User:Unbandito/MTW Local 8 (IWW)
Marine Transportation Workers' Industrial Union Local 8 | |
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| Founded | 1913 |
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| Dissolved | 1922 |
| Headquarters | 121 Catherine St Philadelphia, PA 19147 |
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| Members | 4,000 |
Key people | Ben Fletcher, Walter T. Nef, George McKenna, John J. McKelvey, Polly Baker |
| Affiliations | Industrial Workers of the World |
| Website | afscme |
Local 8 of the Marine Transportation Workers Union was an industrial union of sailors and longshoremen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World. The Local was one of the most successful IWW unions. It was active for nearly a decade, winning concessions for its members and controlling hiring on the docks from 1913 until 1922. It was one of the only Progressive-era unions in the United States that was organized across racial and ethnic lines.[1][2][3][4][5]
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References
[edit]- ^ Cole, Peter (2007). Wobblies on the waterfront : interracial unionism in progressive-era Philadelphia. Internet Archive. Urbana : University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03186-1.
- ^ "Perspective | MLK's radical vision was rooted in a long history of Black unionism". Washington Post. 2021-04-05. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2024-06-18. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
{{cite news}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 2023-03-26 suggested (help) - ^ "Abraham Moses: The Waterfront Gang Boss · Abraham Moses · Goin' North". goinnorth.org. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
- ^ "John Newsinger: Philadelphia Wobblies (Autumn 2008)". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
- ^ Kimeldorf, Howard; Penney, Robert (1997). ""Excluded" by Choice: Dynamics of Interracial Unionism on the Philadelphia Waterfront 1910-1930". International Labor and Working-Class History (51): 50–71. ISSN 0147-5479.
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