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Longshoremen Wildcat Strikes Halt East Coast Shipping
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0448 712 420 Toronto GMB: c/o Libra Knowledge & Information upstate-nyiww.org, secretary@upstate-ny-iww.
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British Isles 773-857-1090. Gregory Ehrendreich, del., 312- '&"+3-,'3*&"5$:3$7!+$1//"$#*()',%3$3&$./3$ M,/$3&$37/$4&-%#$/'&"&0*'$'-*+*+=$37/$ '&"+3-,'3*&"$4&-2/-+5 !*0+$4*37&,3$+/'3!-*!"*+0$&-$+/%)+7"/++5$
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British Isles Regional Organising Committee (BI- Montreal: iww_quebec@riseup.net. Paul Lespe 845-342-3405, hviww@aol.com, http://hviww.
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS ROC): PO Box 7593 Glasgow, G42 2EX. Secretariat: ance, del., 7673 Saint-Denis, H2R2E7. 514-277- Central Ill GMB: 903 S. Elm, Champaign, IL, 61820. blogspot.com/ 37!3$*#/"3*3>$!+$4&-2/-+$*"$!$,"*&"=$!"#$ 37/$1&++/+$7!B/$.&"/$(&-4!-#$*"$!$7,./$ 0!"!./#$3&$0!2/$8-&.-/++$*"$!$+7&-3$8/ /98/-*/"'/$4/$7!B/$#/'*#/#$&"$!$-&!#$3&$
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Building Construction Workers IU 330: construc- Frankfurt/M, Germany iww-germany@gmx.net. Eastern Iowa GMB: 114 1/2 E. College Street, Iowa
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GENERAL EXECUTIVE BOARD: Education Workers IU 620: education@iww.org.uk,
www.geocities.com/iwweducation
Frankfurt am Main: iww-frankfurt@gmx.net
Goettingen: iww-goettingen@gmx.net
Barry Rodrigue, 75 Russell Street, Bath, 04530.
207-442-7779
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503-231-5488. portland.iww@gmail.com, pdx.
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United States Western Mass. Public Service IU 650 Branch: IWW,
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In November We Remember:
Vicky Starr
Labor Rights Violations Stack Up At Jimmy John’s
By the Jimmy Johns to the table,” said Ayo Collins, a member pects of the antiunion campaign have
Workers Union of the union. crossed over into illegality, with reports
By Staughton Lynd From 1938 to 1940, the Packing
MINNEAPOLIS – Jimmy John’s Franchise owners Mike and Rob of management threats, intimidation,
When my wife Alice and I inter house Workers didn’t have bargaining
will face a government investigation Mulligan have refused to meet with and retaliation against union members
viewed Vicky Starr in 1969 and 1971 for rights. There was “tremendous ferment.”
of 14 alleged violations of the National their employees to discuss their issues, surfacing across Minneapolis.
a collection of oral histories called “Rank Vicky recalled:
Labor Relations Act at ten Minneapolis 8-&083*".$37/$+!"#4*'7$4&-2/-+$3&$)%/$ According to a 2009 report on
and File,” Vicky called herself “Stella You had this sense that people were
locations. The sandwich workers’ union for a National Labor Relations Board employer responses to union organiz
Nowicki” because she didn’t want her ready to get together, to protect
7!+$)%/#$!"$g"(!*-$;!1&-$H-!'3*'/$'7!-./$ union election, scheduled for Oct. 22. If *".$1>$"&3/#$U&-"/%%$g"*B/-+*3>$%!1&-$
employer at the time (the University each other... It did happen that
accusing company owners Mike and a majority of Minneapolis Jimmy John’s scholar Kate Bronfenbrenner, 63
of Chicago) to know about her radical !"#!$"%&"'"%('")%*+,%&-".%!"#!$"%
Rob Mulligan of engaging in a pattern workers vote in favor of the union, the percent of employers interrogate work
activities in the 1930s. When we inter &"'"%('")%,-"%&-#$"%)"!/',0".,%
of labor rights violations ranging from Mulligans will be legally required to ers in mandatory oneonone meet
viewed her again for a second collection just closed down.
physical intimidation and threats against negotiate in good faith over the terms of ings about support for the union, 54 Graphic: jimmyjohnsworkers.org
more than a quarter century later, she By the 1940s the union would bring a mere 1.8 percent. A union victory at
union members, to tightening of com a contract. percent of employers threaten workers
had retired and had no problem using a sound truck and thousands of people Jimmy John’s could be a major break
pany policies in retaliation for union In response to the union campaign, in such meetings, 47 percent of employ
her real name. would show up for meetings in the through for labor in an industry where
activity. Jimmy John’s has contracted with Labor /-+$37-/!3/"$3&$',3$4!./+$!"#$1/"/)3+=$
Vicky Starr was the child of Eastern middle of the stockyards at noontime. unions have struggled to gain a foothold,
“When we formed the union, we Relations Institute, Inc., a third party Qq$8/-'/"3$&($/08%&>/-+$)-/$4&-2/-+=$
European immigrants. She grew up on a “The union leadership would be negoti even as an increasing number of Ameri
were hoping to just be able to sit down !"3*G,"*&"$'&"+,%3!"'>$)-0=$3&$0&,"3$!$ !"#$DW$8/-'/"3$!33/083$3&$*")%3-!3/$37/$
farm in Michigan. “We had no electricity. ating within a particular plant on a griev '!"+$)"#$37/0+/%B/+$/08%&>/#$*"$(!+3$
with Mike and Rob to talk about some comprehensive attack on union sup organizing committee. Due to these fac
We had outdoor privies,” she said. Vicky ance [and if] the matter wasn’t settled food establishments.
basic improvements—sick days, basic porters. With the aid of Labor Relations tors, only 45 percent of NLRB elections
ran away from home at age 17 because by a certain time, the whole department (Editor’s note: At press time, the
respect, and a pay raise above minimum Institute, the Mulligans have begun a conducted from 19992003 resulted in a
“there was not enough money to feed the would walk out,” Vicky recalled. NLRB election was not yet held. For
wage. We are dismayed that Jimmy series of “captive audience meetings,” union victory.
