Wobblies

You see, the wobblies were the lowest class of itinerant workers, booming from town to town and occupation to occupation; farm work lumber mills, tree falling, whatever was available. ❋ Unknown (2006)

*ilson – waving! as the proud daughter of a proud union carpenter who taught me that Norman Thomas and the wobblies were the true heros of american history … you bet! ❋ Unknown (2006)

He cited the work of poet and writer Bartlett Adamson, author of a collection called "Peace and Friendship", whose work inspired Denis Kevans in his large number of four line poems, and spoke of the contribution to the folk canon of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World - the "wobblies"). ❋ Unknown (2006)

His frustrations, expressed a mere two weeks before his planned repatriation to Canada, had mobilized the "wobblies," to borrow Margaret Thatcher's vocabulary. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The "wobblies" were rounded up and loaded into train cars and dropped off in New Mexico. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There are thousands of "wobblies" to whom the specifications of this description will apply. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

Up in the lumber country of the far Northwest, in a little town called Centralia, the "wobblies" had had their headquarters raided and smashed, just as in American City. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Curran was just then being tried with a bunch of other "wobblies" in ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Some of these "wobblies" were Socialist party members also, and were active in both gatherings; two of them, ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

And society, forgetting all the provocations it had given, called the "wobblies" criminals, and let it go at that. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

This time was set because Peter recollected that there was to be a gathering of the "wobblies" in their headquarters this very evening. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Jimmie had talked with a number of the "wobblies" who had had this ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Of course they saw to it that the newspaper stories which went out from Centralia that night were the right kind of stories; and next morning all America read how a group of "wobblies" had armed themselves with rifles, and concealed themselves on the roof of the I.W. W. headquarters, and deliberately and in cold blood had opened fire upon a peaceful parade of unarmed war veterans. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Every time the "wobblies" succeeded in organizing the workers and calling a big strike, all the agencies of capitalist repression were called in -- they were beaten by capitalist policemen, shot by capitalist sheriffs, starved and frozen in capitalist jails, and so their strike was crushed and their forces scattered. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

That same afternoon, as fate willed it, three "wobblies" out of a job came to call; and oh, how tired Peter was of these wandering agitators -- insufferable ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Even the "wobblies", it appeared, had come to hate the ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

All over the country the Red trains were moving eastward, loaded with "wobblies" and communists, pacifists and anarchists, and a hundred other varieties of Bolsheviks. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

The "wobblies" had appealed to the authorities for protection, and when protection was refused, they had printed a leaflet appealing to the public. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

A news agency had sent out over the country a story to the effect that the "wobblies" had made an unprovoked assault upon the ex-soldiers. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Peter stayed close by him; in the evening he stayed up in the second story of the farm-house, lest perchance one of the "wobblies" should take too literally the testimony Peter had given concerning their habit of shooting at their enemies out of the darkness. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)