Nineteen Nineteen

The Boston Police Strike in the Context of American Labor

Introduction | The A.F. of L. | "Bolshevism" | The General Strike | Conclusions | Bibliography

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Archives and Manuscript Collections

• Parker, Samuel D. Boston Police Strike Papers, Houghton Library.

Newspapers

• Boston Evening Transcript
• Boston Herald
• Boston Labor World
• Christian Science Monitor
• New York Times

Contemporary Periodicals

• Gompers, Samuel. "Samuel Gompers Before Boston Chamber of Commerce," American Federationist 27, no. 2 (February 1920).
• "Mayor Ole Hanson, Who 'Sat Tight' at Seattle," Literary Digest 60, no. 10 (March 1919): 47-50.
• The Truth about the I.W.W. Prisoners. New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1922.
• Why and What is the I.W.W.? and What the I.W.W. is Not, Los Angeles: Industrial Workers of the World, n.d.
• Woll, Matthew. "More Lessons Than One in Seattle Strike" (editorial), American Federationist 26, no. 3 (March 1919), 242-44.

Government Documents

• City of Boston, Documents of the City of Boston for the Year 1919 , Vol. IV, Doc. No. 108; "Report of Committee Appointed By Mayor Peters To Consider The Police Situation." [Storrow Report] City of Boston Printing Department.
• City of Boston, Documents of the City of Boston for the Year 1920, Vol I, Doc. No. 1, "Address of Mayor Andrew J. Peters to the City Council, February 2, 1920." City of Boston Printing Department, 1921.
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Fourteenth Annual Report of the Police Commissioner for the City of Boston, Year Ending November 30, 1919. Public Doucument No. 49. Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1920.

Reports

• Report of Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor. Washington, D.C.: The Law Reporter Printing Co., 1892, in American Labor Unions' Constitutions, Proceedings, Officers' Reports, and Supplementary Documents (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1986).
• Report of Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor. Washington, D.C.: The Law Reporter Printing Co., 1909, in American Labor Unions' Constitutions, Proceedings, Officers' Reports, and Supplementary Documents (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1986).
• Report of Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor. Washington, D.C.: The Law Reporter Printing Co., 1919.

Secondary Sources

Dissertations and Theses

• Koss, Frederick Manuel. "The Boston Police Strike." Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1960.
• Marchick, Richard. "The Boston Police Strike of 1919." Senior honors thesis, Harvard University, 1956.
• White, Jonathan Randall. A Triumph of Bureaucracy: The Boston Police Strike and the Ideological Origins of the American Police State. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1982.

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• Penner, Norman, ed. Winnipeg 1919: The Strikers' Own History of the Winnipeg General Strike. Toronto: James Lewis & Samuel, 1973.
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