremely fragile!)
Box 1 Folder 25
Cartoon of mail carrier bring large sack of mail to L.C. Chumley. Pencil artwork on envelope
Box 1 Folder 26
"A Detective" by William Haywood. On post-card
Box 1 Folder 27
Printing Job Ticket, 10/21/26
Box 1 Folder 28
Envelope labeled "Secret Prison Newspaper"
Box 1 Folder 29
"Convention Call for the One Big Union", June 29, 1920. Broadside
Box 1 Folder 30
"Attention Workers!" Broadside The Bank of North Dakota, February1, 1921
Box 1 Folder 31
"International Position of the I.W.W." June 1, 1922. Broadside.
Box 1 Folder 32
"Unions Fight for the Right to Strike; "What Do You Think of This?": "The I.W.W. Trial"; "You and I". Leaflets
Box 1 Folder 33
"To Member of the I.W.W.": Leaflet; "Going to the Harvers?". Leaflet No 1; "Stop the Split in the I.W.W." Leaflet No 2;
Box 1 Folder 33
"To All Marine Transport Workers" Broadside
Box 1 Folder 33
The One Big Union by Forrest Edwards. Pamphlet
Box 1 Folder 33
Does the I.W.W. Preach Violence? Broadside
Box 1 Folder 33
Do You Want Mob Rule? Pamphlet
Box 1 Folder 33
Helen Keller Scores I.W.W. Persecutions. Pamphlet
Box 1 Folder 33
The Unskilled Labor Problem. Broadside
Box 1 Folder 33
Smash the I.W.W. Pamphlet
The One Big Union of Mine Workers by A.V. Azuara.
Box 1 Folder 33
Oil Field Workers Unite. Pamphlet
Box 1 Folder 33
Playing with Dynamite. Editorial, November 16, 1927
Box 1 Folder 33
Metal Workers of America! Unite!. Leaflet
Box 1 Folder 33
I.W.W. General Defense Committee. Broadside, December 31, 1917
Box 1 Folder 33
Food Those Who Prepare and Serve it. Leaflet
Box 1 Folder 34
L.S. Chumley correspondence, 1918-1919 (21 items), 1918-1919
Box 1 Folder 35
"Workers are You Aware of the Fact that the Manufacturers Association is Scheming to Cut Down Your Wages?" Typesd mss (carbon) 4p.
Box 1 Folder 36
"Bulletin" and "Manifesto", undated
Box 1 Folder 37
"Report on Party Fractions" Manuscript with form
Box 1 Folder 38
"This international strike . . ." Holograph, fragile!
Box 1 Folder 39
"Flare Up Within this Marine Transport Workers IU of the IWW"
Box 1 Folder 40
Letters to Joe Fisher, 1924
Box 1 Folder 41
"To the American People: Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice", November 1920 (pamphlet), November 1920
Box 1 Folder 42
"Report to General Executive Board", 1920 (pamphlet), 1920
Box 1 Folder 43
I.W.W. blank stationary
Box 1 Folder 44
"Manifesto of Socialist Industrial Unionism" (broadside)
Box 1 Folder 45
"Publications of the American Russian Institute, Inc." January 15, 1938 (list), January 15, 1938
Box 1 Folder 46
"Dialectical Materialism: A Series of Ten Lectures by Charles Chang" Types manuscript.
Box 1 Folder 47
T-bone Slim letter to L.S. Chumley, February13, 1922
Box 1 Folder 48
L.S. Chumley. "Statement on trial of 115 members and sympathizers of the I.W.W. in Chicago"
Box 1 Folder 49
"Is It Reason To Strike?" Broadside by General Defense Committee.
Box 1 Folder 50
Minutes of N.Y.R.U. meeting of April 29, 1919 signed "Harry"., April 29, 1919
Poems:
Box 1 Folder 51
A. Barr poem
Box 1 Folder 52
A.L. T'Rego poem
Box 1 Folder 53
Benjamin Richardson poem
Box 1 Folder 54
Covington Ami poems
Box 1 Folder 55
D.S. Dietz poem
Box 1 Folder 56
Donald M. Crocker poem
Box 1 Folder 57
F.R. Uhde poem
Box 1 Folder 58
Gerald Laury poem
Box 1 Folder 59
Harold Roland Johnson poem
Box 1 Folder 60
Harrison George poem
Box 1 Folder 61
J.H.B. the Rambler
Box 1 Folder 62
J. William Schweitzer poem
Box 1 Folder 63
Lawrence Tully poem
Box 1 Folder 64
Lew Maisel poem
Box 1 Folder 65
Los Angeles Jack poem
Box 1 Folder 66
Mor Goldsmith poem
Box 1 Folder 67
Podmuck Red poem
Box 1 Folder 68
Raymond Corder poem
Box 1 Folder 69
Red Pacific poem
Box 1 Folder 70
Richard Brazier poem
Box 1 Folder 71
Sigismund poems
Box 1 Folder 72
W. Clifford poem
Box 1 Folder 73
Wigand Allen poem
Box 1 Folder 74
Poems by unidentified author
Box 1 Folder 75
Miscellaneous envelopes (3)
Mapcase 15-K-6
Large W.W.I Poster