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	Industrial Workers of the World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The IWW was founded in Chicago in June 1905 at a convention of two hundred socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States (mainly the Western Federation of Miners) who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labour.
		In the 1990s, the IWW was involved in many labor struggles and free speech fights, including Redwood Summer, and the picketing of the Neptune Jade in the port of Oakland in late 1997.
		The IWW continued illegally operating with the aim of freeing its class war prisoners and briefly fused with two other radical tendencies–from the old Socialist parties and Trades Halls–to form a larval communist party at the suggestion of the militant revolutionist and Council Communist Adela Pankhurst.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World (2908 words)

	Industrial Workers of the World Pensacola General Membership Branch
		Since the IWW was founded in 1905, we have recognized the need to build a truly international union movement in order to confront the global power of the bosses and in order to stand in solidarity with our fellow workers no matter what part of the globe they happen to live on.
		The Pensacola IWW has recently had the opportunity to discuss ways that we can work with this community of workers and their families on work-related issues, advocacy, bridge-building, etc. Certainly, this will be a long-term project as we will keep this site updated with new information.
		The IWW marched in the Anti-Police Brutality March on May 14th that was initiated by Movement for Change and the NAACP.
	www.angelfire.com /fl5/iww (1225 words)

	IWW
		Persecution and physical harassment by the federal government, the exercising of the force of legal rational authority by state governments, cultural hostility toward the IWW, and internal quarrels of leadership and indecision in the IWW were the key factors that lead to the downfall of the Wobblies.
		Anti-clemency proponents regarded IWW prisoners as prisoners of a class war that should be freed only by the direct action of workers, not from the actions of politicians, and that Wobblies shouldn’t imply guilt on themselves (ibid).
		Beyond this, states also lead raids on IWW headquarters and tended to turn a blind eye towards abuses of Wobblies that occurred on a local level, such as beatings by police and the forceful removal and arrest of soapboxers from public places for attempting to exercise their freedom of speech (Bird et al 152).
	www.ksu.edu /socialist/iww.htm (3696 words)

	The Working Stiff Journal -- IWW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		IWW members are attempting to better their Spanish language skills to facilitate communication with day laborers who are primarily monolingual.
		The IWW is unique not only in that it is able to avoid much of the inter-labor squabbles of unions associated with the AFL-CIO, but in that it is also one of the oldest unions in the United States.
		According to Freeze, the IWW was the first of the labor unions to organize people of color and women in to the same union, and at its peak it was so diverse that it conducted meetings in six different languages at the same time.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~rjensen/vol2no4/iww.htm (821 words)

	Industrial Workers of the World
		IWW members also played a role in the sit-down strikes and other organizing efforts by the United Auto Workers in the 1930s, particularly in Detroit, even though they never established a strong union presence there.
		The IWW membership fell to its lowest level in the 1960s, but the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, anti-war protests, and various university student movements brought new life to the IWW, albeit with many fewer new members than the great organizing drives of the early part of the 20th Century.
		The IWW continued illegally operating with the aim of freeing its class war prisoners, and briefly fused with two other radical tendencies--from the old Socialist parties and Trades Halls--to form a larval communist party at the suggestion of the militant revolutionist and Council Communist Sylvia Pankhurst.
	www.askfactmaster.com /IWW (2616 words)

	Join the IWW and Defend Your Labour Rights : Thunderbay IMC
		The IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) is a member-run union for all workers, a union dedicated to organizing on the job, in our industries and in our communities.
		IWW members are organizing to win better conditions today and building a world with economic democracy tomorrow.
		Since the IWW was formed in 1905, we have made significant contributions to labour struggles and have a proud tradition of organizing across gender, ethnic and racial lines long before such organizing was popular.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=11584 (760 words)

	anderson - IWW
		As the IWW fell deeper into a state of defense against the onslaught of opposition and persecution, individual Wobblies, as well as the organization as a whole, were forced to alter their ways.
		On a sadder note, the IWW faced one of the darkest chapters in its history later in 1919 when an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington turned into a bloody conflict between members of the American Legion and the local Wobblies who were trying to maintain their presence in the community.
		In analyzing the causes of the general strike the IWW pointed to the persecution of its members in Seattle, which led to a situation where many workers were members of both the IWW and another craft union for their job.
	faculty.washington.edu /gregoryj/strike/anderson.htm (3799 words)

