Frank Little (1879-1917) joined the radical union the Industrial Workers of the World in 1906. He organized miners, lumberjacks and oil field workers. 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It contends that all workers should be united within a single union as a class and the wage system abolished. ...
Little opposed World War I, and frequently spoke against it. Clockwise from top: Trenches in frontline, a British Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks and a Sopwith Camel biplane. ...
In 1917 Little was kidnapped from his hotel room, beaten, dragged behind a car, and lynched from a railroad trestle. A note pinned to his body declared, "First and last warning". Lynching is murder (mostly by hanging) conceived by its perpetrators as extra-legal execution. ...
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