workingclasshistory:

On this day, 5 September 1917, mass arrests of American worker radicals took place as representatives of the US government raided the national offices of the Socialist Party and of the Industrial Workers of the World union as well as some 20 branch offices of the IWW in different states. This is a short account of the raids: https://ift.tt/29RlRFu And this is our podcast episode about this period in the IWW’s history: https://ift.tt/2sb5Ra2
Pictured: the Chicago IWW HQ after the raid https://ift.tt/2Q9pPga