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Asheville/Appalachia: [email protected] IN NOVEMBER WE REMEMBER

- IWW speech at San Diego Rally - Against Hate, August 27, 2017 4

Remembrances of those we have lost: Buenaventura Durruti, Scout Schultz, , Albert Parsons, David 10 Jahn, and

We’re seeing freedom of speech on the gridiron so how about in every 14 other workplace?

The in Catalonia— Revolutionary unionism for the 18 21st century

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occupation. The Spanish Anarchist move- Revolutionary Loyalist Spain carried on ment beginning in 1868 included both a resistance to Franco and his Nazi Ger- Individualist Anarchists and Anarcho-Syn- man and Italian Fascist supporters in the dicalists. Francisco Ferrer established an years 1936 to 1939. educational movement that had influence Now there are independence move- in Spain and other countries—the Modern ments in the Basque Country and Catalo- School movement. Rationalism, co-edu- nia. cation, science, and non-indoctrination A respectable number of I.W.W. mem- Dear Fellow Workers: were its hallmarks. During the reaction- bers fought for Revolutionary Loyalist There has been a struggle for freedom, ary period of the Spanish Republic, there Spain in the years 1936–1939. Wobblies equality, and workers’ rights in Spain for was a in Asturia in 1934. Part continue to be in solidarity with struggles over centuries. of the resistance to Franco’s coup attempt for freedom and workers’ rights in Spain. Goya painted and sketched pictures was a revolution in Loyalist Spain. It went In solidarity, about the Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s furthest in Catalonia. Raymond S. Solomon IWW speech at San Diego Rally Against Hate, August 27, 2017 By Brandon Edwards-Schuth, Monty Front in France, and Britain First. Trump is people, Kroopkin, and Lydia Wood of the San not only friendly to these groups. He and a not Diego IWW GMB core of his supporters are a part of this new profits! My name is Lydia. I am an educator, fel- far-right threat. This low worker, and I speak today on behalf of IWW member and intellectual Noam revolu- the Industrial Workers of the World union, Chomsky, with Edward Herman, docu- tionary IWW (iww.org). We’re here today in solidar- mented in their book, The Washington general ity against the rise of Nazis, KKK, and all the Connection and Third World Fascism, how strike the elites in the USA have sponsored fascist can regimes widely as part of their tool kit of bring maintaining the “American Century.” The birth to result is an expansive U.S. empire with a soci- over 800 military bases in more than 100 ety free countries. of the For many this is the norm, a desensi- Bosses, tization to the American empire, and an free unquestionable part of our patriotic duty from systemic oppression, free of the root to protect democracy and market interests causes of racism, hatred, and division. everywhere. But we are becoming “woke” Although we may be far from being to the horrors and apathy of this mindset ready for a general strike, we must start and how this justifies massive actions of op- learning how. We must organize the nearly pression and perpetuates inequity. 90 percent of the workforce that is lacking It has been said that liberal democracy any union, and we must learn by practice neo-fascist and white supremacist groups. is the face of the ruling “one percent” when how to use strikes and boycotts to win We’re here today to talk about the solution. they are not afraid, and fascism is their face demands—demands which must accelerate Drawing from a century of combating when they are afraid. Capitalism is the root and become impossible for the capitalist fascism, we’ve learned quite a lot. For one cause of fascism. Fascism functions to attack system to meet. Demands that allow us to thing, racism and fascism go hand in hand. and destroy the unions and the resistance of not merely exist, but to all live with dignity. Early European fascists learned from the all who oppose the dictates of Big Capital. Protests alone are not enough! KKK. The Nazi race laws were inspired by We know that a better world is possible, Symbolic resistance alone is not enough! the race laws in the South. In the 1920s in and we are uniting here today to stand and Street fighting alone is not enough! Italy and the 1930s in Germany, we learned take for a better world, liberated We must use these methods and others that having parliamentary democracies was from hate and oppression! in combination with strikes and boycotts. not enough to protect us from fascism. In We need to end capitalism. The IWW We must all become revolutionary union 1930s Spain we saw that even military con- does not advocate a military method to do organizers and unite the whole workforce. frontation was not enough. Spanish dicta- this or a coup. Instead, we see that when We must learn how to take the whole sys- tor Franco and his thugs won the civil war workers organize ourselves together as a tem away from the “one percent”! Not just and he remained in power until he died in class, into a single coordinated revolution- here, but globally! We need to do it before 1975. Even the military defeats of fascism ary union, we can use general strikes not the disease we call “capitalism” injures our in Italy, Germany, and Japan in 1945 did only to shut down the economy, not only planet to the point where OUR species not end the threat of fascism. Across Eu- to deprive the vampire capitalists of their becomes the next one to die off! rope today we see a fascist resurgence, like profits, but to “strike on the job” and to re- Remember! An injury to one is an injury the Golden Dawn in Greece, the National direct the economy to serving the needs of to all! IW

IW Fall 2017.indd 4 10/13/17 14:19 5 On the Cover: Lorraine Hansberry 1930–1965 Osugi Sakae 1885–1923 Ralph David Abernathy 1926–1990 James Keir Hardie 1856–1915 Albert Parsons 1848–1887 Muhammad Ali 1942–2016 Joe Hill 1879–1915 1853–1942 Richard Allen 1760–1831 Billie Holiday 1915–1959 Frances Perkins 1880–1965 Ba Jin (Li Yaotang) 1904–2005 Mahalia Jackson 1911–1972 A. Philip Randolph 1889–1979 Judi Bari 1949–1977 Mary Harris “Mother” Jones 1837–1930 Jeannette Rankin 1880–1973 Laura Bassi 1711–1778 Frida Kahlo 1907–1954 Red Cloud 1822–1909 Alexander Berkman 1870–1936 Akira Kurosawa 1910–1998 Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962 David Bowie 1947–2016 Hedy Lamarr 1914–2000 Rose Schneiderman 1882–1972 Smedley Butler 1881–1940 Oliver Law 1900–1937 Pete Seeger 1919–2014 Rachel Carson 1907–1964 Clara Lemlich 1888–1982 Tupac Shakur 1971–1996 Ralph Chaplin 1887–1961 John Lennon 1940–1980 August Spies 1855–1887 1927–1993 Chief Leschi 1808–1858 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815–1902 Shirley Chisholm 1924–1980 Doris Lessing 1919–2013 Sugako “Suga” Kanno 1881–1911 Quentin Crisp 1908–1999 Queen Liliuokalani 1838–1917 Emma Tenayuca 1916–1999 Marie Curie 1867–1934 Frank Little 1878–1917 Nicola Tesla 1856–1943 Eugene Debs 1855–1926 Ida Lupino 1918–1995 Leo Tolstoy 1828–1910 Sam Dolgoff 1902–1990 Ricardo Flores Magon 1874–1922 Carlo Tresca 1879–1943 Frederick Douglass 1818–1895 Nelson Mandela 1918–2013 Harriet Tubman 1822–1913 Rudolfo A. Fernandez Sr. 1927–1979 Barbara McClintock 1902–1992 Rosina Tucker 1881–1987 1890–1964 Harvey Milk 1930–1978 Ida B. Wells 1862–1931 Rosalind Franklin 1920–1958 Luisa Moreno 1907–1992 Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 Mohandas Gandhi 1869–1948 George Moscone 1929–1978 Virginia Woolf 1882–1941 Emma Goldman 1869–1940 Agnes Nestor 1880–1948 Malcolm X 1925–1965 Woody Guthrie 1912–1967 Pauline Newman 1887–1986

learning how. We must organize the nearly demands—demands which must accelerate not merely exist, but to all live with dignity.

