In the wake of recent worker uprisings, including the UAW’s recent strike and the Chicago teachers strike, today we examine the history of the Industrial Workers of the World (or the “Wobblies”) and the federal government’s response, culminating in the largest mass trial in U.S. history. Our guest is Dean Strang, criminal defense lawyer and […]
100 Years Ago, Bisbee, AZ Ran the Wobblies Out of Town
July 12th, 2017 commemorated the 100th anniversary of the notorious Bisbee, Arizona Deportation. On that date over a thousand striking miners and their supporters were rounded up at gunpoint in the copper-mining town by the sheriff and roughly a thousand “deputized” citizens known as the Loyalty League. Accused of being anti-American Industrial Workers of the […]
May Day Is Labor Day–Roots to Chicago Haymarket Square
Today is May Day, which to many may bring visions of maypoles, baskets of flowers and dancers. But in everywhere else except the United States, May Day is Labor Day, alternatively known as International Worker’s Day, or the Day of the Martyrs of the Revolution. Ironically, since the holiday is not officially celebrated here, International […]
