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Another book I want to read/buy. Maybe I have to order the ebook, to avoid getting broke. The author, Peter Cole, was at the #Pinksterlanddagen. Only I missed his book presentation, what I regret.
*Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly*
https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1209
"In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: “An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!” Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class.
A brilliant union organizer and a humorous orator, Benjamin Fletcher (1890–1949) was a tremendously important and well-loved African American member of the IWW during its heyday. Fletcher helped found and lead Local 8 of the IWW’s Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, unquestionably the most powerful interracial union of its era, taking a principled stand against all forms of xenophobia and exclusion. …"
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