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IW Fall 2017.indd 5 10/13/17 14:19 6 Industrial Worker • Fall 2017 Rail workers’ struggle has been long and difficult Ron Kaminkow (ARU), designed to unite all rail workers General Secretary, Railroad Workers from all crafts into one organization. The United ARU was extremely popular with the ranks The history of rail labor in North and proved its effectiveness as a powerful America is marked by intense class con- labor organization—so much so that it was flict between rank-and-file railroaders, crushed by the combined force of the rail their unions, and the rail carriers. First to carriers and the federal government. organize were the operating craft in the The final decades of the 19th and the 1860s and 1870s, followed soon thereafter early 20th centuries were riddled with rail by the shop craft and maintenance forces. conflicts large and small. Strikes, work In 1877, railroaders led what would be the slowdowns, sabotage, and other forms of first general strike in U.S. history, setting direct action, and lock-outs, blacklisting, the tone for the open class warfare that and an array of other forms of industrial would mark the decades to follow. But the warfare were a hallmark of the rail industry, mode of “craft unionism” that railroaders as railroad workers—sometimes in defiance were organizing into was quickly becom- of their own unions—went to war with ing obsolete and ineffectual, as the various their employers. A “truce” of sorts—on unions fractured the workforce, playing the heels of the National Shopmen’s Strike into the carriers’ divide-and-conquer strat- of half a million—came with the Railway egy. In 1893, after more than a decade of Labor Act in 1926, providing the craft strikes lost due to union scabbery, Eugene unions with legal recognition and putting V. Debs and other forward-thinking labor an end to some of the carriers’ worst abuses eight hours, good quality health care, leaders formed the nation’s first “indus- and exploitation. But railroaders continued Railroad Retirement, the ability to sue the trial union,” the American Railway Union to struggle for better wages, benefits, and employer when injured on the job, a union working condi- contract with provisions for penalty time tions through the “claims,” adequate and proper lodging as Depression of well as “held time” at the away-from-home the 1930s, and terminal, seniority provisions, and more— in the great strike were won as a result of these collective wave beginning struggles. Railroad workers can claim some in 1946, with of the best “blue collar” jobs in North notable actions America, largely due to this legacy of strug- by shopmen gle and the fact that the rail industry is the (1950), all crafts most unionized sector of the workforce. in Mexico (1958), In recent years, rail labor—together train and engine with much of the labor movement of service workers on North America—has been relatively quiet. Florida East Coast But recent stirrings by trainmen and en- (1963), numerous gineers in Canada (CP and CN), contract U.S. railroaders rejections by machinists (IAM) at CSX and (1980s), and Soo by trainmen (SMART) at BNSF, militant Line conductors actions by both conductors and engineers (1994), together at Wheeling & Lake Erie, together with with a myriad organizing efforts by workers at various of other smaller contractors such as Renzenberger and labor actions. Mobile Rail Solutions, are emblematic of Throughout the discontent and stirrings of revolt in the this history, workforce. In fact, the track workers’ (BM- railroad workers WED) “Day of Action” on May 3, 2017, of all crafts have is the latest manifestation of the rank and won significant file’s pent-up frustration with “business as victories over the usual.” No doubt, railroaders can and will years in terms of fight back to preserve, protect, and expand wages, benefits, upon what we have fought so hard for in and working the years ahead. IW conditions. Most Ron Kaminkow is a locomotive engineer for a benefits railroad Class One railroad, currently based out of Reno, workers take for NV. He was a former delegate to the South granted—the Central Federation of Labor while President of “basic day” with AFSCME Local #634 in Madison before hiring overtime after with the railroad in 1996.

