Articles and/or issues from the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
The January 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-Wild cat in Ohio hanging on tight by Jeff
-"Murder", says Wob reporter by x323293
-General strike in Italy! by Mike Catalano
-Those pistol-happy punks of Pinkville by CAC (Carlos Cortez)
-Stars and crossbones by J.F. McDaniels
-Reader's Soapbox
-IWW Convention
-New Joe Hill songbook by E.A.
-Reflections of the moratorium by x326432
-Review by Fred Thompson of Sit-Down: The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937
-And the need for some today by Fred Thompson
-"What is a boss?" by x325505
-The new worker by Patrick Murfin
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Industrial Worker (January 1970).pdf
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FYI The article ""Murder", says Wob reporter by x323293" is about the police assassination of Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark
Kdog wrote: FYI The article ""Murder", says Wob reporter by x323293" is about the police assassination of Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark
Yeah, I'm keeping track of stuff like that to transcribe later. Unfortunately, summarizing each article is just too time consuming.
The February 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-Mass strikes rock Italy
-San Francisco "custodians" want more porkchops
-Editorial: A woman's place is everywhere by CAC (Carlos Cortez)
-Reader's Soapbox
-Ammon Hennacy dies on picket line
-Women's liberation notes: unsaleable skills by K, Detroit, 1968
-Revolt among the scholars yet
-Killer's paradise by x324599
-Review by Fred Thompson of Big Bill Haywood and the radical labor movement
-Chicago Wobblies leaflet on rising transit fares
-Italy: behind the bombings (from L'Adunata Dei Refrattari)
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Industrial Worker (February 1970).pdf
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The March 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-Brazilian genocide a secret
-Prez puts down anti-pollution
-Remember San Diego?
-Sentence Tijerina
-Editorial: Ecology makes organization no. #1 by CAC (Carlos Cortez)
-Readers soapbox
-More on Italy
-From Palermo by Palermo Anarchist Group
-The price of paradise by Gordon L. Herman
-Radical choices by J.F. McDaniels
-Near blow by Eugene Nelson
-Reviews of Medium Cool, Midnight Cowboy & Z by CC Redcloud (Carlos Cortez)
-More than sugar cane by Lionel Battari
-What is fascism? by Patrick Murfin
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Industrial Worker (March 1970).pdf
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The April 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Thompson spreads the word of the IWW in the east by Fred Thompson
-Left Side column
-Berkeley food workers organize
-New location for General Headquarters
-"World industrial unionism!" by Din Crowley
-Pollution: accident or design? by Gary Cox
-Dog track strike, right-to-work style by Ruth Sheridan, Phoenix Branch IWW
-They want to end rank & file contract veto
-As the hen sees it! by W. Pfeffer
-Review by CC Redcloud (Carlos Cortez) of American Indian Medicine, The Plum Plum Pickers and Revelation XXIII: A portable compendium of terrestrial inspiration.
-The menace of obedience
-Support the IBP strike! Don't buy scab beef at A&P!
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Industrial Worker (April 1970).pdf
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The May 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Let's make every day May Day by CAC (Carlos Cortez)
-Readers Soapbox
-Left Side column
-Capitalist dredge sucks at Northern California Ecology & is slowed by mass action by Pito Perez
-Review by Fred Thompson of Joe Hill, Sydney's Burning & Bread And Roses Too: Studies of the Wobblies.
-Chicago FW beats rap
-Brass strike is Fresno
-International Labor Day, May 1 by Din Crowley
-Workers Unite! by x324234
-Polluted air, polluted thinking by Peter Suto
-Student solidarity in Ann Arbor by L.S.
-Plumber bummer by Saucy Myra
-Hero of the stamp machine by Dorice McDaniels
-More Doin's in Diego by Lionel Bottari
-Arizona bracero won't wait for manana by Ruth Sheridan
-They didn't surpress the Wobblies by One of Them (Fred Thompson)
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Industrial Worker (May 1970).pdf
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The July 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-The system is vulnerable by Fred Thompson
-Chicago branch replies to transit fare hike
-We live in one world! by FT (Fred Thompson)
-The burial of Tio Nacho by Alfredo NuberoJa
-Wild cats make bell's ears ring
-Good earth, better people by J.F. McDaniels
-Reader's Soapbox
-"Let's enjoy this next depression!"
-San Diego Wobs forge ahead by Daryl B. Van Fleet
-Damocles in the Mid-East
-People get healthcare by Patrick Murfin
-Seattle by J.W. Fain, x325044
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Industrial Worker (July 1970).pdf
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The August 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-Disabled miners close down mines
-Chicago Seed organizes under IU 450
-Reader's soapbox
-Why the student revolution? by Larry Cornett
-A well deserved congratulations (from whom?) by Joseph Mangano
-Buckminster's computer
-Stover-Lamm defense
-Conferences
-The Strategy-Action Conference: Milwaukee by Gary Gresher
-Crisis in mass transportation spikes growth of free transit agitation by Patrick Murfin
-Union odds n ends
-From down under by Pat Mackie
-FDA protecton racket
-Law, justice & compensation for the American worker by Leo Carella
-Add to IWW reading list
-Frank Little, rebel by Din Crowley
-Review of A History of Criminal Syndicalism Legislation in the United States
-An anarchist in Cuba by Ronald Kevin Romano, x325160
-Musings of a Wobbly by Enness Ellae
-Business unionism in agriculture by FT (Fred Thompson)
-How Canadian labor resolutes
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Industrial Worker (August 1970).pdf
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Articles from the September 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Editorial: The sun is red
-Welcome to the thirtieth General Convention!
