An injury to one is an injury to all
An injury to one is an injury to all is a motto popularly used by the Industrial Workers of the World. In his autobiography, Bill Haywood credited David C. Coates with suggesting a labor slogan for the IWW: an injury to one is an injury to all.[1] The slogan has since been used by a number of labor organizations. The slogan reflects the fact that the IWW is "One Big Union" and organizes skilled and unskilled workers.
Origin
[edit]The expression is similar to, and may be derived from, a slogan popularized in the prior quarter century by the Knights of Labor, "that is the best government in which an injury to one is the concern of all".[2]
Gallery
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Anti-Trump IWW anti-fascist protest with motto -
Occupy Boston, November 2011 in Massachusetts -
"An Injury to One is an Injury to All," a mural by Mike Alewitz in Los Angeles (now destroyed) 1993
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Haywood, William Dudley (1929). The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. p. 186.
- ^ Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. 1884. pp. 68–71.
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External links
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