family during the Depression.” In 1945, with the union recognized complete updates on this and other
John’s has opted to bring in highpriced requiring their employees to watch In large part because of harsh
Vicky’s father had been a coal miner and the war over, Vicky left packing. She JJWU news, visit http://www.jimmy
antiunion consultants and attempt to il antiunion videos in an attempt to break employer opposition, union density in
and had bought a few books about Lenin married a linotypist from the Chicago johnsworkers.org)
legally unionbust rather than just come support for unionization. Other as the food service industry hovers around
and Maxim Gorky. She recalled that 1'2*+." and had three children. Around
when Sacco and Vanzetti were executed 1950 she went back to work as a secre
“the foreignborn people were in mourn tary at the University of Chicago. Ottawa Busker Appeals Conviction Boston Rallies In Solidarity With Strike In Spain
ing for a week.” The family practiced The National Labor Relations Board By Matt Andrews
what Vicky’s father described as a social (NLRB) decided that the “appropriate By Peter Moore chief. He was convicted on May 25, 2010 With the support of
ist idea, “No work, bargaining unit” When the City of Ottawa installed with a sentence of 12 months proba radicals in the commu
no eat.” was clerical work speakers and started broadcasting tion and 20 hours community service. nity, the Boston IWW or
Agnes, a woman ers throughout the muzak in Raymond Loomer’s favorite Loomer represented himself and has ap ganized a rally on Beacon
from Chicago, had whole university. underpass, he cut the speaker wires pealed, saying the city failed to provide, Hill in front of the Mas
come to the farm for There were 1,800 of one day in May by law, information sachusetts State House to
her health. Agnes them. More than 18 2009. He then he could have used in protest budget cuts in the
invited Vicky to go buildings had to be taped the wire on his defense and that state and express solidar
back to Chicago organized. 37/$&()'/$#&&-$&($ he has rights under ity with the militant work
with her. Vicky at After other the Downtown the Canadian Charter ers movement in Europe.
)-+3$%*B/#$4*37$ unions tried and Rideau Business of Rights and Free Speakers recognized the
Agnes’ family and failed, the Team Improvement Area, doms to make a living Spanish unions, Con
through them met sters launched a a business lobby and enjoy his free federación Nacional del
a member of the campaign. Vicky had group that has dom of expression. K-!1!R&$XUEKY$!"#$g"*x"$
Young Communist no use for the local waged a campaign He objected to the General de Trabajadores Boston Wobblies rally on Sept. 29. Photo: Suren Mooliar
In November We Remember
Barbara Rose Johns (19351991) Remembering Police Brutality
By Richmond IWW By Nicholas DeFilippis died in the Richmond City Jail over the
We’ve all heard the adult With the events against police bru years.
chauvinist myth that youth tality at the end of October and remem Some inmates have died because
are unaware, apathetic, and brances being published in the Novem Sheriff C.T. Woody cut spending on
ungrateful for everything. ber IW, I would like combine the two important medications. Others have
Well, fortunately, that is not in this article. Richmond, Va. has seen died because jail guards simply ignored
true. The only proof we need a number of police atrocities over the obvious signs that certain inmates were
for this is the example of Bar years and the situation is worse than the approaching death.
bara Rose Johns. average city in some respects. This piece The conditions in the jail went far
Attending school during is meant to remember the crimes of the enough to provoke an American Civil
the era of segregation, Johns Richmond Police Department and their Liberties Union (ACLU) investigation
and her classmates were almost faceless victims. this year. The ACLU stated the deaths at
forced to endure unequal With one of the highest incarcera the jail were due to “unconstitutionally
schooling facilities. The build tion rates in the region, Richmond police harsh conditions.”
ings were frigid in the winter Photo: encyclopediavirginia.org arrest and jail seemingly everyone. From Sadly, death is not the only thing
and packed to twice their capacity, and her peers to act by reminding them of 3-!()'$%!4$B*&%!3&-+$3&$37/$0/"3!%%>$*%%=$ prisoners must suffer in the Richmond
the roofs leaked whenever it rained. the terrible conditions that existed at from drug addicts to the homeless and City Jail. For example, Rastafarians who
When the minority parents complained their school and that even if improve other misde refuse to cut their
to the allwhite school board, they were ments could not be made in time to meanor offend hair on religious
only able to win tar paper shacks for the 1/"/)3$37/0+/%B/+=$37/*-$1-&37/-+$!"#$ ers, nobody is grounds are
extra students. However, the white stu sisters would see the improvements. She safe from the put into semi
dents were given a new, modern school led her peers on a march down to the Richmond police. isolation. Some of
building on the other side of town. county courthouse to speak out against This insane policy them have been in
In 1951, at the young age of 16, Johns the unfair treatment of AfricanAmeri has caused seri isolation for over
became a leader in the AfricanAmerican can youth. They waved placards saying ous overcrowd a decade.
community of Prince Edward County, “Down with tar paper shacks!” ing in the city jail, This Novem
Va. On April 23, Barbara Johns orga Her protest was so well organized pushing the city ber, and almost
nized a student strike. The principal of that even the NAACP, who originally incarceration rate every day for that
R.R. Moton High School received a call didn’t want to take her case, was im well above the matter, Richmond
informing him that two students had pressed and decided to help her. Johns' national average. Wobblies and
been arrested at the bus stop. As soon as case eventually became part of Brown In 2008, Graphic: Winnipeg IWW other activists
he left to assist the students, a note from v. Board of Education, and it was the resident Joanne Jefferson was man remember the victims of local police
“the principal” was delivered to each only part of Brown that was started by handled, thrown against a wall, forced to brutality. We realize that such things are
classroom announcing a general assem students. Many see it as the beginning of the ground, and arrested for videotaping inherent within capitalist society. Due to
bly. At this assembly, Johns encouraged the Civil Rights Movement. 8&%*'/$&()'/-+$!--/+3*".$8/&8%/$%/!B*".$ the class nature of the government and
bars after last call. She was charged with its jails, brutality against the average
*08/#*".$3-!()'=$1,3$37/$'7!-./+$4/-/$ person is to be expected. Richmond,
Davey Caught the West Bound later dismissed.
For others, justice does not come
however, will not sit silently as the police
take away our loved ones and our rights.
By San Francisco Bay Area IWW
Davey Sapinsley, a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Branch of the so easily. In 2006, for example, it was Our local IWW crew has discussed the
IWW, passed away on Sept. 1, 2010. Davey began his association with the IWW -/8&-3/#$37!3$!$m*'70&"#$8&%*'/$&()'/-$ idea of educating about police brutality,
in Chicago in the mid1970s. Over the years, Davey was involved in many activi had shot and killed an unarmed man. and our friends in Richmond Copwatch
ties not connected to the IWW. In 2006, he found his way back to the union and That same year, a judge dismissed crimi and the Wingnut Collective are watching
rejoined. He stated that the union’s organizing work at the time drew him back. "!%$'7!-./+$!.!*"+3$!"$&()'/-$47&$7!#$ the cops as closely as they watch us.
