{"podcast":{"title":"On This Day in Working Class History","slug":"on-this-day-in-working-class-history-6766530","podcast_index_feed_id":6766530,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6070772/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://workingclasshistory.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6d8396c2dee8efae4fb6e6f06be1aa9a.jpg","author":"Working Class History","episode_count":868,"summary":"Daily briefings of On This Day people's history anniversaries every day of the year. From the Working Class History team. Help support our work by joining us on patreon and accessing exclusive content and benefits: patreon.com/workingclasshistory","last_synced_at":"2026-06-30T14:17:22.340057+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-this-day-in-working-class-history-6766530"},"episode":{"title":"27 June 1905: IWW founded","slug":"27-june-1905-iww-founded","published_at":"2026-06-27T04:00:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-this-day-in-working-class-history-6766530/27-june-1905-iww-founded","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-this-day-in-working-class-history-6766530","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/27-june-1905-iww-founded--72310217","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72310217/06_27_1905_iww_founded.mp3","summary":"On this day, 27 June 1905, the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in Chicago, Illinois. One of the first multiracial unions in the US, the IWW advocated that all workers unite into one big union, taking control of society and abolishing capitalism. Its founding conference lasted from June 27 to July 8, and was attended by over 200 workers, including legendary labour organisers like Mother Jones, 'Big' Bill Haywood and leading Black anarchist, Lucy Parsons. It organised large swathes of previously unorganised workers in the US, and pioneered many innovative new types of industrial action like slowdowns and sabotage. Parsons, at its founding convention, delivered a speech arguing for sit-in strikes, which would sweep the US 30 years later, declaring: \"My conception of the strike of the future is not to strike and go out and starve, but to strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production.\" The IWW won big improvements for hundreds of thousands of workers, and for its troubles faced brutal repression from employers, with many organisers beaten, jailed and murdered. It also spread to other countries, including Chile, Australia and South Africa. The union still exists today, although much smaller than it was, and its members are active in many organising projects. Learn more in our podcast series about the union: https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon . If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory . See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today…","meta_description":"On this day, 27 June 1905, the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in Chicago, Illinois. One of the first multiracia…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":135,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/on-this-day-in-working-class-history-6766530/episodes/27-june-1905-iww-founded/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-this-day-in-working-class-history-6766530/27-june-1905-iww-founded.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}