Industrial Worker (February 24, 1940)

The February 24, 1940 (Vol. 21, No. 49, Whole No. 209) issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

Submitted by Juan Conatz on March 17, 2017

Contents include:

-Lorain IWW authorize strike

-California's scrambled politics mix groups in mess of confusion

-County to fingerprint employees

-War brews revolt in Australia

-Chicago to give Industrial Worker benefit March 9

-Brass band can't drum up jobs

-13 women in WPA strike freed; one goes to jail

-6 more unionists indicted in anti-trust drive

-Capitalist system is top-heavy by T-Bone Slim

-Many New York cops drop fascist order

-Letters to the Editor: Use war to clean up by J.K.

-Won't know a Communist when they see him

-5,000 take strike vote at Intl. Harvester

-Shopmen try to make craft unions work

-Capitalism and culture by Peter Lane

-Ball players draw $15 jobless benefit

-"Free enterprise" leaves textile workers high and dry in ghost towns

-Mud Mountain conditions call for Wobbly action

-Striking masons win strike at Masonic Temple

-Men now living will see end of old social order by Scott Nearing

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