Davey was ready and willing to join our picket lines and help in most any way !++!,%3/#$!$4&0!"$!3$!$3-!()'$+3&85$ The author encourages people across
he could. During the General Assembly in Oakland in 2006, he helped out with Earlier this year, Richmond City Jail the United Statesto observe their local
food and housing. Davey was a true character who always had a story to tell. inmate Grant R. Sleeper died of heat ex police and bring their brutality to the at
Even though he was not as involved lately, he is remembered in the Bay Area as posure, which, according to the Bureau tention of rights groups and other orga
someone who helped out when he could. Additionally, Davey was involved in of Justice Statistics, never happened nizations, form local groups that aim to
the Nuclear freeze movement during the 1980s and was a regular volunteer with anywhere else in the United States from make neighborhoods safe without police
Food Not Bombs in the Bay Area. 2000 to 2007. Sleeper is not the only intervention, and any other techniques
case. A great number of inmates have 37/$8/&8%/$)"#$"/'/++!->5
14th & Broadway: A View Of Justice For Oscar Grant
By Nick Theodosis example is the view from 14th Street and the business community, the protection on Oct. 23 in Oakland and around the
In international affairs, the fashion Broadway in downtown Oakland, Calif. of property over people’s security and country to stand up against the kind of
able view of the state has shifted from This is where, following the Johannes wellbeing—if the latter commitment can “protection” handed to Oscar Grant, de
a “duty to control” to a “responsibil Mehserle verdict, a legion of Bay Area even remain intelligible under such a manding that the state jail its killer cops.
ity to protect.” Given commensurable police coerced, corralled and assaulted disturbing moral stance. On Aug. 5, the San Francisco Bay Area
values and under narrow conditions the peaceful protestors such as activists, However, despite the powerful sup IWW unanimously adopted a resolution
8&+*3*&"$'!"$1/$R,+3*)/#=$/B/"$1>$37&+/$ organizers, union members, and others port behind the business stance, it has supporting the rally, noting that, “the
who reject the legitimacy of government who were demanding justice for Oscar drawn increasingly militant challenges :nn$)-0%>$-/R/'3+$8&%*'/$B*&%/"'/$!"#$
authority, and even in spite of the fact Grant. On this view, a view from behind by those who share the view from 14th stands beside the family and of friends of
that on such a view the state is failing enemy lines, control is never mistaken and Broadway. What is now recognized Oscar Grant.”
horrendously. for protection. as a nationwide rebellion against do There was a planned IWW presence
Fortunately, this view does not Only far beyond such lines are we mestic state terror in primarily working at 14th and Broadway and around the
usurp alternatives at our disposal. An likely to value, as does both the state and class communities and overwhelmingly country on Oct. 23 and Wobblies called
to people of color, the for action to be taken in workplaces.
Justice for Oscar Grant The duty to control workingclass com
movement—which munities is a direct result of the state’s
erupted spontane responsibility to protect the interest of
ously on the streets of the business community and Wobblies
Oakland immediately 7!B/$!$%&".$!"#$+*."*)'!"3$7*+3&->$&($
following the killing recognizing this authoritarian marriage
of 22year old Oscar and its disastrous consequences. There
Grant by San Francisco fore, we too have a responsibility, not to
Bay Area Rapid Transit protect, but to rebel, to make it known to
(BART) cop Johannes the business community that we will not
Mehserle—is a driving sit idly and watch as the state slaughters
force for radical change. to protect property and privilege.
Mehserle, who was If we are at all concerned with jus
convicted of involun tice, for Oscar Grant and the countless
tary manslaughter, will others, and committed to curbing state
receive his sentence violence in our communities, our imme
on Nov. 5. As a sign diate attention and militant action—both
of solidarity with the at work and in the streets—is an urgent
family and friends of calling.
Oscar Grant and the
Justice for Oscar Grant Nick Theodosis is a graduate stu
community, the Inter dent in philosophy at San Francisco
national Longshore State University. He is also on the ILW
& Warehouse Union initiated Oscar Grant Rally Organizing
(ILWU) Local 10 called Committee and a Wobbly. He can be
an organized labor rally reached at nmtheo@mail.sfsu.edu.
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In November We Remember
We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years
By Nate Hawthorne not all. In 2008 ambulance while have a job here.” He needed money so he
Fellow Worker Utah Phillips, gone between 50,000 to another tried to found another job at a different factory.
but not forgotten, hopefully somewhere 60,000 U.S. work comfort him. The He works 60 hours a week at the new
up in the sky enjoying a piece of pie, said ers died of occu 911 dispatcher said plant and says he doesn’t have the time
once that we should remember our labor pational diseases. someone should !"#$/"/-.>$3&$)"#$!$%!4>/-$3&$8,-+,/$!">$
martyrs, like Frank Little, murdered by <%+&$*"$DPPW=$ )"#$!"#$.!37/-$,8$ legal action over his injuries. He made
mine owners in Montana and Welsey approximately the man’s severed about $9 an hour at that job.
Everest, lynched by anonymous cowards 4.6 million U.S. )"./-$3*8+$*"$'!+/$ <1&,3$!$4//2$!.&=$0>$DP$>/!-$&%#$
in Washington. Even more than that, he workers reported they could be sewn brother got a shard of metal in his eye at
said, we must also remember all the peo suffering nonfatal back on. My dad !$0/3!%$(!1-*'!3*&"$(!'3&->5$<3$37/$/0/-
ple who died and got hurt on the job. We workplace injuries picked them up, gency room, they dug into his eye to pull
must remember our martyrs who died or occupational trying not to throw the shard out, gave him a prescription
NEW IWW Lapel Pins! ).73*".$(&-$R,+3*'/5$<+$8!-3$&($2//8*".$
alive our urgent demand for justice, we
illnesses. These are
just the reported
up. The guy was
in his late 20s and
for Vicodin, and said that if he couldn’t
see out of it in a few days then he should
Gold and Black must also remember our fellow workers
ground under the gears of the capitalist
cases—many go
unreported—and
had previously
been an avid guitar
go see a doctor. So far we don’t know if
his employer has workers compensation
Union Made by SEIU system while trying to earn a living.
