Reel 5

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October 6-10, 1911. 4pp. Subjects: Instructions for U.S. Marshal to protect railroad property only if an injunction is issued; railroad offer to pay salaries of deputies. Begins at 0384.

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October 5, 1911-August 17, 1915. 24pp. Subjects: Appeal of dismissal of prosecution of strikers for obstruction of U.S. mails; use of injunctions in labor disputes; mob violence and intimidation. Begins at 0388.

Scope and Contents October3-15, 1912 and August 20, 1919. 19pp. Subjects: Toole Valley Railroad Company protest in 1919 of 1915 valuation of company property; U.S. Marshal deployment of deputies guarding railroad property; use of injunctions in labor disputes; obstruction of U.S. mails as justification for federal involvement in strike; cooperation with Post Office Department; instruction for U.S. Attorney in St. Louis, Missouri, during street car strike of 1900 as guidelines for handling the situation in...

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January 9-25, 1912. 17pp. Subjects: U.S. Marshal deployment of deputies guarding railroad property; use of injunctions in labor disputes; company offer to pay salaries of deputies; mob violence and intimidation; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Begins at 0431.

Scope and Contents February 24-September 12, 1912. 120pp. Subject: Investigation of alleged interstate transportation of dynamite by mill-owners; disputes between the IWW and the UTW; letter from UT; letter from UTW; letter from UTW general president John Golden to Rep. William B. Wilson condemning IWW evacuation of strikers' children from Lawrence as a public relations and fundraising ploy; immigrant labor; letters and petitions from union; Socialist Party of America, immigrant, and international...

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February 25-September 8, 1912. 201pp. Subject: Letters and petitions from union, Socialist Party of America, immigrant, and international organizations of President William Howard Taft against jailing of IWW organizers Joseph J. Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti by city officials on charges of being accessories before the fact to the killing of a woman striker by city police and urging federal intervention in the strike. Begins at 0550.

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March 26-April 19, 1914. 14pp. Subjects: J. Edgar Hoover memoranda of information received by the FBI concerning activities of the Fam Equipment Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO and of the American Youth Congress, alleged Communist influence among organizers of strike; protest against arrest and beating of strikers in Richmond, Indiana. Begins at 0751.

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September 9, 1912- February 2, 1913. 26pp. Subject: U.S. Marshal deployment of deputies at Renton Coal Mine, use of injunction in labor disputes; DOJ policy disapproving of company payment of salaries of disputes; mob violence and intimidation. Begins at 0765.

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May 27, 1913-August 13, 1914. 10pp. Subjects: DOJ cooperation with U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations; letters and petitions from union, Socialist Party of America, and immigrant organizations to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson against jailing of IWW organizer Patrick Quinlan on charges of incitement to riot and urging federal intervention in strike; memorials by Frederic C. Howe and others to the U.S. Congress protesting violations of Constitutional Rights. Begins at 0791.

Scope and Contents October 25, 1913- February 2,1915. 46pp. Subjects: Letters and petitions from union, Socialist Party of Michigan, and other organizations to President Woodrow Wilson urging federal intervention in strike; U.S. Department of Labor report on strike and efforts to negotiate a settlement; mob violence and intimidation; ordering out of the National Guard of Michigan; use of strikebreakers; vigilantism and beating of Western Federation of Miners president Charles H. Moyer by members of the...