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 event did not succeed, because the odds were so stacked against the miners and the...
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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.
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 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 Sunday morning. Never graduating from high school, Fletcher joined hundreds of thousands of rural Black...
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.
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 helped set up the labor militancy of the New Deal era that revolutionized the lives...
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.
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.