Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
This file appears in: 1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a prominent activist of social causes and worker's movements who helped fight for workers in Spokane, Butte and Missoula. Image courtesy of the 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…