The girl orator of the Bowery: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Ireland and the Industrial Workers of the World

The bitter class warfare witnessed in Dublin in 1913 mirrored a series of similarly vicious struggles in the United States. Meredith Meagher outlines the part played in several of them by the charismatic Irish-American labour leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. On 25 May 1913 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, an organiser and ‘soapboxer’ for the Industrial Workers of ... Read more

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