Container List
Box 1, folder 1
SERIES 1:
Correspondence, 1906
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically
Scope and Content Note
Contains 3 incoming letters that focus on Roney's role as president of the Representative Council of the Iron Trades in San
Francisco, and 1 letter from Burnette G. Haskell in 1906, about history of the labor movement and seeking employment.
Box 1, folders 2-11, Box 2
SERIES 2:
Writings, 1875-1917
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically and chronologically
Scope and Content Note
Contains a diary, drafts and published articles and notes. Roney's diary records his first few years in San Francisco working
in various foundries, from 1875-1876. Drafts include a handwritten manuscript of Roney's autobiography, an unpublished history
of the Workingmen's Party of California and proposed laws against Chinese. Roney's notes to historian Ira B. Cross are for
Cross' book,
History of the Labor Movement in California.
box 1, folder 3
Letter to editor of
Morning Call about greenback issue [incomplete], undated
box 1, folder 4
History of the Workingmen's Party of California, undated
box 1, folder 5
The Relations Socialists Should Bear Towards Other Reforms, undated
box 1, folder 6
Miscellaneous fragments on labor issues, undated
box 1, folder 7
Proposed laws against Chinese, 1882
box 1, folder 8
Letter to editor of
Daily Report about Federated trades, 1885
box 1, folder 9
Letter to Irving M. Scott about Iron Trades wages for unskilled workers, 1886
box 2, folder 1-7
Frank Roney: Irish Rebel and California Labor Leader, 1915
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten autobiography edited by Ira B. Cross.
box 1, folder 10
Published newspaper articles, undated
box 1, folder 11
Notes to Ira B. Cross, 1917
Scope and Content Note
Regarding Cross' book,
History of the Labor Movement in California
Box 1, folders 12-21
SERIES 3:
Labor Organization Activities, 1870-1900
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by organization
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials that document Roney's role with various labor organizations in California given to Ira B. Cross to complete
his book on the California labor movement. Organizations include the League of Deliverance, the Workingmen's Party of California,
and Representative Council of the Iron Trades.
box 1, folder 12
Hook and Ladder Company, 1870
box 1, folder 13
Iron Molders Union, 1884-1885
box 1, folder 15
League of Deliverance, 1882
box 1, folder 16
Representative Assembly of Trades and Labor Unions of the Pacific Coast, 1880-1882
box 1, folder 17-18
Representative Council of the Iron Trades, 1885-1886
box 1, folder 19
Seamen's Protective Association, 1880
box 1, folder 20
Vallejo Trades and Labor Council, 1900
box 1, folder 21
Workingmen's Party of California, 1878
Box 1, folders 22-24
SERIES 4:
Ephemera and clippings, 1875-1906
Arrangement
Arranged hierarchically
Scope and Content Note
Includes a membership certificate to the Independent Order of the Odd Fellows Lodge in Utah, and clippings relating to the
California labor movement collected by Roney from 1878 to 1906.
