“Is it a Crime to Strike?”, 1917

Is it a crime to strike?
Organized Capital has at last made an open and direct attack upon the right of working men to organize and strike. The most valuable possession of the workers is to be made criminal.
Let the union men and women of the world know that the Merchants and Manufacturer’s Association are attempting to enslave the workers of America.

“Is it a Crime to Strike?” 1917

Some Americans during World War I believed it was indeed a crime to strike at a time when the United States relied on laborers to produce wartime supplies and munitions. This leaflet is just one of many IWW mailings seized from the mails.

National Archives, Records of the Post Office Department