WAUBeckerRayfield0972.xml Guide to the Rayfield Becker Papers 1919-1939 Becker (Rayfield) Papers Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2007 (Last modified: 1/31/2020)
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Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 0972 (Accession No. 0972-001) Becker, Rayfield Rayfield Becker papers 1919-1939 .28 cubic foot Collection materials are in English. Papers of the Centralia Publicity Committee concerning the Centralia Tragedy. Becker was a defendant in Washington v. Britt Smith et al, 1920

Becker was the last of the IWWs associated with the Centralia Tragedy of 1919, (known by opponents of the IWW as the "Centralia Massacre", and also called the "Armistice Day Riot ") and was released from prison in 1939. He died in 1950.

Papers of the Centralia Publicity Committee.

Letters from Becker to Julia Ruuttila, 1919-1939, concerning his release from prison, court papers, petitions, bulletins, affidavits, exhibits, resolutions; minutes of the Centralia Publicity Committee, 1920-1930.

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Deposited by Julia Ruuttila,5/31/1964.

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