A short history of the 'wobblies' -- the Industrial Workers of the World labor union

From: The Daily Record (Baltimore) | Date: January 24, 2007| Author: Ben Mook | Copyright information

In 1905, a collection of prominent radical labor rights activists - - including future socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, ACLU co-founder Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and famed labor activist Mary Harris "Mother" Jones -- formed the Industrial Workers of the World.

Known by its acronym IWW, and later by the nickname "wobblies," the union's membership listed counted a number of anarchists, socialists and communists. According to a history of the IWW written in 2005 by IWW former...

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