Jun 27, 2020 | Articles & Posts
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow The Industrial Workers of the World was founded 115 years ago today. The IWW, whose members are known as Wobblies, has played an essential role in American labor history, including in the 1912 Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence,...
Jun 9, 2020 | Articles & Posts
Over the door at the old Guild facility in Weymouth was a sign with the words of Fr. Mortimer Gavin that read, “YOU ARE ALL WELCOME TO THIS HOUSE.” The Labor Guild’s mission is to promote good order in the workplace, to teach workers to act in good conscience and to...
May 12, 2020 | Articles & Posts
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow James Connolly, the Irish socialist, nationalist and labor leader, was executed 104 years ago, on May 12, 1916. His death helped transform a failed, week-long rebellion into a rallying cry for Irish independence from the...
May 1, 2020 | Articles & Posts, School Blog Post
By Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow In a 1929 issue, Time magazine felt the need to clarify to its readers: “To old-fashioned people, May Day means flowers, grass, picnics, children, clean frocks. To up-and-doing Socialists and Communists it means speechmaking,...
Apr 17, 2020 | Articles & Posts, School Blog Post
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow Working class agitation has a long history. Over two centuries in Ancient Rome, a series of struggles known as the Conflict of the Orders took place between the elites, the patricians, and the commoners, the plebeians. From the...
Apr 4, 2020 | Articles & Posts, School Blog Post
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow This week in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee. The night before he was killed, King delivered his famous “Mountaintop” speech, in support of the sanitation workers’ strike that had begun two...
