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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.
Big Bill Haywood and office workers, IWW headquarters, Chicago, 1917
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 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 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.
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 29, 1917, General John J. Pershing appointed retired Colonel Brice Disque to find a solution to the labor situation in the Northwestern forests. He led the Spruce Production.
This is the grave of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Born in 1890 in Concord, New Hampshire to a family interested in socialism, Flynn was exposed to radical ideas early in life,.