1938
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(1938) “Rank-and-file rule: what it is, and what it isn’t” by Fred Thompson
An article by Fred Thompson about what he sees as the rank-and-file control of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Originally appeared in the One Big Union Monthly (March 1938). We working people want to raise our wages, cut our hours, make our jobs safer and less injurious to our health and less unpleasant… Continue reading
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(1938) “I.W.W. Convention” by S.W. (Sam Dolgoff)
An account by S.W. (Sam Dolgoff) of the 1938 IWW Convention in which he expresses support for the potential decision of the IWW to allow collective bargaining agreements and regret for the decision to not affiliate with the International Workingmens Association. Dolgoff was a longtime IWW member who also participated in a number of anarchist… Continue reading
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(1938) “On boring from within” by Bert Russell
An article by Bert Russell looking at ‘boring from within’ strategy by radicals in the AFL and CIO and what he sees as their fruitless nature. Originally appeared in One Big Union Monthly (February 1938) The advent of the C.I.O. on the American labor scene has been the grounds for the rebirth of scholastic arguments… Continue reading
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