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 General Secretary-Treasurer Harry Siitonen the union's other founders included: "Big Bill" Haywood, Daniel De Leon, Thomas J. Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, and Ralph Chaplin.
There were no more sinister initials to an Inland Valley rancher than IWW. Just a hint of the presence of the IWW - Industrial Workers of the World - in the neighborhood was enough to make employers quake in their boots.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma hearing stories about her grandfather's involvement with the Industrial Workers of the World, the radical union organization also known as the Wobblies. She went on to campaign for justice and the rights of indigenous peoples. She was a "full-time activist" from 1967 to 1972, then got involved in the American Indian Movement in 1974. In 1981 Dunbar- Ortiz traveled to Nicaragua to investigate the Miskitu Indians' land- tenure issues. Over the next eight years she made more than 100 trips to Central America, monitoring the conflict between the Contras and Sandinistas.
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In Which Side Are You On?, Tom Geoghegan writes that solidarity is "the only love left in this country that dare not speak its name." Enter the word into Google news and you'll find that in English-language papers from Lahore to Leeds, the word pops up frequently. Not so here. In American publications it appears, if at all, only in neutered form-the simple presence of group cohesion. A company sponsoring a retreat for its employees does so to encourage "corporate solidarity." [Mike Bloomberg]'s appearance on the Brooklyn Bridge on the strikes first morning is described as a "show of solidarity" with stranded commuters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines "solidarity" as: "The fact or quality, on the part of communities ... of being perfectly united or at one in some respect, esp. in i...
... then proceeds to class-bait the transit workers. "You've got people making $50,000 and $60,000 a y...It soon became a buzzword. At the 1900 Worlds Fair, the French minister of trade announced solem...." And, in 1915, Ralph Chaplin of the Industrial Workers of the World wrote the labor anthem "Solid...
There were no more sinister initials to an Inland Valley rancher than IWW. Just a hint of the presence of the IWW - Industrial Workers of the World - in the neighborhood was enough to make employers quake in their boots. A strong, socialist-leaning union, sometimes nicknamed the Wobblies, it helped foment strikes throughout the nation especially during and immediately after World War I.
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