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
Attachments
Industrial Worker (December 1970).pdf
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Comments
Back on through the late 60s…
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…
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.