The Wobblies
Event: Tuesday Nov. 15, 2005

NYWIFT proudly presents the premiere of a newly restored print of The Wobblies by Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird. The award-winning film first premiered at the 1979 New York Film Festival. Restoration and preservation was funded by NYWIFT’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund.

>From their founding 100 years ago to World War I, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, nicknamed The Wobblies, traveled from coast-to-coast. With "Solidarity" as their slogan, their goal was organizing unskilled workers into "One Big Union."...

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Greg Boozell
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