Articles and/or issues from the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
The January 1968 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-Best no war plan: fight for labor goals by Charles Doehrer
-Students and the IWW
-Review of Black Mass Revolt
-Four in a row by J.F. McDaniels
-The most advanced people: a fable by F.T. (Fred Thompson)
-"Free ride to the job" by Mike Quirk
-Viewpoint Canada by John B. McAndrew
-Review by Joe Goldman of In Social Storm
-Letter to an inquiring worker
-Old unionism petering out?
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Industrial Worker (January 1968).pdf
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The February 1968 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-Clean, safe environment: a union chore
-General Defense Committee appeals by Carl Keller, Secretary
-Pro athletes move toward unionism
-Hollywood supports Chicago campaign
-Who is the rogue? by Dorice McDaniels
-Let's be human column by Harry Fleishman
-From One Big Union, IWW pamphlet: The union's place in human progress
-Black power by Ed Jahn
-Hurrah for our side! by H.M.E.
-US textile boss tangles with British union workers by U.E. News
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Industrial Worker (February 1968).pdf
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The April 1968 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-IWW still on Attorney General's list! Review denies by US Supreme Court
-Twilight of nationalism by Fred Thompson
-Glad to be back by H.M. Edwards
-Oh, free is the enterprise! by J.F. McDaniels
-Review by Carlos Cortez of The Philadelphia Wobbly, The Firing Line, Viet Nam Poems, Say My Name and LBJ Lampooned.
-Let's be human column by Harry Fleischman
-Kentucky's new 'sedition' law strikes at progressive labor
-Zapata poster available! by Carlos Cortez
-Ferrymen win strike against government
-Obituary: William Roberts
-Hungarian Wobblies do it again!
-Creative engineering is being automated
-Mine union draws line of atomic energy field
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Industrial Worker (April 1968).pdf
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The May 1968 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-Chicago bids for lead spot in "big bust": heart of prolertarian America, city is run by its fat parasites by Chuck Doehrer
-This war is not for workers!
-Meany: faker, traitor
-Assassination of Martin L. King by Carlos Cortez
-Obituaries: Joseph Zsurzsa, Eero Perkio
-White Sam's burden by J.F. McDaniels
-A call to idealists by Eugene Nelson
-Proposes flag for workers world's by J.T. Landis
-A farm worker goes to college by George Underwood
-New sidelights on IWW history by Fred Thompson
-Parasites feed on poverty
-Don't mourn...organize! by Dorice McDaniels
-Canada notes
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Industrial Worker (May 1968).pdf
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The August 1968 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column: IWW Convention
-Campus revolt: passport to revolution? by Dorice McDaniels
-Illfare state
-Shopping in Sweden
-Derty tricks in idyllic Sweden by David Sund
-What goes on in Cuba by Henry Wallace
-Why a new unionism is needed by Fred Thompson
-Land of the poor by J.F. McDaniels
-Tools for economic planning by Ed Jhan
-Politics: it's all hogwash, Blackie says
-Dangerous to humans
-Crab grass democracy at Tacoma
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Industrial Worker (August 1968).pdf
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The November 1968 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-New Wobbly branch set up in Canada
-Chain in or strike out by Dorice McDaniels
-Left Swede union holds congress, IWW attends
-Chicago forum looks at election
-Can't blame unions for inflation
-Why a new unionism is needed by Fred Thompson
-Letters: Who's anti-war? Not the slaves!; Folly of fighting; Wisdom of Cactus Charlie; Gives credit where it's due
-Review by Carlos Cortez of American Anti-War Movements
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Industrial Worker (November 1968).pdf
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An article detailing a letter from an IWW member attending a Congress of the SAC. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (November 1968).
Guest of the Swedish Workers Central Organization (SAC) and IWW representative at its Congress now in session, Fellow Worker Evert Anderson in a letter dated October 25th announced his arrival in Stockholm and promised some reports on the proceedings. Meanwhile, along with first impressions and some discussion of plans, he had one bit of sad news to report.
He wrote:
"Secretary Herbert Anckar of SAC passed away from a heart attack and is being buried today, here in Stockholm, by his fellow workers. He was only 63 years old. Sune Blom is taking care of his official duties until a new secretary can be installed.
"From talks I've had with those close to him, I must conclude that Herbert Anckar's duties were considerable. His international connections kept him busier than I am sure he wanted to be. Let's say that he will be missed, not only in Stockholm and throughout the whole of Sweden, but in many other lands as well."
Certainly the IWW and others in a world revolutionary labor-union movement will miss this man who has worked so hard to strengthen lines of communication that have worn thin in recent decades.
We had hoped that Fellow Worker Anderson would be able to spend some days in France to renew old contacts and establish new ones with friends of the IWW there. But this, he said, will not fit into his pre-arranged travel schedule. However, a meeting with the delegate of the Syndicalist Federation from London had already been arranged, and he expected also to meet Augustine Souchy of Germany, who, like himself, was invited to Stockholm as a guest of SAC.
Anderson will be back in New York November 12th. If possible on such short notice, a meeting for him will be arranged there. In any case he will visit old-timer Dick Brazier and GEB member Bill Goring. Also, he would be especially happy to meet the young Wobblies of the new Boston branch and to speak for them in Boston. Every effort will be made to put this plan into effect.
Of course, when Anderson gets to Chicago on his way back to Twenty-Nine Palms, California, he will have every opportunity to "tell it like it is" and to exercise his once well-known talent as a speaker.
Transcribed by Juan Conatz
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The December 1968 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Contents include:
-Left Side column
-IWW observer sees Swede syndicalism as overly optimistic, revolution without class war? by Evert Anderson
-Job drain disturbs US labor
-Sympathetic strike in Italy
-Workers idled by lack of strike
-Miners and their union
-An appeal from the General Defense Committee by Carl Keller
-Review by Eugene Nelson of The Night Visitor and Other Stories
-Race war in South Philadelphia by Ed Jahn
-Paris mods celebrate by x324273
-Appleknocker takes on rail job by Al Just
-In Italy: church to pay taxes
-Swede practical unionism unites with radical ideals
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Industrial Worker (December 1968).pdf
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