Today's Labor Quote: The IWW

​“Capitalists of America, we will fight against you, not for you! There is not a power in the world that can make the working class fight if they refuse.”

The International Workers of the World passed a resolution against war at their national convention in 1916; this quote is from their newspaper, the Industrial Worker, just before the U.S. declaration of war in 1917. At the IWW War Trials in Chicago on this date in 1918, 95 went to prison for up to 20 years.

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