John Walsh Papers

Posted July 15th, 2009 by abarker
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Accession Number: 
LP001145
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2 folders

John Walsh was a member of various labor unions, and served as strike committee chairman in the International Longshoreman’s Association, and as an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Mr. Walsh’s papers consist of correspondence between himself and his brother, Joseph Walsh. The letters convey Joseph Walsh’s observations about the Depression and the events leading up to World War II, and describe the working conditions of laborers, particularly that of miners, and the unemployed in California and the Southwestern United States.

Date: 
1919-1936
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