Archive of The Marine Worker, a newspaper produced by the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union No. 510 of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) from 1921 until 1936.

Submitted by Juan Conatz on July 22, 2016

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syndicalist

9 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on July 22, 2016

Good deal and thanks for the Wsa source mention

Steven.

9 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on July 25, 2016

Fantastic stuff, it would be great to have more of this sort of industry-specific wobbly and other radical publication

The Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1936) issue of The Marine Worker, a newspaper produced by the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union No. 510 of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) from 1921 until 1936.

Submitted by Juan Conatz on July 22, 2016

Contents include:

-French seamen take over ships in strike, reave red flag, win all demands

-IWW lumber strike sweeps the west

-Official statement of the MTWIU no. 510 of the IWW concerning the proposed Copeland Fink book for seamen

-Frisco warehousemen strike

-New York ISU insurgent membership strike failed and why

-West coast ships crew, see IWW on east and gulf coast

-MTW membership conference

-Help Mike Lindway

-Federation fails

This issue scanned for libcom.org by New York/New Jersey Workers Solidarity Alliance archives

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syndicalist

5 months 1 week ago

Submitted by syndicalist on June 28, 2025

Too bad additional editions of this are not available.

Juan Conatz

5 months 1 week ago

Submitted by Juan Conatz on June 30, 2025

According to the University of Washington, the publication ran from 1921-1936. So it is a bit perplexing that only 1 issue has been digitized. Maybe just the nature of what it was, an industry specific publication, made it less likely to sit around in a union hall or someone's home so less of them survived?

There are few other publications related to MTU out there.

-Exposed! - Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union of the I. W. W. Replies to Accusations Made Against It by Andrew Furuseth

There is another pamphlet I can't track down that has 'sea' in the title.

As far as secondary literature is concerned there is:

-Marine Transport Workers IU 510 (IWW): Direct Action Unionism from the Summer 1995 issue of Libertarian Labor Review