Tag Archives: Industrial Workers of the World

Bread and Roses: The Lawrence Textile Strike 1912

Flyer distributed in Lawrence, Massachusetts S...From the Harvard University Open Collection:

The Lawrence Strike of 1912 – John Bruce McPherson

The Trial of a New Society – Justus Ebert (IWW) – on the Ettor-Giovannitti-Caruso Case

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Joe Hill Resources on the Web

Joe Hill, one of the pioneering protest singer...

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Bread and Roses Joe Hill Page

The Joe Hill Project

Wallace Stegner Talks Joe Hill

The Man who Never Died – NY Times Review

Joe Hill Lyrics

The Songs of Joe Hill

PBS: Joe Hill

Phil Ochs Sings Joe Hill (1968)

On Joe Hill’s Last Words

Holt Labor Library: Joe Hill

National Archives Hands Over Joe Hill’s Ashes to IWW (1988)

AFL-CIO Joe Hill Bio

“Big Bill” Haywood (1869-1928)

A Wobbly membership card, or "red card"

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Haywood was a relentless organizer who mobilized workers and consistently antagonized company owners and management. John Reed, the journalist author of Ten Days That Shook the World, described Haywood’s face as “scarred like a battlefield.”… More>>