Folder 32, Correspondence, Jun 18, 1916 - April 30, 1917.

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dc.coverage.temporalJune 18, 1916 to April 30, 1917
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-06T21:21:17Z
dc.date.available2017-06-06T21:21:17Z
dc.descriptionBox 1, Folder 32
dc.descriptionBorn in Dublin, Ireland, in 1869, Thomas Aloysius Hickey arrived in America in 1892. Hickey joined the Socialist Labor party and the Knights of Labor in 1893 and became an ardent speaker, organizer, and writer, as well as private secretary to Eugene V. Debs. In 1900, he left the Socialist Labor Party and went on to cocreate the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance and helped arrange several machinist strikes in New Jersey, which led to his blacklisting by employers. Moving to Butte, Montana, Hickey joined the Western Federation of Miners and helped recruit for the Socialist party.
dc.descriptionIn 1911, he moved to Hallettsville, Texas, and started a weekly newspaper called The Rebel. Over time, Hickey became a prominent figure in the socialist movement and the slogan of his paper became the official slogan of the Socialist party in Texas. He served as the socialist candidate for lieutenant governor in 1912 and was married to Clara E. Boeer that same year. The government suppressed The Rebel in 1917 under the Espionage Act and in 1918, the Nonpartisan League fired Hickey as an organizer.
dc.descriptionIn October 1919, he and other socialists organized the National Workers Drilling and Production Company. Hickey continued writing, serving as an advertising manager of the Desdemona Oil News and a correspondent for fourteen more newspapers such as the Texas Oil World and the Independent Oil and Financial Reporter. Withdrawing from the company in 1920, he moved to a farm near Stamford, Texas, and was publishing Tom Hickey's Magazine until his death on May 7, 1925, of throat cancer.
dc.descriptionThe Handbook of Texas has published a more in-depth online biography of Thomas Aloysius Hickey at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/search.html
dc.descriptionThe collection contains correspondence, printed material, news clippings, financial and legal material, literary productions, and scrapbook material. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, including letters from Hickey's readers and from Socialist leaders such as Theodore Debs. The printed materials include newsletters, pamphlets, periodicals, and circulars. Principal subjects of this collection are the Socialist Party, World War I, and pacifism.
dc.descriptionConservation Note: In 1985 and 1986, a large number of the papers in this collection were encapsulated within Mellinex polyester film and/or deacidified using Wei I'o aerosol solution. Those pages that were not treated remain fragile and brittle. Also, some of the double-sided tape used for the encapsulation is either coming loose or sticking to other pages. Additionally, the two volume German medical book set is in very fragile condition, with the binding falling apart and pages loose. The covers are also fading and deteriorating.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10605/320147
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsThe images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. Permission to publish these digital files in any form must be obtained from the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, 806-742-9070 or email reference.swco@ttu.edu.
dc.subject.lcshDebs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926--Correspondence
dc.subject.lcshHickey, Thomas A., 1869-1925
dc.subject.lcshHickey, Thomas A., 1869-1925--Archives
dc.subject.lcshHickey, Thomas A., 1869-1925--Correspondence
dc.subject.lcshSocialist Party (Tex.)
dc.subject.lcshSocialist Party (U.S.)
dc.subject.lcshUnited States--Politics and government--1901-1909
dc.subject.lcshUnited States--Politics and government--1909-1913
dc.subject.lcshUnited States--Politics and government--1913-1921
dc.subject.lcshUnited States--Politics and government--1921-1923
dc.subject.lcshJournalists--Texas
dc.subject.lcshLabor movement--United States--Archival resources
dc.subject.lcshLabor movement--United States--History
dc.subject.lcshLabor unions--United States
dc.subject.lcshPacifism
dc.subject.lcshSocialism--Texas--History
dc.subject.lcshSocialism--United States--Archival resources
dc.subject.lcshSocialists--United States--Biography
dc.subject.lcshWorld War, 1914-1918
dc.titleFolder 32, Correspondence, Jun 18, 1916 - April 30, 1917.en_US
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