* July 12 – The Phelps Dodge Corporation deports over 1, 000 suspected IWW members from Bisbee, Arizona.

* November 11 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results in the deaths of four members of the American Legion, and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ).

IWW members played a role in the 1934 San Francisco general strike and the other organizing efforts by rank-and-filers within the International Longshoremen's Association up and down the West Coast.

Many IWW members opposed United States participation in World War I.

A statement was issued that denounced the war, but IWW members were advised to channel their opposition through the legal mechanisms of conscription.

In 1917, during an incident known as the Tulsa Outrage, a group of black-robed Knights of Liberty, a short-lived faction of the Ku Klux Klan, tarred and feathered seventeen members of the IWW in Oklahoma.

The IWW members had been turned over to the Knights of Liberty by local authorities after they were convicted of the crime of not owning war bonds.

Members of the IWW were prosecuted under various State and federal laws and the 1920 Palmer Raids singled out the foreign-born members of the organization.

In 1949, Tom C. Clark placed the IWW on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations in the category of " organizations seeking to change the government by unconstitutional means " under Executive Order 9835 ( revoked in 1953 ), which offers no means of appeal, and which excludes all IWW members from Federal employment and even federally subsidized housing.

The 1960s Civil Rights Movement, anti-war protests, and various university student movements brought new life to the IWW, albeit with many fewer new members than the great organizing drives of the early part of the 20th Century.

As of 2005, the 100th anniversary of its founding, the IWW had around 5, 000 members, compared to 13 million members in the AFL-CIO.

In very significant part this was due to the agitation of the IWW, a group which probably never had as many as 500 members in Australia at its peak.

The IWW founded the Anti-Conscription League ( ACL ) in which IWW members worked with the broader labour and peace movement, and also carried on an aggressive propaganda campaign in its own name ; leading to the imprisonment of Tom Barker ( 1887 – 1970 ) the editor of the IWW paper Direct Action, sentenced to twelve months in March 1916.

Eighty six IWW members immediately defied the law and were sentenced to six months imprisonment, this was certainly a high percentage of the Australian IWW's active membership but it is not known how high.

During the war over 100 IWW members Australia-wide were sentenced to imprisonment on political charges, including the veteran activist and icon of the labour, socialist and anarchist movements Monty Miller.

In 1939 the Australian IWW had four members, according to surveillance by government authorities, and these members were consistently opposed to the Second World War.

IWW members picket in Sydney, June 1981

Allen's group soon disappeared, but the first IWW group in Britain was founded by members of the Industrial Syndicalist Education League around Guy Bowman in 1913.

More recently, IWW members were involved in the Liverpool dockers ' strike that took place between 1995 and 1998, and numerous other events and struggles throughout the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ), including the successful unionising of several workplaces, such as support workers for the Scottish Socialist Party.

Luddites and radical labor unions such as the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) have advocated sabotage as a means of self-defense and direct action against unfair working conditions.

IWW organizing drives in recent years have included a major campaign to organize Borders Books in 1996, a strike at the Lincoln Park Mini Mall in Seattle that same year, organizing drives at Wherehouse Music, Keystone Job Corps, the community organization ACORN, various homeless and youth centers in

The IWW represents administrative and maintenance workers under contract in Seattle, while the union in Pittsburgh lost 22-21 in an NLRB election, only to have the results invalidated in late 2006, based on management's behavior before the election.

A series of arson attacks on commercial properties in Sydney was widely attributed to the IWW campaign to have Tom Barker released.

A member of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), Chomsky is a self-described Anarcho-Syndicalist, a position which he sees as the appropriate application of classical liberal political theory to contemporary industrial society: " Now a federated, decentralized system of free associations, incorporating economic as well as other social institutions, would be what I refer to as anarcho-syndicalism ; and it seems to me that this is the appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological society in which human beings do not have to be forced into the position of tools, of cogs in the machine.

" While the IWW shared the concept of a mass-oriented labor movement — what the IWW would call One Big Union — with the Knights of Labor, the idea of workers having much in common with employers was discarded by the IWW, whose Preamble declares that " the working class and the employing class have nothing in common.

moving toward revolutionary industrial unionism, Denver's labor radicals were not building from scratch ; rather, they drew upon and elaborated ideas and strategies generated by the previous twenty years of Denver's labor history ... the labor wars of 1903-4 may have triggered the formation of the IWW, the ideological synthesis it would uphold had been worked out in the American Labor Union's leadership by the summer of 1903 ...

While attempts to organise One Big Union on militant and revolutionary lines have not yet succeeded, the unions which made the attempt – for example, the IWW, the WIIU, the One Big Union organizations of Canada and Australia, or Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ( CNT ) in Spain – have had a significant influence on the labor movement.