	Industrial Workers of the World : IWW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The IWW lumber strike of 1917 led to the eight-hour day and vastly imporved working conditions in the Pacific Northwest (even though historians give credit to the US Government, and "forward thinking lumber magnates" for agreeing to it give timber workers, it was an IWW strike on the job that made them do it).
		In 1917, 165 IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to hinder the draft, encourage desertion, and intimidate others in connection with labor disputes, under the new Espionage Act.
		The IWW membership fell to its lowest level in the 1960s, but the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti-War Protests of the late 1960s and various Student Movements brought new life to the IWW, albeit with many fewer new members than the great organizing drives of the early part of the 20th Century.
	www.findword.org /iw/iww.html (1685 words)

	walter p. reuther library/Industrial Workers of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Soon, there were IWW Industrial Union Locals among miners in the Southwest, lumberers in the Northwest, textile workers in the East, and dockworkers and marine transport workers around the country.
		Finally, IWW leaders often engaged in internecine squabbles over the direction of the organization, resulting in a constant state of turmoil at the IWW's upper levels.
		IWW organizing efforts during the war were thought to be counter to the patriotic spirit of the time and the union's inflammatory language was uncomfortably close to that of radicals in other parts of the world.
	www.reuther.wayne.edu /exhibits/iww.html (1258 words)

	Industrial Workers of the World on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The aim of the IWW was to unite in one body all skilled and unskilled workers for the purpose of overthrowing capitalism and rebuilding society on a socialistic basis.
		It was especially strong in the lumber camps of the Northwest, among dock workers in port cities, in the wheat fields of the central states, and in textile and mining areas.
		At the time of World War I the IWW was antimilitaristic; its members were accused of draft evasion, of fomenting German-paid strikes in order to cripple essential war industries; of sabotage; and of criminal syndicalism.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/I/IndustW1W1.asp (994 words)

	Lucy Parsons & The IWW
		The IWW was fighting for more than just better working conditions, they were working to build "the structure of the new society within the shell of the old".
		While she was never the pivotal organizing asset to the IWW that Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Big Bill Haywood or Joe Hill were, her articles did frequently appear in the IWW press and she often attended mass IWW meetings and conventions, and her writings and speeches were always welcome with the IWW.
		Her presence alone at IWW meetings was inspiring in and of itself, as she reminded IWW activists of the Haymarket legacy, the founding of the IWW and the class struggles in which everyone was connected.
	www.lucyparsonsproject.org /iww.html (679 words)

	IWW EDMONTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We are a union open to all workers, whether or not the IWW happens to have representation rights in your workplace.
		Because the IWW is a democratic, member-run union, all policy decisions are made by referendum.
		IWW workplaces and branches make their own decisions about bargaining and strategy.
	edmonton.iww.ca (851 words)

	Edinburgh I.W.W. - Edinburgh branch of the Industrial Workers of the World
		The IWW recognises that the iunterests of workers and employers are different and irreconcilable - ultimately, to meet our needs, workers need to run the workplaces and society co-operatively without bosses, for need not profit.
		To combat this, the IWW is an international union, a movement which though yet small, is growing.
		The IWW is a union for ALL workers, and opposes any oppression or discrimination on the grounds of nationality, ethnic origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
	www.freewebs.com /edinburghiww (595 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Spokane IWW office is raided, leaders are arrested, and martial law is declared on August 19, 1917.
		This occurs in reaction to a demand by IWW leader James Rowan that all prisoners of the "class war" (he means Wobbly strikers and strike leaders involved in a statewide lumber strike) be released or Spokane would face a general strike.
		In Washington the repression and suppression of the IWW was carried out by cities, counties, the State, the United States War Department (which, due to the war, controlled the National Guard), the United States Immigration Service (targeting immigrant laborers for deportation), and by vigilantes.
		In Spokane, the IWW responded to the arrests by calling a general strike (to support the ongoing strike in the lumber industry), but this effort was an immediate failure.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=7363 (1402 words)

	Stockton IWW Truckers Strike Again! : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In October, the truckers gained close to 70% of their demands, and successfully worked to reverse two IWW members' life-time banishments from the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe rail yard and negotiated a favorable settlement of a strike at the 11-driver Patriot trucking company.
		Stockton truckers and bay area based IWW organizers have worked together, meeting often and through general assembly type decision making structures, created a game plan to get the money that the trucking companies are stealing from the workers on a daily basis.
		Harjit, a IWW organizer from the bay area, commented that, "One worker estimated that they are losing over $1,000 a month", and that's $1,000 that is going straight into the companies pockets.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1707388 (659 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Industrial Workers of the World -- A Snapshot History
		IWW membership and influence declined sharply after the anti-radical purges of the World War I era, but the union never quite died off.
		The IWW was an "industrial" union, one that embraced and organized both skilled and unskilled workers within particular industries.
		From 1908 to 1917, the IWW in Washington state was particularly influential among migrant laborers who rode the boxcars to follow the harvest or to get a job in a lumber camp.
	www.historylink.org /output.cfm?file_id=2016 (2348 words)

