{"id":79,"date":"2005-06-27T10:05:06","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/06\/27\/fellow-workers\/"},"modified":"2005-06-27T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T18:05:06","slug":"fellow-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/06\/fellow-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow workers &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iww.org\/\"> Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/opinion\/2002349101_wobbly27.html\">From: Susan Matson&#8217;s column in the <i>Seattle Times<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE founding congress of the Industrial Workers of the World was called to order in Brand&#8217;s Hall on Chicago&#8217;s North Side on June 27, 1905. Around 200 prominent union leaders and progressive thinkers, including &#8220;Big Bill&#8221; Haywood, Eugene Debs, Daniel DeLeon, Lucy Parsons and Mary Harris (aka &#8220;Mother Jones&#8221;), gathered to establish a labor organization &#8220;broad enough to take in all the working class,&#8221; one that would have &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"buhle_schulman_wobblies.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/careo.elearning.ubc.ca\/weblogs\/ross\/archives\/buhle_schulman_wobblies.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"145\" border=\"0\">Paul Buhle&#8217;s article on the &#8220;Legacy of the I.W.W.&#8221; in June issue of <i>Monthly Review<\/i> as well as Buhle and Nicole Schulman&#8217;s wonderful book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/ab\/b-titles\/buhle_schulman_iww.shtml\"><i>WOBBLIES!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Slitonen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iww.org\/culture\/chronology\/Siitonen1.shtml\"><i>The IWW&#8211;It&#8217;s First 100 Years<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). From: Susan Matson&#8217;s column in the Seattle Times: THE founding congress of the Industrial Workers of the World was called to order in Brand&#8217;s Hall on Chicago&#8217;s North Side on June 27, 1905. Around 200 prominent union leaders and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}