Availability
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Acquisition
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Title: Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings Collection
Collection number: larc.ms.0212
Physical Description:
Extent: 17.86 cubic feet
(34 boxes)
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
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English.
Abstract: Consists of documents, photographs, newsclippings, correspondence and other materials related to the trials, convictions and
multiple appeals of Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing in San Francisco. Materials
also include bound trial transcript volumes, a copy of Estolv E. Ward's manuscript,
The Gentle Dynamiter (later published), an unpublished manuscript by Thomas M. McDade on the case, and additional research files on violence and
labor defense, particularly related to the history of the United Mine Workers.
Date (inclusive): 1901-1970
Location: Collection is available onsite.
Availability
Collection is open for research.
Restrictions
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings Collection, larc.ms.0212, Labor Archives and Research Center,
San Francisco State University.
Acquisition
Collection was received from University of Wyoming, and contains materials donated from three sources: Warren K. Billings,
Estolv E. Ward, and Thomas M. McDade. Billings donated 35 bound volumes; Ward donated a manuscript of
The Gentle Dynamiter (later published); and Thomas M. McDade donated most, if not all other materials, consisting mainly of his research files
for a book on the Mooney–Billings case, 1964–1965, and a manuscript of the book which was never published.
Arrangement
Arranged as received.
Scope and Contents
Consists of documents, photographs, newsclippings, correspondence and other materials related to the trials, convictions and
multiple appeals of Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing in San Francisco. Materials
also include bound trial transcript volumes, a copy of Estolv E. Ward's manuscript,
The Gentle Dynamiter (later published), an unpublished manuscript by Thomas M. McDade on the case, and additional research files on violence and
labor defense, particularly related to the history of the United Mine Workers.
Processing Information
Processed by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.