1908-10: Spokane Free Speech Fight
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 22 2017 07:04
Account of the free speech and anti job sharking campaign carried out by the Spokane Wobblies.
The Christmas Eve Calumet massacre, 1913
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 22 2014 13:32
A short history of the biggest mass murder in Michigan history: the massacre of 73 people, mostly the children of striking miners at a Christmas party on Christmas Eve in 1913.
The Haywood-Mayer-Pettibone case - Louis Adamic
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 14 2014 18:48
Louis Adamic's excellent history of the trial and acquittal of three leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood and George Pettibone, for the murder of ex-Idaho state governor Frank Steunenberg in 1906.
Battles in the Telluride mines, 1901-1903 - Louis Adamic
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 14 2014 18:08
A short history of the striking workers who took over the mines in Telluride, Colorado, and the illegal methods the state used to eventually defeat them.
US coal miners' strikes, 1894 - Jeremy Brecher
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 23 2013 17:04
Jeremy Brecher's excellent account of the overlapping American miners' strikes in 1894: a national strike and a successful stoppage in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
