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Nigel Anthony Sellars Collection

Sellars, Nigel Anthony. Papers, 1905–2001. 2 feet. Historian. Manuscripts (1987–2000) by Nigel Anthony Sellars for his book, "Oil, Wheat, & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905–1930," and for Sellars's articles and essays on Oklahoma labor issues, labor unions, and the Industrial Workers of the World during the period of 1905–1930; research materials collected by Sellars for his writings; and publications (1980–2001) regarding labor and socialist issues in Oklahoma and the nation.

Box 1 Folder: 1. Correspondence to Nigel A. Sellars regarding his research and writings, 1994 and n.d.

2. Typescript, “Wobblies in the Oilfields: The Industrial Workers of the World in the Oklahoma Oilfields,” by Nigel Sellars, n.d.

3. Spiral-bound copy of “Oil, Wheat and Wobblies: A Short History of the Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1915-1922,” by Nigel Sellars for History 6400, Fall 1987. 2 copies.

4. Spiral-bound copy of “Wobblies in the Oilfields: The Industrial Workers of the World in the Mid-Continent Oilfield of Tulsa, Oklahoma,” by Nigel Sellars, n.d.

5. Typescript, Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. A dissertation … for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Nigel Anthony Sellars, 1994.

6. Printer’s proof of Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. (circa 2000)

7. Typescript draft introduction to Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930.

8. Typescript draft of chapter one of Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930.

9. Typescript draft of chapter two of Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930.

10. Typescript draft of chapter three of Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930.

11. Typescript draft of chapter four of Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930.

12. Typescript, “Labor’s Desperate Gamble: The Oklahoma State Federation of Labor and the Farmer-Labor Reconstruction League,” by Nigel Sellars, n.d.

13. Typescript and spiral-bound copies of “Arrest and Reprisal: The Zakharov- Daniloff Affair,” by Nigel Sellars, for History 6400, Spring 1988.

14. Typescripts of “ ‘With Folded Arms? Or With Squirrel Guns?’ The IWW and the ,” by Nigel Sellars, n.d.

15. Typescript, “Patrick Nagle and the Socialist Party in Oklahoma,” by Nigel Sellars for History 6400, Spring 1987.

16. Typescript of a review by Sellars of Sally Soelle’s “New Deal Art: The Great Plains Experience,” for History 6400, n.d. Includes spiral bound copy of Soelle’s work.

17. Typescript, “Darkness and Duplicity: The Anti-Federalists and the Conspiratorial Style,” by Nigel Sellars, Feaver-MacMinn Seminar, 1990.

18. Typescript, “Oklahoma’s Ice War,” by Nigel Sellars, ‘draft version as read at Oklahoma Historical Society annual meeting,’ n.d.

19. Typescript and reprint of “ ‘Cold, Hard Facts’: Justice Brandeis and the Oklahoma Ice Case,” by Nigel Anthony Sellars in The Historian, n.d.

20. Photocopied research materials compiled for and typescripts of “Oklahoma’s ‘Ice War’: New State Ice v. Liebmann, Justice Brandeis, and Government Intervention in the Economy,” by Nigel Anthony Sellars, n.d.

21. Bibliography notecards compiled for “Oklahoma’s ‘Ice War’: New State Ice v. Liebmann, Justice Brandeis, and Government Intervention in the Economy,” by Nigel Anthony Sellars, n.d.

22. University of Oklahoma Department of History faculty meeting minutes (1990); reports regarding the history department’s graduate program study (1991-1992); and copies of the history graduate student newsletter, A Blast from the Past, Volume I, Number I, 1989.

23. Photocopied research material. Hall, Covington. “Why ?” an IWW pamphlet, n.d.

24. A master’s thesis, “The Agricultural Workers’ Organization and the Harvest Stiff in the Midwestern Wheat Belt, 1915-1920,” by Stanley P. Fast, 1974.

25. Photocopied research material. IWW General Office Bulletin, March 1924.

26. Photocopied research material. A Socialist Daily for Oklahoma, circa 1918-1920.

27. Photocopied research material. “Class-Conscious Coal Miners: Nanty-Glo Versus the Open Shop in the Post- Era,” by Alan J. Singer in Labor History, Winter 1988.

28. Photocopied research material from the Indiana Union News, regarding the oil industry and tenant farmers, 1920.

29. Photocopied research material. “An Unpublished Paper on the I.W.W.,” by Thorstein Veblen, n.d.

30. Photocopied research material. “Smackover, and Seekers of Oil,” by Max Bentley in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, Dec. 1923.