I recently became a father, so babies,
these are just the
ones in the U.S. The Graphic: J. Pierce
player.
In 1996, at a
insurance or not. The boss is not coop
erating. My brother is going to see about
$10.00 parenting, and family are on my mind a actual toll globally is much, much higher. Siegel’s factory a bunch of lumber fell on getting a lawyer. He made about $9 an
lot. Injuries take a toll on the individu Fortunately, no one in my family has me, hitting me in the head and the hand. hour at that job.
als hurt. Since all of us are social beings, died on the job, at least as far as I know, Luckily, I was wearing my hard hat so I want to quote again from “We
Lynch Mobs, Finnish Songs & CrossBorder Solidarity:
By Jon Bekken strike that united radicals and gangsters, ing from other organizations’ halls, in are among the few remaining spaces
Our Annual Survey Of Historical Writing On The IWW
1960, when “Pittsburgh rested with pride between the tiny group led by ousted tory (77:1) has a symposium on Frank and many socialists moved closer to the
Our annual survey of recent scholar while building a culture of solidarity that November 1924, Grays Harbor Wobblies where people congregate in public, and on a unique history of production and IWW President Charles Sherman and Tannenbaum, who was jailed in 1914 for union in the struggle against the repres
ship on the IWW focuses this year on ended racist attacks on Black prisoners opened their own $25,000 structure where ideas and work are so clearly struggle that helped shape the course the majority, “and simply recognize the organizing a series of church occupa sion.
lynch mobs (governmentsponsored and (145). This is an important book, which '&08%/3/$4*37$!,#*3&-*,0=$37/!3/-=$&()' intertwined. (FW Feinberg was also one of the nation and the world” (416). In Industrial Workers of the World as a tions by jobless men. Three articles offer Kenyon Zimmer’s “Premature Anti
otherwise), immigrants, and crossbor touches on a much broader range of es and apartments, demonstrating that of the editors of the newest edition of the the years that followed, of course, the whole” while working to reestablish an overview of his career, and examine Communists? American Anarchism,
der solidarity. defense campaigns from John Brown the region’s Finnishspeaking Wobblies IWW’s “Little Red Songbook”). steel industry pulled out of Pittsburgh unity. The minority report called for his writings on the labor movement the Russian Revolution, and LeftWing
Rebecca Hill’s “Men, Mobs, and Law: through George Jackson. were looking ahead. As Wobbly Antti In “The Point of Pittsburgh” (Battle in search of more pliant workers, and recognizing Wm. Trautmann and the (Tannenbaum became a leading labor Libertarian AntiCommunism, 1917
Antilynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Pablo Yankelevich’s “Explotadores, Maki put it in a poem written for the of Homestead Foundation, 2008), the region has never recovered. I know &37/-$&()'/-+$/%/'3/#$1>$37/$:nnJ+$COP[$ liberal after leaving the IWW), as well as 1939” (Labor 6(2), Summer 2009, 45
Radical History” (Duke University Press, truhanes, agitadores y negros: Deporta occasion: “The power of tyrants will be veteran activist and labor historian that McCollester has things to say about Convention. Both reports were rejected, his writings on Mexico. One author (or 71) does not focus on the IWW but does
2008) argues that the IWW pioneered ciones y restricciones a estadounidens stricken down…When the cold chains Charles McCollester has produced a 37*+$8-&'/++=$!"#$!1&,3$37/$-!"2G!"#G)%/$ and the resolution that was ultimately maybe an editor) gets our name wrong, note the role of Russian workers in the
the tradition of radical labor defense, esen el México revolucionario” (Historia of the slave are broken, And our victory monumental social history of a city that resistance that was ultimately unable to adopted called on the WFM to propose !"#$37/$:nn$).,-/+$ IWW. In 1917, the IWW
campaigns which exposed the brutal Mexicana 57, April 2008) examines the journey has begun.” has been home to some of labor’s most overcome the enormous odds, but my a unity convention to relaunch the only as a voice for social dispatched type from its
ity of the capitalist state. Hill sees the Mexican government’s use of expulsions James P Leary’s “Yksi Suuri Union: epic battles. McCollester starts at the only criticism of this important book is IWW. Based upon his examination of recognition for immigrant defunct Russianlanguage
8-&'/++$&($-/#/)"*".$8-*+&"/-+$!+$'%!++$ and other restrictions during the 1910s Field Recordings of Finnish American beginning, with the geography of the that it stops too soon. delegates’ voting records, Clements con and (supposedly) unskilled paper to Vladivostock,
heroes as a key part of the project of and 1920s, which targeted Wobblies and IWW Songs” (Journal of Finnish Stud region and the indigenous inhabitants John Enyeart’s “The Quest for ‘Just cludes that “the Federation did not aban workers. Even “pure and Russia, to start an IWW
questioning the values of the state. “Such other radicals in Mexico City (many of ies, Summer 2010, 617) reclaims the who were ultimately displaced by Euro and Pure Law’: Rocky Mountain Work don the IWW because it had moderated; simple” trade unionism paper there. But Wobblies
campaigns can become challenges to 47&0$4/-/$L//*".$37/$#-!(3$!"#$4!-3*0/$ forgotten history of Finnishlanguage pean colonialists. This is a history built ers and American Social Democracy” it eventually moderated partly because it was intrinsically radical in and other radicals quickly
workingclass activists to repression). Similar mea IWW songs, including three songbooks around the stories of those who worked (Stanford University Press, 2009) titles had abandoned the IWW.” Even in 1908, the U.S. context, Michael became critical as Bol
expand their understand sures were taken against issued between 1918 and 1925. Folklorist and lived there. Some of those work its chapter on the IWW “Sabotage, ‘Jack 47/"$37/$ndA$&()'*!%%>$+/B/-/#$*3+$'&" Merrill concludes. Tan shevik power became
ing of workingclass poli AfricanAmericans and Alan Lomax recorded IWW songs in the ers were Wobblies, and so “The Point ass Tactics’ Indeed.” Enyeart contrasts nection to the IWW, it adopted a resolu nenbaum deserves to be entrenched and by 1922,
tics beyond the immediate foreign capitalists who ran 1930s, and 78 rpm recordings of several of Pittsburgh” offers vivid portraits of socialists to syndicalists, who Enyeart 3*&"$?-/!()-0{*".|$&,-$!%%/.*!"'/$3&$37/$ better known. This sym 37/$:nn$4!+$)-0%>$*"$37/$
issues of free labor in the afoul of the government in Finnishlanguage IWW songs (some the McKees Rocks strike of 1909 which contends believed socialism “could principles of industrial unionism”—and posium performs a useful antiBolshevik camp. The
