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.

* 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 ).

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.

The 1908 split between the Chicago and Detroit factions in the United States was echoed by internal unrest in the Australian IWW from late 1908, resulting in the formation of a pro-Chicago local in Adelaide in May 1911 and another in Sydney six months later.

The campaign united IWW members, other unions, students and the local community to build a powerful coalition.

It was the culmination of years of bad blood between members of the local Legion and members of the IWW.

In late 1910 he wrote a letter to the IWW newspaper Industrial Worker, identifying himself as a member of the IWW local chapter in Portland, Oregon.

Most other local unions, including members of the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ) and the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), joined the walkout.

It was the culmination of years of bad blood between members of the local Legion and members of the IWW.

The ramifications of this event included a trial that attracted national media attention, notoriety that contributed to the Red Scare of 1919-20, the creation of a powerful martyr for the IWW, a monument to one side of the battle and a mural for the other, a formal tribute to the fallen Legionnaires by President Warren G. Harding, and a deep-rooted enmity between the local American Legion and the Wobblies that persisted into the 21st century.

IWW efforts to open a hall for local members were met by opponents of the IWW who lived in Centralia.

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.

With attempts at a peaceful compromise unsuccessful, local IWW leader Britt Smith pressed Elmer Smith for additional advice.

They became so prevalent that the owner of the Roderick Hotel, who was renting the facility to the IWW, asked the local sheriff for assistance during the march.

Those left wing socialists, joined by others with an IWW or anarchist background, challenged the undemocratic structure of the ILGWU, which gave every local an equal vote in electing its leaders, regardless of the number of workers that local represented, and the accommodations that the ILGWU leadership had made in bargaining with the employers.

The Everett Massacre ( also known as Bloody Sunday ) was an armed confrontation between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) union, commonly called " Wobblies ".

The IWW continued illegally operating with the aim of freeing its class war prisoners and briefly fused with two other radical tendencies – from the old Socialist parties and Trades Halls – to form a larval communist party at the suggestion of the militant revolutionist and Council Communist Adela Pankhurst.

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.

According to McDonald all the waitresses were members of the IWW, and one of the cooks was a woman who had served a year in a Finnish prison for her activities on behalf of the Reds during the Finnish Revolution of 1918.

An APL report on its actions in the Northwest for five months in 1918 showed that among its 25 activities, its largest effort ( some 10 % of its activity ), was in disrupting the IWW ( the " Wobblies "), a radical labor union.

" In particular, the IWW was organized because of the belief among many unionists, socialists, anarchists and radicals that the AFL not only had failed to effectively organize the U. S. working class, as only about 5 % of all workers belonged to unions in 1905, but also was organizing according to narrow craft principles which divided groups of workers.

The IWW also had a presence among waterfront workers in Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Eureka, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver as well as in ports in the Caribbean, Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and other nations.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, the IWW had various small organizing drives.

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.

By the 1930s the IWW in Australia had declined significantly, and took part in unemployed workers movements which were led largely by the CPA.

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.

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.

During the decade after World War II, the IWW had two active branches in London and Glasgow.

Some members of the IWW had relatively close links with the Socialist Party of Canada.

In the 1960s, the American folk music revival in the United States brought a renewed interest in the songs of Joe Hill and other Wobblies, and seminal folk revival figures such as Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie had a pro-Wobbly tone, while some were members of the IWW.

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.

Both Centralia and the neighboring town of Chehalis had a large number of World War I veterans, with robust chapters of the Legion, as well as a large number of IWW members, some also war veterans.

It is around this time in Spokane that the first of many nation-wide free speech fights conducted by the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) or " Wobblies " had begun, spread, and garnered national attention.

Orrin N. Hilton, the lawyer representing Hill during the appeal, declared: " The main thing the state had on Hill was that he was an IWW and therefore sure to be guilty.

In an article for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, Hill wrote: " Owing to the prominence of Mr Morrison, there had to be a ' goat ' and the undersigned being, as they thought, a friendless tramp, a Swede, and worst of all, an IWW, had no right to live anyway, and was therefore duly selected to be ' the goat '.

Just prior to his execution, Hill had written to Bill Haywood, an IWW leader, saying, " Goodbye Bill.

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.

And James P. Cannon has observed that " the CIO became possible only after and because the IWW had championed and popularized the program of industrial unionism in word and deed.

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.

Industrial Workers of the World | IWW poster " Pyramid of the Capitalist System "( c. 1911 ), depicting an Criticism of capitalism | anti-capitalist perspective on statist / capitalist social structures

The convention, which took place on June 24, 1905, was then referred to as the " Industrial Congress " or the " Industrial Union Convention "— it would later be known as the First Annual Convention of the IWW.

The IWW emphasized rank-and-file organization, as opposed to empowering leaders who would bargain with employers on behalf of workers.

The IWW of 1912 disdained collective bargaining agreements and preached instead the need for constant struggle against the boss on the shop floor.

In September 1917, U. S. Department of Justice agents made simultaneous raids on forty-eight IWW meeting halls across the country.

In 1917, one hundred and sixty-five IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to hinder the draft, encourage desertion, and intimidate others in connection with labor disputes, under the new Espionage Act ; one hundred and one went on trial before Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1918.

In Centralia, Washington on November 11, 1919, IWW member and army veteran Wesley Everest was turned over to the lynch mob by jail guards and lynched.

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.

However, British lecturer Peter Knight in his scholarly encyclopedia of conspiracy theories connects the Comintern with the Communist Party USA, based on Venona project decrypts released in 1995, but Knight does not make the same connection between IWW and the Comintern.

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.

In a workplace justice campaign called Focus on the Food Chain, carried out jointly with Brandworkers International, the IWW workers won settlements against employers including Pur Pac, Flaum Appetizing and Wild Edibles.

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.

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

) A number of other scandals were associated with the IWW, a five pound note forgery scandal, the so-called Tottenham tragedy in which the murder of a police officer was blamed on the IWW, and above all the IWW was blamed for the defeat of the October 1916 conscription referendum.

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.

After the Second World War, the IWW would become one of the influences on the Sydney Libertarians who were in turn a significant cultural and political influence

Among current and more notable IWW shops in Canada is the Ottawa Panhandlers ' Union, which continues a tradition in the IWW of organizing disenfranchised workers on relief or in work camps started during the Great Depression.

Labor History Encyclopedia for the Pacific Northwest, a collection of resources on IWW activity in the region, including their role in the 1919 Seattle General Strike and farm worker organizing in the early 1900s.

Although the IWW was built on the basis of uniting workers of industry, a rift began between the union and the Socialist Party.