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Michael Laxer
Oct 16, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #816
Big Bill Haywood at a rally in Moscow, USSR 1923 (Haywood is at lower left) -- Daily LIFT #816 Legendary IWW leader Haywood fled the...
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Michael Laxer
Jun 27, 20221 min read
Daily LIFT #742
Wake Up! Join the I.W.W., poster c. 1910 -- Daily LIFT #742 The Industrial Workers of the World was founded at a convention in Chicago,...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 11, 20212 min read
Bread and Roses Strike Begins, January 11, 1912
Today is the anniversary of the start of the "Bread and Roses" strike in 1912 in Lawrence, Mass. This was a pivotal battle in American...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 7, 20201 min read
Joe Hill IWW Hero - Born October 7, 1879
With music by Paul Robeson Joe Hill, the IWW union organizer and hero, murdered by the bosses in Utah in 1915, was born on this day in...
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