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(33288) Strikes, Cigar Workers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1913

I.W.W. supporters and striking workers demonstrate during the Pittsburgh cigar strike of 1913. A woman carries a sign that reads: "Mr. Dry Slitz Smoker We are on Strike Are you Wise?" "I.W.W." is written on the sign's handle. Date:&nbs ...

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(46060) Sheet Music, "Songs of Separation"

... 1910s (Industrial Workers of the World, IWW Graphics Materials and Artifacts) ...

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(46059) Sheet Music, "The Advancing Proletaire"

... Illinois. Date:  Undated (IWW Graphics Materials and Artifacts) ...

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Richard Ellington Papers

... as well as other libertarian/anarchists. He joined the IWW in 1955, as a group effort to revive the organization and served on the ... and poetry books, though many of his projects were for the IWW. Through his home office, he typeset many anarchist periodicals, including ...

Abstracts - drice - 09/13/2018 - 10:09 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers

... Gurley Flynn joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) as a high school student in 1906, but left school a year later to dedicate ... speaker, over the next several years she participated in IWW free speech and legal defense fund-raising campaigns and helped organize ...

Abstracts - drice - 07/11/2011 - 14:45 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Paul Hering Papers

... a cutter in the textile industry and an organizer for the IWW. His papers consist of several membership cards and his organizing ...

Abstracts - drice - 06/19/2015 - 16:15 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(4911) Hop pickers, Durst Ranch, Wheatland, California, 1913

... as pickers. When the living conditions and poor wages led IWW activists to call for a strike, the ranch owners called on the sheriff to ... and two lawmen and two migrant workers were killed. The IWW was blamed for the four deaths and the two activist, Richard Ford and ...

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(5834) Hop pickers, Durst Ranch, Wheatland, California, 1913

... as pickers. When the living conditions and poor wages led IWW activists to call for a strike, the ranch owners called on the sheriff to ... and two lawmen and two migrant workers were killed. The IWW was blamed for the four deaths and the two activist, Richard Ford and ...

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Event Announcement: "Re:Collecting Past Radicals and Rebels: The Resonance of Resistance and the Persistence of Injustice," December 9, 2014

... This illustrated presentation will explore the role of IWW rebels Joe Hill and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, not only highlighting the ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 02/20/2015 - 15:14 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Exhibit Announcement: "Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman"

... tell the life story of her grandmother – Socialist, IWW organizer, writer, and activist Matilda (Rabinowitz) Robbins (1887-1963). ... as an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Sent mainly to textile and mill factory strikes, Robbins distinguished ...

Blog entry - drice - 09/20/2019 - 08:10 - 0 comments - 0 attachments