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- Title
May Day and the Murder of William McKay: 100 Years Past.
- Authors
GOINGS, AARON
- Abstract
These workers formed IWW locals - lumber and maritime workers, construction laborers and food service workers - joining hands into One Big Union of all workers. The IWW's militant message and efforts to unionize the world's most exploited workers made McKay and other fellow workers potential targets of the wrath of the timber bosses, who themselves organized into "Unions Against Unions." MAY 1, 2023 This week marks the passage of a century since the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) led a strike of several thousand workers. At the Bay City mill in Aberdeen, Washington, a company gunman murdered a striking IWW lumber worker named William McKay.
- Subjects
MAY Day (Labor holiday); MURDER; VETERANS; PROCESSIONS; PARADES; WATERFRONTS; FOOD service employees
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article