Free speech fight
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Free speech fights are struggles over free speech, and especially those struggles which involved the Industrial Workers of the World and their attempts to gain awareness for labor issues by organizing
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, firebrand soapboxer of the Industrial Workers of the World
San Diego free speech fight
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The San Diego free speech fight in San Diego, California, in 1912 was one of the most famous class conflicts over the free speech rights of labor unions. Starting out as one of several direct actions
Free speech fight
…The events often ended with the police arresting them for participating in street meetings. The most notorious of all of the free speech fights was the San Diego free speech fight, which won a significant amount of public awareness for the IWW as it involved tremendous violence against the labor groups organized by the IWW. which…
Emma Goldman's journal 'Mother Earth'. San Diego Edition, June 1912.