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Wobbly organizers were revolutionary fish swimming in the sea of bindle stiffs and tramp workers. The Wobbly card was a ticket to ride the rails. "Side door coaches," as box cars were called, were plastered with paper stickers, "silent organizers," that Wobs put up everywhere they passed: "Join the One Big Union," "I Will Win," "Win a World." [2]
Where did initial inspirations for the Wobbly philosophy come from? Historian Melvyn Dubofsky is worth quoting at length: . Wobblies ... took their basic concepts from others: from Marx the concepts of labor value, commodity value, surplus value, and class struggle; from Darwin the idea of organic evolution and the struggle for survival as a paradigm for social evolution and the survival of ...
Wobbly lingo is a collection of technical language, jargon, and historic slang used by the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies, for more than a century. Many Wobbly terms derive from or are coextensive with hobo expressions used through the 1940s .
The twenties witnessed the defection of hundreds of Wobbly leaders (including Harrison George, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, John Reed, George Hardy, Charles Ashleigh, Earl Browder and, in his Soviet exile, Bill Haywood) and, following a path recounted by Fred Beal, [64] thousands of Wobbly rank-and-filers to the Communists and Communist organizations.
Alfredo worked as a construction worker, was a union organizer, and was a wobbly member of the Industrial Workers of the World. [2] [3] Carlos’s mother, Augusta was a socialist pacifist of German descent, spoke German, and was born in Racine, Wisconsin. [1] She worked as a domestic worker and also became a wobbly member of the IWW. Alfredo ...
Early life Born in 1900 in ... California for distributing Wobbly literature. He spent five years in San Quentin State Prison (1922–1927) alongside many other labor ...
In correspondence between Assistant Professor of Economics J. Kaye Faulkner and Howard Scott, Prof. Faulkner questioned Scott's and Chaplin's interactions, mentioning Chaplin's book "Wobbly, the rough-and-tumble story of an American radical" To which Scott denied having talked to Chaplin for very long, or to having phallic paintings.
A Wobbly is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Wobbly may also refer to: Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine Railway, a defunct Texas shortline railroad nicknamed the Wobbly; Wobbly (musician) The Wobbly, a 1926 novel by B. Traven