Wobblies

[Tom Lehman]

The real wobblies were as Ken stated. Only, the Matt Wuerker or Tom Tomorrow
style of  illustration would in my opinion be a better descriptive of their
choice in graphics.  Very realistic bumper-sticker and cartoon art. :o)  The
wobblies may have invented the bumper sticker?

The wobblies were also very American in the roots of their socialism---the great
quote from wobbly Bill Haywood the president of the Western Federation of Miners
is, I don't know much about Marx's Capital, but, I got the marks of capital all
over me.

The last real wobbly organization the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers merged into
the USWA in the early 1960's and they brought Bill Haywood, Joe Hill and all the
rest with them into the USWA.

Tom Lehman

Apsken at aol.com wrote:


> Elena asked,
>
> >  What does "wobblies" mean - politically?
>
>     Wobbly is colloquial for a member of the Industrial Workers of the World,
> the revolutionary union that stimulated working class insurgency, and
> particularly the culture of insurgency, in the United States from its
> founding in 1905 until the 1920s. The Charles H. Kerr Publishing Compaany in
> Chicago, which has published Marx in English since the late 19th century, is
> still in business, being the principal publisher of IWW and surrealist books
> also, whose proprietors are Wobblies and surrealists.
>
> Ken Lawrence