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Archilochus<p>The bosses relented and the blue collar bathrooms are now presentable. No stench, no flies.</p><p>4/4</p><p><a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a></p>
Archilochus<p>Bosses were upset to see blue collar workers using the clean washrooms. The workers persisted. The bosses then put locks on the closest clean washrooms. This was mean spirited and stupid. The factory manufactures doors, which of course have various kinds of lock hardware familiar to the workers. The locks on the clean bathrooms were quite simple to defeat with a screwdriver, which someone took it upon themselves to do repeatedly.</p><p>3/4</p><p><a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a></p>
Archilochus<p>I talked with FW X about a direct action: organize open and repeated use of the white collar washrooms by the blue collar factory workers. I had a bit of concern about doing this without first filing a grievance, but FW X, a steward at the shop, informs me that his union (this is a dual card situation) routinely ignores such things. FW X put our plan into action. About 1/3 of the workers in his area participated in the washroom action.</p><p>2/4</p><p><a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a></p>
Archilochus<p>The employer in this manufacturing facility treats workers with neglect and contempt. One of the ways boss attitudes manifest themselves in the workplace is allowing blue collar washrooms to descend into filth, while the white collar washrooms are well maintained and clean. The blue collar washrooms stank and were beset with flies. </p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor and Writing History July 10, 1917: The Jerome Deportation occurred in Arizona. On July 5, IWW workers struck at Phelps Dodge mines, in Jerome, Az. Mine supervisors, along with a hastily formed “Citizens Committee” made up of local business leaders, rounded up and deported over 100 Wobblies (IWW members) to Needles, CA, and told them to never return. Two days later, after seeing how successful they had been in Jerome, they launched an even bigger deportation in Bisbee, Az. This time, they rounded up roughly 2,000 Wobblies from the Phelps Dodge mines in Bisbee, Az, and deported them to New Mexico.</p><p>“Bisbee ‘17,” (1999) by Robert Houston, is a historical novel based on the Bisbee deportations. There was also a really interesting film of the same name that came out in 2018. In the film, the town’s inhabitants reenact the events of the Bisbee deportation 100 years later. It also includes interviews with current residents.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wobblies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wobblies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bisbeedeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bisbeedeportation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arizona</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vigilantes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vigilantes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HistoricalFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalFiction</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History July 10, 1894: The Pullman Rail Car strike was put down by 14,000 federal and state troops. Over the course of the strike, soldiers killed 70 American Railway Union (ARU) members. Eugene Debs and many others were imprisoned during the strike for violating injunctions. Debs founded the ARU in 1893. The strike began, in May, as a wildcat strike, when George Pullman laid off employees and slashed wages, while maintaining the same high rents for his company housing in the town of Pullman, as well as the excessive rates he charged for gas and water. During the strike, Debs called for a massive boycott against all trains that carried Pullman cars. While many adjacent unions opposed the boycott, including the conservative American Federation of Labor, the boycott nonetheless affected virtually all train transport west of Detroit. Debs also called for a General Strike, which Samuel Gompers and the AFL blocked. At its height, over 200,000 railway workers walked off the job, halting dozens of lines, and workers set fire to buildings, boxcars and coal cars, and derailed locomotives. Clarence Darrow successfully defended Debs in court against conspiracy charges, arguing that it was the railways who met in secret and conspired against their opponents. However, they lost in their Supreme Court trial for violating a federal injunction. </p><p>By the 1950s, the town of Pullman had been incorporated into the city of Chicago. Debs became a socialist after the strike, running for president of the U.S. five times on the Socialist Party ticket, twice from prison. In 1905, he cofounded the radical IWW, along with Lucy Parsons, Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood and Irish revolutionary James Connolly. In 1894, President Cleveland designated Labor Day a federal holiday, in order to detract from the more radical May 1st, which honored the Haymarket martyrs and the struggle for the 8-hour day. Legislation for the holiday was pushed through Congress six days after the Pullman strike ended, with the enthusiastic support of Gompers and the AFL. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eugenedebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eugenedebs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pullman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pullman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chicago</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haymarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haymarket</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EightHourDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EightHourDay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lucyparsons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lucyparsons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/motherjones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>motherjones</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBillHaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBillHaywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revolutionary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jamesconnolly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesconnolly</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/generalstrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generalstrike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boycott</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History July 9, 1917: Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman were sentenced to two years in prison, $10,000 each, and deportation to Soviet Russia for their antiwar efforts and their anarchist activism. Their persecution by the U.S. government was part of the Palmer Raids, or the first anti-communist witch hunt in the U.S., which led to the imprisonment, death and/or deportation of hundreds of anarchists, communists, and labor organizers. The witch hunt decimated the IWW. And it jump-started the career of J. Edgar Hoover, future head of the FBI and persecutor of activist groups under COINTELPRO, who was then the underling of his mentor A. Mitchell Palmer.</p><p>Though Berkman and Goldman were both born in Russia, they were also naturalized U.S. citizens. The U.S. also deported anarchist Mollie Steimer in 1922. So, Trump’s threat to strip Zohran Mamdani of his citizenship and have him deported would be nothing new for the U.S. The U.S. has also denaturalized and deported people on the right, including several dozen Nazis in the 1970s-1990s. