![]() ![]() Many movements for social change were framed in terms of labor-the IWW worked to organize workers of all ethnicities and backgrounds-and agitation against Europe’s Great War was no exception. ![]() ![]() Organizations like the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) gained national prominence with their ideas of building a democratic worker-run society not tied to the interests of capital or business. The decades leading up to World War I had seen the emergence of the union movement. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, University of Washington Librairies) Northwest Antiwar History: Ch 1 Labor Radicalism and World War I by Jessie Kindig 1913, socialist and leader of the Seattle chapter of the American Union Against Militarism, later the No Conscription League, who was put on trial for speaking out against the war. ![]()
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