Wobblies on the Southern Home Front
Against The Current vol. 116
Quinn, Abra
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/282
Date Written: 2005-05-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2005
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13143
Most readers of Against the Current know the Industrial Workers of the World by their imaginative and daring radical tactics and campaigns in the Northeast and the West — the Free Speech campaigns; the Lawrence, Massachusetts Bread and Roses textile strike, made colorful by its propaganda, and especially the pageants and children’s evacuation that brought the strike publicity; their organizing of itinerant workers and hoboes; and the Wobblies’ clarion calls for direct action and sabotage on the job, as well as loudmouthed boasts of violent action in response to the bosses’ violence.
