Tag Archives: samuel gompers

the un-people: throwing the off switch

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Dave

Pull the legs out from under the wage system. The Wobblies. The I.W.W. It was an America in which those who did protest were often locked out, replaced by scabs, and prevented from picketing by injunction and by naked force. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged a.ashbolt, Alexander Berkman, Alexis de Tocqueville, daniel de Leon, deborah shaffer, elizabeth gurley flynn, Emma Goldman, eugene v. debs, i.w.w., joseph ettor, max eastman, samuel gompers, Sigmund Freud, The Wobblies, Werner Sombart, william d. haywood | Leave a comment

1919 & hysteria: who stole my underwear?

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Art

Workers of the world, you have nothing to lose but your daisy chains. In 1889 a congress of socialists in France, inspired by Samuel Gompers in America, fixed May 1,as the day to pattern an international program of agitation. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Diego Rivera, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francois Ravachol, George Orwell, H.L. Mencken, jules guesde, maurice dommanget, octave mirbeau, samuel gompers, Walter Benjamin, william gropper | Leave a comment

8 hours 8 HourS 8 HOuRs

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Art

Property. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. The wild days of May. Is today’s May Day violence a simple mimicry of revolution, colorful pageants of class warfare, or are they forces lurking that question … Continue reading →