Film Screening: The Wobblies
"Fire
Your Boss!"... "Abolish the wage system!"
On
the centenary
of the Great Strike of 1913, we invite you to listen to the voices of
the 'Industrial Workers of the World'.
Started in 1905 under the motto “an
injury to one is an injury to all”,
the IWW was the only union open to all trades and to men and to
women; and
the only union (past and present) to state
“it
is the historic mission of the working class to do away with
capitalism.”
An
IWW branch was established in Wellington in 1907, and IWW members
were involved in many of the early militant
labour unions and struggles here,
including
the Great Strike.
The
Wobblies
(1979;
Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer) provides an overview of the IWW
(Industrial Workers of the World), complete with archival footage,
loads of interviews, Wobbly art and songs.
Further information about events organised in Wellington to mark the 1913 Great Strike can be found here: http://1913greatstrike.org/
When:
Friday, 18
October
2013
Where:
People’s Cinema, 57 Manners St, Wellington
Time:
6.30pm
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