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Big Bill Haywood and office workers in the IWW General Office, Chicago, summer 1917. The first meeting to plan the IWW was held in Chicago in 1904. The seven attendees were Clarence Smith and Thomas J. Hagerty of the American Labor Union, George Estes and W. L. Hall of the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees, Isaac Cowan of the U.S. branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, William E ...
"At the Parting of the Ways", a cartoon from the May 1919 Industrial Workers of the World periodical One Big Union which shows a worker representing the working class choosing between a path of craft unionism towards the AFL slogan "A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work" and a path of industrial unionism towards the IWW slogan "Abolition of the Wage System"
Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47123-7. Cahn, William (1972). A Pictorial History of American Labor: The Contributions of the Working Man and Woman to America's Growth, from Colonial Times to Present. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-517-50040-8.
Metal and Machinery Workers Industrial Union (dissolved in the 1950s) Metal Mine Workers' Industrial Union; Motor Transport Workers Industrial Union; Oil Workers' Industrial Union (existed in 1919) Printing and Publishing Workers' Industrial Union (existed in 1919) Railroad Workers' Industrial Union (existed in 1919) Rubber Workers' Industrial ...
Liberty Hill site in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California was the site of the 1923 strike by the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union 510 a part of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The strike was called to draw attention to the worker's low wages and poor working conditions.
The Industrial Workers of the World quickly sprung into action, and disrupted the Local No. 31-18. [6] The actions did not do much in the attempt to displease the employers, but once the American Federation of Labor (AFL) was eliminated, the left-wingers became persona non grata. Efforts to keep Wobblies from dock employment were not successful.
The General Secretary-Treasurer is an elected position in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW is a revolutionary labor union based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Based in Chicago, the IWW operates in various countries around the world, including Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Below is a list of those who ...
The 4th Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was convened in Chicago on September 21, 1908, attended by 26 delegates. [1] Despite the small size of the gathering, factional disagreement was already deep within the organization and two delegates were denied their seats at the convention – including one Daniel DeLeon of New York City. [1]