We added a new page to this website, the story of Bellingham’s 1919 Criminal Syndicalism trial of 4 IWWs. This was the first prosecution under the state’s new law, and it was covered extensively in the Bellingham Herald. We tell the story here, and include some newspaper clippings from this little-known episode in local history.Continue reading “The 1919 IWW Criminal syndicalism trial in Bellingham added to our website.”
Category Archives: Whatcom-Skagit IWW
IWWs gather at Peace Arch
by X331980 Industrial Workers of the World, and a few friends, met up at Peace Arch State/Provincial Park on Sunday April 26 for our second annual Hands Across the Border’ Wobbly potluck. Members came from Victoria, the Lower Mainland, various places in the northwest corner of Washington, and Seattle. We set up a pop-up canopyContinue reading “IWWs gather at Peace Arch”
MAURY FOISY- FAREWELL FELLOW WORKER
By Dave Tucker, IWW Maury Foisy of Bellingham died January 21 age 88. Maury was a charter member of the old Bellingham Branch back in the 1980s and paid his IWW dues for a good 20 years, long after that first reincarnation of the IWW faded away in the 1990s. His obituary was in Friday’sContinue reading “MAURY FOISY- FAREWELL FELLOW WORKER”
Industrial Workers of the World Whatcom-Skagit Branch 