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Ford first? Corporate security and the US Department of War's Plant Protection Service's interior organization unit 1917–1918

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Pages 117-135 | Received 29 May 2014, Accepted 29 Sep 2014, Published online: 10 Apr 2015

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Archival Records

  • Attention Mr. Flynn, Chief Clerk. April 20, 1918. Subject: Plant Protection Passes.
  • Banning intelligence synopsis, Plant Protection. No date.
  • Communiqué, no title, February 5, 1918. No sender and no recipient.
  • Communiqué, Subject: IWW Anarchists, Location: Los Angeles, Agent No. 102. December 26th 1917.
  • Interior Organization, February 5, 1918. Sender and receiver unknown.
  • Edmund Leigh, Military Intelligence, Plant Protection, to Chief, Military Intelligence Branch Executive Board, subject IWW Activities – Coast. June 21 1918.
  • Military Intelligence – Plant Protection. Chief, Military Intelligence Branch, Executive Division. Subject: Secret Supplementary Report on Interior Organization; Activities of the Plant Protection Section. April 30, 1918.
  • Military Intelligence – Plant Protection. George Black, Agent in Charge, Detroit, Mich. January 24, 1918. Subject: An Ordinance for the City of Detroit, Mich. Licensing and Regulating Private Detectives and Watchmen.
  • Notice regarding “Racial Classification of Foreign-Born Workers.” September 4, 1918. From the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education to Mr. Edmund Leigh of Plant Protection.
  • Plant Protection Section, Chief Signal Officer of the Army – Attention Mr. Flynn, Chief Clerk. April 20, 1918. Subject: Plant Protection Passes.
  • US Senate report, cited in Weiss 2014, U.S. Senate. Committee on Labor and Education. 1893. “Investigation in Relation to the Employment for Private Purposes of Armed Bodies of Men, or Detectives, in Connection With Differences Between Workmen and Employers.” Report No.1280, 52d Cong. 2nd Sess. Washington: Government printing Office.
  • War Department, Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Washington, February 27, 1918. From Military Intelligence – Plant Protection. To Chief Signal Officer of the Army. Subject: Activities, Military Intelligence, Plant Protection.
  • War Department, Plant Protection Section, From J.F. Grant to George Black, Agent in Charge, District No. 6, July 5, 1918. Subject: Identification and Interior Organization.

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