The Truth About Bisbee
The Preface for "The Truth About Bisbee"
Collection area: Political Affairs
Collection dates: 1929
Typescript account compiled from legal evidence and other authenticated documents concerning the I.W.W. deportation on July 12, 1917, from Bisbee, Ariz. and its aftermath. Includes text of a letter to Robert Jay from Joseph P. Hodgson, Manager at Phelps Dodge, dated Dec. 28, 1929, explaining what occurred during the deportation. Both the account and letter are written from the viewpoint of the management.
Author of account concerning deportation of 1100 workers and I.W.W. sympathizers from Bisbee to Columbus, N.M., July 12, 1917.
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