Tacoma IWW<p>Solidarity with all immigrants and refugees 🔥 no están solos, you are not alone - back at the detention center in Tacoma to demand the release of all people detained. An injury to one is an injury to all! </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chingalamigra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chingalamigra</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolishice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abolishice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freethemall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freethemall</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tacomaiww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tacomaiww</span></a></p>
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Chris Muir<p>Mr Block and Franklin Rosemont by Peter Linebaugh:<br><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/28/mr-block-and-franklin-rosemont/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">counterpunch.org/2025/03/28/mr</span><span class="invisible">-block-and-franklin-rosemont/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surrealism</span></a></p>
Davva<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@grumble209/114232250913025472" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@grumble209/1</span><span class="invisible">14232250913025472</span></a></p>
Nando161<p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/ausgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ausgov</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/politas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politas</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today In Labor History March 27, 1912: Start of the 8-month Northern railway strike in Canada by the IWW. Over 8,000 construction workers walked off the job at Northern Railway workcamps Wobblies picketed employment offices in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Tacoma and Minneapolis in order to block the hiring of scabs. </p><p>Fellow workers pay attention to what I'm going to mention,<br>For it is the fixed intention of the Workers of the World.<br>And I hope you'll all be ready, true-hearted, brave and steady,<br>To gather 'round our standard when the red flag is unfurled.</p><p>CHORUS:<br>Where the Fraser River flows, each fellow worker knows,<br>They have bullied and oppressed us, but still our union grows.<br>And we're going to find a way, boys, for shorter hours and better pay, boys<br>And we're going to win the day, boys, where the river Fraser flows.</p><p>For these gunny-sack contractors have all been dirty actors,<br>And they're not our benefactors, each fellow worker knows.<br>So we've got to stick together in fine or dirty weather,<br>And we will show no white feather, where the Fraser river flows.<br>Now the boss the law is stretching, bulls and pimps he's fetching,<br>And they are a fine collection, as Jesus only knows.<br>But why their mothers reared them, and why the devil spared them,<br>Are questions we can't answer, where the Fraser River flows.</p><p>(Lyrics by Joe Hill, 1912, to the tune of “Where the River Shannon Flows.”)</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/railroad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>railroad</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FraserRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FraserRiver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/joehill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>joehill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scabs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sanfrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sanfrancisco</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vancouver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vancouver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seattle</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/minneapolis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minneapolis</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>The wealthy have never cared about helping others. Their lack of regard for other people is how they got and stayed wealthy. For thousands of years, poor folk have been conned into thinking the lords will help them, when it is always we who help each other best. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EatTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EatTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a></p>
MONTREAL Ask A Punk<p><strong>1er mai - LEE REED (ON), Jetsam, Union Thugs, Kon-Fusion, Sistema de Muerte, L RO, Sentai Dub Attack</strong></p>
<p>Batiment 7, Thursday, May 1 at 08:00 PM EDT</p><p>1er mai RAGER - deux scènes, musique non-stop // May Day RAGER - two stages, non-stop music</p><p>Un spectacle-bénéfice pour les travailleurs migrants pour la journée internationale des travailleuses et des travailleurs // A benefit show for migrant workers for International Workers' Day</p><p>Tous les fonds seront remis à Solidarité sans frontières/Solidarity across borders/Solidaridad sin frontera // All the funds raised will be donated to Solidarité sans frontières/Solidarity across borders/Solidaridad sin frontera</p><p>Avec // with</p><p>LEE REED (anarchist rap / Hamilton, ON)</p><p><a href="https://leereed.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://leereed.bandcamp.com/</a></p><p>JETSAM (trans anarchist powerviolence / Montréal)</p><p><a href="https://jetsammtl.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jetsammtl.bandcamp.com</a></p><p>UNION THUGS (Folk-Rock & Oi! de Grève / Montréal)</p><p><a href="https://unionthugs.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://unionthugs.bandcamp.com</a></p><p>SISTEMA DE MUERTE (Hardcore / Montréal)</p><p><a href="https://sistemademuerte.bandcamp.com/album/sistema-de-muerte" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sistemademuerte.bandcamp.com/album/sistema-de-muerte</a></p><p>L RO (Hip-hop / Montréal)</p><p><a href="https://lrobta.bandcamp.com/album/105" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrobta.bandcamp.com/album/105</a></p><p>KON-FUSION (Cumbia / Montréal)</p><p><a href="https://www.kon-fusion.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.kon-fusion.net/</a></p><p>SENTAI DUB ATTACK (Dub Reggae Cumbia / Montréal)</p><p><a href="https://sentaidubattack.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sentaidubattack.bandcamp.com/releases</a></p><p>+ </p><p>des visuels riot porn par // riot porn visuals by <a href="http://SUB.MEDIA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SUB.MEDIA</a> (<a href="https://sub.media)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sub.media)</a></p><p>IWW</p><p>Left Wing Books</p><p>et plus! // and more!</p><p>*******</p><p>Portes // Doors - 20h</p><p>Musique // Music - 20h30 </p><p>Don suggéré à la porte // Suggested donation at the door - 20$</p><p>Personne ne sera refusé par manque de fonds // No one turned away for lack of funds</p><p>*************</p><p>Politique de sécurité et de respect de l'événement : Nous nous engageons à créer un environnement sûr, inclusif et accueillant pour toutes les personnes participantes.</p><p>Politique de tolérance zéro : Les comportements racistes, transphobes, capacitistes et haineux en général ainsi que le harcèlement ou tout comportement qui fait que les autres se sentent en danger ou indésirables entraîneront l'expulsion immédiate de l'événement.</p><p>//</p><p>Event safety and respect policy: We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment for all participants.</p><p>Zero tolerance policy: Racist, transphobic, ableist and generally hateful behaviour as well as harassment or any behaviour that makes others feel unsafe or unwanted will result in immediate expulsion from the event.</p>
