Wobblies

[Chuck0]

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.

Until the 1920s?

I must then be hallucinating that IWW red card that's in my book bag.
That makes me feel better, because I was getting a few months behind on
dues payments.

IWW - reports of our death are exaggerated.

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