Industrial Union Bulletin 03-30-1907 03-30-1907Ĭooks and waiters strike for the 10 hour day and union recognition. Wire and iron workers in the IWW notify their employer they will walk out if not granted the nine hour day.ĪFL broke a strike of IWW cooks who demanded the 10 hour day. Mine owners shut down the miners until the Western of Federation of Miners withdraw support for the IWW. Brissenden, The I.W.W.: A Study of American Syndicalism, 368 Strike in response to discharge of IWW members. IWW members scab on actors on strike for securing a closed shop. Striking tinners and slaters join the IWW.Ĭigar makers' union ends their strike after winning all demands. These data are from our yearbooks and are also used in our interactive maps of strikes. The Descriptions are derived from newspaper reports and have not been independently verified. The Date column represents either a known start date for the action or the publication date of the newspaper.
HOMESTEAD STRIKE CAUSE AND EFFECT FREE
Some of these strikes were organized by AFL locals.īelow is a month-by-month list of more than 400 strike reports culled from IWW and non IWW newspapers (see interactive maps for list of free speech fights). The IWW played various roles, often supporting strike actions that they did not initiate or lead. Some were short-lived and unsuccessful, but others ended in victories.
Out West, the 1915 Wheatland, CA, hop pickers strike, the 1917 timber strikes in the Pacific Northwest, and Bisbee, AZ, mine strike are equally famous.īut this project has identified hundreds of strikes and free speech campaigns that are less well known to historians. Victory in the Lawrence, MA, textile strike in 1912 secured the organization's reputation for organizing immigrant workers in industries that AFL unions largely ignored. The IWW gained national attention in 1909 with a dramatic set of strikes in mills and factories around McKees Rock, PA, where railway cars were constructed. (Click on images at right to see interactive maps and charts).
We have developed maps, lists, and charts detailing more than 400 strike actions (and free speech fights) led or supported by the IWW, as recorded in the Industrial Worker, Solidarity, Industrial Union Bulletin, and several non IWW newspapers.
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