A Wobbly Life Iww Organizer E. F. Doree

Early In The Twentieth Century, The Wobblies, Or Industrial Workers Of The World (iww), Fought For The Rights Of Workersmdash;common Laborers, Migrants, Immigrants, Black Workersmdash;unprotected By The Craft Unions. In The Face Of Beatings, Kidnappings, And Lynchings By Vigilantes, Company Detectives, And Hired Guns, The Wobblies Organized In Mining And Lumber Camps, The Wheat Fields, On Docksides And In Textile Factories. A Meteoric Career From Its Beginnings In 1906, The Iww Arose With Speech Fights, Peaked With A Membership Of Over 100,000 Workers In 1917, And Was Devastated In 1918 By The Imprisonment Of Its Leadership For Violations Of Wartime Legislation.