Editing Industrial Workers of the World (section)

==Canada==
[[File:Finnish Labour Temple, 1910.jpg|thumb|The [[Finnish Labour Temple]] (pictured in 1910) in [[Port Arthur, Ontario|Port Arthur]] served as the Canadian headquarters of the IWW between 1919 and the 1960s.]]
The IWW was active in Canada from a very early point in the organization's history, especially in Western Canada, primarily in [[British Columbia]]. The union was active in organizing large swaths of the lumber and mining industry along the coast, in the Interior of British Columbia, and [[Vancouver Island]]. Joe Hill wrote the song "Where the Fraser River Flows" during this period when the IWW was organizing in British Columbia.  Some members of the IWW had relatively close links with the [[Socialist Party of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/Imposs/Impossibilists1.htm |title=Canadian Socialist History Project |publisher=Socialisthistory.ca |date=June 11, 1919 |access-date=August 20, 2009 |archive-date=August 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090828100005/http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/Imposs/Impossibilists1.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Canadians who went to Australia and New Zealand before WWI included John Benjamin King and H. M. Fitzgerald (an adherent of the De Leon school).{{sfn|Bennett|2004|p=64}}

Despite the IWW being banned as a subversive organization in Canada during the First World War, the organization rebounded swiftly after being unbanned after the war, reaching a post-WWI high of 5600 Canadian members in 1923.<ref name=ARLO1924>{{cite report |date=1924 |title=Annual Report on Labour Organizations |url=https://archive.org/details/reportoflabour192325cana |publisher=[[Employment and Social Development Canada|Department of Labour (Canada)]] |access-date=May 5, 2016}}</ref> The union entered a short "golden age" in Canada with an official Canadian Administration located at the [[Finnish Labour Temple]] in Port Arthur (now [[Thunder Bay, Ontario]]) and a strong base among immigrant laborers in [[Northern Ontario]] and [[Manitoba]], especially [[Finns]], which included harvest workers, lumberjacks, and miners. During this period, the IWW competed for members with a number of other radical and socialist organizations such as the [[Finnish Organization of Canada]] (FOC), with the IWW's ''[[Industrialisti]]'' newspaper competing with the FOC's ''[[Vapaus]]'' for attention and readership. During this period. Membership slowly decreased during the 1920s and 30s despite continued organizing and strike activity as the IWW lost ground to the One Big Union and Communist Party-controlled organizations such as the [[Workers' Unity League]] (WUL). Despite this competition, the IWW and WUL cooperated during strikes, such as at the [[Abitibi Pulp & Paper Company]] near [[Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario|Sault Ste. Marie]] in 1933, where the Finnish workers in the IWW and WUL faced discrimination and violence from the Anglo citizens of the town. The IWW also successfully unionized [[Ritchie's Dairy]] in [[Toronto]] and formed a fishery workers' branch in MacDiarmid (now [[Greenstone, Ontario]]).<ref name=Jewell>{{citation |last=Jewell |first=G. |year=1975 |title=The IWW in Canada |publisher=Industrial Workers of the World General Administration |location=[[Chicago]] |url=https://libcom.org/library/iww-canada-g-jewell |access-date=November 15, 2016 |archive-date=June 28, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160628162916/http://libcom.org/library/iww-canada-g-jewell |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1936, the IWW in Canada supported the [[Spanish Revolution of 1936|Spanish Revolution]] and began to recruit for the militia of the anarcho-syndicalist {{lang|es|italic=no|[[Confederación Nacional del Trabajo]]}} (CNT), in direct conflict with Communist Party recruiters for the [[Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion]], a conflict which resulted in a number of violent clashes at recruitment rallies in Northern Ontario. Several Canadian IWW members were killed in the [[Spanish Civil War]] and the CNT's ensuing defeat at the hands of both Fascist and [[Spanish republicanism|Republican]] forces.<ref name=Jewell /> 

