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The Union Makes Us Strong, Part 1

It Could Happen Here

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The I W W and Industrial Unions

The i w w is the first union to not only im trying to build workers organization, but to challenge work place organization. And so amongst those different things, and there mine wars, an colorado mine wars, and o virginia, west virginia a, they were the first union that was explicitly a anti racist. They got you know, they provoked that clash. Um, there were like, spectacular, like general strikes. The first general strike in america in seattle, there were iw w members who ere key members of the seattle labor council,. Which took craft unions and got their radicals together and coordinated a general strike on which is were, there's a lot

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