Joe Murphy in the Heyday of the Wobblies
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/07/1993
Joe Murphy, chased out of his Missouri home town by anti-Catholic bigots, hopped aboard a freight train & headed west for the wheat harvest. Within weeks, the 13-year-old Joe became a labor activist & organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or "Wobblies"). Eugene Nelson, a long-time friend of Joe Murphy, recounts many labor & free-speech struggles through the eyes of "Kid Murphy." The Wobblies were a dynamic mass movement in the 1920's, & this biographical novel relates Murphy's adventures in the wheat fields, lumber camps, & on the high seas. Historical events include the 1919 Centralia massacre in Washington State; the Colorado coal miners' strike of 1927; & the 1931 strike by workers building Boulder Dam. Nelson also relates the young Murphy's reflections on meeting Helen Keller, Eugene Debs, & Bill Haywood. EUGENE NELSON was born in Modesto, California, & wandered the West as worker & poet. In the 1960's he worked with Cesar Chavez's farmworkers' union in Texas. He has written several novels & nonfiction works on the experiences of Mexican migrant workers. "We must have been the same kind of travelers," Jack Kerouac once wrote to Nelson. "You're a natural born writer, a pure storyteller."
- ISBN:
- 9780910383318
- 9780910383318
- Category:
- Fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-07-1993
- Publisher:
- Ism Press, Incorporated
- Country of origin:
- United States
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