Black and white photo of Modestino Valentino, looking straight ahead, in a stiff collar and suit.
Today in #LaborHistory 4/19/1913: Modestino Valentino, a bystander, killed by company detectives during #IWW Patterson, N.J. Silk #Strike. During strike, 1,850 workers arrested, incl #ElizabethGurleyFlynn & #BigBillHaywood. #workingclass #union #police #policebrutality
Political cartoon of a silk producer who is holding a flag on which is written "To hell with your laws! I'll get Haywood. Elizabeth Flynn, or anyone else who interferes with my profits." By Art Young - The Masses ( Vol. 4, No. 9 ), New York: The Masses Publishing Co., 1913-06https://library.brown.edu/cds/repository2/repoman.php?verb=render&id=1362685292859766&view=pageturner&pageno=15, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75348246
Today In #LaborHistory 4/3/1913: 20,000 workers from #IWW Patterson silk #strike invited to home of socialist mayor to hear socialist speakers. #Strike lasted Feb-July. 5 workers died; >1800 arrested, incl #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn. #workingclass #union #anarchism #socialism
Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a group of strikers. Several of the strikers are carrying American flags. By http://womhist.binghamton.edu/teacher/DBQlaw2.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131378
Today in #LaborHistory 3/12/1912: #IWW #union won #BreadAndRoses #strike Lawrence, MA. Organized workers in groups based on which of the 22 dif languages the spoke. Led by #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn. #Police killed 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. 300 arrested.
Industrial Workers of the World pageant poster to raise funds for striking workers during the Patterson silk strike. Portrays a white working man, kneeling, 1 arm raised, with factories and smokestacks in the background. The pageant was at Madison Square Garden and was performed by the workers, themselves. By Robert Edmond Jones - New Jersey Monthly, Marcia Worth-Baker, January 17, 2013https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/striking-out/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75852908
Today in #LaborHistory 2/1/1913: #IWW Patterson silk workers’ #strike began for 8-hr day & better working conditions. 1,850 arrested, incl #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn. Led to #GeneralStrike of weavers & millworkers.
#workingclass ##police #prison #vigilantes
![Children of strikers in the 1926 Passaic Textile Strike picketing outside the White House, Washington, DC. In overcoats and caps. Their signs read “The truth is on our side,” and “That 10% wage cut just took our milk away.” By News photo, digitized from the original negative by the Library of Congress. Additional digital editing by Tim Davenport for Wikipedia, no copyright claimed. - National Photo Company Collection.Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-56286 (b&w film copy neg.)Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.Call Number: LOT 12298, v. 2 <item> [P&P], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90051323](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:55mxt4inqycnsmkaebqk6mo6/bafkreifaqfktzknr7xvkmbnydjdr62mwqm7xazjrolhx3optukjm7zfhqq)
Children of strikers in the 1926 Passaic Textile Strike picketing outside the White House, Washington, DC. In overcoats and caps. Their signs read “The truth is on our side,” and “That 10% wage cut just took our milk away.” By News photo, digitized from the original negative by the Library of Congress. Additional digital editing by Tim Davenport for Wikipedia, no copyright claimed. - National Photo Company Collection.Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-56286 (b&w film copy neg.)Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.Call Number: LOT 12298, v. 2 <item> [P&P], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90051323
Today in #LaborHistory 1/25/1926: Passaic N.J. textile #strike began. 1st U.S. strike led by Communists. #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #IWW & #author Mary Heaton Vorse helped. #AFL refused to help communists.
#workingclass #women #novel #communism #journalism #immigrant #union #novel #fiction #books #writer
Black and white portrait of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in a white blouse, scarf and dark skirt, pointing a finger emphatically in what looks like a pause during a speech. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=456361
Today in #LaborHistory 1/19/1920: #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #IWW #union & others founded #ACLU. Defended #author Upton Sinclair for #FreeSpeech; Science teacher Scopes for teaching #evolution. Flynn later fired for #communism.
#workingclass #antiwar #education #school #FreePress
Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a group of peaceful strikers, some of whom are hold American flags. By http://womhist.binghamton.edu/teacher/DBQlaw2.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131378
Today in #LaborHistory 1/11/1912: #IWW #BreadAndRoses textile strike began in Lawrence #Massachusetts. Led by #immigrant #women. 3 workers died.
