A labor history moment: always vital, always relevant

MINE-MILL:  MILITANT ADVOCATE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY AND JUSTICE



The International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers -- as had its immediate predecessor, the Western Federation of Miners before it -- and as did its extremely close relative, the Industrial Workers of the World, crusaded militantly and effectively in a consistently hard-hitting fashion on a wide range of critical social justice frontiers in both the United States and Canada.

Mine-Mill's consistently unwavering record in fighting for racial equality and justice was absolutely exemplary. 

This from The Mine-Mill Steward:  A Manual for Shop Stewards and Committeemen:







Free Our Hand -- a speech  (issued by IUMMSW as a widely distributed pamphlet),  given by Asbury Howard, then a Bessemer, Alabama based  Mine-Mill Regional Director,  at the Union's International Convention, Nogales, Arizona, September 13, 1951.  Asbury Howard, a pioneer Black civil rights activist and iron miner, later became Eastern Vice-President of IUMMSW.  He was a man of great courage -- living and working for human rights and militant, democratic unionism in one of the toughest and most repressive parts of the world:   Alabama.





HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis 
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk 
Protected by Na´shdo´i´ba´i´ 
and Ohkwari' 
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO
www.hunterbear.org 
(much social justice material)

See Outlaw Trail: The Native as Organizer:
http://hunterbear.org/outlaw_trail1.htm
[Included in Visions & Voices: Native American Activism [2009]
Much expanded with new material in 2012.

And see the Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
(Expanded and with more photos in June, 2012.)
 
For the new, just out (11/2011) and expanded/updated
edition of my "Organizer's Book," JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- 
with a new and substantial introduction by me.  We are now at 
the 50th Anniversary of the massive Jackson Movement of
1962-63.  http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm

And see Witch Hunt Continues: SCEF etc (with many appropriate links):
http://www.hunterbear.org/witch_hunt_continuesthe_southern.htm