IW Fall 2017.indd 6 10/13/17 14:19 7 2017 Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation 1. Publication Title: Industrial Worker 2. Publication Number: 263-680 Record win for the 3. Filing Date: 10/10/2017 4. Issue Frequency: Quarterly 5. Number Issues Published Annually: 4 IWW at Stardust 6. Annual Subscription Price: $20 By Kristin K. permission, they quickly signed a peti- 7. Complete Mailing Address of Known Office of Publica Stardust Family United members tion that forced management to put a tion: P.O. Box 180195, Chicago, IL 60618 have much to celebrate stop to the practice. Contact Person: Arella Vargas The recent victory came as a result Telephone: 773-728-0996 Wobblies organized under the name Stardust Family United at Ellen’s of a settlement agreement between 8. Complete Mailing Address of Headquarters: P.O. Box the employer, the solidarity union, 180195, Chicago, IL 60618 Stardust Diner in New York City just 9. Full Names and Complete Mailing Address of Publisher, won a major victory in their nearly and the NLRB. By entering into the Editor, and Managing Editor two-year-old organizing campaign. settlement agreement, the company Publisher: Industrial Workers of the World, P.O. Box Thirty-one workers who had been will narrowly avoid a trial on some 19 180195, Chicago, IL 60618 fired in retaliation for union activity violations of the National Labor Rela- Editor: Roberta McNair, 3702 Hunt St. NW, Spc 17, have won immediate and full rein- tions Act, including the 31 retaliatory Gig Harbor, WA 98335 statement and will receive back pay firings. Managing Editor: Roberta McNair, 3702 Hunt St. NW, from the time they were fired. Of the As part of the settlement, the Spc 17, Gig Harbor, WA 98335 restaurant is required to mail official 10. Owner: Industrial Workers of the World, P.O. Box terminated employees, 13 will imme- diately return to work at the popular notices to all employees, informing 180195, Chicago, IL 60618 them that the company will not vio- 11. Known Bondholders: None Midtown diner. This victory is the 12. Tax Status: The purpose, function and nonprofit status largest reversal of a mass firing won by late federal law by engaging in certain of this organization and the tax exempt status for the IWW in decades. unlawful practices such as surveilling federal income tax purposes: Has Not Changed During Stardust Family United had filed and threatening workers, interfering Preceding 12 Months complaints with the National Labor with their use of social media, and 13. Publication Title: Industrial Worker Relations Board (NLRB) over the discouraging them from taking action 14. Issue Date for Circulation Data Below: SUMMER firings a year ago. But workers didn’t to improve working conditions. 2017 #1780 VOLUME 114 NO. 3 stop there. They signed up the new For the singing servers, this has 15. Extent and Nature of Circulation been a long road. “I’m thrilled and a. Total Number of Copies (Net press run): 1630 hires with the IWW and kept up the campaign’s momentum, using direct proud to know our struggle and Average No. Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 vigilance over the last year has paid Months: 358 action to fixing health and safety No. Copies of Single Issue Published Nearest to Filing concerns and win on other demands off,” says returning employee Matthew Date: 325 [Industrial Worker, Winter 2017]. Patterson. “I’m looking forward to re- - b. Paid Circulation (By Mail and Outside the Mail): For example, when a film crew began turning and making a positive impact (1) Mailed Outside-County Paid Subscriptions on PS recording the singing servers perform- inside the diner.” IW Form 3541: 353/320 ing during their shift, without their (2) Mailed In-County Paid Subscriptions on PS Form 3541: 5/5 (3) Paid Distribution Outside the Mail, Including Sales Through Dealer and Carriers, Street Vendors, Counter - Sales, and Other Paid Distribution Outside USPS®: —/— (4) Paid Distribution by Other Classes of Mail Through the USPS (e.g. First-Class Mail®): —/— c. Total Paid Distribution: 358/325 d. Free or Nominal Rate Distribution (1) Free or Nominal Rate Outside-County Copies on PS Form 3541: —/— (2) Free or Nominal Rate Inside-County Copies on PS Form 3541: —/— (3) Free or Nominal Rate Copies Mailed at Other - Classes: —/— (4) Free or Nominal Rate Distribution Outside the Mail: —/— e. Total Free or Nominal Rate Distribution: —/— f. Total Distribution: 358/325 g. Copies Not Distributed: 50/50 h. Total: 408/375 i. Percent Paid: 100/100 16. Electronic Copy Circulation: N/A 17. Publication of Statement of Ownership If the publication is a general publication, publication of this statement is required. Will be printed in the FALL 2017 #1781 VOLUME 114 NO. 4 issue of this publication. 18. Signature and Title of Editor, Publisher, Business Manager, or Owner: Arella Vargas, Business Manager, 10/10/2017 Industrial Worker • Fall 2017

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1964 - 2015 A tireless activist who truly understood “one struggle - many fronts”, Mike May called for social justice from the streets of NYC and from the stage as a singer. His whirlwind life had little time and less need for material comforts, and instead opted to throw himself into the revolution. Beer, musical performances, and creating a better world topped his agenda. By the time cancer took his life, he was the oldest continual member of the NYC-GMB, and widely loved in the NYC activist community.

step on toes to get thrashing to false answers/ to the summit/you've fortify their lies/ been bred that way, how can you change the system/ can you get away when you don't even try? from it?/ does it matter how far you go in life/when people are suffering from pointless strife?

IW Fall 2017.indd 8 10/13/17 14:19 9 Magpie’s “When We Stand Together” a noble effort in the Wobbly song tradition By FW Greg Giorgio themes of “building a new society within ently about the time and the town as it was Magpie, the folk duo Greg Artzner and the shell of the old,” as stated in the IWW then. Terry Leonino, wear their working class Preamble. Hear Greg and Terry’s spirited The 19 cuts that grace the recording roots and union memberships proudly. The offerings on Hill’s “It’s a Long Way Down include songs by many non-IWW authors, native Ohioans met at Kent State, where to the Soup Line” or the anti-war anthem but their inclusion enriches the mix. Like Terry dodged National Guard bullets in “Don’t Take My Papa Away from Me.” Flo Reece’s “Which Side Are You On?” the infamous murders of four students in Terry’s vocal on the latter is rich, emo- where Terry embodies Flo’s unique vocal 1970. The social justice and environmental tional, and evokes the era in which it was style, working-class imperatives in “Build activists began performing together soon penned. While many have recorded Joe’s High the Bridge,” environmental justice after and have never wavered from their “The Rebel Girl,” Magpie treats it with a in “Something in the Rain,” solidarity in strong messages for freedom. reverence they share about Hill’s composi- “Links on the Chain,” and immigrants When We Stand Together, subtitled Songs tional prowess. and labor in “Borderlines” are all powerful of Joe Hill, the IWW, and Fellow Workers, Magpie’s originals show their strengths reminders of the work that still needs to be is a noble effort in the history of Wobbly as songwriters. “Poor Old Dobbin” is a organized. Do you know “Paper Heart”? songs. Its broad vision that includes songs tribute to the IWW that could have been Si Khan and Charlotte Brody wrote this penned by Ronnie Gilbert, Tish Hinojosa, written a century ago. And “Canton 1918” about Joe Hill, and Magpie’s heart-tugging and Si Kahn, Phil Ochs, and others closes chronicles the famous speech by Gene harmony is sad and beautiful. And now the a circle to incorporate the vision of a world Debs that resulted in his lockup in the circle is complete. IW where there is room for the justice around federal pen for “sedition.” You can hear the which we organize. Greg and Terry have emotion coming through your speakers Please see www.magpiemusic.com for informa- added an important new take on the sing- with Greg’s lead vocal as he sings so rever- tion on this and other recordings by Magpie. ing union tradition of the IWW. Two years ago Magpie signed on to tour with FWs Charlie King and George Mann for the “Joe Hill Road Show,” during the centenary of the Wobbly bard’s execution in Utah. They had already fallen in love with many of Joe’s songs. They were so thrilled, in fact, they took out red cards on the tour, adding to their credentials as stalwarts in AFM Local 1000, the travel- ing musicians’ local. It’s exciting to hear them lead off this CD with Hill’s “Workers of the World Awaken.” Joe’s reboot to the “Internationale” riffs some of its lines but adapts it to a higher plane. One verse (“If the workers take a notion they can stop all speeding trains,” etc.) outlines the mechan- ics of stopping exploitation in the work- place and ending war. Magpie’s revelatory attempt here illustrates how their musi- cianship and sense of history are second to none in modern folk music. Hill’s best efforts expropriated the boss-class popular culture and accentuated

