American Decades
"Warning: The Deadly Parallel"
Poster
By: Industrial Workers of the World
Date: 1916
Source: Industrial Workers of the World. "Warning: The Deadly Parallel." Special Collections AZ 114, box 1, folder 1, exhibit 2. Available online at http://digital.library.arizona.edu/bisbee/main/iww.php; website home page: http://digital.library.arizona.edu (accessed April 10, 2003).
About the Organization: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) formed in 1905 in opposition to the American Federation of Labor. Throughout its tumultuous history, the IWW agitated for a worldwide revolution against capitalism. The group's rallying cry called for the creation of "One Big Union," incorporating the working classes from every corner of the globe. The IWW believed that an international worker coalition could...
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1910's Media Primary Sources
- Photographs by Lewis Hine
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Broadsides
- Early Baseball Cards
- "Fun's Word Cross Puzzle"
- The Woman Rebel
- The First Pulitzer Prizes
- "Warning: The Deadly Parallel"
- Letters to the Chicago Defender
- "For Freedom and Democracy"
- Sedition Act, 1918
- Chicago Race Riots
- The Brass Check
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
