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ORGANIZEThe strike of the Mexicans against the Bar*her Asphalt Company. The Mexicans art all organised in the I. W. W. and are using I. W. W. tactics in their first strike. This is tha beginning of the great uprising of the oppressed and poorly paid Mexican laborer in America and Mexico. In a -year we should bare a big fighting organisation of Spanish speaking workers. This organisation should be national, containing pll the Mexican workers. We can do it If we start now.De Lara and other Mexican and Spanish speakers are agitating for the I. W. W. Mowlet aU pull together and organise 500,OOd Mexicans in. the next year.Seeing that we arc gaining strength, themerchants have banded together for the purpose of suppressing free speech. Let them go to it Well show ’em who we are.I. W. W. STRIKE COMMITTEE.San Diego.BAN DIEGO NEEDS ITALIAN SPEAKER.San Qiego, Cat, Sept is still 6n in San DiegoThe strikeSpanishworkers are going to win. They ire made oi the- right stuff. They are quick to act and they are not chair-warming philosophers. That’s what we need in the I. W. W,The Spanish speaking workers are seeing the necessity of a union and are joining fast We have just sent for a charter for a Spanish language branch of Local Union No. 13 from headquarters.We are holding street meetings nearly every night in both Spanish and English, and wehave so many people in our audiences thatthe merchants of this city formed a “club** to11 stop street speaking. This effort to suppress the I. W. W. was met by a declaration of war hy the-1. W W. axd even fhc single taxers offered to go to jail. To cap the climax, the San Diego Sun, the evening paper, and one of the Scripps papers, came out in favor of free speech.With all these forces arrayed against themthe merchants* “dub decided not to act at■ ■ •present, and we now speak as usual on anystreet in the dtp.In the Saturday, September 3rd, issue of the ’’Sun .we have an excellent article by our principal speaker, Mrs. Laura Emerson on Industrial Unionism, accompanied by her “photo.” This article created a lot of talkamong the workers in this city in favor of theI. W. W.We are growing fast and everything looks(Iripe for a big organisation here.II SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.Mrs. Laura Payne Emerson, the writer of this article, is a member of Local Union No. 13 at San Diego, Cat. Mrs. Emerson is aRevolutionary Industrial Unionist and is the+ »principal speaker of the I. W. W. at San Diego,where she speaks on the street night afternight, never tiring in her efforts to propagate the principles of the I. W. W.Mrs. Emerson is thoroughly familiar with labor conditions and has .had actual experience in 'Organizing throughout the Southern states and in the factory districts of the east.The I. W. W. at ,San Diego *is proud of I'ellow Worker Mrs. Emerson and they think that if there were more women of her type, energetic and courageous,, that the Revolutionary movement would soon be a real power.
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Spokane Industrial Worker
Spokane, Washington, US
Sat, Sep 10, 1910
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