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ussr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/emmagoldman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emmagoldman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/alexanderberkman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alexanderberkman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/molliesteimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>molliesteimer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fbi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fbi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cointelpro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cointelpro</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History July 9, 1935: The Squeegee Strike began in New York, in protest of the dismissals of six subway car cleaners who refused a work speed-up. All were reinstated and most of the union’s grievances were resolved. It was the first successful strike by the new Transport Workers Union (TWU), created in 1934 by 7 NYC subway workers who belonged to the Irish nationalist organization Clan na Gael. They were inspired by the socialism and trade union work of James Connolly, one of the founding members of the IWW . The TWU was a militant industrial union, organizing all workers in the industry, regardless of skill or job title. The union quickly expanded to include workers in all transport industries, throughout the U.S.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jamesconnolly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jamesconnolly</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ireland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/newyork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newyork</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History July 6, 1911: IWW labor organizer Joe Hill's song "The Preacher &amp; the Slave" first appeared in the IWW’s Little Red Song Book. The song is a parody of the hymn, “Sweet By and By,” often song by the Salvation Army (who the IWW called the Starvation Army), which would try to drown out the union’s street-corner labor organizing with their hymns. The Wobbly bard, Haywire Mac, is believed to be the first person to sing this song in public. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Utah Phillips also covered the song. </p><p>You can read my bio of Haywire Mac here: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/16/the-haywire-mac-story/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/</span><span class="invisible">16/the-haywire-mac-story/</span></a></p><p>Long-haired preachers come out every night,<br>Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;<br>But when asked how 'bout something to eat<br>They will answer in voices so sweet</p><p>Chorus<br>You will eat, bye and bye,<br>In that glorious land above the sky;<br>Work and pray, live on hay,<br>You'll get pie in the sky when you die</p><p>And the Starvation Army, they play,<br>And they sing and they clap and they pray,<br>Till they get all your coin on the drum,<br>Then they tell you when you're on the bum</p><p>(Chorus)</p><p>Workingmen of all countries, unite<br>Side by side we for freedom will fight<br>When the world and its wealth we have gained<br>To the grafters we'll sing this refrain<br>Chorus</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/joehill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>joehill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PreacherAndTheSlave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreacherAndTheSlave</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/folkmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folkmusic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/woodyguthrie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woodyguthrie</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/utahphillips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>utahphillips</span></a></p>
Atlanta IWW<p>Join the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@iwwnyc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>iwwnyc</span></a></span> tomorrow, July 5th for their Wobversary Variety Show to celebrate 120 years of organizing with the IWW.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@iww" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>iww@fedigroups.social</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/iww" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>iww@a.gup.pe</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://union.place/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/UnionStrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnionStrong</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History July 2, 1929: Augusto Sandino left for México to seek aid for his Nicaraguan rebels, fighting the U.S. occupation of his country. The rebellion lasted from 1927-1933. In 1934, he was assassinated by General Anastasio Somoza, who seized power in a 1936 coup d’etat, and who, along with his sons, ran the country as dictators until the Sandinista Revolution of 1979 ended their reign of terror. While in México, during early 1920s, Sandino participated in strikes led by the IWW. Inspired by the Wobblies, he returned to foment revolution in Nicaragua, adopting the IWW's black and red syndicalist colors in their Revolutionary Flag. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sandino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sandino</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sandinista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sandinista</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rebellion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/occupation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>occupation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nicaragua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nicaragua</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mexico</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dictator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictator</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>Your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CreditScore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CreditScore</span></a> is a scam meant to enslave you to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/banks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banks</span></a>. They force people into debt so they can get ever more debt. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalists</span></a> use the banks as a means of control, to keep we peasants in line and unable to escape the system of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WageSlavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WageSlavery</span></a> that replaced <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feudalism</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>On <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> in 1892, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomesteadStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomesteadStrike</span></a> broke out in PA. Rather than talk, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Carnegie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carnegie</span></a> sent in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pinkerton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pinkerton</span></a> thugs, which the strikers defeated in battle on 6 July. So, the gov. sent in troops, killing seven workers and helping to break the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a>.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhichSideAreYouOn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhichSideAreYouOn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a></p>
RealJournalism<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> in Solidarity with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalestineAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineAction</span></a> <a href="https://www.anarchistfederation.net/iww-in-solidarity-with-palestine-action/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">anarchistfederation.net/iww-in</span><span class="invisible">-solidarity-with-palestine-action/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/1u" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1u</span></a></p>
