Today is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.).
From: Susan Matson’s column in the Seattle Times:
THE founding congress of the Industrial Workers of the World was called to order in Brand’s Hall on Chicago’s North Side on June 27, 1905. Around 200 prominent union leaders and progressive thinkers, including “Big Bill” Haywood, Eugene Debs, Daniel DeLeon, Lucy Parsons and Mary Harris (aka “Mother Jones”), gathered to establish a labor organization “broad enough to take in all the working class,” one that would have “but one object and one purpose and that is to bring the workers of this country into the possession of the full value of the product of their toil.”
Also see:
Paul Buhle’s article on the “Legacy of the I.W.W.” in June issue of Monthly Review as well as Buhle and Nicole Schulman’s wonderful book: WOBBLIES!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Harry Slitonen’s The IWW–It’s First 100 Years
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