UNITED STATES: A mural honouring the 20th-century African-American labour organiser Ben Fletcher is set to be unveiled in Philadelphia tomorrow.

Mr Fletcher (1890–1949) was a prominent member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). He helped co-found the city’s branch of the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union in 1913 — which at the time was uniquely inter-racial.

He went on to organise with the IWW across the East Coast. His union organising caught the attention of the authorities, who jailed him for three years for “treasonous activities.”