![]() ![]() One hot day, Goris said, he saw a co-worker pass out at the water fountain. He got light-headed, he said, and his legs cramped, symptoms he never experienced in previous warehouse jobs. Working conditions at the warehouse got worse earlier this year, especially during summer heat waves when heat in the warehouse soared above 100 degrees, he said. The 34-year-old Allentown resident, who has worked in warehouses for more than 10 years, said he quit in July because he was frustrated with the heat and demands that he work mandatory overtime. An Allentown Morning Call article titled "Inside Amazon's Warehouse" written by Spencer Soper and published on 18 September 2011 had covered much of the same territory:Įlmer Goris spent a year working in 's Lehigh Valley warehouse, where books, CDs and various other products are packed and shipped to customers who order from the world's largest online retailer. And so does Frank Little's story.The Times' article focused renewed attention on for its perennially controversial labor practices. But as historian Irving Werstein wrote, "Next to Big Bill Haywood, Frank Little was the most vital leader of the IWW." Arnold Stead's short and engaging Always on Strike: Frank Little and the Western Wobblies aims to recover his mighty struggles and special boldness as object lessons for left-wingers organizing in the shadow of the Great Recession.'n today's working class and left movement, which is only yet regaining the confidence to strike and struggle in isolated pockets, Stead's words hit the nail on the head. ![]() And so does Frank Little's story." -Socialist Worker "Today, Frank Little gets remembered as another Wobbly martyr, overshadowed by folksinger and labor organizer Joe Hill. "Today, Frank Little gets remembered as another Wobbly martyr, overshadowed by folksinger and labor organizer Joe Hill. ![]() Featuring cover art from a portrait of Frank Little by Keith Seidel, Always on Strike chronicles and critically engages with Little’s exploits in hopes of exposing a new generation of radicals to his life, legacy and politics. Police and government officials not only turned a blind eye to his murder, they later used his words and actions to justify a campaign to scapegoat and persecute other members of the IWW. Little was a key leader of the country’s first free speech fights, organized a number of mass strikes, and was considered such a threat to corporate interests that he was lynched by company thugs for decry attempts at strike breaking. labor movement, and yet precious little has been written about the famous Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) agitator. I am fighting for the solidarity of labor!” ―From the speech for which Frank Little was murdered in Butte, Montana Frank Little is considered by some to be the greatest organizer produced by the U.S. This country is at war.’ I said ‘ Governor, I don’t care what country your country is fighting. I laughed and told him we would call out every worker in the country, agriculture workers, lumbermen, munitions workers, miners, mechanics and all classes of working men. Then he said that if we did, that he would place them under Federal control. I told him we would call everyman out of the mines. “ asked me what we would do if the companies did not yield to our demands.
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