Ephemera · 4 pages
A four-page 1919 broadside issued by the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) listing abuses suffered by its members, including murder, imprisonment, tarring and feathering, deportation, denial of citizenship, and excessive bail. It gives named cases and places, among them Lawrence, Bisbee, Everett, and Topeka, and cites the Commission on Industrial Relations and press reports as sources. It closes with an appeal to the working class for funds for the General Defense Committee in Chicago, signed by Wm. D. Haywood as Secretary.