Industrial Workers of the World

I want to actuate you to support the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to demand better working conditions. What is IWW? IWW is a union that challenged the American Federation of Labor’s (AFL) acceptance of capitalism and its refusal to included unskilled workers in craft unions. I believe that you should join IWW because we are making a difference in people lives and we are supporting them to want shorter hours, higher pay, and better benefits for their families. How are you going to get them? To be honest with you, fighting for the Industrial Workers of the World it is not an easy task to do but, we are going to gather around and go on strikes, go on the radio, sharing the word to people who will listen to us and for the greater good of the workers. Industrial Workers of the World went to Spokane to protest, but it turned worst because the Spokane City Council are stopping them to fulfill what they were there to do. Less than 2 months, five hundred IWW was jailed, but at the end of their journey Spokane freedom fight was victorious for the Industrial Workers of the World. This Spokane Freedom of Speech was considered to be one of the Significant battle in American history.…

A factory in Homestead, Pennsylvania which manufactured steel caused one of the biggest turning points towards the creation of the early unions. In this factory, working conditions were oppressive. Workers would work twelve hour shifts in pitch black rooms. Accidents would occur like getting caught in the machinery and losing limbs. Cases of third degree burns from exploding hot steel were common. Unions would form amongst the workers to protect their rights against these casualties. Besides…

mines—reaching insurrectionary levels in some places—after the bosses cut wages by 25 percent. Eugene Debs grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana, a town that served the corn-growing and hog-raising farmers and was tied by railroads to the Midwest industrial centers. Here he got his first job for the railroad painting signs, which put him in touch with an industry and way of life that soon captivated him. Shortly before Christmas in 1871, Debs got his big chance, replacing a drunken railroad fireman…

Labor conflicts arose latent with strong ties to changing racial relations in workforce. Opposition to the changing face of the common worker propagated great dissention throughout the white community. Race acted as the dominant factor in an individual’s work ethic. In the early 19th century, all minorities were marginalized into labor undesirable and considered to be “work repugnant to the white man.” However, some races were preferred over others. In a special report by the Washington State…

The Red Scare:1920 The Red Scare of 1920, starting in the middle of the first world war and ending about three years after. It was the wide spread panic across America, the fear of communism mixed with political racism. The Red Scare started from different causes, including the Bolshevik Revolution and World War one, the growing fear of immigration, radical and the socialist party, many different people played large and important roles. Another main cause is the Bolshevik revolution. The…

government assistant and expanding domestic markets. The American industrial workers during this time period, 1865 to 1900, faced a shift from the typical agrarian society to an industrial society, and were greatly impacted, although negatively, by the introduction of new technologies (technology changes), immigration and labor unions. Some of the major advances in the communication in the era included transatlantic telegraph cable, development of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, invention…

frighten the American people more about the rise of Communism. It scared them to the point that communists, anarchists, socialists, and even Americans feared these raids because of the inhumane punishments prisoners were put through. Convicts would be put in chambers with no working bathrooms, little food, and be beaten constantly.5 Though most feared the harsh reparations, the majority of cases made against the communists resulted in the suspects being released because there was little to no…

The I.B.E.W is a union that has about 750,000 workers and retirees in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, Panama, Guam and several Caribbean island nations. It was founded in 1890 St. Louis, Missouri. About 1891 after every one was showing enough interest after the convention they had the IBEW, then known as National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (NBEW ) was officially formed. On January 15, 1893 they changed the name from NBEW TO IBEW. The union went through some bad…

most of them were inspirational and appeared in various magazines. By the year of 1968, Helen wrote a total of twelve books with the help of Anne Sullivan. As she was writing her books, she gained a strong insight and belief in Socialism. Helen became a national supporter and follower of socialism and later identified herself as a socialist. Because of her strong beliefs in this system, she wrote articles and column in newspapers which gained the support of people. “In 1908, she…

The Industrial Revolution started in Britain around the 1750’s, later spreading to other countries. It changed the way people lived and worked through the transformation from an agrarian, handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. This period was marked by a boom in industrialisation, which was made possible by the remarkable series of innovations and inventions. As a result of the increase in industry, there were some detrimental effects to the environment and…