We need some IWW Songs!

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The breakdown of the Wobblies' momentum had less to do with their impossible idealism than with systematic and brutal repression by the Wilson administration in partnership with corporate interests. Under the sweeping provisions of the 1917 Espionage Act, IWW offices were raided and indictments issued against 166 Wobbly organizers for conspiracy to undermine the war effort. Union leader Bill Haywood, assured of solid legal standing by IWW attorneys, agreed to a mass trial in Chicago that would, he hoped, result in the vindication of free-speech rights for all Americans as well as positive publicity for the labor movement.

He was wrong: Convictions, 20-year sentences and $20,000 fines rained down.

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"Espionage Act" - "Enabling Act", what's the diff?.

Didn't president Bushler declare the longshoremen's wobble "unpatriotic" and a threat to national security as they were ramping-up for the illegal war in Iraq ?. They must all read from the same script. The plan is for war, or a constant threat of war, in keeping corporate profits up and worker's rights and wages suppressed.

[ 28 June 2005: Message edited by: Fidel ]

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And remember, fellow workers, a contract is just a truce in the class struggle!

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