Today in labor history: IWW comic strip Mr. Block appears
The character with a wooden block head and no class consciousness was created by Ernest Riebe and commemorated in a song written by Joe Hill.
Today In labor history: "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published
Common Sense explained the need for immediate independence from the British Empire.
Today in labor history: U.S. tries to overthrow workers' government in Russia
On Sept. 4, 1918, U.S. troops landed at Archangel, in northern Russia, seeking to overthrow the new workers' government that had ousted the czar a year earlier.
