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Louis Carrick, Fred Thompson correspondence, 1979

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Title Louis Carrick, Fred Thompson correspondence, 1979

Date 1979

Language English

Subjects Industrial Workers of the World, Labor unions, Publishers and publishing

Description Correspondence, writings, publications, photographs, etc. of Fred W. Thompson, I.W.W. official and historian, and president of the Charles H. Kerr Company. A radical in his native Canada, Thompson came to the United States in 1922 and joined the I.W.W. He remained an active member for over 65 years. In the 1970s, he joined a Kerr Publishing Company rescue effort. There is considerable correspondence with Wobblies, some addressed to Franklin H. Rosemont, and also photographs of union members.

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User-Contributed Transcription To: Fred ThompsonFrom: Louis CarrickAthens -- August 9, 1979Dear Fred:I have before me the last letter I received from you. It is dated April 12. I also have note of April 22. Can it be that four months have gone by without us exchanging letters? Well, I shall try to make up for this lapse in our correspondence. Your letters mean a great deal to me, Fred. I hope you will find time to answer this one of mine soon.First, let me thank you for handling my membership effective May 1. I am now a paid-up member in the Public Service IU through December 31, 1979. It is my intention to keep paying my dues to the IWW and to write for the INDUSTRIAL WORKER -- until oxygen no longer gets up to my cerebral cortex. I hope when I turn in my tool checks, I shall die a member of the IWW in good standing. I shall continue to submit poems and articles for publications under my pen name Louis Burcar. When my name appears in the IW re articles or donations to the Sustaining Fund, it is better that it appear as the pseudonym by which I became known in the IWW movement than in the form of Louis B. Carrick, the "legal" name under which I now am enrolled in the red membership card I treasure as "Research Biologist," Card No. x 331947, and under which I write checks payable to the organization and also receive the IW and other mail from the General Executive Board. Fellow Worker M. Hargis now has this double name business straightened out, I believe.[ In left margin: ] Fred: Please send me by return mail Frank Cederwall's address and telephone number. We are going to ask him to be one of the principal speakers on September 30 at Barnwell ?II? civil disobedience -- will pay his expenses to S.C.

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Archival Collection Title Fred Thompson papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Thompson Box 1 Folder 62

BibID 9911452248805860

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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File Created 11/12/2020

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