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The Workers’ General: Buenaventura Durruti Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936) was a key organizer of the defense of Loyalist Spain immediately after the attempted fascist coup on July 17, 1936. His death while defending Madrid was mourned by almost the entire region of Catalonia. Durruti and his column had been defending Madrid for two weeks when he was shot in battle on November 20, 1936. He had organized his column to defend Barcelona at the start of the Spanish Civil War. The Durruti column then went on to fight on the Saragossa front. The Durruti column grew to 6,000 people and eventually had volunteers from all over the world. It Photo: Libcom.org Photo: became the symbol of the fight against the Fascists, Buenaventura Durruti among his followers. and many Wobblies joined the column. In April of 1937, the col- Van Paassen was a correspondent in Spain during the Spanish Civil umn was militarized as part of the swing to the right-Communist War. He was imbedded with Durruti and his column and inter- orientation of Loyalist Spain. The Friends of Durruti, formed in viewed Durruti in the CNT metalworkers’ union headquarters 1937 with militant anarchist Spanish youth, was strongly opposed in Barcelona. When Van Paassen suggested that even if they were to CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, or National Con- victorious, they would be “sitting on top of a pile of ruins,” Dur- federation of Labor) collaboration with the Spanish Republican ruti replied, “We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going Government. to inherit the earth earth.” World-renowned Dutch-Canadian-American journalist Pierre —Raymond S. Solomon

Scout Schultz—leader, comrade, friend Scout Schultz, a dedicated non-binary activist and anarchist, rades at GT, Scout was a friend. Scout was always there when we was murdered by Georgia Tech police officer Tyler Beck on Satur- needed them, willing to go out of their way to make their friends day, Septem- happy. Scout was the first real comrade I made a connection with ber 16th. For at GT in an otherwise apathetic student body, the first radical many, Scout person I was able to form a real and interpersonal bond with was known who was always there to resist and throw down. Whether it was as a campus removing white power propaganda on campus, blocking the flow activist and of capital in a train yard in support of the NODAPL, or march- president of ing against Trump, Scout was always there in full support, yelling the Georgia loudly and proudly while waving their rainbow flag. Scout is now Tech Pride gone, their life torn violently from us by the state. While the me- Alliance, but dia and school try to sanitize Scout’s memory, I want them to be Scout was so remembered for what they were—a radical antifascist and revolu- much more tionary. Those who came on campus Monday night and retaliated than that. To against the police did not do so as outside agitators, but as friends me and my and comrades who felt deeply hurt and angry at the actions of the other com- school and police. Rest in power Scout, you will be missed. —Anonymous

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IW Fall2017.indd 11 Little Remembering way south to Toll As for night. the where Mountain, we camped our made Branches Whatcom–Skagit and Missoula from the ers Clark. A. residence William of sonthe the of Butte copper king of location wasn’t the lost on anyone: had been once mansion The irony Jane’s after presentation.and well-delivered Thebeautiful before information shop trading and talking were attendance, in Philadelphia even and Bellingham, Vancouver, Eugene, Missoula, event the memorial. first of the up being fromWobblies Butte, of uptown Julyin 31st, Butte for evening the wound this and Chateau Clark of her Charles book at the signing and reading Family an American Stained That Blood The IWW: the and book Little Frank author of wonderful the and great-grandniece Frank’s Botkin, Jane Little contacted and some Fellow Workers memorial centennial the Butte to in plan 1, 2017, we remembered him. of apauper’sedge Cemetery. View fieldin Mountain August On to the on onearth” “richest the hill from amortuary carried was casket his people over as ten thousand of Butte—drew history the in largest later, Days funeral—the chest. to pinned ers his his to other organiz union awarning with neck by the hanged was where he trestle to arailroad car their behind dragged then and beaten, clubbed, masks: in enforcers low by laid capitalist was Frank FW family. to Instead, see home journey and to Oklahoma leg on his surgery to going have corrective He morning. was the out of in town atrain to take he wentnight to sleep expecting that and branch, IWW an of Buttejust helpedminers charter the had Frank leg, broken a Nursing house. ing board Butte uptown an room in his stormedhad goons who of hired gang ened by a awak rudely bed, from his grabbed was Little Frank low Worker Fel 1917, 1, August After the reading at the Clark Chateau, some Chateau, Fellow Work Clark at the reading the After with coordinated Membership Branch General Missoula The On - - -

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Frank Little was murdered on Centennial Avenue. murdered on was Centennial Little Frank spot to we the FW headed into time by the them changed had of us many agood and received, were well memorial, which the for produced members t-shirts had IWW Butte. Some local like abandoned cities ultimately and built that extraction—industries and positions manufacturing replacing in are jobs that retail and the service within oforganizing about difficulties the discussion earnest an also Therewas organizer. orientation an his as and family. We politics, about legacy, personal Frank’s his chatted her and Botkin ofJane Little Butte, unions and trade the bers, mem attendedby IWW Wobblies social and hosted abarbecue respects. to pay his by operator Butte—came cage-hoist in surviving last man—the 92-year-old aspry and gentle dispersed, memorial graveside the favorable as and were piece. issued Acouple of cards red new sympathetic a was lookednews evening on.the Their report on Forever,” station “Solidarity television sang from alocal acrew as we Songbook and Red printed from The Little out selections afew Wobblies attending by family. Someone various Frank’s and had sembled at Fellow Worker were given Speeches graveside. Frank’s Cemetery, where agroup of over one people hundred as had View to Mountain we rose campground drove from the sun the The commemorationThe then area where moved Clark Park, to

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Albert Parsons, labor organizer and martyr One Confederate soldier who should have a monument built Anarchist. He was a labor activ- to him is Albert Parsons. After fighting for the Confederacy, ist and an advocate for American this Texan became a radical Republican and supported radical Indians. He published his own pa- reconstruction—which included voting rights for freed slaves. per. He was one of the Anarchists He married Lucy Parsons, a freed enslaved person whose exact executed in the Haymarket frame- ancestry may have been African-American, Mexican, Native up. His widow Lucy Parsons American, or some such combination. This type of marriage was became one of the founders of the not acceptable in Texas, at that time, so they moved to Chicago. Industrial Workers of the World. A typesetter and a printer, Albert became a socialist and then an —Raymond S. Solomon