#ElizabethGurleyFlynn #BigBillHaywood #workingclass #union #strike #police #policebrutality
Jane Addams on u.s. postage stamp of 1940. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2963601
Today in #LaborHistory 9/6/1860: #JaneAddams was born. Peace activist, sociologist, feminist, #author. Co-founded #ACLU, w/ #ElizabethGurleyFlynn of #IWW & others. 1931 became 1st US woman to win #NobelPeacePrize. 1889 co-founded Hull settlement house in Chicago w/lover, Ellen Gates Starr. #LGBTQ
The Real Labor Day: May Day Story- Haymarket Monument Site In Chicago
#CenterForPoliticalInnovation #CalebMaupin #LaborDay #MayDay #HaymarketMartyrsMonument #WilliamZFoster #EugeneDennis #JackJohnstone #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #IWW #Wobblies #TheNowmanShow
youtube.com/watch?v=kLgu...
✒ #ElizabethGurleyFlynn, American Feminist author and Communist activist, was #BOTD 7 August 1890. #Literature
"Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution" by Mary Anne Trasciatti
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/elizabeth-gu...
#WomensStudies #LaborStudies #AmericanStudies #LaborMovement #WomensRightsMovement #ElizabethGurleyFlynn
Black and white photo of Modestino Valentino, looking straight ahead, in a stiff collar and suit.
Today in #LaborHistory 4/19/1913: Modestino Valentino, a bystander, killed by company detectives during #IWW Patterson, N.J. Silk #Strike. During strike, 1,850 workers arrested, incl #ElizabethGurleyFlynn & #BigBillHaywood.
#workingclass #union #police #policebrutality
Political cartoon of a silk producer who is holding a flag on which is written "To hell with your laws! I'll get Haywood. Elizabeth Flynn, or anyone else who interferes with my profits." By Art Young - The Masses ( Vol. 4, No. 9 ), New York: The Masses Publishing Co., 1913-06https://library.brown.edu/cds/repository2/repoman.php?verb=render&id=1362685292859766&view=pageturner&pageno=15, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75348246
Today In #LaborHistory 4/3/1913: 20,000 workers from #IWW Patterson silk #strike invited to home of socialist mayor to hear socialist speakers. #Strike lasted Feb-July. 5 workers died; >1800 arrested, incl #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn.
#workingclass #union #anarchism #socialism
Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a group of strikers. Several of the strikers are carrying American flags. By http://womhist.binghamton.edu/teacher/DBQlaw2.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131378
Today in #LaborHistory 3/12/1912: #IWW #union won #BreadAndRoses #strike Lawrence, MA. Organized workers in groups based on which of the 22 dif languages the spoke. Led by #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn. #Police killed 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. 300 arrested.
Industrial Workers of the World pageant poster to raise funds for striking workers during the Patterson silk strike. Portrays a white working man, kneeling, 1 arm raised, with factories and smokestacks in the background. The pageant was at Madison Square Garden and was performed by the workers, themselves. By Robert Edmond Jones - New Jersey Monthly, Marcia Worth-Baker, January 17, 2013https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/striking-out/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75852908
Today in #LaborHistory 2/1/1913: #IWW Patterson silk workers’ #strike began for 8-hr day & better working conditions. 1,850 arrested, incl #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn. Led to #GeneralStrike of weavers & millworkers.
#workingclass ##police #prison #vigilantes
Children of strikers in the 1926 Passaic Textile Strike picketing outside the White House, Washington, DC. In overcoats and caps. Their signs read “The truth is on our side,” and “That 10% wage cut just took our milk away.” By News photo, digitized from the original negative by the Library of Congress. Additional digital editing by Tim Davenport for Wikipedia, no copyright claimed. - National Photo Company Collection.Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-56286 (b&w film copy neg.)Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.Call Number: LOT 12298, v. 2 <item> [P&P], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90051323
Today in #LaborHistory 1/25/1926: Passaic N.J. textile #strike began. 1st U.S. strike led by Communists. #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #IWW & #author Mary Heaton Vorse helped. #AFL refused to help communists.
#workingclass #women #novel #communism #journalism #immigrant #union #novel #fiction #books #writer
Black and white portrait of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in a white blouse, scarf and dark skirt, pointing a finger emphatically in what looks like a pause during a speech. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=456361
Today in #LaborHistory 1/19/1920: #ElizabethGurleyFlynn #IWW #union & others founded #ACLU. Defended #author Upton Sinclair for #FreeSpeech; Science teacher Scopes for teaching #evolution. Flynn later fired for #communism.
#workingclass #antiwar #education #school #FreePress
Today in #LaborHistory 1/11/1912: #IWW #BreadAndRoses textile strike began in Lawrence #Massachusetts. Led by #immigrant #women. 3 workers died.
#ElizabethGurleyFlynn #BigBillHaywood #workingclass #union #strike #police #policebrutality
