Sunday, June 22, 2003

Recent Moment in History of Resistance...

Tom Barker an influential Australian union activist of I.W.W. was jailed for writing and printing arguably the most famous poster of World War 1:
TO ARMS!
Capitalists, Parsons, Politicians, Landlords, Newspaper Editors and other
stay-at-home Patriots
YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU IN
THE TRENCHES!
WORKERS,
FOLLOW YOUR MASTERS!!

Baker was placed on a ship in late 1918 with seven other I.W.W. deportees. The ship disembarked it's human cargo in Chile as the deportees were not welcome back in their countries of origin.
(PHD students please make it your mission to find out what happened to Baker... What a bestseller thesis for uni publishers and modern times )