Английская Википедия:Andrew Klemencic

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Andrew Klemencic (or Шаблон:Lang, 1860–1906Шаблон:Sfn) was a Slovene anarchist and union organizer active in Europe, the United States and the Republic of Hawaii. He contributed to various anarchist publications throughout his life and was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Early life

Andrew Klemencic was born near Trieste in the Austrian Empire (now Italy), in 1860.Шаблон:Sfn He was SloveneШаблон:Sfn and multilingual.Шаблон:Sfn

Labor organizing

Klemencic's labor organizing caused him to travel across Europe.Шаблон:Sfn By 1897, he was living in San Francisco, where he contributed to the local anarchist publication Free Society published by Mary and Abraham Isaak. He worked as a tailor and organized for the Journeymen Tailors Union.Шаблон:Sfn Klemencic also delivered various lectures on anarchism and contributed to the anarchist press in both French and English. In 1898, he arranged a speaking tour of the San Francisco Bay Area for Emma Goldman.Шаблон:Sfn

In the middle of 1898, Klemencic departed San Francisco to organize workers in the Republic of Hawaii.Шаблон:Sfn While there, he opposed the annexation of Hawaii by the United States alongside Native Hawaiians and local Asian laborers. He wrote articles criticizing American expansionism in Free Society as well as Germinal and Les Temps Nouveaux.Шаблон:Sfn In 1900 he was fined $6 (Шаблон:Inflation) by Hawaii police for "blockading the streets" and was subsequently ordered to desist from speaking while discussing the Boxer Rebellion on a street corner. He stated "I don't think that I blockaded the streets nearly as bad as the Salvation Army" and expressed his intent to continue exercising his right to free speech.Шаблон:R The Honolulu Republican described him as a tailor with "unique thoughts on many economic questions" and a self-described instrumental figure in the establishment of Home Colony.

In 1905, Klemencic was living in Pueblo, Colorado.Шаблон:Sfn He travelled to Chicago and attended the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW),Шаблон:Sfn representing his union local of the Journeymen Tailors and installing them as IWW members.Шаблон:Sfn

While at the convention, Klemencic introduced a successful resolution condemning militarism alongside fellow anarchist Joseph Corna. With John Riordan, Klemencic supported the name "Industrial Workers of the World" rather than the proposed "The Industrial Union of America." He argued for internationalism,Шаблон:Sfn stating that "all lines that were ever established have always been established by men who were a bunch of robbers, thieves and exploiters, and we want to combine ourselves as humanity, as one lot of people, those that are producing the wealth of our oppressors, and we want to have under that banner our brothers and sisters of the world."Шаблон:Sfn The IWW was the only labor organization in the United States to actively recruit Asians and oppose their exclusion during this period; this was due in large part to the advocacy of anarchists like Klemencic.Шаблон:Sfn

With the IWW established, Klemencic became a vocal member of its anarchist faction, writing for Lucy Parsons' union-aligned newspaper The Liberator and editing an IWW section for Jay Fox's Demonstrator. The latter was published from Home Colony in Washington,Шаблон:Sfn where Klemencic spent time. According to Radium LaVene, Klemencic worked for his father as a tailor while living in the area; LaVene described him as "bald, middle-aged".Шаблон:Sfn

See also

• Sigismund Danielewicz

References

Works cited

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