Although it was written as a song for the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), other union movements, such as the AFL-CIO, have adopted the song as their own.

Animated by a class philosophy that saw capitalism as an economic system dividing society into two classes – those who own, manage, or rule, and those who have only their labor to sell – the IWW declared that,

AFL union " bosses " were ( and still are ) referred to by the Wobblies as " piecards ," a term that may have been borrowed from the itinerant workers – the hoboes – who filled the ranks of the IWW, had a particularly rich lingo that contributed significantly to Wobbly slang, and described anyone with money as a piecard.

Since the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the IWW, songs have played a big part in spreading the message of the One Big Union.

Among the organizers and leaders of UE Local 107 at the Westinghouse South Philadelphia works were several former members of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ).< ref > Matles, James J. and Higgins, James, < i > Them and Us: Struggles of a Rank-and-File Union </ i >, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974, hardcover, ISBN 0-13-913079-9 ; paperback reprint ISBN 0-13-913053-5, chapter 12 </ ref > While foes of UE in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s charged the union with " communist domination ," recent studies Stepan-Norris, Judith, and Zeitlin, Maurice, < i > Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions </ i >, Cambridge University Press, 2003, hardcover ISBN 0-521-70212-6 ; paperback ISBN 0-521-79840-X </ ref > have demonstrated that UE was and remains one of the most democratic U. S. labor unions and that its policies differed markedly from those of the US Communist Party on a number of major issues during those decades.

The IWW officially listed 5 dead with 27 wounded, although it is speculated that as many as 12 IWW members may have been killed.

There have been many efforts to find the IWW, a self-described radical union, at fault for the violence.

Throughout its history, the reformist section of syndicalism has been overshadowed by its revolutionary section, typified by the Confédération Générale du Travail ( CGT ) in France, IWW, the Federación Anarquista Ibérica section of the CNT., the Unione Sindacale Italiana and the Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden ( SAC ).

Throughout its history, the reformist section of syndicalism has been overshadowed by its revolutionary section, typified by the IWW or the Federación Anarquista Ibérica section of the CNT.

In New York City, the IWW has been organizing immigrant foodstuffs workers since 2005.

A Neath Wobbly who had been IWW active in Mexico trained volunteers who went to the International Brigade to fight against Franco but did not return.

Senator Joe McCarthy accused Edward R. Murrow of having been an IWW member.

In 1906, when Haywood had been on trial for his life in Idaho, Debs had described him as " the Lincoln of Labor " and called for Haywood to run against Theodore Roosevelt for president of the United States., but times had changed and Debs, facing a split in the Party, chose to echo Hillquit's words, accusing the IWW of representing anarchy.

One small packet of ashes was scattered at a 1989 ceremony which unveiled a monument to six unarmed IWW coal miners buried in Lafayette, Colorado, who had been machine-gunned by Colorado state police in 1927 in the Columbine Mine Massacre.

Sailors and longshoremen had a tradition of radical politics and more or less spontaneous job actions ; the IWW had been particularly active in both east and west coast ports up through the 1920s.

As envisioned by the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) – which for many years prior to 1919 had been associated with the concept – One Big Union was not just the idea that all workers should be organised into one big union.

The Canadian OBU movement had been inspired by the IWW, and like the IWW, it favored the general strike.

Shop committees and rank and file participation which had been so important to IWW members were de-emphasized.

It began on October 6, and was influenced by the organization Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW, also known as the " Wobblies "), a militant group that had been organizing unions in the region, particularly in the northern Mesabi Iron Range.

The successful Bolshevik-led revolution of 1918 in Russia was mirrored by a wave of syndicalist successes worldwide, including the struggle of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) in the USA alongside the creation of mass anarchist unions across Latin America and huge syndicalist-led strikes in Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy and France, where it was noted that " neutral ( economic, but not political ) syndicalism had been swept away.

When the US joined the war, in April 1917, Ralph Chaplin, the editor of the IWW's newspaper Solidarity, claimed that opposing the draft would destroy the IWW by visiting government repression upon the union the likes of which had not before been seen.

The Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) had also been organizing for five years among workers in Lawrence, but also had only a few hundred actual members.

Joseph Ettor of the IWW had been organizing in Lawrence for some time before the strike ; he and Arturo Giovannitti of the Italian Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America quickly assumed leadership of the strike, forming a strike committee made up of two representatives from each ethnic group in the mills, which took responsibility for all major decisions.

According to the IWW, the looters were not just local residents but included hired thugs acting under orders from the lumber companies which the union had been organizing.

Some IWW members had been involved in violent labor disputes and bomb plots against U. S. businessmen and government officials.

The philosophy of workers ' self-management has been promoted by the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) since its founding in the United States in 1905.