For this very special grave post, I am going to profile one of the greats. This is the grave of Frank Little. Like a couple of other recent posts, I have something already written on Little. When I wrote Organizing America, I based some chapters...
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On June 22, 1916, cops shot a Croatian miner named John Alar who was part of the Industrial Workers of the World-led strike in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota. This.
On April 19, 1920, workers affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World went on strike in the copper mines around Butte, Montana. The Anaconda Mining Company, building on the.
This is the grave of Wesley Everest. Born in Newberg, Oregon in 1890, we know little of Everest's early life. Like many working class kids in the Northwest, he ended up in the timber industry. And like a lot of those kids, he thought life...
Big Bill Haywood and office workers, IWW headquarters, Chicago, 1917
On April 1, 1913, workers at the Draper textile factory in Hopedale, Massachusetts walked off the job in a strike led by Italian anarchists fighting for basic human rights. The.
For our latest podcast, we interviewed Ahmed White of the University of Colorado Law School on his brand new book (literally out today) Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers. It's really great. You want to read it. It's...
The labor historian Peter Cole lays out the main points from his new biography of the little known Black Wobbly Ben Fletcher and they are well worth your time this.
On July 3, 1903, members of Mill and Smetlermen's Union No. 93 met at Elyria Town Hall in Denver, Colorado and decided to go on an immediate strike. This strike,.
On November 21, 1927, Colorado state police massacred six striking coal miners at the Columbine Mine in Serene, in what was just one of so many instances in American history of government using police forces as the private strikebreaking army of employers. Colorado miners, both...
On November 10, 1933, workers at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota sat down on the job. Possibly the first sit-down strike in American history, the win these workers achieved.
On September 8, 1909 workers return to work after victory in the Pressed Steel Car Company strike at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, a huge and unexpected victory for the American working.