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socialismartnature: A 1924 article from the Portland Press...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:50:32 -0400

A 1924 article from the Portland Press Herald about conflict between the Industrial Workers of the World and the the Ku Klux Klan.

From the Portland Press Herald – Tuesday, February 5, 1924

K.K.K. And I.W.W. Wage Drawn Battle in Greenville

175 Workers Patrol The Street After Clash Saturday Night

HOSTILITIES OPEN WHEN KLAN CLEANS OUT BOARDING HOUSE

Woodsmen Ordered Out But Refuse to Leave – Reinforcements Pouring in By the Hundreds

Greenville, Me., Feb. 4 — With the thermometer hovering around the zero mark, about 175 members of the Industrial Workers of the World walked the streets of the town tonight as a result of a clash with local members of the Ku Klux Klan Saturday night.

About 40 members of the Klan marched to a local boarding house known as the Lake House, in which several leaders of the I.W.W. were stopping and ordered them to leave town at once or they would use force and put them out.

The I.W.W. leaders called to Deputy Sheriff Davis S. Cowan for protection against violence. An officer was placed on guard at the boarding house Saturday night.

Sunday and today the I.W.W. delegates as they termed themselves, sent out a call to the lumber camps and today there has been a steady flow of I.W.W. members into this little Maine town. Tonight it was estimated that there were fully 175 I.W.W. members walking the streets.

Bob Pease of Bangor, leader of the I.W.W. organization in Maine arrived in town tonight and told the PRESS HERALD representative that he would establish headquarters for the I.W.W. in Greenville.

“We are going to stick,” asserted Pease. “and if the Klan starts anything, the I.W.W. will finish it. The slave drivers, the Great Northern Paper Company and Hollingsworth and Whitney people do not want us here, but we are too strong for them.”

“Why are they against you,” asked the PRESS HERALD representative.

“Because we want good wages, eight hours a day in the lumber camps and clean linen on our bunks,” replied Pease. “The day of the old logging camp and the lumberjacks is about over with.”

Pease claims that that the Ku Klux Klan in Greenville has been bought by the merchants and the lumber interests.

clubjacobin: “Good pay or bum work”

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:18:09 -0400

clubjacobin:

“Good pay or bum work”

benzos n booze

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:35:44 -0500

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It was Reagan’s birthday? Well then,

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:39:43 -0500

It was Reagan’s birthday? Well then,

naazee: things as they should be

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:14:34 -0500

naazee:

things as they should be

horseecomics: “Do you think dating is too confusing? Do...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:11:11 -0500

horseecomics:

“Do you think dating is too confusing? Do you”

It’s all sorts of confusion, Horse. Some of it is cute but most of it is WEIRD and AWKWARD.

thefrogman: It’s a valid skill set.

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:40:57 -0500

thefrogman:

It’s a valid skill set.

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mutualistvanguard: Eh

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:42:04 -0500

mutualistvanguard:

Eh

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: imagesofwar: National Liberation Army...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:39:08 -0500

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

imagesofwar:

National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional)

Colombian revolutionary guerrillas

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"The U.S. spends almost as much on the military as the rest of the world combined. We are the only..."

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:51:56 -0500

“The U.S. spends almost as much on the military as the rest of the world combined. We are the only country with bases all over the world, a thousand bases if you count them properly, [and with] a far higher technological level. They are working very hard to get to much more extreme forms of destruction, and in fact, using them. Like the global assassination campaign, the drone warfare. That is using high tech for mass murder. If anyone else was doing that we’d go after them with nuclear weapons. When we do it, it is fine because we are ‘defending ourselves.’ … Actually, I just saw a quote the other day in FAIR (‘Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting’ www.fair.org ). They have a journal in which they have quotes of the month. One of them in the last issue kind of blew my mind. It was a quote from Joe Klein [from ‘TIME’]. He was asked a question about drones, and they said ‘You know, suppose there is this group of people standing around somewhere and the President doesn’t like them, he can assassinate them and maybe kill four year old children on the side.’ His answer was interesting. He said ‘Better we kill their four year old children than they kill ours.’ In other words, we should kill people who maybe by some stretch of the imagination might somehow or other harm us, and even killing their four year old children, that is fine, because there should be no possibility of anybody ever anytime harming us. That is a sign of this fear I was talking about at a real psychopathic level. I mean the idea that you should murder children because maybe someday somebody might harm us, is pathology at an extreme level. And that is right in the mainstream, the probably more or less liberal mainstream.”

- Noam Chomsky (via theamericanbear)

Press Release: Local Call Center Goes Wobbly

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:39:53 -0500

Press Release: Local Call Center Goes Wobbly:

Grand Rapids, MI - Employees of Star Tickets have “walked on the boss” today demanding a reduction in workload, an employee grievance procedure, and recognition of their union. The employees have formed the IWW Star Tickets Workers Union for mutual support and respect on the job. Their intentions are to begin collective bargaining with owner, Jack Krasula, over a work environment that they say has become untenable.

“We are just exercising our legal right to form a union for our mutual benefit” said Deirdre Cunningham, a Client Services Representative. “We have been meeting, assisting one another, and acting as a union for some time so today we made it official to our boss.”

Star Tickets, which is located at 620 Century Avenue Southwest #300, becomes the second Grand Rapids establishment whose workers have joined the Industrial Workers of the World labor union in just over a year. Workers at Bartertown Diner, 6 Jefferson St., all joined the IWW in 2011.

“During my time here Mr. Krasula has routinely sent us his insights and anecdotes for success. We hope that he will respect our choice and work with us in affecting the context of our daily lives ” said Alisa Stone.

The Industrial Workers of the World is a rank-and-file labor union open to all workers. Gaining notoriety with the Starbucks Workers Union and the Jimmy Johns Workers Union the IWW has become the “go-to” union for workers not interested in the bureaucracy of “traditional” unions.

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