	Industrial Workers of the World - Syndicat Industriel des Travailleuses et des Travailleurs Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The IWW is a "do-it-yourself" union, and does not provide an all-knowing leadership or hefty treasury to fight your battles for you.
		The IWW does not believe in signing away the right to strike (the so-called "no strike" clause) nor does it condone the "dues check-off," in which management deducts union dues directly from the paycheck.
		Because the IWW had strongholds in industries that were critical to the First World War effort, and because they refused to do their patriotic bit by signing no-strike pledges for the duration of the war, the Wobblies were branded "pro-German" and relentlessly persecuted.
	www.iww.ca /about_iww.htm (1981 words)

	IWW EDMONTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		’IWW is a pretty outdated and very left-wing organization, but it’s their right to protest.’ Western Canada CLAC representative Frank Kooger said IWW represents nobody in the world in labour relations.
		Roberts said IWW is hoping the members of trade unions in Fort McMurray and the community at large attend the protest.
		Nicknamed 'the Wobblies,' the IWW was formed in the early 20th century by people dissatisfied with the union movement of their time.
	edmonton.iww.ca /clac.html (1500 words)

	IWW Vancouver - Coast Salish Territory - Industrial Worker - October (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When the IWW fought for the 8-hour day in the timber and wheat fields, they didn't decide to prove their majority to the boss through elections.
		According to the late Michael Kozura, an IWW member and a labor historian, in the anthracite mine fields of eastern Pennsylvania from 1906 to 1916 there were as many members of the IWW as of the UMW.
		Nevertheless, the IWW was the logical organization to critique workplace contractualism and to establish a labor left based on a structural analysis of the new unions.
	vancouver.iww.ca /iw/200210.htm (4035 words)

	The IWW
		Organizationally, the IWW tried to organize all workers in an industry, regardless of their skill or occupation.
		In the first few years of its existence, the IWW concentrated on organizing miners and lumber and agricultural workers in the West.
		The IWW is perhaps most famous for organizing and leading the massive textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912.
	history.osu.edu /projects/1912/labor/theiww.htm (149 words)

	IWW 100th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Many believed that the IWW’s organizing efforts during the war were counter to the patriotic spirit of the time.
		During 1918, the last year of the war, the government seized the records of the IWW and its locals, and jailed many leaders and local union members, including the entire executive board.
		Eventually the IWW's outspoken leader, Bill Haywood moved to the Soviet Union, where he is buried alongside the columnist John Reed at the Kremlin wall.
	www.reuther.wayne.edu /iww100/iww55.html (204 words)

	Global Mappings: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
		The IWW was most successful in organizing fl workers in the southern lumber industry in Louisiana and Texas and longshoremen and dockworkers in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Norfolk, Virginia.
		Although the IWW gained support from some prominent members of the fl community, its success in organizing fls to militant action was highly exaggerated by federal officials.
		He concludes that the IWW's history of radicalism posed too high a risk for fl workers who felt that they were already at a disadvantage because they were fl and did want to be tainted red as well.
	diaspora.northwestern.edu /mbin/WebObjects/DiasporaX.woa/wa/displayArticle?atomid=626 (692 words)

	Industrial Workers of the World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Further fame was gained later that year, when they took their stand on free speech.
		Workers often won better working conditions by using direct action at the point of production, and striking "on the job" (consciously and collectively slowing their work).
		The IWW of 1912 disdained collective bargaining agreements and preached instead the need for constant struggle against the boss on the shop floor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IWW (2908 words)

	Industrial Workers of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Activists in the IWW such as William Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Carlo Tresca, Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, were involved in two major industrial disputes, the Lawrence Textile Strike (1912) and the Paterson Silk Industry Strike (1913).
		After the war leaders of the IWW were harassed by the police and suffered legal prosecutions.
		The IWW is the only labor organization in the United States which draws no race or color line.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAiww.htm (2337 words)

	Swans Commentary: Wobblies! A Graphic History of the IWW, by Louis Proyect - lproy24
		For today's radicals, the IWW has a powerful mystique since many of the leading figures were martyrs to the cause, including the hobo and folksinger Joe Hill.
		The IWW was spurned by the workers and after six months on strike, there was no improvement in pay or working conditions.
		Although the IWW's anarcho-syndicalism was not specifically opposed to Marxist principles, it tended to shun the political arena and leave questions of conquering state power somewhat abstract.
	www.swans.com /library/art11/lproy24.html (2083 words)

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