Sydney Twelve
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The Sydney Twelve or I.W.W. Twelve were members of the Industrial Workers of the World, arrested in September 1916 in Sydney, Australia, and initially charged with treason-felony. They were John Hamil
The Sydney Twelve.
The banner of Direct Action newspaper, 30 September 1916, with the added text "Editor Gaoled Business as Usual".
John Benjamin King (prisoner 15318).
Charles Reeve (prisoner 15391).
Henry Ernest Boote
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Henry Ernest Boote was a prolific and influential Australian editor, journalist, propagandist, poet, and fiction writer. He was an ardent trade unionist and socialist whose writings supported and soug
Sydney Twelve
…the labour movement that the IWW prisoners "were victims of conscriptionist vindictiveness and class prejudice". The editor of The Australian Worker, Henry Boote, responded to the verdicts with a trenchant critique of the trial and Justice Pring, describing him as a "bigoted capitalistic judge". The article…
Photographic portrait of Henry Boote (about 1920).
Cartoon regarding the departure in 1911 of Henry E. Boote, the editor of Brisbane's The Worker newspaper.
Portrait of Henry Boote (1915).
Henry Boote and Mary Ellen Lloyd at their dining-room table.