Michael LaxerOct 16, 20221 min readDaily LIFT #816Big Bill Haywood at a rally in Moscow, USSR 1923 (Haywood is at lower left) -- Daily LIFT #816 Legendary IWW leader Haywood fled the...
Michael LaxerJun 27, 20221 min readDaily LIFT #742Wake 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,...
Michael LaxerJan 11, 20212 min readBread and Roses Strike Begins, January 11, 1912Today is the anniversary of the start of the "Bread and Roses" strike in 1912 in Lawrence, Mass. This was a pivotal battle in American...
Michael LaxerOct 7, 20201 min readJoe Hill IWW Hero - Born October 7, 1879With 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...