same way that Frederick Tampico, where the IWW based on the Englishlanguage songs, could not be sustained once the more emerge only after the violent destruction ndA$&()'*!%+$'&"3*",/#$3&$!33!'2$'-!(3$ service in reminding us Communist Party (CP)
Douglass suggested that had a substantial organi others original) were issued in the 1910s skilled “American” workers abandoned of the wage system” (171). Most work unionism even after rejoining the Ameri of that fact, even if it adds tried to pull the IWW into
the lives of white workers zation and waged several and beyond. The essay documents the the immigrant workers who formed the ers preferred political action, Enyeart can Federation of Labor. little to our understanding its orbit throughout the
and Black workers were strikes (not mentioned surviving materials and includes ex core of the IWW’s support. A few years claims, and were put off by the IWW In the aftermath of the WFM’s defec of his work and ideas. early 1920s. IWW editor
linked” (23). 7/-/b$E&-0!%$U!,%)/%#J+$ cerpts (in Finnish and in English transla later, the city’s immigrant cigar makers policy of “violence, even if only used rhe tion, the IWW mounted major organiz Eric Chester revisits Vern Smith was a secret
Graphic: us.macmillan.com
“The IWW intention “Mexican Workers and the tion) of some of these songs. As Leary turned to the IWW in the 1913 Stogie torically” (178). The AFL policy of closed ing campaigns on the WFM’s home turf, :nn$0/01/-+7*8$).,-/+$ Communist during the
ally organized masses for State” remains the best notes, this is an important corrective Strike, while Wobblies were also active shop contracts and labels yielded practi and the WFM was reduced to a shell of in “The Rise and Fall of the IWW As 1924 split, using his control of Industrial
the defense of prisoners, Englishlanguage source to the “Big Red Songbook” issued a few *"$!$(-//$+8//'7$).73$&,3+*#/$37/$n/+3 cal results, unlike the IWW’s revolution its former self by the end of World War Viewed Through Its Membership Fig Solidarity to try to steer the IWW to
masses intent not on revo for this). years ago, which included only English inghouse Electric factory, where organiz ary policy. He claims the I. Clements sees this as a ures” (AnarchoSyndicalist Review 55, ward the CP and exacerbating the Emer
lution in the future but on Katherine BentonCo language songs. ers fought for the right to speak about IWW rebuffed solidarity '&"L*'3$1/34//"$8-!. Fall 2010), suggesting that the IWW was gency Program split. (As Zimmer notes,
the practical task of saving hen’s “Borderline Ameri The January 2010 issue of Academe, conditions—ultimately leading to a strike from the Socialist Party matic unionism and revo growing much more rapidly than many the CP was tiny, with only 99 members
the individual worker in cans: Racial division and the magazine of the American Associa by thousands of members of the new Al (SP), but provides no lutionary aspirations, historians have recognized when the fed voting in its 1929 referendum. But the
the here and now”(115). Graphic: lawanddisorder.org labor war in the Arizona tion of University Professors, has an legheny Congenial Industrial Union. The evidence. The author’s in which WFM leaders eral government unleashed its campaign split decimated the real IWW, demoral
However, in her view, the IWW attack on borderlands” (Harvard University Press, article by FW Joel Feinberg, “Singing bosses proclaimed the affair “an IWW orientation is perhaps could no longer stomach of repression during World War I, and izing many members and undercutting
capitalist law and order “came close” to a 2009) is a history of Cochise County, All the Way to the Union,” which looks effort, thinly disguised” and refused to best exposed by his obser frontal assaults against that the resurgence of the early 1920s promising organizing campaigns).
romantic literature that saw vigilantism Ariz. It opens with a vivid description of back to the tradition of IWW songs as a negotiate; ultimately workers returned vation that the Utah AFL the power of industry and *+$/9!../-!3/#$*"$&,-$&()'*!%$7*+3&->5$ AK Press has also brought out a new
as “manly,” even if the IWW “eventu the Bisbee Deportation (including quotes means of public organizing and agita to improved conditions, but many were backed SP candidates in the state. For him, this He provides a useful summary of the edition of Nunzio Pernicone’s “Carlo
ally” recognized that supposedly popular from some of the deportees), includes tion, and suggests that contemporary blacklisted. many elections but sup -/L/'3+$!$4*#/-$#*%/0 available data on IWW membership, ac Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel,” originally
lynch mobs were often the work of thugs two chapters on Bisbee focusing on the labor organizers (in particular graduate The “The Point of Pittsburgh” ad ported the execution of ma—the Federation, and knowledging its limitations, and I think published by Macmillan in 2005. While
hired by the bosses (116). discrimination suffered by our Mexican employees) should “revive the proletar dresses strikes and organizing, but also Joe Hill—revealing the by extension the IWW, makes a strong case for his argument K-/+'!$4!+$&"%>$-/%!3*B/%>$1-*/L>$!()%*
Hill criticizes IWW press discussion fellow workers (continuing decades after ian publicness that was at the center of the conditions of daily life and work. gulf between “progressive could be a revolutionary 37!3$37/$:nn$*"$COC]$4!+$+*."*)'!"3%>$ ated with the IWW, he was a labor agita
of lynching and mob violence for tending the deportations), and has several other 37/$&%#$(-//$+8//'7$).73+5@$g"*B/-+*3*/+$ McCollester takes his story through unionists” and the IWW. organization or a union, stronger than is commonly recognized. I tor and editor of anarchist and labor
to downplay the racism angle (which she scattered references to IWW activity. The Western Federa but not both. am less convinced by his argument about newspapers including Il Proletario and
sees as central) in favor of explanations The book is wellwritten and lively, fo tion of Miners’ (WFM) Kate Rousmaniere’s the 1920s. It is clear from reading IWW Il Martello. Lively, well documented,
based on class. The IWW insisted that cusing on the intersection of “race” and withdrawal from the “The Short, Radical Life newspapers and looking at the many and written by the foremost scholar of
crossracial organizing offered the best class along the border, bringing it up to IWW is addressed in Eric of Pearl McGill” (Labor organizing campaigns and strikes that ItalianAmerican radicalism, it is hard
strategy for victory, something she reads presentday vigilante attacks against our Clements’ “Pragmatic Graphic: 134.50.3.223/idahoyesterdays 6(3), Fall 2009, 919) re were underway that the union was expe to conceive of there ever being a better
as a criticism of Black selforganization immigrant fellow workers. Revolutionaries? Tactics, Ideologies and covers a forgotten IWW organizer, even riencing a very real resurgence in 1923 book on the subject.
