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IWW United Campaign Workers Demand: "Do the Right Thing, Nature Conservancy!"

Submitted by x332349 on Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:57

By the United Campaign Workers of the IWW - September 8, 2014

IWW members and supporters handed out the following leaflet today at a rally in support of IWW Canvassers Union (for more details see IWW Canvassers Strike Over Unpaid Wages):

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Journalist sues Utah tar sands refinery for illegal "terrorism" police detention

Submitted by x332349 on Fri, 09/05/2014 - 14:14

By x373644 - press release, September 3, 2014

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SALT LAKE CITY--An award-winning independent journalist filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Tesoro and the Salt Lake City Police Department for illegally detaining him and accusing him of terrorism for taking photographs of a refinery. 

Jesse Fruhwirth posted a video on the Internet of December 16, 2013, when an ice storm and power outage prompted a major pollution event at Tesoro's tar sands refinery in the Rose Park neighborhood.

"I was in bed reading and through my window suddenly I could see that the night sky was ablaze as if all of Rose Park was on fire," says Fruhwirth. "Only the refinery was on fire, but I knew that such huge flare offs were extra dangerous events for babies, old people and sick people and I thought it was important to film the fire that might severely sicken or kill some of my neighbors that night."

Fruhwirth also filmed the interaction he had with a police officer who ordered him to stop filming. In the video, Salt Lake officer Yvette Zayas tells Fruhwirth that she detained him for taking pictures of "critical infrastructure,” that she would refer her report to a "Joint Terrorism Task Force" to protect "homeland security."

Zayas is simultaneously a paid employee of Tesoro and SLCPD, but that night she was working directly on Tesoro's payroll.

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Dorset Group of the IWW and IWW EUC Launched at Poole Community Green Fair

Submitted by x375261 on Wed, 09/03/2014 - 17:23

By x375261 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 3, 2014

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Dorset Green Community Fair took place over the weekend and provided a welcome alternative to the war junkie attraction of the annual Bournemouth air show, where, a source reported there was a large military presence engaging in a dubious attempt to convince Joe Public that state terrorism is a good thing and it may be worth their while packing their kids off to some remote foreign field just to get them back in bits in the state approved body bag(s).

The usual suspects from the reformist tendency were in attendance pushing yet more discredited ideas to persuade visitors that you can reform capitalism and deal effectively with the ecological crisis. Can't be done.

After the shambles in Brighton http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-25976843 we now know the Green Party are no better than any other political party when it comes to any idea of a radical solution to the ecological nightmare about to befall us all. The bottom line is they are just tories on bikes (Boris Johnson x many by any other name).

Probably the stall that had the most impact was the launch of the newly formed Dorset Group of The Industrial Workers of the World and their Environmental Unionist Caucus (http://ecology.iww.org/).

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Chapter 18 - Why the Coal-Miners Should Join Coal-Mine Workers' Industrial Union No 220 of the Industrial Workers of the World

Submitted by x332349 on Sat, 08/30/2014 - 11:40

AT THE 1919 convention of the United Mine Workers of America an amendment to their constitution was adopted, which "outlawed" the I. W. W. and all other dual unions. The amendment reads as follows: "Any member of the United Mine Workers of America accepting membership in the Industrial Workers of the World, The Working Class Union, or The One Big Union, or any other dual organization not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, or membership in the National Chamber of Commerce, shall be expelled from the U. M. W.

Chapter 16 - The Proposed Nationalization of the Coal-Mines

Submitted by x332349 on Sat, 08/30/2014 - 11:33

THE LAST two conventions of the United Mine Workers of America (1919-1921) some so-called radical resolutions have been adopted, in favor of recognizing free Russia and free Ireland, the repeal of the espionage law, the release of political prisoners, etc. These resolutions are allowed to pass without much friction, being that they mean so little in fact but such a lot to the "radicals." It is the method adopted, in order to allow the radicals to "blow off steam," so they will not after that interfere with the practical work of the convention.

Chapter 15 - The False Argument of the Operators

Submitted by x332349 on Sat, 08/30/2014 - 11:29

THE FALSE and hypocritical argument indulged in by the "operators" of the coal-mines, as well as of other capitalists, is well typified by the argument put up in favor of wage reduction in the report of the Washington State Coal Commission of June 30, 1921. This is written by the government "expert," who incidentally also is president of a coal operators' association.

Chapter 14 - How is the Product of the Coal-Mine Workers Divided?

Submitted by x332349 on Sat, 08/30/2014 - 11:26

Rent, Interest, Profit and Wages—The Hours and Days Worked

Chapter 13 - Relative Importance of Union and Non-Union Fields

Submitted by x332349 on Sat, 08/30/2014 - 11:24

THE FOLLOWING table was prepared by the U. S. Geological Survey, at the request of the operators. It was compiled for the purpose of ascertaining the strength of the miners' union in the 1919 strike. As will be seen, union coal is 71.6 per cent of the whole, while non-union coal is 28.4 per cent. These figures agree pretty closely with the estimate that about three-fourths of the 800,000 coal miners are organized, while the unorganized would be one-fourth or about 200,000.

Chapter 12 - The International Miners' Federation

Submitted by x332349 on Sat, 08/30/2014 - 11:21

THERE is in existence an International Miners' Federation which has, so far, held twenty-five international congresses. The last one was held in Geneva, Switzerland, August 2-6, 1921. The United Mine Workers of America belong to that Federation and were represented by one delegate in Geneva.

Representation at this congress was as follows :

  Number of members

Number of delegates

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