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The I.W.W. is 110 Years Old
By the 1890s, in reaction to the unprecedented power concentration of corporations, a labor movement had formed. The Railroad Brotherhoods and the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) dominated the movement, divided into crafts. Eugene Debs in the early 1890s formed … Continue reading
Posted in history, labor, Socialism, writing
Tagged AFL, AFL-CIO, Big Bill Haywood, CIO, Daniel DeLeon, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Espionage Act, Eugene Debs, Father Thomas Hagerty, FBI, Free Speech Movement, Great Northern Strike, HUAC, IWW, J. Edgar Hoover, Lawrence Strike, Paterson Strike, Pullman Strike, Sedition Act, Vincent S. John, Wobblies, Woodrow Wilson, World War One
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A Day Trip to New Whatcom
In May of 1898, 16-year-0ld Mike Scanlon travels west from New Jersey to meet up the with his brother Jimmy in Skagway, Alaska, to work on building the White Pass & Yukon Railway. The brief war taking place in … Continue reading
Posted in history, Populism, Socialism, Utopian Movement, writing
Tagged Bellingham Wash., Brotherhood of Co-operative Commonwealth, Chuckanut Bay, Fairhaven Wash., Klondike gold rush, New Whatcom Wash., Panic of 1893, Puget Sound, San Juan Islands, Skagway Alaska, Spanish-American War, Utopian colonies, White Pass & Yukon Railway, Yukon
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