<p><a href="https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/1er-mai-lee-reed-on-jetsam-union-thugs-kon-fusion-sistema-de-muerte-l-ro-sentai-dub-attack" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">montreal.askapunk.net/event/1e</span><span class="invisible">r-mai-lee-reed-on-jetsam-union-thugs-kon-fusion-sistema-de-muerte-l-ro-sentai-dub-attack</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 24, 1919: Poet and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born. Ferlinghetti is most well-known for his book of poetry, “A Coney Island of the Mind” (1958) and for cofounding City Lights bookstore and publishing, in San Francisco. The authorities arrested him for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” because they deemed it obscene. However, a jury acquitted him in 1957. Politically, Ferlinghetti considered himself an anarchist. His politics were influenced by Anarchist poet and IWW member Kenneth Rexroth.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/beatniks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beatniks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ferlinghetti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ferlinghetti</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/obscenity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obscenity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CityLights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CityLights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 23, 1918: 101 IWW members went on trial in Chicago for opposing World War I and for violating the Espionage Act. In September, 1917, 165 IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to subvert the draft and encourage desertion. Their trial lasted five months, the longest criminal trial in American history up to that time. The jury found them all guilty. The judge sentenced Big Bill Haywood and 14 others to 20 years in prison. 33 others were given 10 years each. They were also fined a total of $2,500,000. The trial virtually destroyed the IWW. Haywood jumped bail and fled to the USSR, where he remained until his death 10 years later. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ussr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBillHaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBillHaywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedScare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedScare</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a></p>
jojojo<p>Hello fellow workers, of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> persuasion and otherwise! Here’s my latest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anticopyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anticopyright</span></a> image to help promote whatever strike you are organizing. If you would like me to digitally add some text or information about your workplace or efforts hit me up! Also happy to share you a print ready digital file of the image. Feel free to distribute for purposes of organizing workplace sabotage! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/striking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>striking</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sabocat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sabocat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sabotage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sabotage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndustrialWorkersoftheWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndustrialWorkersoftheWorld</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/draweveryday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>draweveryday</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>Sick out - don’t stick out.<br><a href="https://industrialworker.org/cartoon-sick-out-dont-stick-out/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">industrialworker.org/cartoon-s</span><span class="invisible">ick-out-dont-stick-out/</span></a></p><p>More:<br><a href="https://industrialworker.org/?s=Pacey+Pratt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">industrialworker.org/?s=Pacey+</span><span class="invisible">Pratt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cartoons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartoons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labormovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labormovement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/organize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organize</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/directaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>directaction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sabcat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sabcat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a></p>
yianiris<p>If you really dig into the roots and rocks of those pseudo-ideologies in the US 50s, anarcho-capitalism, right-libertarianism, neoliberalism, what you find is well funded and dedicated anti-communists aiming in organizing a reactionary social force against capital''s enemies.</p><p><a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/unionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unionism</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/syndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syndicalism</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/ilo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ilo</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>remixtures</span></a></span></p>
Peter Riley<p>March 2025 convention consolidates <a href="https://www.iww.cy/news/annual-electoral-convention-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">iww.cy/news/annual-electoral-c</span><span class="invisible">onvention-2025/</span></a></p><p>February 2024 Cyprus ROC starts<br><a href="https://iww.org.uk/news/iww-announces-regional-organising-committee-in-cyprus/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iww.org.uk/news/iww-announces-</span><span class="invisible">regional-organising-committee-in-cyprus/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cyprus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyprus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labormovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labormovement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/organize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organize</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>These people are being killed so that your salary remains low and theirs remains lower. And if you want to see who is really to blame for the hardships you are going through, stop looking at those below you, and raise your head to see who is above you and is profiting from your labour.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a> and struggle, fellow workers; we have no other choice.