31. Photocopied research material. “The One Big Union in International Perspective: Revolutionary , 1900-1925,” by Larry Peterson.

32. Photocopied research material. Excerpts from Albert Raymond Parker’s dissertation, Life and Labor in the Mid-Continental Oil Fields, 1951.

33. Research notes by Nigel Sellars on IWW activities reported in 1921 Oklahoma newspapers.

34. Photocopied research material regarding the wobblies in Oklahoma City in 1923.

35. Photocopied research material. “The Case of the Very American Militants: Notes on the IWW as a Product and a Reflection of Mainstream America,” by Joseph R. Conlin.

36. Photocopied research material. “The Agony of the ,” by Christopher Lasch, 1969.

37. Photocopied research material. “Post-War Militancy: Coal,” from History of Labor in the , 1896-1932.

38. Photocopied research material. “Honk Honk Hobo,” by John J. Hader, 1928.

39. Photocopied research material. “The Decline of the I.W.W.,” by John s. Gambs.

40. Photocopied research material. “Years of Strife and Sin: Booze, Bawdy Houses, and Strikes Spell Trouble for ‘Mayor Nick’,” and “Drumright! The Glory Days of a Boom Town.”

41. Photocopied research material. “The Socialist Party and the IWW.”

42. Photocopied research material. “The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930,” by Kenneth T. Jackson, 1967.

43. Photocopied research material. “The Paradox of Dynamic Technological Change and the Labor Aristocracy in the United States, 1880-1914,” by Andrew Dawson, 1979.

44. Photocopied research material. “Historians and the I.W.W.,” by Salvatore Salerno, 1989.

45. Photocopied research material. “The Anti-Syndicalist Laws,” The One Big Union Monthly, April 1919.

46. Photocopied research material. Pamphlet regarding the publication of a socialist newspaper in Oklahoma City, n.d.

47. Photocopied research material. “Harvesting the Harvest Hands,” by George Creel, in Harper’s Weekly, 1914.

48. Photocopied research material. “The Prairie Oil & Gas Company, 1901-1911,” by David C. Boles in The Chronicles of Oklahoma; and “Shall This Be All? U.S. Historians Versus William D. Haywood et al,” by William Preston in Labor History, 1971.

49. Photocopied research material. “Radicalism and Race: The IWW and the Black Worker,” by Leland V. Bell in Journal of Human Relations, n.d.

Box 2 Folder: 1. Photocopied research material regarding the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918.

2. Photocopied research material regarding the Run of 1889 in Oklahoma.

3. Photocopied research material from Industrial Solidarity regarding meat packing plant strikes and other topics, 1921-1926.

4. Photocopied research material. Letter from Lt. J. H. Cary to Commanding Officer, 2 Infantry, Oklahoma National Guard, Nov. 9, 1919.

5. Photocopied research material regarding the I.W.W. from the Tulsa World, 1919; and “The Clowning Called Justice,” by Eugene Lyons.

6. Photocopied research material. “Framed Up by Standard Oil,” in The Rebel Worker, June 15, 1919.

7. Photocopied research material. “Tulsa: A Study in Oil,” by Eugene Lyons, The One Big Union Monthly, Dec. 1919.

8. Photocopied research material from New Solidarity, 1919.

9. Photocopied research material regarding the Charles S. Krieger case, 1919.

10. Photocopied research material. “Slappin’ Collars and Stabbin’ Pipe: Occupational Folklife of Old-Time Pipeliners,” by George Carney.

11. Photocopied research material – excerpts from The Oklahoma Almanac regarding wheat production, 1930.

12. Photocopied research material. “Why Wheat Growers Go Broke: While Wheat Gamblers Wax Fat,” by Benjamin C. Marsh, , June 1924.

13. Photocopied research material on the I.W.W. from the Daily Oklahoman, 1921.

14. Photocopied research material. “Union Maids Not Wanted: Organizing Domestic Workers, 1870-1940,” by Donna L. Van Raaphorst, 1988.

15. Photocopied research material. “ ‘We Have Got Results’: A Document on the Organization of Domestics in the Progressive Era,” Labor History, 1976.

16. Photocopied research material. “ ‘Pay’-Triotism,” Labor Age, January 1923.

17. Photocopied research material. “Today’s Students Want First Hand Labor Union Information,” Tulsa Labor News, 1959.

18. Photocopied research material. “The Political Prisoners’ Reply,” The New Republic, August 1923.

19. Photocopied research material. “The Knights of Liberty Mob and the I.W.W. Prisoners in Tulsa,” 1918.

20. Photocopied research material. “The Federal Trials of the IWW,” by Philip Taft.

21. Photocopied research material. “Uncle Sam: Jailer,” by Winthrop D. Lane.

22. Photocopied research material regarding the Knights of Labor, n.d.

23. Typescript, “Pittsburgh Streets: Crystal Eastman’s Path from Reformist to Social Revolutionist,” by Susan M. Lee, 1993.