-From the Milwaukee Liberation Front
-A slave crowns the lady
-Concerns of the movement by Fred Thompson
-Union odds n ends
-Review by Bill Knapp of The Buffalo
-Review by Patrick Murfin of American syndicalism: the IWW
-Teamsters as union scabs
-New opportunities for IU 620
-Migratory workers by J.W. Fain, x325044
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An obituary for Walfrid Jokinen, a longtime IWW member associated with the Finnish-speaking part of the union in Northern Minnesota. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (September 1970).
Fellow Worker Walfrid Jokinen died of a heart attack in San Francisco during a visit there August 8. He was the son of a staunch IWW family, and studied and taught at the Work People's College. In the Thirties, Walfrid attempted to revive interest in the Union on the Mesaba Iron Range. Later he became a sociology professor, continuing his association with the Industrialisti at the same time. He was a popular speaker at Finnish picnics, and his master's thesis dealt with Finnish IWW activities in Minnesota, including the story of Tyovaen Opisto, or the Work People's College, a residential labor school which our Finnish Fellow Workers maintained in Duluth until 1940.
Transcribed by Juan Conatz
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Hey, this is great, thanks for uploading! Just a short editing note, but you don't need to format the intro with bold text. Best thing is to leave the intro in just regular text. Thanks again!
The October 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-A sure way to stop the war! by x325818
-Lockout at Wobbly-organized Prestige Theater
-Editorial: That near-east Qzx by CAC (Carlos Cortez)
-Readers Soapbox
-30th IWW General Convention!
-Resolutions passed by the thirtieth General Convention of the IWW
-The General Defense Committee by Patrick Murfin
-Wage equalization and the system by H.J.P.
-What about the Joe Hill Memorial Fund?
-John King 1870-1970
-Sioux City opens hall
-On the Bay
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Industrial Worker (October 1970).pdf
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An article by Patrick Murfin describing the reestablishment of the IWW’s General Defense Committee. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker, Volume 67, Number 10, W.N. 1291 (October 1970)
From its inception the IWW recognized the necessity of an active and vigorous system for raising defense funds and for distributing those funds fairly to victims of class-war repression. The manifesto call to the first IWW Convention in 1905 included the provision that: “A central defense fund, to which all members contribute equally, should be established and maintained” as one of the duties of the new organization. So it was that the General Defense Committee was eventually set-up as a semi-autonomous organization with its own membership cards, dues, and officers to raise money for the many Wobblies persecuted and others who felt the lash of capitalist repression.
In one of its most significant actions, the 30th General Convention of the IWW reactivated the General Defense Committee by ordering that GDC credentials be issued to all IWW delegates. The act recognized that IWW members are once again on the front lines of labor and radical-activity, and as such will be subjected to the wave of repression that is sweeping the country under the direction of Attorney General Mitchell and FBI Chief Hoover. Arrests of Wobblies in San Diego, the Stover-Lamb case and the upcoming trials of Patrick Murfin and Alfredo Matias in Chicago pointed to the need to rescue the GDC from its activity during the lean years of the ’50s and early ’60s.
The GDC is not empowered to award bail funds because in most instances these can be raised locally and because it takes some time for the IWW General Executive Board, which is acting as the executive board of the GDC, to act. But it does support defense expenses, as it did just recently by paying Chicago’s People’s Law Office $200 for the defense of Murfin and Matias. The GDC is also empowered to buy tobacco and other small items for class-war prisoners.
Membership in the GDC, unlike IWW membership, is not restricted to wage workers, but extends to all interested in contributing to this important cause. This allows people who are interested in the work of the IWW but ineligible or unwilling to take out membership a way to become involved.
Transcribed by Juan Conatz
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The November 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Editorial: Only workers can stop the mess! by Carlos Cortez
-Readers Soapbox
-Left Side column
-BRAC-Northwest strike, Anchorage overtones by x324273
-Wobblies settle cinema dispute in Chicago
-What the HELL is a square? by HME 270597
-Obituaries: Frank Camp, Giovanni Deriu
-Red and black November by Din Crowley
-A compliment of consideration for the IWW old-timers by Din Crowley
-Rats guard cheese
-On Women's Liberation by H.J.P.
-World capitalism by FT (Fred Thompson)
-Union odds n ends
-Repression in South Africa
-And now a Joe Hill opera
-Russia 1970: a students by x326874
-Have diploma, will work
-Seattle by J.W.Fain, x325044
-Review by Shelby Shapiro (x324691) of The Rich and the Super-Rich
-Review by Fred Thompson of Eugene V. Debs Speaks, Pie in the sky, and Deportations Delirium of 1920.
-The straight dope by Fred Thompson
-Common sense by Din Crowley
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Industrial Worker (November 1970).pdf
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The December 1970 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-The nativity: in a grotto by Louis Cassels
-Reader's Soapbox
-Left Side column
-Obituaries: Evert Anderson, Dave Ingar
-The end of the European small farmer
-Harassment in Diego
-The situation in Quebec
-Economic revolution by Robert Edwards
-Resistance to repression: a summary for 1970 by Fred Thompson
-How to ward off a depression
-Add to IWW reading list
-Review by CC Redcloud (Carlos Cortez) of Flap
-On the road again: the hobo & the hippy by Patrick Murfin
-Abolition of the profit system? by Larry Cornett
-The cry of the hungry by Din Crowley
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Industrial Worker (December 1970).pdf
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Back on through the late 60s, mostly the 70s, I "liked" reading the obituaries. Not because I wished ill on anyone, but that gave a sense of the member. Up until, say, the time of Studs Terkel and Staughton Lynd, for example, most histories were of events, ideas and maybe, well, not maybe, those in leadership. Sadly, obituaries provided that local understanding of the human dimension, the living and breathing member.
Yeah, I keep an eye out for the obituaries as well, because you can learn about people and events that may not have received as much attention even within the IWW, much less outside of it.
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