International Items

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1 May 1913, Page 2

International Items

FROM AMERICA. Tilings are moving fast in this part of the world. 25,000 silk workers out in New Jersey—I.W.W. in control. 20,000 rubber workers out in Ohio —I.W.W. managing strike, A. F, of L. expected to start open fight for control any time. Free speech fight in Denver, Col., with 40 of our members in jail, others moving to scene. 1400 lumberjacks still fighting in Louisiana, although the men have been deported from the city. All tailors on strike in Seattle, laughing at injunction. Several smaller strikes on. Several larger strikes brewing, will make present strikes look like Sunday School picnics. Railway construction workers in B.C. very discontented. Lumber workers of Pacific North-West talking strike. Add to these the great gar-ment-workers ’ strike in New York and the coal miners’ strike in West Virginia, where the combatants have fought pitched battles with several deaths as a result, together with many other fights of independent, organisations, and you will easily see there is no class struggle in America ! The Australian branch of the I.W.W. is about to call the first convention of the Industrial Workers of the World in Australia. (See page 3).