24. Photocopied research material and newspaper clippings regarding labor unions, 2001.

25. Photocopied research material from newspapers regarding strikes, labor organizations, and the I.W.W., 1922-1923.

26. Newspaper clippings regarding baseball umpires, and Mexican immigrants, 2001.

27. Photocopied research material. Newspaper clippings regarding the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918.

28. Newspaper clippings regarding social activism and immigration, 2001.

29. Newspaper clippings regarding wages, welfare, right-to-work, and the U.S. economy, 1999-2001.

30. Photocopied research material. Encyclopedia entry, “Industrial Revolution: Industrial Workers of the World.”

31. Photocopied research material. “Embodying the Fore-Runners and Birth of I.W.W.: Its Aims and Principles, Together with Its Later Activities in Oklahoma,” by Nannie Phillips, 1938.

32. Photocopied research material from the Report, General Secretary-Treasurer, I.W.W., 1917.

33. Photocopied research material. “In Defense of the Wheatland Wobblies: A Critical Analysis of the IWW in California,” by Cletus E. Daniel, Labor History, Fall 1978.

34. Photocopied research material. Newspaper articles regarding the organization of oil field workers in Oklahoma, 1916-1917.

35. Photocopied research material. “Harvest Labor Problems in the Wheat Belt,” by D. D. Lescohier, in USDA Bulletin No. 1020, 1922.

36. Photocopied research material. “Conditions Affecting the Demand for harvest Labor in the Wheat Belt,” by Don D. Lescohier, in USDA Bulletin No. 1230, 1924.

37. Photocopied research material. “The Last of the Wobblies,” by Stewart Holbrook in Little Annie Oakley & Other Rugged People, 1948.

38. Photocopied research material. “The Story of No. 400,” in The One Big Union Monthly, Sept. 1919.

39. Photocopied research material. Pamphlet titled, “Oil Workers!” n.d.

40. Photocopied research material. “Conviction of IWW Leaders,” by N. L. Phillips, 1938.

41. Photocopied research material. “With the I.W.W. in the Wheat Lands,” by D. D. Lescohier in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, Aug. 1923.

42. Photocopied research material. “War and the Workers,” by Walker C. Smith, n.d.

43. Photocopied research material. “The Kansas Trial of the IWW, 1917-1919,” by Clayton R. Koppes.

44. Photocopied research material. “Pie-Card Gang Raids I.W.W. Headquarters with Guns and Drives the G. E. B. Into the Street.”

45. Photocopied research material. “Piece Work and the Tank Builder,” n.d.

46. Photocopied research material. “For the ‘Wobblies,’ a Shaky Economy Aids in ‘Comeback,’” by Mary Williams in Wall Street Journal, 1983.

47. Photocopied research material. “The Two Triple Alliances: To Trim the Workers on the Job and Off the Job – Coming and Going,” n.d.

48. Photocopied research material. “Red Efforts to Win Our Biggest Labor Union,” in The Literary Digest, 1923.

49. Photocopied research material. “The I. W.W. and ‘Organizing on the Job,’” from History of Labor in the United States, 1935.

50. Photocopied research material. Excerpts from the Industrial Union Bulletin, 1907- 1909.

51. Photocopied research material. “Hi-Jacks, Boot-Leggers, Holdups, Gamblers, Etc., in the Harvest Fields – Warning to You,” n.d.

52. Photocopied research material. “The Stop Watch and the Wooden Shoe: Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the World,” by Mike Davis in Workers’ Struggles Past and Present, 1983.

53. Photocopied research material. “Wobbly Talk,” by Stewart H. Holbrook.

54. Photocopied research material. “On the Nature and Uses of Sabotage,” in The Dial, April 1919.

55. Photocopied research material. “Fellow Workers,” OWIU, n.d.

56. Photocopied research material. “Hands and Tools of the Wheat Harvest,” by Don D. Lescohier in The Survey, July 1923.

57. Photocopied research material. “Agricultural Workers Industrial Union No. 400, I.W.W.,” in The One Big Union Monthly, March 1919.