</p><p><a href="https://www.iww.cy/articles/migrant-workers-march-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">iww.cy/articles/migrant-worker</span><span class="invisible">s-march-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cyprus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyprus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labormovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labormovement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/migrantworkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrantworkers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/organize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organize</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 15, 1877: Ben Fletcher, African-American IWW organizer was born on this date. Fletcher organized longshoremen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined the Wobblies (IWW) in 1912, became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the union maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher traveled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him, sentencing him to ten years for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BenFletcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BenFletcher</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AfricanAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanAmerican</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lynching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lynching</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wobblies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wobblies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/longshore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longshore</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philadelphia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastadon</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 15, 1917: The U.S. Supreme Court approved the 8-hour workday under the threat of a rail strike. Philadelphia carpenters struck for the 10-hour day in 1791 and by the 1830s, it had become a general demand of workers. In 1835, Philadelphia workers organized the first general strike in North America, led by Irish coal heavers, in the struggle for a 10-hour day. However, by 1836, labor movement publications were calling for an 8-hour day. In 1864, the 8-hour day became a central demand of the Chicago labor movement. In 1867, a citywide strike for the 8-hour day shut down the city's economy for a week before falling apart. During the 1870s, eight hours became a central demand of the U.S. labor movement, with a network of 8-Hour Leagues forming across the nation. </p><p>In 1872, 100,000 workers in New York City struck and won the eight-hour day. On May 1, 1886 Albert Parsons, head of the Chicago Knights of Labor, led 80,000 people down Michigan Avenue in the first modern May Day Parade, with workers chanting, "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay." Within days, 350,000 workers went on strike nationwide for the 8-hour day. On 3 May 1886, anarchist August Spies, editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung (Workers Newspaper), spoke to 6,000 workers. Afterwards, they marched to the McCormick plant in Chicago to harass scab workers. The police arrived and opened fire, killing four and wounding many more. On May 4, workers protested this police violence at a meeting in Haymarket Square. An unknown assailant hurled a bomb at the police. The authorities rounded up hundreds of labor activists and anarchists. They convicted 8 in a kangaroo court and executed four of them, including Parsons and Spies. </p><p>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American currently works 8.8 hours every day. This, of course, does not include commute time which, for many Americans, can add another two or more hours a day to the time they give away for free to their bosses. Nor does it include work we take home. The scam of being a “salaried” employee is commonly exploited by bosses, who argue that we are paid based on the responsibilities completed, regardless of how long it takes to complete them.</p><p>Read my full article on Lucy Parsons, which goes deeper into the Haymarket affair and the struggle for the 8 hour day: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" 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></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EightHourDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EightHourDay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/generalstrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generalstrike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haymarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haymarket</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policebrutality</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mayday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mayday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deathpenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deathpenalty</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p><a href="https://www.iww.cy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">iww.cy/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Optilink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Optilink</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iww" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iww</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cyprus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyprus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techworkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techworkers</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 12, 1912: The IWW won their Bread and Roses textile strike in Lawrence, MA. This was the first strike to use the moving picket line, implemented to avoid arrest for loitering. The workers came from 51 different nationalities and spoke 22 different languages. The mainstream unions, including the American Federation of Labor, all believed it was impossible to organize such a diverse workforce. However, the IWW organized workers by linguistic group and trained organizers who could speak each of the languages. Each language group got a delegate on the strike committee and had complete autonomy. Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn masterminded the strategy of sending hundreds of the strikers' hungry children to sympathetic families in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont, drawing widespread sympathy, especially after police violently stopped a further exodus. 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. Nearly 300 were arrested.</p><p>The 1911 verse, by Poet James Oppenheim, has been associated with the strike, particularly after Upton Sinclair made the connection in his 1915 labor anthology, “The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest”</p><p>As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,<br>For they are women's children, and we mother them again.<br>Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;<br>Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/breadandroses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>breadandroses</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policebrutality</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/elizabethgurleyflynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elizabethgurleyflynn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bigbillhaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigbillhaywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/picket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>picket</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uptonsinclair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uptonsinclair</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Nando161<p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a>: Women to the Front</p><p><a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theanarchistlibrary.org/specia</span><span class="invisible">l/index</span></a></p><p><a href="https://libcom.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">libcom.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.iww.org.au/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">iww.org.au/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.iww.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">iww.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://asf-iwa.org.au/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">asf-iwa.org.au/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
AlinskyDidNothingWrong<p>Setting status symbols on fire doesn't really change the power dynamic.</p><p>Going on strike and demanding the boss turn over ownership to the workers fundimentally changes the power dynamic.</p><p>There is no NLRB to tell you that you can't. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a></p>
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