Frank Little, Continued from p. 11 had crafted a memorial marker—a post with a wreath and Sussing out the location of the trestle before the gathering had Frank’s portrait on it crowned with “IWW” in large wooden been a bigger chore than we’d expected. Research finally showed letters. This tribute was set into the ground and several speeches that the spot we were looking for was near a couple of inactive were delivered before we made our way to the hill for food, drink, but standing trestles and a line of slag piles (charred waste from song, and solidarity at the Carpenter's Union Hall. the smelting of copper) on the southwest edge of town. We made Butte Wobblies and other members of the area labor com- our way munity had reserved the hall, and folk singer and Fellow Worker there Mark Ross traveled out from Oregon to supply the music. We around dined on spaghetti and fried chicken while enjoying FW Mark’s 5 p.m., songs and stage banter, drinking our fill of the complimentary a group beer and liquor. Some older Wobblies who were a few years of about behind in dues were reinstated and gave a younger delegate from forty Missoula some procedural pointers. We traded stories and made of us small talk as the sun set and the event wound down, eventually rallying filtering out to head back to our camps or to Missoula. at the The tone of the day had been by turns both reverent and approxi- easygoing. We were grateful for the company of Fellow Workers mate and friends and the contributions of FW Frank to the organiza- spot FW tion of the working class. The people of Butte remember him as a Frank hero and a martyr on their behalf to this day, and Wobblies were was warmly received everywhere we went. Frank’s murder, his ter- hanged. rible sacrifice, leaves us with one hell of a legacy to live up to. A Mem- hundred years on and capitalist interests still take so much from bers of our families and communities, leaving us with a pittance in wages the Mis- for precious pieces of our lives we can never get back. The trap- soula pings of our exploitation may be cosmetically different than those IWW of 1917, but its nature is fundamentally the same. Now as much General as ever, we owe it not just to the memory of Fellow Worker Frank Mem- Little but also to ourselves and the coming generations to orga- bership nize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish Branch the wage system, and live in harmony with the earth. Jane Little Botkin at Frank Little’s Butte, MT, grave —FW Charles Copeland

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David Jahn, Seattle IWW, #324599 Mar. 17, 1945–Sep. 9, 2017 Nautically, a mainstay secures the main mast forward, serving as the chief support. David Jahn was the mainstay of the Seattle IWW. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s as delegate, branch secretary, and GEB member (1979 chair), he served his union and his class. In difficult, sometimes violent, times, he kept the branch afloat, moving forward, a compass in a storm. He could be counted on to guide us through troubled and lean years. David retired from Todd Shipyard as a welder. But his main interest was clearly his family, and then his fellow workers. Dave and his wife Charlotte, who also served the IWW, hosted branch meetings in their home, organized support for local job actions, and provided moral support and guidance to members who were treated as good friends and family. Dave had the honor of serving with early Wobbly pioneers Herb Edwards, Jack and Violet Miller, and Fred Thompson. They taught him the meaning of the term “fellow worker.” He learned leaves behind his wife, Charlotte; children Jessica and Daniel; labor history from these people who had lived it, heard their sto- grandson Kimilo; and siblings, Edward, Margaret, Robert, and ries, shared in new struggles, and helped us all embody and carry Carol. And he leaves us a resurgent industrial union. He has on their heritage. David carried their baton, and passed it to us. enriched us all. On September 9, 2017, David Jahn died at the age of 72. He

Joe Hill Oct. 7, 1879–Nov. 19, 1915

Dear Joe, This November, we’re remembering they don’t pay beans. Eventually, I our fallen comrades. You’ll probably get learned about , and it stuck. a lot of thoughts and essays since you Then I learned about you from a song were so important to the early days of the that used the last poem you wrote. The IWW. But if I may, comrade, I’d like to song is “1915,” and the band is Anti-Flag. add one more. I don’t know if they have music where See, I’m a writer too. I write stuff you are, but I sure hope so and I hope to help people learn how to do things. you can listen to that song. I write other things too, but this is my Thanks, Mr. Hill, for giving us songs, trade; it’s why I’m part of the 560, as poetry, and a little bit of hope in a Little a Technical Writer. But Joe, you know Red Book. I hope maybe someday I can something? have just a little of the impact you had on I found myself in the Wobs because me, on someone else. of you. I grew up in a conservative —Jeremiah area, even though my pop was a liberal. Technical Writer Unions were—and still are—pretty 560, Transportation frowned upon. They call it “right-to- and Communication work,” but it isn’t much of a right since

Painting of Joe Hill by Scott Fife

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IW Fall 2017.indd 13 10/13/17 14:19 14 Industrial Worker • Fall 2017 We’re seeing freedom of speech on the gridiron so how about in every other workplace? By Dave Lindorff much touted supposed birthright of all benefit. September 24, 2017 , actually only applies during the What this football protest has dem- This Can’t Be Happening, www.thiscantbe- hours that that we are sleeping, traveling onstrated is that when one person takes a happening.net/node/3651 to and from work, on our days off, or at stand on the job and makes a statement home. And even then, as people are dis- as Kaepernick did last year, it may cost Why don’t Americans demand that the covering with employers monitoring their that person her or his job. But when lots First Amendment apply on the job too? personal blogs, Facebook pages and tweets, of people take the stand together, the boss Football players are a special class of and firing them for things they may have can’t retaliate so easily. In fact, the boss workers. Even the lowliest of them make said or written, we’re not so free. may even join them. six-figure salaries, at least for the short time Hooray for the professional ball players Blacklisting Kaepernick, as the NFL’s they stay healthy enough to play, but they who, following the lead of the heroic for- teams appear to all have done, may cost are nonetheless workers, and unionized mer San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick, a couple of teams a badly needed crack workers at that. are engaging their public protests before quarterback (and everyone agrees there And what is happening right now— the fans and asserting their right to speak are teams that could use him), but it isn’t with NFL players, black and in some cases their minds about racism and the national really costing any team any money or lost white, and now professional basketball and epidemic of police brutality against and ticket revenue to let him stay unemployed. baseball players too, acting in solidarity to murders of African Americans. Now that whole teams are taking a knee, protest racist policing and other issues of Now this burgeoning struggle for the or refusing to enter the field for the open- equality denied in America by not stand- freedom to speak out has to move out of ing patriotic display and the singing of the ing for the traditional performance of the the sports stadiums and into the work- national anthem, though, there’s no way to Star-Spangled Banner, and with the subse- places of America. fire them without trashing the season and quent incendiary calls by President Trump You can tell such a movement is badly losing millions of dollars. for the firing of these protesters by team needed when the self-styled “patriotic” If workers want to finally do away management—is shining a light not just yahoos in the stands boo and shout “stand with totalitarian policies in the workplace, on the racist politics of the president, but up!” at kneeling athletes speaking their they need to start taking a page from their on the wholesale lack of First Amendment mind on the job and don’t get upset when sports heroes and begin speaking out col- SF 49ers Colin Kaepernick (center), Eric Reid, and Eli Harold kneel during the national anthem freedom on the job for most American millionaire Treasury Secretary Steven lectively on the issues that matter to them. workers. Mnuchin scolds the protesters, telling It has to be a collective effort though. The reality is that workers in the US, them to do their free speech thing “on Maybe it is the dirty washrooms. Maybe unless they are represented by a labor their own time” and not on the bosses’. it’s unfair pay for women or minorities. union—and even then only a powerful and These white “NASCAR dudes” don’t even Maybe it’s the endless war in Afghanistan. assertive union—speak their minds at the realize that everyone—including they Maybe it’s police brutality in the local risk of being fired, and have no recourse if work and where you spend most of your themselves—should be demanding First metropolis, or toxic waste in the local waking hours each day! they are fired for the opinions they express Amendment rights on the job, and that the water supply. Whatever the issue, like- if those opinions aren’t shared by the boss. ball players they are condemning and jeer- minded workers need to start talking about Freedom of speech, that hallowed and ing at are making that case for everyone’s it, wearing T-shirts declaring their views, SUBSCRIBE TO INDUSTRIAL WORKER! Get a one-year subscription (that’s 4 issues) for: workers “at will,” which includes for saying 1 ...... U.S. IWW members: $16 1 ...... U.S. regular subscribers: $20 1 ...... ALL international subscribers: $28 We don’t allow people to be fired for being One-year bundle subscription (5 copies/issue, 20 total) for: 1 ...... U.S. bundles: $60 1 ...... International bundles: $80 when it comes to that free speech thing, (please check off which option you would like) feet. Your mailing address:

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SF 49ers Colin Kaepernick (center), Eric Reid, and Eli Harold kneel during the national anthem demanding that the company that em- They have no rights. And for that matter, huge workplaces with hundreds or even ploys them stop supporting policies they neither does the guy down on the field that thousands of workers, gates and security object to. Whatever the issue, if you can they are heckling, and yet he is doing it. guards and ID cards to control access to talk about it on the street or at home, you And the truth is, any of those guys the site, and files kept of each employee’s should be able to talk about it where you down there on the field in their uniforms behavior. work and where you spend most of your making a pubic protest, is doing more It is this new work environment, cre- waking hours each day! than just protesting against some issue, like ated during the 19th century, that led to The Constitution says it clearly in the police abuse. They’re also protesting for the a bifurcated world— one largely free and First Amendment: “Congress shall make no right of all workers to make their voices more or less unmonitored, where people law … abridging the freedom of speech.” heard where they work. could do and say pretty much what they Note that it does not say anything The truth is, when the country was pleased without fear of punishment or ha- about “except in the workplace.” And yet founded, there were no real factories in rassment, and another, set up much like an Congress has endorsed myriad laws and the new independent United States of old feudal estate, where the “lord” or boss regulations that allow employers to fire America. It was a largely agrarian society and his or her minions could order the workers “at will,” which includes for saying of farmers and small businesspeople who peons around, punish them at will with no things that the boss doesn’t like (they call might have a couple of employees at most. right of appeal for made-up infractions or it insubordination, which is a term that In that kind of environment, there was “insubordination,” and control what they has no place in a supposedly free society). little difference between the home and the could say or even think, on pain of being We don’t allow people to be fired for being place of work. It’s likely that people in such tossed out the door. of the “wrong” religion, or for being of settings had plenty to say on the issues of Things have gotten worse with our new the wrong race, so it’s not like there’s no the day while they were working. It’s also information age, so that once a worker precedent for Congress to limit the power likely that people who had a job and did it is fired by one boss, it can be hard to get of corporate bosses over their workers. But well were valuable enough to the employer a job anywhere, since one’s employment when it comes to that free speech thing, that even if they said things that the boss record becomes available to all. our elected officials and our judges get cold didn’t agree with they wouldn’t be sum- It’s time to grab this new opening made feet. marily fired for speaking up. That kind of by professional athletes of conscience, and It’s ironic that many of the yahoos in thing is much more likely to happen in to start a national campaign to extend the the stadiums who angrily shout “Stand huge companies where individual workers First Amendment to the shop floor, not up!” at some football player taking a knee are just replaceable cogs. just the athletic field. during the national anthem probably for- The founders who wrote the Constitu- While we’re at it, let’s demand that get that they can’t say anything political or tion and its Bill of Rights wouldn’t have Kaepernick get hired again as a QB. After make a political protest on their own job. imagined that eventually there would be all, he started this ball rolling. IW

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IW Fall 2017.indd 15 10/13/17 14:19 16 Industrial Worker • Fall 2017 Unions and worker co-ops, old allies, are joining forces again By Eric Dirnbach central strategy. The labor movement of and is finding new life. A Labor Notes http://labornotes.org/ the time was guided by a long-term goal of number of unions are exploring ways to blogs/2017/09/unions-and-worker- forming a “cooperative commonwealth,” ally with cooperatives and to form new co-ops-old-allies-are-joining-forces- where workers would run the economy on ones as alternative strategies to save their again principles of cooperation and solidarity. members' jobs and create new ones. In the 1800s, unions and cooperatives Union workers also organized co-ops out About 10 years ago, unions started to were part of the same movement. Today of necessity—to find alternative employ- think again about the cooperative model. once again, unions are collaborating with ment during labor disputes or after failed The Union Cooperative Council formed cooperatives to save jobs, create new ones, strikes, lockouts, or blacklisting. in 2007 and is part of the U.S. Federation and organize new members. But the Knights declined in the 1890s, of Worker Cooperatives. With representa- From the early days of the labor move- supplanted by the more conservative tives of a dozen unions, it holds monthly ment, as John Curl makes clear in his American Federation of Labor, which ac- conference calls to coordinate and share excellent book For All the People: Uncov- cepted the capitalist wage system. The AFL information. ering the Hidden History of Cooperation, focused on “bread-and-butter” contract In 2009, the United Steelworkers an- Cooperative Movements, and unionism, and disdained cooperatives. nounced a partnership with Mondragon, in America, union members saw coopera- Curl writes: the famous cooperative network in the tives as vital to their struggle. Unions and They were against worker cooperatives Basque region of Spain, which has more cooperatives were part of a growing labor not only because of past failures, but also than 100 constituent co-ops and tens of movement that also included myriad po- because cooperatives were associated with thousands of members. The idea was to litical parties, mutual aid societies, fraternal radicalism and radical movements, of start manufacturing cooperatives. In 2012, organizations, and secret worker associa- which they wanted no part, and because USW, Mondragon, and the Ohio Em- tions. cooperatives obscured the line between ployee Ownership Center published their The 1800s were a period of tremen- employee and employer. This confused Union Co-op Model, outlining how union dous change, as the economy shifted from the union’s role as bargaining agent, which cooperatives could be structured. agrarian and skilled artisan production to they saw as the unions’ basic identity, with Manufacturing has proved challenging industrial capitalism relying on wage labor. the contract the eternal goal. so far, though the Steelworkers do have Many workers who had direct experience With some exceptions, unions and several affiliated co-ops now, including a or family history with pre-capitalist ways of cooperatives went their separate ways. The printing company and a carwash. work regarded working for wages as “wage cooperative movement continued to grow In other cases, unions have affiliated slavery.” So cooperatives, with their demo- and decline with the swings in the econo- existing cooperatives, started new ones, cratic practices and ownership, offered an my, eventually becoming identified more or saved workplaces from closing through attractive alternative to the fast-growing with the countercultural food scene of the conversation to a cooperative: sweatshop economy. 1960s and 1970s. Cooperative Home Care Associates, in The Knights of Labor in the 1870s An Alliance Revived the Bronx, is the largest worker co-op in and 1880s made forming cooperatives a But today, the alliance between unions the country with 860 worker-owners. It started in 1985, and in 2003 affiliated with 1199SEIU to work together in the same industry. The Cincinnati Union Co-op Initia- tive, launched in 2009 to explore the Steelworkers–Mon- dragon cooperative model, has incubated three cooperatives so far: an energy efficien- cy company affiliated with the Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Pipefitters; an urban farm affiliated with the Food and

