Mr Block is a cartoon character created in 1912 by Ernest Riebe, a german immigrant and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (http://iww.org/). Riebe lived in Minneapolis and from there established the Block Supply Company. The Block Supply Company marketed Mr Block postcards and such. Riebe published 24 Mr Block cartoons in a collection that is considered to be a forerunner to the (more modern) underground comic book.

Documents, Essays and Analysis for a History of the IWW

While the Industrial Workers of the World still is a going enterprise, the Marxists Internet Archive celebrates the organization's 100th Aniversary with a History Archive of documents related to it.

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Welcome to the libcom.org IWW Centenary Tribute Page.

We are calling - A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new civil rights movement!

WE ARE ALL HUMANS! NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!

Imagine going down to your local brewpub or coffee shop. You meet some friends. The talk turns to the war. You criticize the President and his wealthy supporters. Next thing you know, a couple of husky fellows at the next table grab you, hustle you out the door and down to the local police station. You are arrested on a charge of sedition. Within months you are indicted, tried and convicted. The judge sentences you to 5-10 years in prison — and off you go! Think this could never happen? Well, it happened not that long ago — during World War I — to scores of ordinary people in Montana. They discovered very painfully that their free speech rights had been stripped away by the state legislature.