#Wobblies

Peter Rileypeterjriley2024
2026-01-04

IWW delegation to the 2025 Union Co op symposium in . and DC General Membership Branches formed a delegation of organizing in the cooperative space, both as the Agricultural Organizing Workers Committee and with food industry workers to head to the recent Union-Co-op Symposium, hosted by Co-op Cincy.
industrialworker.org/report-ba

Delegation’s Report
docs.google.com/document/d/1hQ

Peter Rileypeterjriley2024
2025-12-30

Fold up your guns
Run while you can
Look out, here comes the union man.
youtube.com/watch?v=oBwI9KKjlj4

2025-11-22

Remembering Joe Hill

The legendary Wobbly and songwriter, executed 110 years ago, was celebrated worldwide for his resilience and humourm.

#JoeHill #Wobblies #IWW

Joe Hill, ‘Oh You Hoboing’, sent by letter to Charles Rudberg, 2 September 1911.
2025-11-15

Today in Labor History November 15, 1919: The main headquarters of the New York City Wobblies (IWW) was ransacked and destroyed by agents acting under the US Attorney General Palmer. The Palmer raids were part of the first U.S. communist witch hunt, starting well before the more well-known McCarthy purges. It was also where J. Edgar Hoover cut his baby teeth. Between 1917 and 1919, the IWW membership had plummeted from 300,000 in the U.S. to around 30,000, due in large part to the mass arrests, murders and deportations of IWW members, anarchists, and other radicals during the Palmer raids.

The accompanying photo is of men arrested in the Palmer raids awaiting deportation hearings on Ellis Island, January 13, 1920.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #anarchism #wobblies #redscare #palmerraids #police #union #repression #FreeSpeech #solidarity #communism #mccarthy #JEdgarHoover

Men arrested in raids awaiting deportation hearings on Ellis Island, January 13, 1920. By Unknown author - Corbis Images for Education database, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3281826

Wilson’s choice in venue for her acceptance speech was at the Seattle Labor Temple. The Seattle Labor Temple is a historic union‑center that has served the city’s workers for more than a century. #workingclasshistory #seattle #labortemple #unions #wobblies #iww #pnw #anarchosyndicalism

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Historic photos of the original Seattle Labor TempleHistoric photos of the original Seattle Labor Temple.
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDLiamOMaraIV
2025-11-11

The occurred on in 1919. members had been repeatedly attacked, beaten, their hall looted. An parade stopped outside the new hall and scared opened fire. activist was lynched that evening.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDLiamOMaraIV
2025-11-05

On in 1916, the was targeted by police and business leaders in the bloody . A shipload of trying to support a were docking their ship when 200 vigilantes opened fire on them from land, with a dozen killed and 27 wounded.

2025-10-13

Artificial Intelligence is a threat and a promise; as the world grapples with understanding its prospects and dangers, we invite you to join us in London on the 17th of November for a talk and open discussion to explore these questions and consider their implications for social movements.

interregnum.ghost.io/artificia

#AI #event #events #london #discussion #socialmovement #socialmovements #iww #iwwunion #wobblies

2025-10-10

Today in Labor History October 10, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) struck in Little Falls, New York. The strike lasted into January and involved primarily immigrant workers. It started at the Phoenix Knitting Mill, but spread to the Gilbert Knitting Mill, also in the Mohawk Valley. In November, the Little Falls Council voted to authorize a contingent of special police, which escalated tensions. Later that month, the AFL created United Textile Workers local #206 to compete with the Wobblies for members and press attention. But when the AFL announced it had reached a settlement between with mill owners, later that month, the workers refused it, siding with the Wobblies and demanding greater concessions.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #strike #union #textiles #immigrant #newyork #wobblies #immigrants

Strikers on parade shortly after the initial walkout. By Unknown author - https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v13n06-dec-1912-ISR-gog-ocr.pdf International Socialist Review, Vol. XIII, No. 6, p. 456, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128258253

The IWW vs the KKK and how the federal government supported the KKK. #racicalhistory #westcoast #LA #wobblies #iww #pnw #strikes #jimcrow youtu.be/vKHfWhWIA2Q?...

The IWW vs the Klan

2025-09-08

Today in Labor History September 8, 1909: The bosses bent to the demands of striking Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World, IWW) in McKees Rock, Pa. They agreed to improved working conditions, a raise of 15% and an end to the “pool system” that gave foremen control over each worker’s pay. It was the Wobbly’s biggest victory to date. The strike started on July 13. The bosses tried to bring in hundreds of scabs, but the strikers shot at the boats, forcing many of them to turn back. Others quietly snuck in by rail. However, many scabs quit or formed their own union after suffering abuses by the bosses, including being held in boxcars against their will and served rotten food. On Sunday, August 22, a shootout occurred between strikers and police and private thugs. 12-26 people died, including 2 state troopers. One of the leaders of the strike was IWW cofounder William Trautman. He later wrote a novel based on the strike called “Riot.” Joe Etter and Big Bill Haywood also helped lead the strike.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #wobblies #pennsylvania #strike #union #scabs #police #policebrutality #books #novels #writer #author #fiction #bigbillhaywood #williamtrautman #joeetter @bookstadon

Funeral procession in McKees Rocks for Bloody Sunday victims. By Pittsburgh Leader newspaper - Mike Stout http://mikestoutmusic.prometheuslabor.com/image/tid/73, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22833979
MexicanYentaMexicanYenta
2025-09-02

It is Labor Day, which is a big deal in my family because my grandmother was part of the group of activists who started the union, and it’s also the day we remember with music and boat drinks.

2025-08-19

🏴🚩 join the Tacoma IWW!
(you don't need to live in Tacoma to join our branch 😉)

We're the One Big Union - open to all workers!

Email: tacoma@iww.org

#tacomaiww #iww #solidarityforever #industrialworkersoftheworld
#industrialunionism #aninjurytooneisaninjurytoall
#solidarityunionism #industrialworker #wobradio #wobblies #onebigunion
#abolitionofthewagesystem

2025-08-19

Today in Labor History August 19, 1909: The first edition of the IWW’s The Little Red Songbook was published in Spokane, WA. The book’s subtitle is “Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent.” Between 1909 and 1995, the Wobblies printed 36 editions. The songbook always includes songs by Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin, T-Bone Slim, and Haywire Mac. Most editions contained many of the best-known labor songs, like "The Internationale," "The Preacher and the Slave," and "Solidarity Forever." Haywire Mac, composer of the “Big Rock Candy Mountain” and “Hallelujah I’m a Bum,” was one of the original members of the IWW band, in Spokane, in 1907. Mac later participated in the anarchist Magonista Revolution in Baja California, helping to capture and occupy Tijuana. He eventually settled down in San Francisco, where he hosted working-class radio and television programs.

You can read my bio of Haywire Mac here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/03/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #littleredsongbook #folkmusic #union #HaywireMac #JoeHill #internationale #wobblies #solidarity

Cover of the IWW Little Red Song Book with image of a young man, raised fist, with industrial background and rays of sunshine.
2025-08-05

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