Photo: Vermont Gage Carwash Gage Vermont Photo: Commercial Work- ers (UFCW); and From L.A. car washers to Denver taxi drivers, unions are collaborating with cooperatives to save jobs, create new ones, and organize new members.

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the soon-to-open Apple Street Market, a larger share of the profits in this billion- ers themselves, without the bosses we don’t also affiliated with UFCW, which will be a dollar industry. need. As worker organizations, it would worker/community-controlled neighbor- Turning Union Shops into Co-Ops make sense for unions to experiment in hood food co-op. At the recent Eastern Conference for this world, and it may be a step toward the When the Republic Windows and Workplace Democracy, one suggestion for old “cooperative commonwealth” idea. Doors factory in Chicago announced unions wanting to explore co-ops was for Critics, however, contend that unions it would close in 2008, the workers sat a local to take an inventory of its shops— running businesses distracts from the in. They did it again in 2012 when new which ones could be most easily converted difficult work of organizing workers and owners also announced a shutdown. With into co-ops? representing members. Moreover, without the help of their union, United Electrical For instance, owners of small, family- sufficient education, union members who Workers (UE), they bought the plant's owned businesses may be planning to are cooperative owners may over time equipment and formed the cooperative retire. Indeed, there is a wave of baby come to think and act just like regular New Era Windows in 2013. boomer business-owner retirements com- business owners. More than 1,000 Denver taxi driv- ing, which could provide many opportuni- If we want union cooperatives to fully ers, considered independent contractors, ties for conversions to co-ops. Stewards can engage with the broader solidarity econ- are competing with Uber and traditional evaluate these possibilities and also serve as omy, these co-ops will have to do more taxi companies through two cooperatives, an early-warning system if a business gets than just create better jobs for their own one of which, Green Taxi, affiliated with into trouble and may close. members. An example from Greece would the Communications Workers (CWA) in Financing can be a challenge, espe- be the Vio.me cooperative, which supports 2014. CWA has helped set up the coopera- cially for cooperatives in capital-intensive refugees and offers space for a health clinic. tives by lobbying for taxi licenses. industries such as manufacturing, but It remains to be seen whether more The Maine Lobstering Union, formed unions could use their own money toward unions will branch out into cooperatives in 2013 with help from the Machinists developing co-ops. A model of using union and whether the labor and cooperative union, is a fishing producer cooperative pension funds is the AFL-CIO Housing movements will work more closely togeth- that’s working on lobbying for better regu- Investment Trust, which has financed the er. But at a time when union density has lations, group purchasing, and marketing renovation of several housing cooperatives. been falling for decades and is now below campaigns, to stabilize prices in a volatile A Viable Strategy? 11 percent, it makes sense for unions to market. The Machinists had a historical Forming a cooperative isn’t easy, since it explore various strategies and develop new presence in Maine in other industries, means running a business based on humane allies. IW such as shipbuilding and paper mills. The principles in a competitive, capitalist market. Eric Dirnbach is a union researcher and labor cooperative recently purchased a lobster For some, cooperatives prefigure the activist in New York City and a member of wholesaler, with a $1 million loan from the kind of alternative economy we want to Research|Action, a collective of left researchers and Machinists, which will help members get see, where enterprises are run by the work- campaigners. Statement from the Missoula IWW GMB The idea behind this statement is to try to remind our union what we are about. It’s a general push to avoid insular politics and to make every interaction and every conversation with every worker count. Fellow Workers, We are a Union committed to organizing all workers regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, nationality, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, and criminal history. Therefore, we will continue to reach out to and organize all work- ing class people by sowing seeds of trust rather than malice, seeds of camaraderie rather than contempt, and seeds of solidarity rather than exclusion. And we will do this by any means necessary—not just the most radical and not just the least, but both and everything in between. For where an individual falls in the spectrum of class consciousness and militancy is merely a mile marker. The direction in which they can be pushed to move is up to us and defines our work as organizers. With every conscious pulse, The Missoula IWW GMB

