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Industrial Workers of the World demonstration, New York City, 1914.

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What is the I.W.W. ?(Industrial Workers of the World)

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What is the I.W.W. ?(Industrial Workers of the World)

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it was a labor organization founded in Chicago in 1905 by representatives of 43 groups.

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What did they want? The I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World)

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What did they want? The I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World)

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The I.W.W. hoped to establish "one big union" in which workers owned the means of production and distribution. The I.W.W. was successful in organizing a group of workers who appeared to have little in common on the surface.

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The I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World)

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The I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World)

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https://store.iww.org/shop/wobblies-of-the-world/

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'Big Bill' Haywood: The 'Wobbly' Giant
founded in Chicago in 1905.

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This popular poster was used to recruit IWW members.

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Proved industrial union (for all workers, both skilled and unskilled, in a particular industry) could succeed

The philosophy of the IWW is described as "revolutionary industrial unionism", with ties to socialist syndicalist, and anarchist labor movements.

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Despite the IWW’s enthusiasm, the organization was beset by internal disputes and its membership declined dramatically after World War I to about 15,000 in 1922.

Wobblies believed in permanent rebellion

Members left the mainstream unions without their most aggressive and spirited fighters, weakening the labor movement as a whole.

Although the IWW lost its power, the spirited culture of rebellion that Haywood created will never die.

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The IWW's biggest victory was the Lawrence, MA,Textile Strike in 1912. Seen here are strikers, who are mostly female

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This union was conformed by Radical unionists, socialists, miners, lumberman, dock workers, African-Americans

IWW membership was estimated at more than 150,000

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"Life and the means of living, Liberty and the conditions essential to liberty"

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"Life and the means of living, Liberty and the conditions essential to liberty"

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The IWW had its Oregon headquarters in Portland’s North End, a neighborhood near downtown that was densely populated with poor men and home to much of the city’s vice. The union and its members became associated with crime and raucous immorality by the sensationalist attention paid to the neighborhood in the local press.

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Big Bill Haywood and office workers in the IWW General Office, Chicago, summer 1917

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Big Bill Haywood and office workers in the IWW General Office, Chicago, summer 1917

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IWW strike committee, Astoria, 1948. Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 85067

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IWW strike committee, Astoria, 1948. Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 85067

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In Oregon, the IWW was rooted in lumber camps and mills in the western part of the state and among field hands in eastern agricultural areas. Working conditions were poor in those industries, and employers strenuously fought unionization, particularly by the IWW, which refused to make agreements with capitalists and advocated sabotage on the job.

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"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," 

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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was a labor union that was founded in Chicago in June 1905. Unlike the American Federation of Labor's specialized trade or craft unions, the IWW aimed to organize workers along the lines of industrial unions. All wage workers, regardless of race, creed, color, or sex, were welcome to join the new organization, whose members came to be known as Wobblies, which embraced revolutionary socialism. Additionally, it disapproved of entering into contracts with employers because it thought that doing so would restrict employees' right to strike.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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A few pages from Industrial Socialism, by Haywood and Bohn

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A few pages from Industrial Socialism, by Haywood and Bohn

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For Cultural context. https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/media/uploads/pam335_82_H427i.pdf

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An early issue of the Spirit of the Times

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An early issue of the Spirit of the Times

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an IWW publication. Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., Pam331 886142i

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the IWW cut its teeth unionizing in some of the most difficult sectors, such as textiles, docks, agriculture, and mining, quickly gaining a reputation as the first racially integrated union in the United States.

Today, IWW members are found across many sectors and continue to hold deep convictions encapsulated in the preamble to our constitution.

Undoubtedly, the contributions that this organization offered are beyond the tireless struggle for the rights of workers and their better quality of life and work, they went beyond that to achieve a more humane society and leave behind social injustice in the labor sectors

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IWW poster. Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., Orhi77728

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IWW poster. Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., Orhi77728

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https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/media/uploads/thumbnails_medium/iww_poster_orhi77728.jpg