"Come Fill the Jails" Poster
This file appears in: 1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
This poster was printed on the IWW's Spokane presses in order to notify members elsewhere about the Free Speech Fight protests. James Rowan gave the call to "Come Fill the Jails" in Spokane. 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…