Finding aid to Peo Monoldi Industrial Workers of the World Collection, 1894-1936

Finding aid prepared by Leah Sylva

Labor Archives and Research Center

2022

San Francisco State University

J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460

1630 Holloway Ave

San Francisco 94132-1722

Business Number: (415) 405-5571

larc@sfsu.edu

URL: http://library.sfsu.edu/larc

Title: Peo Monoldi Industrial Workers of the World collection

Date (inclusive): 1894-1936

Creator: Monoldi, Peo

Extent: 1.75 Cubic Feet (3 boxes)

Collection number: larc.pam.0012

Accession number: 1994/044

Repository: Labor Archives and Research Center

J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460

San Francisco State University

1630 Holloway Ave

San Francisco, CA 94132-1722

(415) 405-5571

larc@sfsu.edu

Abstract: The bulk of the collection is print material, primarily pamphlets and newsletters relating to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The earliest item is the pamphlet, "The Pullman Strike," by Rev. William H. Carwardine, 1894. The most contemporary is the minutes of the Twenty-Second Constitutional Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago, Nov. 9-16, 1936.

Physical Location: Materials are stored offsite; requires advance notice.

Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives and Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Labor Archives and Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Related Materials

Industrial Workers of the World and Related Published Material and Artifacts; Labor Archives and Research Center Ephemera Collection.

Separated Materials

Photographs transferred to Photo Collection No. 4. These photographs may be related to the correspondence in this collection and include black and white snapshots of a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) march in front of IWW headquarters, ca. 1925 and photographs of the fire-bombing of IWW headquarters.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Peo Monoldi Industrial Workers of the World collection, larc.pam.0012, Labor Archives and Research Center.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Adraenne Bernstein, accession number 1994/044.

Processing Information

Collection processed by Carol Cuenod in 2006.

Arrangement

Arranged by format: Correspondence; IWW Constitutions and Convention Proceedings; IWW Postcards; IWW Pamphlets; IWW Newspaper; Non-IWW Pamphlets.

Biographical Note

Peo Monoldi was born in Naples, Italy. He immigrated to this country and became an active member of the Industrial Workers of the World while living in Chicago, Montana and in California.

History of the IWW

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois and was the first racially integrated union in the United States. IWW workers, also known as Wobblies, have organized across the textile, longshore, agriculture, and mining industries, organizing socialist and anarchist syndicates. Representing 9,000 workers in North America, the IWW seeks to empower the working class to seize "the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the earth."

Scope and Contents

The bulk of the collection is print material, primarily pamphlets and newsletters relating to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The earliest item is the pamphlet, "The Pullman Strike," by Rev. William H. Carwardine, 1894. The most contemporary is the minutes of the Twenty-Second Constitutional Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago, Nov. 9-16, 1936.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Construction workers -- United States -- Labor unions.

Labor unions -- Organizing.

Pamphlets

United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.

Socialist literature

Industrial Workers of the World

box 1, folder 1

Correspondence ca. 1925

IWW Constitutions and Convention Proceedings 1905-1936

box 1, folder 2

First convention proceedings 1905

box 1, folder 3

Extracts from the Verbatium Report of the 16th General Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, Dealing with the 1924 General Administration Controversy 1924

box 1, folder 4

IWW Convention 1936

box 1, folder 5

Preamble and Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World as adopted and amended 1936

box 1, folder 6

IWW Postcards ?

IWW Pamphlets 1917-1933, undated

box 1, folder 7

Woodruff, Abner E. The Advancing Proletariat. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) 1919

box 1, folder 8

Delaney, Ed. and M.T. Rice. The Bloodstained Trail: A History of Militant Labor in the United States. Industrial Worker (Seattle, Wash.) 1919

box 1, folder 9

Building Construction Workers' Industrial Union No. 330. Building Construction: A Handbook of the Industry. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d. (1924?)

box 1, folder 10

Craft Unionism - Why it Fails. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d.

box 1, folder 11

Direct Action. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d.

box 1, folder 12

Woodruff, Abner E. Evolution of Industrial Democracy. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d. (1920?)

