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I.W.W. - a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I

Industrial Workers of the World, IWW

labor union, trade union, trades union, union, brotherhood - an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"

labor movement, trade union movement, labor - an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement

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In 1930, while working in Massachusetts for the summer, Alger Hiss wrote Priscilla, who was then "teaching at an experimental adult education summer program at Bryn Mawr for women factory workers: 'I loved thy calling Martha [their baby-sitter] Eeyore + did thee call thyself a Wobbly with an I.

The ongoing campaign of Alger Hiss: the sins of the father by Richer, Matthew / Modern Age

Coincidentally, Judge Landis, who was appointed to "clean up baseball," was the same judge who presided over the trial of I.

At the Nexus of labor and leisure: baseball, nativism, and the 1919 ... by Bachin, Robin F. / Journal of Social History

How the poor old Wobbly, who was jeered in his day with the accusation that the initials, I.

A case in point by Guldager, Carl / Modern Age

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