Second part of picto-essay by geniusbee.
This is an amazingly well-done comic strip about the Everett Massacre (aka Bloody Sunday) by geniusbee.
Check out some of these old General Organization Bulletins (GOB) from the 1940s and 50s. Some things change, others just stay the same.
they said it couldn’t be done … .
c4ss:
There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
“It’s nothing personal, but the two classes are natural enemies. We’re stuck in the middle of a war, a class war. That’s not a figure of speech. It’s a very real and ugly war with a body count that makes WWII look like a minor fender bender on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
It’s war, and we fight it every day, but our weapons aren’t guns and bombs. Our weapons are education, organization, and the various ways of withholding our labor. We fight with our arms folded.” —FW Tim Acott, Portland GMB-IWW
Now, not to inject any politics into this, but should you ever care to organize, the I.W.W., in its Sex Trade Workers I.U. 760, is more than willing to support you (I’m sure). Just a thought, nothing more. (By the way, I do not speak as a representative of the IWW, nor of IU 760. I’m simply giving additional information.)
(via theelusiveman)
The first Industrial Workers of the World charter in Canada, Vancouver Industrial Mixed Union no.322, 1906.
In Japanese, from April 1909.
Funeral of Felix Baran held in Seattle, Washington, November 1916. Part of the Everett Massacre. (University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division)
The Everett Massacre (also known as Bloody Sunday) was an armed confrontation between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union, commonly called “Wobblies”. It took place in Everett, Washington on Sunday, November 5, 1916. The tragic event marked a time of rising tensions in Pacific Northwest labor history.
(via collectivehistory)
A 1909 version of the IWW in Japanese. Very Cool!
(via whydoyourule)