In 2009, after Starbucks established policies that meant demotions and loss of salary for some workers, the Quebec branches of Montreal and Sherbrooke helped found the Starbucks Workers' Union (STTS) which made a breakthrough in Quebec City at an establishment in Sainte-Foy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/economie/259064/vers-un-starbucks-syndique-a-quebec|title=Vers un Starbucks syndiqué à Québec|trans-title=Towards a unionized Starbucks in Quebec|website=Le Devoir|date=July 15, 2009 |language=fr|access-date=March 18, 2019|archive-date=August 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801213847/https://www.ledevoir.com/economie/259064/vers-un-starbucks-syndique-a-quebec|url-status=live}}</ref> Leaders [[Simon Gosselin]], [[Dominic Dupont]] and [[Andrew Fletcher (trade unionist)|Andrew Fletcher]] were harassed in the months following unionization, and union efforts were defeated by law firm Heenan Blaike in the series of hearings before Quebec Labor Relations Board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.journaldequebec.com/2009/07/17/starbucks-rencontre-ses-employes|title=Starbucks rencontre ses employés|last=Moalla|first=Taïeb|website=Le Journal de Québec|date=July 18, 2009 |language=fr|access-date=March 18, 2019|archive-date=February 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207130331/https://www.journaldequebec.com/2009/07/17/starbucks-rencontre-ses-employes|url-status=live}}</ref>

Today the IWW remains active in the country with branches in [[Vancouver]], [[Vancouver Island]], [[Edmonton]], [[Winnipeg]], [[Ottawa|Ottawa/Outaouais]], [[Toronto]], [[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]], [[Sherbrooke]], [[Québec City]] and [[Montréal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iww.ca|title=IWW Canada – a union for all workers – An independent union fighting for workers in Canada|access-date=September 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504081130/http://iww.ca/|archive-date=May 4, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> In August 2009, Canadian members voted to ratify the constitution of the Canadian Regional Organizing Committee (CanROC) to improve inter-branch coordination and communication. Affiliated branches are Winnipeg, Ottawa-Outaouais, Toronto, Windsor, Sherbrooke, Montréal, and Québec City. Each branch elects a representative to make decisions on the Canadian board. There were originally three officers, the Secretary-Treasurer, Organizing Department Liaison, and Editor of the Canadian Organizing Bulletin.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://iww.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/CANROC-Constitution-Final-January-1-2012.pdf |title=canRoc constitution Ratified by Canadian IWW members August 30, 2009|access-date=September 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092214/http://iww.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/CANROC-Constitution-Final-January-1-2012.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2016, CanROC members voted to split the Secretary-Treasurer role into separate Regional Secretary and Regional Treasurer positions.

There are currently five job shops in Canada: Libra Knowledge and Information Services Co-op in Toronto, ParIT Workers Cooperative in Winnipeg, the Windsor Button Collective, the [[Ottawa Panhandlers' Union]], and the Street Labourers of Windsor (SLOW). The Ottawa Panhandlers' Union continues a tradition in the IWW of expanding the definition of worker. The union members include anyone who makes their living in the street, including [[buskers]], street vendors, the homeless, scrappers, and panhandlers. In the summer of 2004, the Union led a strike by the homeless (the Homeless Action Strike) in Ottawa. The strike resulted in the city agreeing to fund a newspaper created and sold by the homeless on the street. On May 1, 2006, the Union took over the Elgin Street Police Station for a day. A similar IWW organization, the Street Labourers of Windsor (SLOW), has garnered local,<ref>{{cite news |first=Dave |last=Battagello |date=August 19, 2015 |url=http://blogs.windsorstar.com/news/ai-windsors-panhandlers-street-vendors-join-labour-union |title=Quest for respect: Windsor's panhandlers, street vendors join labour union |newspaper=[[Windsor Star]] |access-date=November 15, 2016 |archive-date=October 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001143206/http://blogs.windsorstar.com/news/ai-windsors-panhandlers-street-vendors-join-labour-union |url-status=live }}</ref> provincial,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/new-windsor-union-includes-city-s-panhandlers-and-buskers-1.3198909|title=New Windsor union includes city's panhandlers and buskers|date=August 21, 2015|access-date=September 30, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924192155/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/new-windsor-union-includes-city-s-panhandlers-and-buskers-1.3198909|url-status=live}}</ref> and national<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/windsors-panhandlers-and-street-performers-unionize-for-rights-everyone-else-has|title=Windsor's panhandlers and street performers unionize for 'rights everyone else has' |first=Dave |last=Battagello |date=August 19, 2015|work=National Post|access-date=September 30, 2015}}</ref> news coverage for its organizing efforts in 2015.