On this day, 12 July 1917, over 1000 copper miners in the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union who were on strike were illegally deported by armed vigilantes from Bisbee, Arizona to New Mexico.
This is our series of podcast episodes about the IWW: https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1165616076956874/?type=3