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Wobblies

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Wobblies: see Industrial Workers of the World Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), revolutionary industrial union organized in Chicago in 1905 by delegates from the Western Federation of Mines, which formed the nucleus of the IWW, and 42 other labor organizations.
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Wobblies
nickname for I.W.W. members. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 400]
See : Labor


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You have enough to deal with without spoiled children throwing wobblies.
Munk, a retired political science professor with biographical ties to Portland's radical past and present, here offers a tour guide of Portland's radical history, presenting city maps that mark the places and buildings that witnessed the activities of Wobblies, socialists, unionists, anti-war protestors, and civil rights organizers from the 19th century to the present and offering brief descriptions of the importance of each.
For example, the information the author includes about the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, is particularly confusing because of contradictory statements and dates.
 
 
 
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