box 1, folder 13

Historical Catechism of American Unionism. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d. (1923)

box 1, folder 14

Elbert, Justus. I.W.W. in Theory and Practice. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d.

box 1, folder 15

I.W.W. Songs: To Fan the Flames of Discontent, Special Centralia Edition. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) 1925

box 1, folder 16

St. John, Vincent. I.W.W.: Its History, Structure and Methods. IWW Publishing Bureau (Cleveland, Ohio) 1913

box 1, folder 17

Chapman, C.H. Lessons in Economics: A Textbook for Workers. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d.

box 2, folder 1

One Big Union. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d.

box 2, folder 2

Open Letter from the IWW to the State's Attorneys of California. California Branch, GDC (San Francisco, Calif.) 1924

box 2, folder 3

Vanderveer, Geo F. Opening Statement of Geo F. Vanderveer. IWW Publishing Bureau (Chicago, Ill.) n.d. (1918?)

box 2, folder 4

Perry, Grover H. The Revolutionary I.W.W. IWW (Cleveland, Ohio) n.d.

box 2, folder 5

The Shame of California: and Other Poems. CBGDC (San Francisco, Calif.) n.d. (1923?)

box 2, folder 6

Costello, E.J. Shame that is Kentucky's: The Story of the Harlan Mine War. GDC (Chicago, Ill.) n.d.

box 2, folder 7

Silent Defense, The: A Story of the Remarkable Trial of Members of the Industrial Workers of the World, Held at Sacramento, California. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d. (1919?)

box 2, folder 8

So, You're Out of a Job! Wake Up! IWW (Chicago, Ill.) 1933

box 2, folder 9

Souvenir Journal of the Industrial District Council of Greater New York. IWW Industrial District Council (New York, N.Y.) 1926

box 2, folder 10

Haywood, William D. Testimony of Willian D. Haywood before the Industrial Relations Commission. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d. (1917?)

box 2, folder 11

'To the Beasts'-in California as in Ancient Rome. California Branch, GDC (San Francisco, Calif.) 1924

box 2, folder 12

Twenty Five Years of Industrial Unionism. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) 1930

box 2, folder 13

McDonald, J.A. Unemployment and the Machine. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) 1923

box 2, folder 14

What is Rank and File Rule: Is It the Rule of Individuals or Is It the Rule by Principles Upon Which the IWW Is Built? IWW (Chicago, Ill.) 1925

box 2, folder 15

Monoldi, Peo. Why Building Workers Must Organize in One Big Union! IWW (Chicago, Ill.) n.d.

box 2, folder 16

Kolontay, Alexander. Workers' Opposition in Russia, The...: The Workers' Opposition in the Communist Party. IWW (Chicago, Ill.) 1921

IWW Newspaper 1924-1925

box 2, folder 17

Vol. 1, No. 4 August 1, 1924

box 2, folder 18

Vol. 1, No. 5 September 1, 1924

box 2, folder 19

Vol. 1, No. 6 October 1, 1924

box 2, folder 20

Vol. 1, No. 7 November 1, 1924

box 2, folder 21

Vol. 2, No. 12 April 1, 1925

box 2, folder 22

Vol. 2, No. 16 August 1, 1925

box 2, folder 23

Fragments undated

Non-IWW Pamphlets 1894-1936

box 2, folder 24

Berkman, Alexander. Anti-Climax, The...: The Concluding Chapter of My Russian Diary "The Bolshevik Myth." Mauer & Dimmick (Berlin, Germany) 1925

box 2, folder 25

Kautsky, Karl, translated by William E. Bohn. The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program). Charles Kerr & Co. (Chicago, Ill.) 1910

box 2, folder 26

Bakunin, Michael. God and the State. n.d.