Davva<p>IWW issues a statement in support of Palestine Action against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.</p><p><a href="https://iww.org.uk/news/iww-in-solidarity-with-palestine-action/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iww.org.uk/news/iww-in-solidar</span><span class="invisible">ity-with-palestine-action/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PalestineAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/directaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>directaction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labormovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labormovement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/organize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>organize</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rankandfile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rankandfile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a></p>
Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈<p>Fascism doesn’t belong here, or anywhere, ever!</p><p>Industrial Workers of the World<br><a href="https://iww.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">iww.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>International Workers Association<br><a href="https://iwa-ait.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">iwa-ait.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AntiFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiFascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antifa</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/IWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWA</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIT</span></a></p>
Tacoma IWW<p>🎂🐈‍⬛🚩🏴 Happy Birthday to the Industrial Workers of the World! 120 years of solidarity and industrial unionism, direct action, mutual aid, and worker led organizing! </p><p>All workers from all industries are welcome to join the One Big Union.</p><p>-An injury to one is an injury to all-</p><p>1905-</p><p>January 2: Conference of 23 industrial unionists in Chicago issues an Industrial Union Manifesto calling for an industrial Union Congress to be held in Chicago.</p><p>June 27: IWW Founding Convention - The "Continental Congress of the Working Class" establishes the industrial Workers of the World with cooperation of elements from Socialist Labor Party/Socialist Trades &amp; Labor Alliance, Socialist Party of America, Western Federation of Miners and survivors of International Working People's Association.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/iwwtacoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iwwtacoma</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wobblies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wobblies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/industrialworkersoftheworld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>industrialworkersoftheworld</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/industrialunionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>industrialunionism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/aninjurytooneisaninjurytoall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aninjurytooneisaninjurytoall</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/onebigunion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onebigunion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solidarityforever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solidarityforever</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solidarityunionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solidarityunionism</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History June 27, 1905: The Industrial Workers of the World (AKA IWW or the Wobblies) was founded at Brand's Hall, in Chicago, Illinois. The IWW was a radical syndicalist labor union, that advocated industrial unionism, with all workers in a particular industry organized in the same union, as opposed by the trade unions typical today. Founding members included Big Bill Haywood, James Connolly, Eugene V. Debs, Lucy Parsons, and Mother Jones. The IWW was and is a revolutionary union that sought not only better working conditions in the here and now, but the complete abolition of capitalism. The preamble to their constitution states: The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. It also states: Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."<br>They advocate the General Strike and sabotage as two of many means to these ends. However, sabotage to the Wobblies does not necessarily mean bombs and destruction. According to Big Bill Haywood, sabotage is any action that gums up the works, slowing down profits for the bosses. Thus, working to rule and sit-down strikes are forms of sabotage. The IWW is the first union known to have utilized the sit-down strike. They were one of the first and only unions of the early 20th century to organize all workers, regardless of ethnicity, gender, nationality, language or type of work (e.g., they organized both skilled and unskilled workers). They also were subjected to extreme persecution by the state and by vigilantes working for the corporations. Hundreds were imprisoned or deported. Dozens were assassinated or executed, including Joe Hill, Frank Little, Wessley Everest and Carlo Tresca. And scores were slaughtered in massacres, like in McKees Rock railway strike, PA (1909); Lawrence Textile Strike, MA (1912); San Diego Free Speech Fight, CA (1912); Grabow, LA Lumber Strike (1912); New Orleans, LA banana strike (1913); Patterson, NJ textile strike (1913); Mesabi Range Strike, MN (1916); Everett, WA massacre (1916); Centralia, WA Armistice Day riot (1919) and the Columbine, CO massacre (1921). There was also the Hopland, CA riot (1913), in which the police killed each other, accidentally, and framed Wobblies for it.</p><p>There are lots of great books about the IWW artwork and music. The Little Red Songbook. The IWW, Its First 50 Years, by Fred Thompson. Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, by Joyce Kornbluth. But there are also tons of fictional accounts of the Wobblies, too. Lots of references in Dos Passos’, USA Trilogy. Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett, was influenced by his experience working as a Pinkerton infiltrator of the Wobblies. The recent novel, The Cold Millions, by Jess Walter, has a wonderful portrayal of Elizabeth Gurly Flynn, during the Spokane free speech fight. And tons of classic folk and protest music composed by Wobbly Bards, like Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin, Haywire Mac and T-Bone Slim.</p><p>To learn more about the IWW and its organizers you can read the following articles I wrote:<br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/</span><span class="invisible">24/lucy-parsons/</span></a><br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/16/the-haywire-mac-story/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/</span><span class="invisible">16/the-haywire-mac-story/</span></a><br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/</span><span class="invisible">05/frank-little/</span></a><br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/</span><span class="invisible">13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/</span></a><br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/</span><span class="invisible">19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/</span></a><br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/</span><span 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Peter Riley<p><a href="https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/honouring-revolutionary-labour-hero-james-connolly" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">onebigunion.ie/post/honouring-</span><span class="invisible">revolutionary-labour-hero-james-connolly</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JamesConnolly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesConnolly</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LaborMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborMovement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorkingClassHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingClassHistory</span></a></p>