Finnish American writer, song writer, humorist, hobo, and labor activist who played a prominent role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

Matti or Matt Valentinpoika Huhta was born around 1880 (possibly Feb. 14, 1882) in Ashtabula, Ohio to Finnish immigrants Matti and Johanna Huhta. He married Rosa Kotila with whom he had four children. At some point, his family lived in Pennsylvania and eventually Huhta left and had limited contact with them. By 1920, he became a member of the IWW and started writing for IWW publications under the pen name T-Bone Slim, or sometimes his membership card number, “Card No. 198308.” For two decades, readers of IWW publications recognized him as one of the Union's most noted columnist, with pieces in the Industrial Solidarity, the Industrial Worker, and Industrialisti. Additionally, he wrote songs that appeared in the IWW’s Little Red Songbook, including “The Popular Wobbly” and “Mysteries of a Hobo's Life.” He is also known for the poem “The Lumberjack's Prayer.” In addition to writing, Huhta worked as a laborer and on docks and barges around the country throughout the 1930s. On May 15, 1942, Huhta’s body was found in the Hudson River in New York and his death was ruled an accidental drowning.

American labor activist and surrealist, artist, historian, and writer.

A native of Chicago, Franklin Rosemont dedicated his life to art, scholarship, and political activism in support of labor and the American left. He was born October 2, 1943 to two labor activists, printer Henry Rosemont and jazz musician Sally Rosemont. He was a lifelong member of the IWW and co-founded of the Chicago Surrealist Group with his wife Penelope Rosemont in 1965. Throughout the 1960s he was also active in the Rebel Worker group, the Solidarity Bookshop, and Students for a Democratic Society. He was a managing editor of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, the oldest radical and labor press in the United States, and wrote several books.