box 2, folder 27

Laidler, Harry W. How America Lives: A Handbook of Industrial Facts. League for Industrial Democracy (New York, N.Y.) 1924

box 3, folder 1

Simmons, A.M. Pocket Library of Socialism Series: Man Under the Machine. Charles Kerr & Co. (Chicago, Ill.) 1899

box 3, folder 1

Bellamy, Edward. Pocket Library of Socialism Series: Plutocracy or Nationalism - Which? Charles Kerr & Co. (Chicago, Ill.) 1900

box 3, folder 1

Twining, T. Pocket Library of Socialism Series: Intemperence and Poverty. Charles Kerr & Co. (Chicago, Ill.) 1901

box 3, folder 1

Noyes, William H. Pocket Library of Socialism Series: Evolution of the Class Struggle. Charles Kerr & Co. (Chicago, Ill.) 1899

box 3, folder 1

Brown, Rev. William Thurston. Pocket Library of Socialism Series: Relation of Religion to Social Ethics. Charles Kerr & Co. (Chicago, Ill.) 1901

box 3, folder 1

Simmons, A.M. Pocket Library of Socialism Series: Single Tax vs Socialism.. Charles Kerr & Co. (Chicago, Ill.) n.d.

box 3, folder 1

Marx, Karl. Pocket Library of Socialism Series: Wage-Labor and Capital. Charles Kerr & Co. (Chicago, Ill.) 1899

box 3, folder 2

Carwardine, Rev. William H. The Pullman Strike. Charles H. Kerr & Co. (Chicago, Ill.) 1894

box 3, folder 3

Plato. The Republic of Plato [excerpts from Book VIII]. Alexander Kerr (Chicago, Ill.) 1914

box 3, folder 4

Palmer, Frank. Spies in Steel: An Expose of Industrial War, Vol. 1. Labor Press, Inc. (Denver, Colo.) 1928

box 3, folder 5

Gallagher, Mary E. Governor Young: Pardon Tom Mooney - Innocent: The Horror of Fourteen Years Unjust and Cruel California Imprisonment. Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee (San Francisco, Calif.) ca. 1930

box 3, folder 6

Tyler, August. The United Front. Rand School Press (New York, N.Y.) 1933

box 3, folder 7

Foster, William Z. The Bankruptcy of the American Labor Movement. Trade Union Educational League. n.d.

box 3, folder 8

Riebe, Ernest. Crimes of the Bolsheviki. n.d.

box 3, folder 9

Nearing, Scott. Evolution and Revolution. Rand School of Social Science (New York, N.Y.) 1920

box 3, folder 10

Fisher, Mark. Evolution and Revolution. Charles H. Kerr & Co. (Chicago, Ill.) n.d.

box 3, folder 11

International Working Men's Association. The I.W.M.A.: Its Policy, Its Aim, Its Principles. 1933

box 3, folder 12

Our Job With the WPA. Works Progress Administration. (Washington, D.C.) 1936

box 3, folder 13

Thomas, Norman. The Plight of the Share-Cropper. League for Industrial Democracy (New York, N.Y.) 1934

box 3, folder 14

Spencer, Fanny Bixby. The Repudiation of War. 1922

box 3, folder 15

Trotsky, Leon. Russia: Problems of the Development of the U.S.S.R. Communist League of America (Opposition). 1931

box 3, folder 16

Sinclair, Upton. Singing Jailbirds: A Drama in Four Acts. n.d.

box 3, folder 17

Problems of Strike Strategy. n.d.

box 3, folder 18

Trotsky, Leon. The Turn in the Communist International and the German Situation. Communist League of America (Opposition). 1930

box 3, folder 19

Wash, Tom. What is this Shop-Stewards Movement? A Survey with Diagrams. National Federation of Shop-Stewards (London, U.K.) 1920

box 3, folder 20

Maximov, G. Bolshevism--Promises and Reality: An Appraisal of the Results of the Marxist Dictatorship Over Russia. Free Society Group of Chicago (Chicago, Ill.) 1935

box 3, folder 21

Grosser, Philip. Uncle Sam's Devil's Island: Experiences of a Conscientious Objector in America During the World War. n.d.

box 3, folder 22

The Menshevik Trial: The text of the Indictment of the Counter-Revolutionary Menshevik Organisation. n.d.

box 3, folder 23

Caroti, Arturo. Lavoratoru: Volete Star Meglio chei Signor? Libreria Editrice 1907

box 3, folder 23

Gori, Pietro. La Donna e la Famiglia. Edizioni di propaganda Culmine 1927