On 11 November 1913, 1,300 lumber workers — white, Black and Native American — in the radical Industrial Workers of the World union struck together in Louisiana, and largely succeeded in picketing out migrant and Mexican scabs, many of whom joined the strike. The strike was only broken the following year by mass mob violence and illegal deportations by police. But it brought together Black and white workers as never before in southern industry. This is our podcast episode about the IWW at that time: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/wch-e6-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-in-the-us-1905-1918/
Louisiana IWW lumber strike - WCH | Stories
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