Riot
First Edition. A radical novel of industrial unrest in the Pennsylvania and Ohio steel regions. The principal author, W.E. Trautmann, was the founding General Secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The events described in the novel take place in 1902-1909, the years of greatest IWW activity in the Alleghenies.
W. E. Trautmann and Peter Hagboldt, (1869-1940 and 1886-1943).
Riot.
Chicago: Chicago Labor Printing Co., 1922.
Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10549017
A version of this text has been digitized and is available through Hathitrust.
If you're interested in learning more about the historical events that inspired this novel, please refer to the links below:
"IWW History Project: Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1935" from the Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium, University of Washington, 2015-present.
"IWW Chronology (1904-1911)" by Michael Hargis, Industrial Workers of the World.
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