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Mill Shadows: “Organize our strength as a working class.”
Initially, an important part of the Progressive Miners’ program was to raise the class consciousness of its members and the broader community. Tom Tippett, formally of the Brookwood Labor College was hired to head the PMA’s first Education Department. In a letter to the membership and auxiliaries Tippet wrote; “Our notion of an education activity […]