Founded in Chicago in 1905 as a radical answer to the American Federation of Laborís acceptance of capitalism and exclusion of unskilled workers from unions, the I.W.W. became notorious as the only labor organization to oppose American participation in World War I. Collection Documents mostly date from the post-war 1920s, when anti-radical sentiment lead to harassment and prosecution of I.W.W. members.

Titles in this Collection:

Constitutional Government Overthrown in West Virginia By IWW
Cut Down the Hours of Work! By IWW
Education and System. The Basis of Organization By IWW
Eight Men Buried Alive: the Centralia Case Calls to Every Decent Man and Woman in the State of Washington to Act Quickly By IWW
Everett Massacre By Smith, Walker C.
Evolution and the IWW By IWW General Defense Committee. California Branch
Farewell Fellow Worker: Eugene Nelson 1929-1999 By Cortez, Carlos
General Construction Workers, Builders of America By IWW
Giant Industry and the IWW: against the concentrated power of modern big businesses put the concentrated power of workers By IWW
Historical Catechism of American Unionism By IWW
IWW Statement By IWW
Justice and the IWW By Brissenden, Paul Frederick
One Big Union of the IWW By IWW
Persecution of Union Men in California: A Brief Story of Criminal Syndicalism and Petty Persecution By IWW
The Centralia Conspiracy By Chaplin, Ralph
The Centralia conspiracy [Introd. by Eugene Nelson.] By Chaplin, Ralph
The IWW and Political Parties By IWW
The Open Letter to President Harding By IWW
To the Beasts: In California as in Ancient Rome By IWW