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"Wobblies" is a nickname for members of the International Workers of the World, the IWW, which was an attempt to create an international trade union of working people, to seek better pay and working conditions. Some Wobblies were probably also socialists or communists. They were against WWI, pointing out, quite correctly, that who was mostly going to get killed was working men from all the nations involved, who had no larger stake in the issues of the war, and did nothing to get it started. Critics of the Wobblies said "IWW" stood for "I Won't Work", and there was a lot of official governmental persecution and resentment, just as there was of every manifestation of the trade union movement, as all these movements sought to improve the lot of the working people, by making the rich owners and managers share a little of wealth created, and be a little less rich and greedy. Those wealthy owners and managers always have a lot of clout with the government, though, naturally, so they can get the forces of "Law and Order" to help them hang on to the loot. There is a well-known song sung by folk singers and labor people called "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", about a Wobbly leader shot by a firing squad in Utah, after being convicted in a kangaroo court trial on some trumped up charges.
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eugen v. debs hoped they would elect the socialist party of America to office ap3x
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The "Wobblies" (; Your welcome!
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fight for the rights of unskilled laborers
Working people's organizations often considered illegal?
You may be referring to the organization knows as the International Workers of The World, referred to as 'The Wobblies' in the US press.
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they hoped to bring about radical political change by organizing all workers