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IW Fall 2017.indd 17 10/13/17 14:19 18 Industrial Worker • Fall 2017 was based on their very patient day-to-day organizing in workplaces and communi The general strike in Catalonia— ties—as revolutionaries. Revolutionary unionism for the 21st century North America, because when we say “rev olutionary unionism,” we can’t just settle By From the Ashes: Wobblies for a for building some general kind of union Revolutionary Union Movement ism that will—hopefully later, someday, https://revolutionary-iww.org/general- eventually, maybe—become revolutionary. strike-catalonia-revolutionary-unionism As another IWW member put it recently: By Monday night, the Guardia Civil [na- tional police] had left Calella [small Catalan town near Barcelona], leading a spokesman for Spain’s main police union, to complain that officers were “fleeing from hotel to ho- tel; they are like rats who have to hide.” —Via The Guardian By now, the images of the brutality and ferocity with which Spanish and Catalan police were attacking people on October 1st, in order to prevent a referendum on Catalan independence, have circulated ev- erywhere. So have the images of people in Catalonia pushing back lines of police. The government threw gasoline onto smolder- buil - Dockwork Harbor of Barcelona Organization Credit: Photo ers (OEPB) @ CoordinadoraBCN ing embers, and the general strike which The independent dockworkers union (Coordinadora) voting unanimously to participate in the articulation for how that now plays a role occurred on October 1st is the result. The general strike. for a future liberatory revolution. Since mix of empowering and disempowering the 2008 crisis began and the Spanish and images on Sunday has been replaced by a make them more militant. They’ve never nounced that they actually they were only Catalan governments have insisted on real sense of collective power and solidarity. been able to pull off their own general calling for a “civic protest” together with more austerity (backed every time by the From North America, it seems hard strikes—until now. the chamber of commerce. They weren’t business unions), the CNT has methodi to grasp what “general strike” actually The strike had been called originally calling on workers to strike, but only to cally inserted itself into both workplace means on the ground. In the US at least, almost two weeks ago by a coalition of re- go to their bosses and politely ask them and social struggles, and built a strong we haven’t had officially had one since gional and radical unions, including several to close the business for the day. This is a and well-rooted presence in many impor 1946, in Oakland. For radicals in North that refer to revolutionary and anarchist new low for even reformist unions in Spain America, we have a sense that “general unionism, the most well known being (although it’s more than unions try to do strikes” are good things, but we’re in the the CNT and CGT. They attempted to in North America). It’s not clear why the same position as Europeans first trying to articulate a fine line: They were not for the business unions changed their mind but understand the platypus: We’ve never seen creation of a new Catalan state, but were one suspects they received panicked phone it, we only know its characteristics from against police repression and austerity, even calls from their central offices in Madrid writings, and we have a sneaking suspicion when carried out by Catalan police and telling them not to stir the flames up too that it’s either fake or not as good as we politicians. This coalition has been working much. want to believe. But there’s nothing mysti- together since the economic crisis erupted Their waffling only cemented the moral cal nor exotic about general strikes. Our in 2010, with the goal of jointly organiz- and practical resolve of the radical unions. grandparents pulled off six citywide general ing general strikes outside of the business Nobody in Catalonia talked about a “civic strikes in 1946, plus nationwide strikes in unions’ control. That theory had never protest”; everyone was talking about THE coal and rail. Since then, “unionism” has been tested. General Strike. In smaller towns or areas been channeled into a very narrow work- Then came the police attacks across all where the radical unions had a small pres- place contractualism that makes solidarity of Catalonia, and the people’s response of ence, the “Referendum Defense Commit- impossible. They’ve happened here before, anger and outrage. In several areas people tees” that had formed over the last week and they can happen again, when we build forced police to retreat, including from the became “Strike Committees” and engaged a new kind of unionism. hotel where they have historically stayed in flying pickets. Anywhere the radical But let’s return to Spain, which had when needed in Barcelona (see quote unions had a presence (including several of a massive strike wave in the 1970s after above). the small towns), they were the clear lead- the death of Franco, and where the state On the night of October 1, the business ership, organizing flying pickets as well as and capital still haven’t been able to fully unions in Catalonia signed on to the gen- mass marches in order to both halt produc- exorcise the memory of militant, class-wide eral strike for October 3. This was the first tion and prevent police maneuvers. solidarity. For 40 years, the independent, time that the radical unions had taken the Although the spectacular images of militant, and radical (often anarchist) initiative and been followed (rather than protest seem to have all been spontane- unions, as well as regional unions in Cata- ignored) by the business unions, and no- ous, we know that there is a relationship lonia, Andalucia, and the Basque Country, body knew quite what it meant. The next between spontaneity and organization. The have always followed the general strikes morning, the business unions held embar- ability for the CNT and the other radical called by the business unions, fighting to rassing press conferences where they an- unions to take leadership of the situation

IW Fall 2017.indd 18 10/13/17 14:19 19 was based on their very patient day-to-day tant workplaces in Barcelona (the airport, by thinking big about what’s possible, and organizing in workplaces and communi- the docks, the metro) as well as in many what kinds of struggles will get us there. ties—as revolutionaries. smaller towns in Catalonia, such as Olot. We don’t have this program yet, but we can This is an important point for us in (The same pattern is true across most of begin putting it together, learning as we North America, because when we say “rev- Spain.) They have also engaged very deeply go. We should try to imagine revolutionary olutionary unionism,” we can’t just settle with independent workers groups such as unionism being as relevant in St Louis as it

- for building some general kind of union- Las Kelly’s (hotel cleaners) or Deliveroo is in Barcelona. If we can’t, we aren’t seri- ism that will—hopefully later, someday, riders—both of which groups were sold ous, and we’re just role-playing. eventually, maybe—become revolutionary. out by agreements made by the business In Catalonia, and all of Spain, the As another IWW member put it recently: unions but have continued their struggles tension continues to simmer. Nobody We are not trying to build a union and just the same. (The CNT is the focus here knows what will happen next. The King of figure out how to make it revolutionary, but because, of all of the radical unions, they Spain just gave a speech that calls for more rather we are trying to support a libera- are the most similar to the IWW, and we repression. The struggle is unlikely to die tory revolution and figuring out what role are coordinating together internationally. down soon. It’s a complicated struggle, but workplace organizing today plays in that. This actual coordination with other unions the elements of class solidarity, rejection of Another way of saying this is that we’re is an extremely positive and exciting devel- the police, and distrust of politicians are trying to build an organized front within opment.) clearly major positive factors to pay atten- the workplace for a revolutionary move- These are important lessons for revo- tion to. The business unions have embar- ment. Specifically, we have some perspective lutionary unionists in North America (or rassed themselves thoroughly and will be and analysis of how working class revolu- almost anywhere outside of Spain) to learn, completely marginalized in the coming tion happens that implies “unionism” plays or re-learn. We need to combine a revo- struggles. The CNT and the other radical some important role in such a project at this lutionary vision with a coherent program unions are clear players for hegemony in historical moment. for revolutionary organizing in every part this struggle involving hundreds of thou- The CNT have a clear program for of society, including by building strong or- sands of people. None of their members building revolutionary unions, and a clear ganizations in the workplace, especially as have ever been in this situation before, and Photo Credit: Organization of Barcelona Harbor Dockwork Harbor of Barcelona Organization Credit: Photo ers (OEPB) @ CoordinadoraBCN articulation for how that now plays a role business unionism in North America con- they might make mistakes, but any mistake for a future liberatory revolution. Since tinues to collapse. We don’t have this pro- they make will be worth more than 1,000 the 2008 crisis began and the Spanish and gram yet, and we won’t have it tomorrow. correct decisions made by internet com- Catalan governments have insisted on We can’t simply elaborate it in our heads, mentators. more austerity (backed every time by the nor by importing a program from another Let’s keep our eyes peeled. The lessons business unions), the CNT has methodi- context. The program we need will be built that our comrades in Catalonia and Spain cally inserted itself into both workplace through engaging in mass struggles, as well learn in the coming days will be important and social struggles, and built a strong as building clearly revolutionary unions for all of us. and well-rooted presence in many impor- at the point of production; it will be built No cops, no bosses, no borders! IW Photo Credit: #15M Barcelona International CNT @15MBcn_int International #15M Barcelona Credit: Photo Aerial shot from downtown Barcelona: The city is packed ahead of general strike demonstration.

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Preamble to the IWW Constitution The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people, and the few, who make up the em- ploying class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the work- ers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth. We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever-growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs that allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the work- ing class has interests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, “A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work,” we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watch- word, “Abolition of the wage system.” It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industri- ally we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.

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