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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History August 7, 1890: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born in Concord, New Hampshire. Flynn joined the IWW in 1907, two years after its formation, and quickly became one of their best organizers. She was instrumental in the Patterson Silk Strike (1913). In 1909, during the Spokane Free Speech fight, she chained herself to a lamp post to delay her arrest. Jess Waters portrayed her role in the Spokane struggle in his 2020 novel, “The Cold Millions.” John Updike also fictionalized her in his book, “In the Beauty of the Lilies,” (1996).

Flynn was a socialist early in her life, but later joined the Communist Party USA, rising to its chair in 1961. She was also a founding member of the ACLU, where she played an important role in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti. Additionally, she was a feminist activist, fighting for birth control rights and women’s suffrage. In 1934, despite her poor health, she actively supported the West Coast Longshore Strike. She was also a prolific writer, including the 1916 book, “Sabotage: the Conscious Withdrawal of Workers Efficiency.” The famous IWW bard, Joe Hill, wrote the song “Rebel Girl” (1915) for Flynn, and the photograph of a woman, holding a red flag, on the cover of the sheet music, bears a striking resemblance to Flynn.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #eliazabethgurleyflynn #IWW #union #organizing #strike #sabotage #communism #socialism #anarchism #aclu #writer #author #books #fiction #novels @bookstadon

Cover of The Rebel Girl by Joe Hill. Show a woman, likely Flynn, in a black skirt and white blouse, holding a red flag on a long pole. The flag says “One Big Union.” There is also a boy shown, waving his hat in the air. And someone else holding a stack of papers. By [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2555561
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standingogether_fr

📢 Message de Standing-together (Israël) diffusé sur #bluesky le (2025-08-06)

Pour en savoir plus sur la façon dont nous avons organisé des grèves à Jaffa dans le cadre de l'action directe que nous menons pour perturber le cours normal des affaires à travers le pays : haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0 ('No Business as Usual' | Jaffa Shops Strike Demanding Israel End Gaza War as Activists Seek Wider Disruption)

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Read more about how we organized strikes in Jaffa as part of the direct action we’re taking to disrupt business as usual across the country : haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0 ('No Business as Usual' | Jaffa Shops Strike Demanding Israel End Gaza War as Activists Seek Wider Disruption)

#greve #ActionDirecte #standingtogether #israel #fost #jaffa #haaretz #strike #NoBusiness)

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MikeDunnAuthor

Old Bisbee jail: 2 story brick building with iron bars on the window.

Local IWW headquarters used to be next door (now an empty lot). I asked local historian, and IWW fellow worker, Mike Anderson about it. He said yeh, the location was weird, but the town was incredibly dense (20,000 people squeezed into a few city blocks), and you rented where you could.

During the 1917 strike and deportation, many Wobblies (IWW members) were arrested and jailed here. During more recent restorations, after removing old plaster, they discovered IWW graffiti on the walls.

Many of the men who were kidnapped and deported were taken to Columbus, New Mexico, where Pancho Villa had invaded just the year before (in one of the only times a foreign army invaded US mainland since the War of 1812). They no doubt were hoping that the US army, which was still there, would brutralize the men.

#workingclass#LaborHistory#strike
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Stephen Elliott~Buckley

cupe.ca/air-canada-flight-atte

It's the doors.

Flight attendants don't get paid unless the doors are closed.

Everything before then and after the doors open, is forced volunteer labour.

It's always been this way.

You probably didn't know.

unpaidworkwontfly.ca/

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #cupe #aircanada

Canadian Union of Public EmployeesAir Canada flight attendants vote to strike if necessary to end unpaid work and poverty wagesThe Air Canada Component of CUPE, the union representing over 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge, says its members have voted 99.7% in favour of strike action, if necessary.
#strike#strikevote
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MikeDunnAuthor

Video as we drive past the tailings of the old Lavender Pit Copper Mine, in operation from 1950-1974. Owned by Phelps Dodge, located between Lowell and Bisbee, Arizona, site of the infamous 1917 kidnapping and deportation of striking IWW copper miners, on the orders of the Phelps Dodge management.

#IWW#copper#mining
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MikeDunnAuthor

Photo of me in Lowell, Arizona, outside a hat shop, with antique cars on the side of the road, and an old Indian Motorcycles shop.

Now aghost town, Lowell was incorporated into Bisbee, AZ, in 2908. It was settled by Copper miners from Serbia, Finland Montenegro.

July 12, 1917, 1,300 striking IWW copper miners and their supporters were kidnapped from Bisbee, by vigilantes to crush the union. They were forced into cattle cars and illegally deported 200 miles into New Mexico, through desert, without any food or water.

#workingclass#LaborHistory#IWW
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standingogether_fr

📢 Message de Standing-together (Israël) diffusé sur #bluesky le (2025-08-04)

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Aujourd'hui, les commerces de Jaffa ont lancé une grève pour protester contre l'anéantissement à Gaza.

