Workers Getting Ready to Travel to Spokane
This file appears in: 1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
A group of IWW members and supporters about to travel to Spokane in order to help "Fill the jail", for the reason of protesting the no public speaking law. A sign of solidarity. Image courtesy of the Industrial Workers of the World.
This file appears in: 1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
In 1917, this building was the home of the Legal Defense Fund office of the Industrial Workers of the World--a union of unskilled workers whose vigorous tactics made them both feared and derided as…