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Everyone has their own history and, for the Lewis County Historical Museum, it's time to tell some of those stories. The Chehalis museum is sponsoring a project conducted by a University of …
Under overcast skies, approximately 50 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union members gathered in Centralia’s George Washington Park for the dedication ceremony for the bronze plaque …
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union has announced it will host a dedication ceremony for its bronze memorial plaque for the 10 IWW victims of the Centralia Tragedy of 1919. The …
On November 11, 1919, tensions came to a head between members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)—known as the Wobblies—and members of the American Legion in Centralia, Washington, at the first Armistice Day parade after World War I. The conflict between the two groups was deep-seated. The American Legion had been chartered as a patriotic veteran’s organization just after the war. Meanwhile, the IWW had opposed U.S. participation; it was the only American labor organization to do so. A fatal confrontation between the two parties began when, as documented in the IWW’s The Cent...