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| Emma Goldman's Magazine, Mother Earth |
June 27, 1869 - Anarchist, feminist and labor activist Emma Goldman was born in Lithuania. (From Workday Minnesota and the Daily Bleed)
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| Helen Keller, 1904 |
June 27, 1880 – Helen Keller, the deaf, mute and blind author and socialist, was born (1880-1968), Tuscumbia, Alabama. (From the Daily Bleed)
June 27, 1893
– The U.S. Stock Market crashed, initiating a four-year depression.
During this depression, labor and strike activity escalated, as
demonstrated in the great Pullman Strike of 1894. (From the Daily Bleed)
June 27, 1905 -
The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the “Wobblies,” the
radical syndicalist union, was founded at Brand's Hall, in Chicago,
Illinois. The Wobblies, advocate industrial unionism, with all workers
in a particular industry organized in the same union, as opposed by the
trade unions typical today. (From Workday Minnesota and the Daily Bleed)
June 27, 1905
–The mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin officially began, with
the crew killing the worst of the officers. They sailed on to Odessa
(June 30) where the workers were on strike, then escaped to Rumania
where they obtained political asylum. (From the Daily Bleed)
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| Potemkin mutiny leader Matuschenko (center), 1899 |
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