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Tag: Industrial Workers of the World

  • The Seattle General Strike: a 100-Year Legacy

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    fitzdon

    At 10 am, February 6, 1919, Seattle’s workers struck, all of them. In doing so they literally took control of the city. The strike was in support of shipyard workers, some 35,000, then in conflict with the city’s shipyards owners and the federal government’s US Shipping Board, the latter still enforcing wartime wage agreements. Seattle’s…

  • Burgerville fight revives the Wobblies, a radical union from Oregon’s industrial past

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    fitzdon

    The Wobblies emerged more than a century ago, a revolutionary, anti-capitalist union that shook up the nation’s industrialists, including Oregon’s timber barons. Their political descendants no longer toil in logging camps on the American frontier. Now they’re behind the counters of a beloved fast-food chain in Portland, up to their elbows in burger grease, marionberries…

  • 100 Years Ago, Eugene Debs Gave An Anti-War Speech That Landed Him in Prison

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    fitzdon

    In 1920, Eugene Victor Debs ran for president from a cell in the federal prison in Atlanta for a speech opposing World War 1 that he gave 100 years ago – on June 18, 1918.   Despite his imprisonment, Debs received 913,664 votes – 3.4 percent of the total. In his speech, the Socialist Party…