Labor leader and organizer James Rowan.
This file appears in: 1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
James Rowan was an IWW member, leader and organizer in Spokane during the free speech fights and the martial law occupation. It was Rowan who sent out the call for IWW memebrs to report to Spokane in protest. Image courtesy of Industrial Workers of the World.
This file appears in: 1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
In 1917, this building was the home of the Legal Defense Fund office of the Industrial Workers of the World--a union of unskilled workers whose vigorous tactics made them both feared and derided as the "Wobblies." Of the many Spokane…