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| Title | Advertisement promoting a fund raising event by the Northwest District Defense Committee "for the boys in jail", February 26, 1920 |
| Author | Northwest District Defense Committee, Industrial Workers of the World |
| Date of Publication | 1920 |
| Notes | This flyer advertises an "entertainment" held to raise funds for the "relief and defense" of imprisoned workers, organized by the Northwest District Defense Committee of the Industrial Workers of the World. The event, which takes place on February 26, 1920, at Washington Hall on 14th Avenue and Fir Street, features "Donovan and the Swede", a "full vaudeville program", and the Finnish five-piece orchestra. Admission is 25 cents for ladies and 50 cents for "gents": the committee mentions that it raised "300 dollars last Thursday" and hopes to exceed that goal this week. |
| Contextual Notes | Broussais Coman Beck (1886-1936) was a prominent Seattle businessman and rowing enthusiast. He was educated at the University of Washington and at Yale, graduating from the latter university in 1911. He returned to Seattle later in the 1910s to work as the store manager for the Bon Marche. In the wake of the Seattle general strike of 1919, Beck paid spies to infiltrate the labor movement in Seattle, and received frequent reports from his agents (often accompanied by clippings or ephemera relating to labor organizations) in 1919 and 1920. Due to the information acquired through these reports, the Bon Marche was centrally important to the alliance of Seattle employers who organized against labor, a group called the Associated Industries of Seattle -- and, consequently, the Bon Marche became the target of increased pressure and boycotts by organized labor in this time period. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Fliers (Printed matter) |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Fund raising--Washington (State)--Seattle; Defense (Criminal procedure)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Industrial Workers of the World. Northwest District Defense Committee; Labor movement--Washington (State)--Seattle; Labor unions--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital ID Number | PNW00954 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions contact: photos@u.washington.edu. |
| Digital Collection | Pacific Northwest Historical Documents
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Broussais C. Beck papers. Accession No. 0155-001. Box 2/3 |
| Object Type | Ephemera
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| Physical Description | 1 leaf; 23 x 13 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original text or image at 150 dpi saved in TIFF format, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2011. |
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