Abstract

Saga of the Wobblies
O'Connor, Harvey | August 25, 1956 issue

add to cart   close window

This article discusses the book "The I.W.W. Its First Fifty Years, 1905-1955," by Fred Thompson. In the early decades of the century the Industrial Workers of the World(IWW) flashed across the labor sky the three beacons of education, organization, emancipation. Repeatedly, the IWW seemed destined to become the main stream of the American labor movement. After McKees Rocks in 1910 it was by far the strongest union in steel; After World War I the union gained amazing strength in the maritime industry. But the semi-anarchism of the wobblies coupled with fierce and brutal repression by the Department of Justice and state and local governments in 1917-1919.

See Also:

INDUSTRIAL Workers of the World; LABOR unions; SOCIAL movements; LABOR movement; ANARCHISM; POLITICAL doctrines
ARCHIVE HOME
Pricing
Articles are sold in 'packs,' which are priced as follows:

1 for 2.95
4 for 9.95
10 for 19.95
50 for 34.95
300 for 149.95
Refund Policy
Sales of archive individual articles, full issues or article packs are final and no refunds will be issued.
Access for libraries
help
Search
Browse
Sample Article

My Articles

You must be logged in to view your articles.

User name

Password

I don't have a login.

I forgot my user name/password.
Advertisement
Advertisement

Blogs

» The Beat

Another Helping of FDR Please | Obama should follow the New Deal president's example and make his Thanksgiving Proclamation a call for economic justice.
John Nichols
7 Comments
Posted at 0:24 ET

» Editor's Cut

Filibuster Follies | "The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body."
Katrina vanden Heuvel
67 Comments

» The Notion

Bad Black Mothers | For African American women, reproduction has never been an entirely private matter.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell
88 Comments

» Act Now!

Coal Country | Stunning film reveals new dimensions to the cost of America's over-reliance on coal.
Peter Rothberg
103 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer | China's ambassador for climate change speaks on the eve of the Copenhagen summit meeting.
Robert Dreyfuss
57 Comments