Today in Labor History May 15, 1942: IWW song writer T-Bone Slim, died in New York City. T-Bone wrote such Wobbly classics as “The Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life,” “The Popular Wobbly,” and “The Lumberjack’s Prayer.” T-Bone Walker once said, "Wherever you find injustice, the proper form of politeness is attack." He also said, "Tear Gas: The most effective agent used by employers to persuade their employees that the interests of capital and labor are identical."

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Today in Labor History April 1, 1920: T-Bone Slim's “The Popular Wobbly” was published in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) "One Big Union Monthly." T-Bone Slim (Matti Valentin Huhta) was a poet, songwriter, hobo and IWW labor activist.

https://youtu.be/Rn_Wfydg61c

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Professori @MarijaDalbello kirjoitti ’T-Bone Slim and the transnationl poetics of the migrant left’ hankkeemme blogiin Slimin kirjoittamasta kirjeestä, jonka Dalbello löysi Columbian yliopiston Rare Book & Manuscript Librarysta. Kirje on hankkeemme merkittävä uusi löytö, joka tarjoaa tärkeitä tiedonmurusia T-bone Slimin kolumnistiuran alkuvaiheista.

Teksti on ensimmäinen Marija Dalbellon ”From My Archival ’Digs’”-blogisarjassa.

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https://blogs.helsinki.fi/tboneslim/2022/12/12/finding-slim/

Kansainvälinen muistitietotutkijoiden verkoston #FOHNSymposium2022 on 1.-2.12.
Pidämme Kirsti Salmi-Niklanderin kanssa symposiumissa esitelmän otsikolla ’Silenced, fragmented and reconstructed family histories of T-Bone Slim’.
#TBoneSlim oli suomalaistaustainen #IWW (International Workers of the World) radikaali Matti V. Huhta (1882-1942).
Ohjelma on todella kattava ja kiinnostava: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/8th-international-symposium-finnish-oral-history-network-fohn/programme