as traitorous to workingclass solidar Aaron Goings writes on Finnish the Western Federation of Miners in the if the book does commit the unforgiv despite continued criminal syndicalism Fred Thompson began this review of
ity (155). But this is really a misreading, +8/!2*".$n&11%*/+$*"$37/$H!'*)'$E&-37 Progressive Era” (Western Historical able mistake of claiming the “I” in IWW repression, during a period when the scholarship on the IWW in the 1970s; I
drawing upon on an article that argued west in “Hall Syndicalism: Radical Finns Quarterly 40(4), Winter 2009). While stands for “International.” Pearl McGill AFL was in retreat. Wobblies of the time revived it several years ago in recogni
that working class power is stronger, and Wobbly Culture in Grays Harbor, most historians claim that the WFM was killed in 1924 by her exhusband, had good reason to be optimistic, and to tion of the fact that our union’s history
and helps to overcome the “false lines Washington” (Journal of Finnish Stud was captured by moderates in the wake and contemporary newspapers reported see the Emergency Program split as a ca (and occasionally our contemporary
of color” that divide workers. Hill is on ies, Summer 2010, 1828). While the of Big Bill Haywood’s frameup trial, she had been Big Bill Haywood’s ste tastrophe that hit the union at the worst efforts) continues to attract considerable
stronger ground with an unfortunate Finnish Wobblies of the Mesabi Range Clements examines the transcript of the nographer. She wasn’t; rather, McGill possible moment. The same issue of ASR attention. Some of this work can inform
(though atypical) speech where Bill Hay have received some attention from d/#/-!3*&"J+$COP]$U&"B/"3*&"$!"#$)"#+$ was a 17yearold Women’s Trade Union includes a section on workers’ culture our current organizing; other “scholar
wood played to racist stereotypes when historians, Goings explores Finnish that on nearly every issue aside from the League (WTUL) activist who partici that discusses our songbook, “Solidarity ship” needs to be exposed to warn the
discussing the Colorado labor wars, IWW activity in the area around Aber ^,/+3*&"$&($:nn$!()%*!3*&"=$#/%/.!3/+$ pated in the Lawrence strike, was booted Forever,” and “The Internationale.” unwary.
“collaps[ing] the vigilante tradition with deen, which remained a hotbed of IWW to the 1907 Convention repudiated the from the WTUL as a result, worked to Jeffrey Johnson’s “They Are All This will be my last column in this
workingclass direct action” (140). This activity through the late 1930s. Finnish moderates. They repudiated all exist organize garment workers into the IWW Red Out Here’: Socialist Politics in the series, at least for a while. I have decided
is part of a larger critique of the rhetoric Wobblies were particularly active in the ing time contracts by an overwhelming in the wake of that victory, and spoke be H!'*)'$E&-374/+3=$CWOewCODe@$Xg"*B/- to refocus my efforts in the IWW toward
of legal lynching, which in Hill’s view %,01/-$0*%%+$!"#$3*01/-$)/%#+=$!"#$4/-/$ majority and replaced their moderate fore audiences across New England. But sity of Oklahoma Press, 2008) focuses reestablishing a culture of account
equated discrimination and repression on the front lines of the IWW timber Preamble with one proclaiming that IWW activity in the garment industry on electoralism, and doesn’t have much ability and respect for basic democratic
against immigrants and radicals with the strikes of 1912, 1917 and 1923. When a workers’ emancipation could be attained was undermined by the Paterson defeat, new information. While the Socialists rights without which the IWW cannot be
systemic violence of white supremacy. foreman threatened to replace strikers only through industrial unionism “and and McGill returned to Iowa where she quickly withdrew from the IWW, many true to its legacy, nor hope to realize its
In the year that Joe Hill was murdered, with “Finlanders,” a Wobbly responded the concerted political action of all wage %*B/#$&,3$7/-$)"!%$#/'!#/$*"$&1+',-*3>5 supported the IWW’s free speech battles. goals as an instrument for the emancipa
she notes, at least 80 AfricanAmericans that “Finnish workers who don’t pack workers.” The committee on the IWW The Spring 2010 issue of Interna The criminal syndicalism and wartime tion of our class and the establishment of
were lynched (though the IWW press at red cards are as scarce as hens’ teeth.” recommended sidestepping the split tional Labor and Working Class His persecutions affected both organizations, a truly democratic society.
tempted to make common cause with the By 1917, syndicalism was the dominant
victims of this racist violence, publishing ideology among Finnish workers on
appeals for funds and articles about their the Harbor, and IWW publications and
struggles). rallies were often bilingual. Hundreds
The IWW and other radicals sup of longshoremen and domestic workers
ported the McNamara brothers (who belonged to the IWW through the 1930s,
apparently dynamited scabbuilt build alongside thousands of timber workers.
ings for their American Federation of Finnish Wobblies had their own
Labor [AFL] construction union) out of brass band, which performed at demon
class solidarity. “We are all defendants in strations, picnics and funerals. Singers,
every case where a worker is to be tried orators and theatrical performances
and a capitalist is the plaintiff,” said were common features of IWW events.
Haywood (139). Goings’ focus is on the role of IWW
The IWW organized the Joe Hill de halls—and in particular the Finnish
fense campaign, over his objections, “on Wobbly halls—in sustaining a culture of
the basic principle of solidarity, saying resistance. IWW halls served as cultural
that a movement that let its members die and social centers, with large auditori
was no movement worth mentioning” ums for performances and dinners, radi
(142). Rebecca Hill sees this campaign cal libraries, and space to conduct union
as a critical development in the history business. Local authorities understood
of labor defense campaign strategy. The the importance of the halls, repeatedly
IWW organized mass defense as form demolishing them. In 192324, Wobblies
of class solidarity. IWW organizers in held at least four events per week in
prison also organized fellow prisoners Aberdeen, in addition to other events
for better conditions, including a 1919 in outlying areas. After years of work
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The Sedition Act Palmer Raids of 1917 and the mass deporta- abierta/ abajo de la tierra/gritando por from the north Georgia mountains, who
We Remember...
