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It is the Industrial Workers of the World, not the International Workers of the World.
Corrections 2010
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The backlash from the right was inevitable as strikes and the militancy of labor unions -- like the International Workers of the World, or "Wobblies," the United Mine Workers, and the United Auto Workers, which engaged in sit-down strikes that took over factories -- erupted in bloodshed.
Saul Friedman: I'm Old Enough to Remember When the Epithet 'Fascist' Had Meaning 2010
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It is the Industrial Workers of the World, not the International Workers of the World.
Corrections 2010
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The backlash from the right was inevitable as strikes and the militancy of labor unions, like the International Workers of the World, the I.W.W., or "Wobblies," the United Mine Workers, and the United Auto Workers, which engaged in sit-down strikes that took over factories, erupted in bloodshed. and clashes between workers and the law or goons hired by companies.
Saul Friedman: I'm Old Enough to Remember When the Epithet Fascist Had Meaning? 2010
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Think of figures like Emma Goldman, a prominent anarchist, or Bill Haywood, an early leader of the International Workers of the World union.
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When the International Workers of the World threatened a walkout of 250,000 men—miners, harvest hands, and lumbermen—if deported workers were not returned to their home in Arizona, they sent their final demands to President Woodrow Wilson by telegram.
The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009
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PESCA: Did you want to write songs about International Workers of the World unite?
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I should probably explain here that one of Marge's previous charges had been a member of the International Workers of the World, or Wobblies.
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She first became a member of the Massachusetts Socialist Party, and when that wasn't far enough left for her, she became a Wobbly, a member of the International Workers of the World, the IWW.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 1995
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It is much more radical in its methods of operation, and is represented by such notorious organizations as the United Mine Workers and the International Workers of the World.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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