As part of the People's History series organised by the LHP, the Alexander Turnbull
Library and the Museum of Wellington City & Sea, I am giving a talk and slideshow of
records/images at the National Library at 5.30pm this Tuesday. If anyone is
interested the details are below
Reds & Wobblies: working class-radicalism & the state 1915
-1925
Tuesday 22 October, 2013
5.30pm – 6.30pm
Tiakiwai Conference Centre, Lower ground floor, National Library
building (use Aitken Street entrance)
During and immediately after the First World War, the New Zealand
Government enforced a strict censorship regime due to fears of political and
industrial unrest. The mail, literature, and speeches of radicals – especially
the Industrial Workers of the World (known as the Wobblies) – was under state
scrutiny, and led to raids, arrests, and deportation of those deemed seditious.
‘Reds & Wobblies’ highlights the actions of a government fearful of social revolution in a time of worldwide turbulence, and discusses the working-class radicalism that caused such fears – from IWW stickers to the deportation of Noel Lyons.
‘Reds & Wobblies’ highlights the actions of a government fearful of social revolution in a time of worldwide turbulence, and discusses the working-class radicalism that caused such fears – from IWW stickers to the deportation of Noel Lyons.
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