Industrial Worker (January 20, 1917)

Industrial Worker (January 20, 1917)

The January 20, 1917 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

Submitted by Juan Conatz on May 23, 2025

Contents include:

-Governor is to select judge by Charles Ashleigh

-New "far-flung" class battlefield by Forrest Edwards (Sec'y AWO), James Riley (Chairman Org. Com)

-Editorials: A glorious labor history; An enslaved press; Making for ignorance

-"Foreign" labor by Phil Engle

-Prosperity and the great fear by Scott Nearing

-Successful meeting in Everett

-Union men (?) as company gunmen by Griff Junior

-Not prosecutor but trusts will try Everett prisoners

-Fruits of pioneer work of agitators by C.E. Payne

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