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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago in 1905. The nickname's origin is uncertain. [5] Its ideology combines general unionism with industrial unionism, as it is a general union, subdivided between the various industries which employ its members.
The Industrial Workers of the World are most numerous among the migratory workers of the West; among the homeless, wayfaring men who follow the harvests from Texas across the Canadian border; among the lumberjacks who pack their quilts from camp to distant camp in the fir and pine and spruce forests of the Northwest; and among the metalliferous ...
The first step towards the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World had already been taken in the fall of 1904 in an informal conference of six leaders in the socialist and labor movement: William Trautmann, George Estes, W. L. Hall, Isaac Cowen, Clarence Smith, and Thomas J. Hagerty.
Unionists who agreed with the manifesto were invited to attend a convention to found the new union which was to become the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Industrial Workers of the World stickerette "Thief!" At 10 a.m. on June 27, 1905, Haywood addressed the crowd assembled at Brand's Hall in Chicago. [13] In the audience were two ...
"the Industrial Workers of the World would place an industry in the hands of its workers, as would socialism; it would organize society without any government, as would anarchism; and it would bring about a social revolution by direct action of the workers, as would syndicalism. Nevertheless, it claims to be distinct from all three." [53]
"Review of We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 391: 235–236. ISSN 0002-7162. JSTOR 1040092. Betten, Neil (1973). "Review of We Shall Be All. The History of the Industrial Workers of the World". The Catholic Historical Review. 59 (3): 500–501.
The 1933 Yakima Valley strike (also known as the Congdon Orchards Battle) took place on 24 August 1933 in the Yakima Valley, Washington, United States.It is notable as the most serious and highly publicized agricultural labor disturbance in Washington history and as a brief revitalization of the Industrial Workers of the World in the region.
History of the Industrial Workers of the World (3 C, 25 P) P. ... Media in category "Industrial Workers of the World" The following 32 files are in this category, out ...