1920s

1924: K.K.K. and IWW Wage Drawn Battle in Greenville

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jun 9 2013 02:24

A 1924 article from the Portland Press Herald about conflict between the Industrial Workers of the World and the the Ku Klux Klan.

Video footage of Pyotr Kropotkin's funeral

Submitted by wojtek on Jan 22 2013 02:44

A photograph from Pyotr Kropotkin's funeral, 13th February 1921.

Video footage of Pyotr Kropotkin's funeral which took place from 10th to 13th February, 1921. It was documented by 'Section of social chronicles of all-Russian cinema and photo publishing'.

They didn't suppress the Wobblies - Fred Thompson

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 9 2012 00:47

An article by Fred Thompson contesting the myth that the IWW was smashed by repression during World War I. Originally appeared in Radical America (September-October 1967)

Futility of Fosterism

A critique of the labor politics of William Z. Foster and the Communist Party of America's Trade Union Education League (TUEL). Author Ben Legare was the main US organizer for the One Big Union (OBU) a socialist union founded in western Canada by dissident members of the American Federation of Labor.

The One Big Union of Canada

A 1920 article descriving conflict within the One Big Union in Canada over industrial vs. regional organization.

Ben Fletcher, IWW organizer

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Sep 8 2012 22:53

An essay on Ben Fletcher's efforts as an IWW organizer.

Rebel Girls and Union Maids: the woman question in the journals of the AFL and IWW, 1905-1920

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 29 2012 06:08

An article by Ann Schofield which contrasts the differences and examines the striking likenesses between the AFL and the IWW approaches to the woman question through their treatment of important women's issues of the day.