Timeline Tuesday 27 June 1905

Events on Tuesday 27 June 1905 3

• 1905 Industrial Workers of the World founded Radical labor union formed in Chicago Delegates from dozens of labor organizations met in Chicago to found the Industrial Workers of the World, a union aiming to organize all workers into one union regardless of trade or skill. Known as the Wobblies, the union promoted industrial unionism and radical labor tactics. It became a significant force in American labor conflicts over the following decades.
• 1905 Mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin Crew revolt over rotten meat spreads to Odessa Sailors on the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinied after being served maggot-infested meat, killing several officers and taking control of the ship. The mutineers sailed to Odessa, where their arrival coincided with a bloody crackdown on striking workers. The episode became a lasting symbol of revolutionary defiance, later dramatized in Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film.
• 1905 Mutiny on the Potemkin Over rotten meat The crew of the battleship Potemkin refuse borscht made with maggoty beef, an officer threatens to shoot them, and the ship ends the day under the control of its sailors with seven officers dead. The Potemkin steams to Odessa, where the city is already in revolt, and troops fire on crowds at the harbour steps. The ship eventually surrenders in Romania. Eisenstein films it twenty years later and the sequence on the steps, which he largely invented, becomes better known than the mutiny.