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Box 1

 Container

Contains 58 Results:

Letter from Charles Moyer informing Local Unions of increased levy due to continued support of striking copper miners in Michigan. Bottom portion of letter is copy of telegram from Moyer about assault inflicted upon him and Charles H. Tanner, December 27, 1913

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of materials consists of correspondence, flyers, petitions, and ephemera about the Western Federation of Miners and affiliated local unions. Included is correspondence from WFM Secretary-Treasurer William D. Haywood, detailed letters concerning the Northern Michigan copper miners strike of 1913-1914, pamphlets requesting financial assistance to aid strikers around the country, leaflets listing delinquent and unfair workers, and flyers promoting the eight-hour work day.

Dates: December 27, 1913

Letter from The Illinois State Federation of Labor to All Organized Labor, Friends, and Sympathizers in Illinois, requesting support for the miners in Michigan. Provides information on the Christmas Eve fire that killed eighty children, December 30, 1913

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of materials consists of correspondence, flyers, petitions, and ephemera about the Western Federation of Miners and affiliated local unions. Included is correspondence from WFM Secretary-Treasurer William D. Haywood, detailed letters concerning the Northern Michigan copper miners strike of 1913-1914, pamphlets requesting financial assistance to aid strikers around the country, leaflets listing delinquent and unfair workers, and flyers promoting the eight-hour work day.

Dates: December 30, 1913

Letter from WFM Vice-President C.E. Mahoney and Secretary-Treasurer Ernest Mills, urging union members to contact Congress representatives and pay assessment dues, December 30, 1913

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of materials consists of correspondence, flyers, petitions, and ephemera about the Western Federation of Miners and affiliated local unions. Included is correspondence from WFM Secretary-Treasurer William D. Haywood, detailed letters concerning the Northern Michigan copper miners strike of 1913-1914, pamphlets requesting financial assistance to aid strikers around the country, leaflets listing delinquent and unfair workers, and flyers promoting the eight-hour work day.

Dates: December 30, 1913

Blank copy of WFM Credential Certificate for Twenty-first Convention. Unsigned and Unstamped, 1914

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of materials consists of correspondence, flyers, petitions, and ephemera about the Western Federation of Miners and affiliated local unions. Included is correspondence from WFM Secretary-Treasurer William D. Haywood, detailed letters concerning the Northern Michigan copper miners strike of 1913-1914, pamphlets requesting financial assistance to aid strikers around the country, leaflets listing delinquent and unfair workers, and flyers promoting the eight-hour work day.

Dates: 1914

Letter from WFM Executive Board to Officers and Members of Local Unions about the continued support needed for striking miners in Michigan, March 19, 1914

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of materials consists of correspondence, flyers, petitions, and ephemera about the Western Federation of Miners and affiliated local unions. Included is correspondence from WFM Secretary-Treasurer William D. Haywood, detailed letters concerning the Northern Michigan copper miners strike of 1913-1914, pamphlets requesting financial assistance to aid strikers around the country, leaflets listing delinquent and unfair workers, and flyers promoting the eight-hour work day.

Dates: March 19, 1914

Letter from Chicago Federation of Labor Headquarters to Organized Labor and Friends regarding petition for pardon of Frank M. Ryan and other members of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, April 4, 1914

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of materials consists of correspondence, flyers, petitions, and ephemera about the Western Federation of Miners and affiliated local unions. Included is correspondence from WFM Secretary-Treasurer William D. Haywood, detailed letters concerning the Northern Michigan copper miners strike of 1913-1914, pamphlets requesting financial assistance to aid strikers around the country, leaflets listing delinquent and unfair workers, and flyers promoting the eight-hour work day.

Dates: April 4, 1914

Letter from WFM Executive Board to Members of WFM Local Unions giving an update on the Michigan miners and their decision to end the strike, April 13, 1914

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of materials consists of correspondence, flyers, petitions, and ephemera about the Western Federation of Miners and affiliated local unions. Included is correspondence from WFM Secretary-Treasurer William D. Haywood, detailed letters concerning the Northern Michigan copper miners strike of 1913-1914, pamphlets requesting financial assistance to aid strikers around the country, leaflets listing delinquent and unfair workers, and flyers promoting the eight-hour work day.

Dates: April 13, 1914

Letter from Executive Board of WFM to Local Unions asking for distribution of petitions to be sent to President Wilson asking for pardons for Frank Ryan and other International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers associates, April 14, 1914

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of materials consists of correspondence, flyers, petitions, and ephemera about the Western Federation of Miners and affiliated local unions. Included is correspondence from WFM Secretary-Treasurer William D. Haywood, detailed letters concerning the Northern Michigan copper miners strike of 1913-1914, pamphlets requesting financial assistance to aid strikers around the country, leaflets listing delinquent and unfair workers, and flyers promoting the eight-hour work day.

Dates: April 14, 1914

Petition for the pardon of International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of materials consists of correspondence, flyers, petitions, and ephemera about the Western Federation of Miners and affiliated local unions. Included is correspondence from WFM Secretary-Treasurer William D. Haywood, detailed letters concerning the Northern Michigan copper miners strike of 1913-1914, pamphlets requesting financial assistance to aid strikers around the country, leaflets listing delinquent and unfair workers, and flyers promoting the eight-hour work day.

Dates: 1902-1915

Flyer providing the names of men fined, expelled, and declared unfair workers. (Two Copies), May 15, 1914

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of materials consists of correspondence, flyers, petitions, and ephemera about the Western Federation of Miners and affiliated local unions. Included is correspondence from WFM Secretary-Treasurer William D. Haywood, detailed letters concerning the Northern Michigan copper miners strike of 1913-1914, pamphlets requesting financial assistance to aid strikers around the country, leaflets listing delinquent and unfair workers, and flyers promoting the eight-hour work day.

Dates: May 15, 1914