tion of immigrant IWW members and arrest of thousands of our la justicia…junto rescatamos memoria y wrote very lyrical workingclass poetry
members under criminal syndicalism laws in the 1920s. nuestro legado de rebeldia/ desde Appa from the 1930s into the 1980s. He was
TODAY, U.S. Attorney General Holder is using lachia hasta Potosi” (“All of history is an also a militant labor organizer, cofound
open vein, in the ground, cryin’ out for er of The Highlander Center, a teacher,
the pretense of the war on terrorism and home-
justice/ Together we rescue memory and 8-/!'7/-=$(!-0/-=$!"#$)/-'/$!"3*G-!'*+3b$
land security to violate the civil liberties of anti The many IWWs and other working class our legacy of rebellion, from Appalachia transcending that idea really and becom
war and environmental activists. Members of our people who died from lack of access to health to Potosi”). The verses cover such seri ing a “race traitor.” He was burned out
union in Minneapolis, Chicago and Pittsburgh,
maybe other places, are within the scope of these
care—their health conditions often caused by ous and historically painful terrain that of Georgia by the Klan and hounded
Organize
Attn. Gen. Erik Holder Kenneth Miller, 708 N Taylor Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
:$'&,%#$)"*+7$*3=$+&0/$7!"#7&%#+$&"$ Langston Hughes. With a different circle
15212. STAND UP with people who are being targeted in your com- “people’s history” in Las Americas had of musicians in the south (primarily
munity. to be found. I’ve marched on a few occa from around eastern Tennessee/south
goods!
IWW General Executive Board Chair, Koala Largess rubbing elbows with the block of min into this project is sort of an ongoing
Central Secretary Treasurer, Tom Kappas ers, chewed the sacred coca leaves with process of studying “people’s history” in
Marie Mason, Ant Ice, Kenneth Miller them, met their stares with a humble the region, mutual political education,
gaze of respect and dignity. This was one and in general carving out a space for re
Join the General Defense Committee TODAY! For a of the experiences that started breaking L/'3*".$,8&"$!"#$'&"(-&"3*".$37/$(-*.73
one year membership, send $25 to P. O. Box 317741, down the identity of the gringo (white ening new manifestations of racism and
Cincinnati, OH 45231. Members! Don’t forget to VOTE man) within me. One can only be truly, classism. It is the most important project
Pittsburgh General Membership genuinely present in such a situation as a that I’ve ever worked on. It is guiding me
for the 2011 Central Secretary Treasurer and Steering Branch of the IWW, brother, a comrade. On the topic of race, now. I’m curious to see where it will lead
Committee! Get your ballots in! Graphic: J. Pierce
Chartered May Day 2002 :$"&4$)"#$37!3$:$37*"2=$'!-->$0>+/%($!"#$ in the coming months.
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A Report From The General Strike In Spain
From barcelona.cnt.es of police on the streets of the city, the
The day of action during the general demonstration passed peacefully, shout
strike of Sept. 29 showed the working ing slogans against the labor reform, the
class’s complete rejection of the govern government, and the complicit attitude
ment’s labor reform and the consequent of major trade unions. While the dem
cutting of their rights. onstration proceeded down Via Laietana
During the morning, members of the without incident, a national police van,
The IWW formed the International Solidarity Commission to help the union build Confederación Nacional del Trabajo with no lights or sirens, burst into the
the workertoworker solidarity that can lead to effective action against the bosses Asociación Internacional de event at full speed, at
of the world. To contact the ISC, email solidarity@iww.org. los Trabajadores (CNTAIT) the risk of running over
formed various information several demonstrators.
By Matt Antosh rassed” by their employers and that legal
pickets outside some work Given this apparent action
systems favoring the bosses have led to
places with which it has open of provocation by the state
In November We Remember: 101 their working day reaching more than 12
'&"L*'3+=$4*37$37/$8,-8&+/$&($ security forces, CNTAIT
Trade Unionists Killed hours in some cases. Powerful groups in
enforcing the right to strike; decided to immediately
The International Trade Union the sector, such as the Flores family who
and to inform workers of the call off the rally to ensure
Confederation (ITUC) Annual Survey of own Topy Top, have been accused of sys
scope of the labor reform and the safety of the partici
Trade Union Rights has documented a tematically undermining workers’ rights.
the purpose of the general pants.
dramatic increase in the number of trade
strike. CNTAIT expresses
unionists murdered in 2009, with 101 Solidarity with Chilean
In the afternoon, CNT deep outrage at this
killings—an increase of 30 percent from Construction Workers
AIT called a demonstration blatantly repressive
the previous year. A call for a delegation to Chile
at Plaça Universitat, which maneuver, which in any
Of 101 murdered, 48 were killed in In October and November, and with
was attended by various trade case does not tarnish the
Colombia, 16 in Guatemala, 12 in Hon the great help of Industrial Worker
unions and a lot of working great display of support
duras, six in Mexico, six in Bangladesh, Editor Diane Krauthamer, the IWW has Photo: Alicia García
people, with student parades. for the general strike day.
four in Brazil, three in the Dominican been in correspondence with a union
About 3,000 people marched through We strongly condemn the police action,
Republic, three in the Philippines, one for construction workers in Chile, the
the streets of Barcelona with the aim of which clearly seeks to stop through force
in India, one in Iraq and one in Ni Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la
addressing the government in Pla del Pa and intimidation the massive mobiliza
geria. Twentytwo of the Colombian Construcción (SINTEC).
lau, where a rally was planned. The rally tion of workers who do not identify with
trade unionists who were killed were 6:EKVU$)-+3$&-.!"*o/#$*"$DPP]=$
went through Plaça Catalunya to protest the main trade unions, and sees CNT
+/"*&-$3-!#/$,"*&"$%/!#/-+$!"#$)B/$4/-/$ and is working on organizing the most
against the brutal eviction policies at the AIT as a coherent alternative to counter
women, as the onslaught of previous #*()',%3$*"#,+3->$&($!%%$*"$U7*%/$3&$./3$
headquarters of Banesto, a bank that had the employergovernment offensive,
years continued. The rise in violence in organized, where collective bargaining
done some evictions just hours earlier. which seeks to cancel the rights achieved
Guatemala and Honduras also followed is not allowed, the norms and rules of
Despite the threatening deployment through years of struggle.
a trend developing in recent years. health and safety are never respected
The full survey can be found here:
http://survey.ituccsi.org/+Whole
World+.html?lang=en
and pensions are nonexistent. All this
while trying to develop a class struggle
based, autonomous and libertarian form
Battle Lines Drawn In U.K. Class War!
