#i.w.w.

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Yours for industrial freedom, Katie Phar

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I did a thing.

So as a way to support local organizing efforts in restaurants of my area I have coordinated with some fellow workers to find resources for me to translate to Spanish.

Take on consideration that I am not a professional by any means, just want to help.

Also, I tried to add some footnotes to add a bit of info of words that are not that common outside labour circles.

Good luck and Solidarity, here is How to fire your boss in Spanish.

Cómo despedir a tu jefe.docx

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Industrial Workers of the World

Viva il primo maggio! Viva l’Anarchia!

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Eugene V. Debs, Socialist

from https://debsfoundation.org/index.php/landing/visit-the-museum/shop/

I.W.W., Industrial Workers of the World, A Union for All Workers

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Spoken Intro: Joe Hill was the most famous, by far, of the many people who wrote songs for the I.W.W.: The Industrial Workers of the World. They wanted one big union, where all of Labor would be in the same union. And, uh, this song is a good example of why. It's about a strike that happened 1911/1912, where, uh, the people who repaired the trains, keeping the trains in shape for the S.P.: the Southern Pacific Railroad Conglomerate went on strike. And the engineers refused to join it.

Lyrics:

The workers on the S.P. line for strike sent out a call But Casey Jones the engineer, he wouldn’t strike at all His boiler it was leaking, and the drivers on the bum And the engines and the bearings, they were all out of plumb

Casey Jones, kept his junkpile running Casey Jones, was working double-time Casey Jones, got a wooden medal For being good and faithful on the S.P. line

The workers said to Casey, “Won’t you help us win this strike?” But Casey said, “Let me alone, you’d better take hike” Well Casey’s wheezy engine ran right off the wheezy track And Casey hit the river with an awful smack

Casey Jones, hit the river bottom Casey Jones, broke his blooming spine Casey Jones, became an Angelino He took a trip to heaven on the S.P. line

[Musical interlude]

Well Casey got up to heaven to the pearly gate He said, “I’m Casey Jones, the guy that pulled the S.P. freight” “You’re just the man,” said Peter, “our musicians are on strike You can get a job a-scabbing any time you like”

Casey Jones, got a job in heaven Casey Jones, was doing mighty fine Casey Jones, went scabbing on the angels Just like he did to workers on the S.P. line

Well the angels up in Heaven, they said it wasn’t fair For Casey Jones to go around a-scabbing everywhere The angels Local number forty-three, they sure were there They promptly fired Casey down the Golden Stairs

Casey Jones, went to Hell a-flying Casey Jones, the devil said “Oh fine" "Casey Jones, get busy shoveling sulfur. It’s what you get for scabbing on the S.P. line"

[Musical coda]

Spoken: And let that be a lesson for all of us.

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The Everett Massacre: 100 Years Later

The Everett Massacre: 100 Years Later

NOVEMBER FIFTH, 1916 “Boys, who’s your leader?” Sheriff McRae stood on the dock at Everett, Washington, at the head of a mob of over two hundred vigilantes. The steamboat Verona rocked quietly on the gentle ocean waves. Then, suddenly, laughter broke out among the Industrial Workers of the World “timber-beasts” aboard the boats. Three hundred strong, mainly unarmed, they had traveled up from…

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I.W.W. hat card "Bread or Revolution" 13 April 1914

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)