58. Photocopied research material., “The Campaign of the Agricultural Workers,” in The One Big Union Monthly, Aug. 1919.

59. Photocopied research material. “Socialism: What It Is and How to Get It,” by Oscar Ameringer, 1911.

60. Photocopied research material. “Opening Statement of Geo. F. Vanderveer, I.W.W. … in the case of the U.S.A. vs. Wm. D. Haywood, et al.” n.d.

61. Photocopied research material. Excerpts from The New Republic, 1923.

62. Photocopied research material. “The ‘Newer Freedom’ for Labor,” in The Literary Digest, 1923.

63. Photocopied research material. “Labor Unionism in American Agriculture,” by Stuart Jamieson, in Monthly Labor Review, 1946.

64. Photocopied research material. “: The Republic of the Imagination,” by David Roediger in Free Spirits: Annals of the Insurgent Imagination, 1982.

65. Photocopied research material. “Radicals, Farmers, and Historians: Some Recent Scholarship about Agrarian Radicalism in the Upper Midwest,” by William C. Pratt, North Dakota History, Fall 1985.

66. Photocopied research material. Excerpts from Industrial Solidarity, 1910-1917.

67. Photocopied research material. Excerpts from , 1909-1913.

68. A Teachers Guide to Oklahoma Labor History, by Jim Huff and Paul Jennings. Oklahoma State AFL-CIO, n.d.

69. Oklahoma Community Songs, compiled by J. W. Scroggs. University of Oklahoma Extension Division, 1917.

70. Miscellaneous publications: Protection in the Nuclear Age. Department of Defense, 1977. To Err Is Reagan, by Mark Green, 1987. Rebuilding Our Defenses: The Reagan Administration’s Record on Defense Issues. Sept. 1983. False Patriots: The Threat of Antigovernment Extremists. Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, 1996. “The Gulf War: Our Work Must Continue,” by the War Resisters League, 1991. Poor Ronald’s Almanac: Hard Facts for Hard Times, 1982. Can We Trust the Russians?: Verification of Compliance with Arms Control Agreements, n.d.

71. Miscellaneous publications of the National Council for History Education; the American Historical Association, the National Labor’s Heritage Society, the Organization of American Historians, and the Western History Association, 1989- 2001.

72. Industrial Worker. Vol. 86, No. 12, December 1989.

73. The Guardian. Vol. 43, No. 20, March 13, 1991. People’s Weekly World, Vol. 15, No. 51, May 26, 2001.

74. The Undercurrent, Vol. 1, Issue 5, 1998, and Vol. III, Issue 8, 2000. The Norman Comic Review, Vol. 1, No. 7, Nov. 7, 1991.

75. Extra! Vol. 9, No. 1, 1996. Academe, Nov./Dec. 1998. Zeta Magazine, February 1988.

76. The Oklahoma State Worker. Oklahoma State Workers Union – Communications Workers of America, Local 6086. Various issues, 1992-2001. Also includes flyers from the CSA/OSWU.

77. In These Times, Vol. 14, Nos. 24 and 26, 1990.

78. Intelligence Report, Issues 90 and 91, 1998.

79. Workers World, various issues, 1994-1995.

80. “Educational brochure number one” of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, n.d.; and Eritrea Information, Vol. II, No. 7, 1980.

81. Toward Freedom, Vol. 40, No. 6, 1990.

82. Lone Star Socialist, No. 10, 1991.

83. Ransom Notes, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1982.

84. Oklahoma Free Press, No. 8, 1983.

85. Nonviolent Activist, various issues, 1989-1994. Radical Historians Newsletter, Number 78, June 1998.

86. Index on Censorship, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1983.

87. Talking Union, CWA Public and Health Care Workers, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1992; and Vol. 7, No. 1, 1996.

88. ACLU Briefing Paper, Nos. 1 and 14, n.d.

89. CWA News, various issues, 1995-2002.

90. A flyer for a Holly Near concert in Norman, Oklahoma, 1980.

91. Forms regarding a review of George Kirsh’s Sports and Physical Education in Western Civilization, ca. 1996.

92. Vietnam: An Appeal for Debate and Action, b the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., n.d. Booklet includes a 33 ½ rpm record.

93. Oklahoma Strategy, Volume 12, Number 5, 1992. The Humanist, Jan./Feb. 1991.

94. Correspondence and a pamphlet by the Democratic Socialists of America, 1991.

95. Form letter from Ron Henderson, mayor of Norman, Oklahoma, circa 2001. Pamphlet by Amnesty International, n.d. Photocopied notes for a “Free Speech Rally” sponsored by the Coalition for Social Justice, 1982.

96. Labor Unions in the Ozarks by Neal Moore, 1990.

Oversized, Location 08397: Collier’s, July 18, 1925.