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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday November 30, 1922
Portland, Oregon – Mayor Unhappy about Free Rides with Red Cards
From the Duluth Labor World of November 25, 1922:
SAYS I. W. W. MEMBERS GET
FREE RIDES ON RED CARD
Many railroad men on roads leading into Portland are recognizing I. W. W. membership cards and giving free rides on freight trains, George L. Baker, mayor of Portland, declared before the tax regulating and conservation commission, in explaining the water front strike situation.
“We have evidence that in many cases I. W. W. cards served as tickets to Portland,” he asserted. “Some of the trainmen will not allow ordinary tramps to ride, but those who carry red cards are given, free transportation. As a result many I. W. W. have come to Portland, who could not have come had they been required to pay their way.”
The mayor asserted that in some cases groups of I. W. W. had compelled train crews to permit them to ride.
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
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SOURCES
Quote EGF, Compliment IWW, IW p1, Nov 17, 1909
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v1n35-nov-17-1909-IW.pdf
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-Nov 25, 1922
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000395/1922-11-25/ed-1/seq-1/
IMAGE
IWW Membership Card
https://archive.iww.org/content/red-card/
See also:
“Wobbly Wheels: The IWW’s Boxcar Strategy”
-by Arianne Hermida, 2016
https://depts.washington.edu/iww/wobbly_trains.shtml
Nov 14, 1922, Bloomington IL Pantagraph
-Chicago IWW Convention, 39 delegates, 78 members still in federal prisons.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113884052/nov-14-1922-bloomington-il/
IWW Yearbook: 1922
Highlights 1922 by Cameron Molyneux
(scroll down to full report, click link
and then search: contorl/f portland)
https://depts.washington.edu/iww/yearbook1922.shtml
In Portland, the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union no. 510 banded together with the International Longshoremen’s Association to fight against long hours and discriminatory hiring practices from shipping companies.[12] Despite the local strike committee’s best efforts, the strike would extend into a brutal waiting game between workers and the bosses by the time the year ended. Throughout the strike, pickets were routinely arrested and assaulted by Portland police.[13]
[12] “Docks Tied Up in Portland, Wobs and I.L.A. On Strike.” IW, October 21, 1922.
[13] “I.W.W. REINFORCEMENTS ENTER PORTLAND.” IW, October 28, 1922.
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