1922 The Diary of a Coal Digger In Non-Union Mines UWM IWW Powers Hapgood

This is a vintage original 1922 first edition booklet on trade union organizing in the non-union coal fields of Central and Western Pennsylvania.   The title page reads:  IN NON-UNION MINES The Diary Of A Coal Digger In Central Pennsylvania August – September, 1921 By Powers Hapgood  Member of the U.M.W. of A.   – Published by Bureau of Industrial Research 289 Fourth Avenue New York – 50 Cents a copy  This book is 48 pages plus the covers measuring about 9” x 6”.  The front and back covers are illustrated with a map showing the Union and Non-Union Coal Fields in Western and Central Pennsylvania with “Destined to be a Battle Map?” printed on the top of the back cover.   The Bureau of Industrial Research was created by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) trade union or Wobbilies as they were known. The IWW promoted a more radical and even revolutionary socialist trade unionism approaching Bolshevism.   Powers Hapgood was born into prosperity in Indianapolis and graduated from the p