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Free Speech Town Progressive Unions Meet and Debate
A long dispatch details a Philadelphia labor movement uniting independent unions with the I W W, and critiques the United Association of Railway Employers. It recounts confrontations over free speech, a 1919 soap-box incident in Dixon, and calls for a convention of progressive unions to coordinate action on unemployment and wage issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Workers, Soldiers and Sailors Council of Philadelphia
Dixon, TL
United Association of Railway Employers
Boxer
Irons
Edgar Owens
Socialist Party of
Ilinoia
Consmunist
Labor Party
Dixon Street
Commissioner of Education
Willian
Owens
Businots
Siet
Owene
Walsh
Coruit Court
Stransky
Councie
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