By Jon Timbrell
of unionism. Around 9,000 trade
ISC Statement in Support of “The state of the workers’ movement unionists and community
Palestine Resolution in Chile is quite weak,” writes Jorge activists descended on the
The International Solidarity Com Hernández, SINTEC president. “After Conservative Party Confer
mission strongly urges that you vote YES many years of a politics which served ence in Birmingham, U.K. on
on the resolution for the IWW to join 37/$*"3/-/+3+$&($37/$1&++/+c)-+3=$4*37$!$ Sunday, Oct. 3. The Conser
the international movement of Boy dictatorship, now under democracy—a vatives form the larger part
cott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) lot of the historical gains of the workers’ of the rightwing political
on Israel, and Israel’s statesponsored struggles have been erased. Unioniza coalition that has recently
“union” Histadrut. This resolution tion is low and wherever it does exist, assumed power in the U.K.
directly supports our Palestinian fellow it is mostly for partnership and not Since the coalition’s term
workers, with whom the ISC has been struggle.” began, their focus has been on
building relationships for over three SINTEC is asking for donations a series of crippling job and
years. When last year’s IWW delegation of solidarity to help them fund there service cuts that are set to rip
to the West Bank and Israel asked work continuing organizing campaigns. The the heart out of many of the British Isles Wobblies march on Oct. 3. Photo: Jon Timbrell
ers there how we could best show our ISC hopes to have an online donation most deprived areas in the
solidarity, the unanimous answer from button up on the IWW website within U.K. With policies ranging from the can found themselves the victims of exces
every union and worker organization we the month; until then, Fellow Workers '/%%!3*&"$&($'7*%#$1/"/)3+$!"#$8/"+*&"+=$ sive and unwarranted police brutality
met was for the IWW to sign onto the wanting to donate should email solidar privatization of the National Health towards the end of the march—possibly
BDS call. Every worker who pays taxes ity@iww.org. Service (NHS) and postal service, and an attempt by the police to justify the
in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Germany, As well, SINTEC has invited the the wholesale sell off of the education hundreds of thousands spent on the
and elsewhere supports this occupation IWW to attend a national conference in system, the current government is set security operation. The anarchists were
via their government’s military “aid” to January 2011. Any Fellow Workers who to follow in the footsteps of their ideo given a great show of solidarity from
Israel. Voting “YES” is a direct way to have the ability to travel and want to be logical predecessor, Margaret Thatcher, other activists, who refused to continue
demonstrate solidarity with Palestinian a part of a delegation to Chile should whose policies of cuts to public services marching until the police agreed to
workers and a manifest example of the write to us at the aforementioned ad and the dismantling and privatization release the anarchist bloc. Despite not
core Wobbly principle “An Injury to One dress as soon as possible. of many key industries resulted in job getting close to the conference centre,
is an Injury to All.” losses and poverty on a massive scale. the march was a visible start to what
For a detailed account of the del ISC Liaisons to the World Marchers were angered by the deci promises to be a massive campaign of
egation, and to see photos visit http:// Of course, we are always looking for sion of the police to reroute the march protests, strikes and civil disobedience
iwwinpalestine.blogspot.com. For a little extra help on the ISC. So, we ask away from the conference centre, despite to beat back the Conservative cuts.
information about Histadrut and their branches and interested individuals to having previously agreed to allow the In the leadup to the march, the U.K.
racist history and policies visit http:// volunteer to be ISC liaisons in order to 0!-'7$3&$L&4$8!+3$37/$U&"+/-B!3*B/$ and the rest of Europe have experienced
electronicintifada.net/v2/article10379. develop branchlevel and workerto meeting. In spite of this, the march a rising tide of workingclass action
shtml. worker international solidarity. was a noisy and highspirited protest, against job and service cuts and aus
Every month, ISC liaisons will get which was kept lively with some rousing terity measures. French workers held
Topy Top mass sacking sparks an update and an action to bring to the speeches from trade union and com three general strikes in September, each
Zara protests call branch level. We would like to invite munity activists and constant chanting. growing in size, with 3 million workers
The publication Periodico Humani every branch to select an ISC liaison to Amongst groups visibly represented on protesting in Paris during the last week
dad has published a callout through help spread the word about the solidar the day was a 50strong Wobbly contin of the month. There have been further
the International Workers Association ity activities in other parts of the world gent, mainly consisting of Fellow Work general strikes in Greece, Spain and
for actions to be taken at the outlets of and to help develop our campaigns. We ers from the West Midlands General Portugal, with thousands marching in
transnational fashion chain Zara, one of ask all Fellow Workers to please con Membership Branch (whose banner pro Germany and Brussels. In Britain, local
Topy Top’s biggest clients, on Oct. 9. tinue sharing your international contacts vided a rallying point for the group), but protests and meetings involving thou
Peruvian textile workers say they and expertise. The ISC can be reached at bolstered by contingents from Bristol, sands of people have been appearing all
are routinely bullied and “brutally ha solidarity@iww.org. m/!#*".$!"#$/%+/47/-/5$;/!L/3+$7!"#/#$ over the country as workingclass people
out, which made the argument for direct gear up to defend the jobs and services
action, solidarity and industrial union that they rely on. It is well known that
Assessment Stamp ism, were wellreceived by other march 4/$&"%>$'!%%$*3$'%!++$4!-$47/"$4/$).73$
for Friends of the ers. back, and there is now no mistaking the
Also present were large contingents (!'3$37!3$4/$7!B/$"&$&83*&"$1,3$3&$).73$
Palestinian Workers Group from the Postal Union of the Communi back. The prorich Conservativeled co
Benefit stamp designed by cation Workers Union and the National
Union of Rail, Maritime and Trans
alition have unleashed a vicious assault
on the living and working conditions
underground cartoonist port Workers (RMT), representing rail of ordinary people. They are expect
Spain Rodriquez. workers and dozens of other public and
private sector unions who brought the
ing workingclass people to pick up the
bill for the years of excess, greed and
Send $5 and a SASE to sparrow at IWW San march to life with hundreds of branch )"!"'*!%$0*+0!"!./0/"3=$!"#$0&-/$!"#$
banners. The march was joined by a more, people are realizing that they have
Francisco, 2022 Blake Street, Berkeley, CA 94704. 200strong anarchist contingent, who "&$'7&*'/$1,3$3&$).73$1!'25