Nous nous sommes tenus à leurs côtés face à cette horrible réalité, car nous ne pouvons pas avoir de normalité quand rien n'est normal !

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Today, businesses in Jaffa launched a strike in protest of the annihilation in Gaza.

We stood with them against this horrific reality, because we can’t have normalcy when nothing is normal !

Bluesky Social · Standing Together (@standing-together.bsky.social)Today, businesses in Jaffa launched a strike in protest of the annihilation in Gaza. We stood with them against this horrific reality, because we can’t have normalcy when nothing is normal!
#anéantissement#annihilation#gaza
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History August 1, 1938: Police opened fire on 200 unarmed trade unionists protesting the unloading of a ship in Hilo Harbor, on the Big Island of Hawaii, in what became known as "the Hilo Massacre." The protest was in support of striking waterfront workers. 50 workers were injured. Police also used tear gas and bayonets. The workers came from numerous ethnic backgrounds, including Japanese, Chinese, Native Hawaiian, Luso (Portuguese) and Filipino. They belonged to several unions, including the ILWU. They were fighting for equal pay to dockers on the U.S. west coast and for a closed, union shop. Harry Kamoku (depicted in the original woodblock poster shown in this post) was the primary organizer and leader of the strike, as well as a member of Hawaii’s first union to be legally recognized. He was a Chinese-Hawaiian, a longshoreman, born in Hilo.

Woodblock poster (which I purchased in Hilo, in 2005), depicting local labor organizer, Harry Kamoku. Other images in the poster include a close-up of a cop pointing a gun at viewers, and scenes from the strike. At the bottom it reads, An Injury to One is an Injury to All.
#workingclass#LaborHistory#union
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History August 1, 1921: Sheriff Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were murdered by Baldwin-Felts private cops. They did it in retaliation for Hatfield’s role in the Matewan labor battle in 1920, when two Felts family thugs were killed by Hatfield and his deputies. Sheriff Hatfield had sided with the coal miners during their strike. The private cops executed Hatfield and Chambers on the Welch County courthouse steps in front of their wives. This led to the Battle of Blair Mountain, where 20,000 coal miners marched to the anti-union stronghold Logan County to overthrow Sheriff Dan Chaffin, the coal company tyrant who murdered miners with impunity. The Battle of Blair Mountain started in September 1921. The armed miners battled 3,000 police, private cops and vigilantes, who were backed by the coal bosses. It was the largest labor uprising in U.S. history, and the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War. The president of the U.S. eventually sent in 27,000 national guards. Over 1 million rounds were fired. Up to 100 miners were killed, along with 10-30 Baldwin-Felts detectives and 3 national guards. They even dropped bombs on the miners from planes, the second time in history that the U.S. bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom against black residents of Tulsa, earlier that same year).

Several novels portray the Battle of Blair Mountain, including Storming Heaven, by Denise Giardina, (1987), Blair Mountain, by Jonathan Lynn (2006), and Carla Rising, by Topper Sherwood (2015). And one of my favorite films of all time, “Matewan,” by John Sayles (1987), portrays the Matewan Massacre and the strike leading up to it. The film has a fantastic soundtrack of Appalachian music from the period. And the great West Virginia bluegrass singer, Hazel Dickens, sings the title track, "Fire in the Hole." She also appears in the film as a member of the Freewill Baptist Church.

You can read my complete article on the Battle of Blair Mountain, and Matewan, here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #westvirginia #strike #union #police #vigilantes #uprising #racism #riots #blackwallstreet #film #novel #books @bookstadon

Two union coal miners, in white shirts, with suspenders, and broad-brimmed hats, sitting in a sniper's nest with a machine gun, during the Battle of Blair Mountain. By Kinograms - https://libcom.org/gallery/battle-blair-mountain-1921-photo-galleryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBAKGvOV6_k, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75210487
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History August 1, 1917: IWW organizer Frank Little was lynched in Butte, Montana. Little was a Cherokee miner and member of the IWW. He went to Butte during the Speculator Mine strike to help organize the miners. Little had previously helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He had participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” On August 1, 1917, vigilantes broke into the boarding house where he was staying. They dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car and then hanged him from a railroad trestle.

Author Dashiell Hammett had been working in Butte at the time as a strike breaker for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They had tried to get him to murder Little, offering him $5,000, but he refused. He later wrote about the experience in his novel, “Red Harvest.” It supposedly haunted him throughout his life that anyone would think he would do such a thing. He was also investigated by the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) because of his ties to socialism.

Read my complete biography of Little here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/
Read my complete article on the Pinkertons here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/
Read my bio of Dashiell Hammett here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #racism #indigenous #immigration #mining #freespeech #civildisobedience #civilrights #antiwar #author #books #fiction #writer #novel @bookstadon

Portrait of Frank Little, in a suit and tie, and wearing a fedora. By http://www.kued.org/productions/fire/photos_stories/gibraltar.html / http://www.kued.org/productions/fire/images/gibraltar/frank_little.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1897765
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