The Industrial Workers OF the World (IWW, often also called Wobblies) is a world-wide trade union, which has however hardly influence outside of the USA and Australia. The IWW had taken over at the beginning of elements of the Anarchosyndikalismus, but to the members counted not only Anarchist/inside, but also Marxist/inside and other humans. She sees herself as the "One Big union", the trade union of the entire working class. Also in Germany for some time isolated IWW groups exist, thus in Frankfurt/Main and Cologne.

History

Based on 27 June 1905 in Chicago this trade union differed von Sozialisten and militant worker leaders, in presence of the well-known Aktivistin Mother Jones, in two points substantially from the organizations spread up to then.

On the one hand organized it in particular the social groups neglected by the traditional workers' movement: Mrs., unskilled workers/inside, migratory workers/inside, Asian/inside and Afroamerikaner/inside.

• Preamble of the "Industrial Workers OF the World - IWW" (of 1905):

"The working class and the exploiting class do not have anything together. It can no peace to give, as long as is to be found hunger and emergency under millions of the working and the few, of which the exploiting class consists, all good things of the life possesses.

Between these classes the fight must continue to the workers of the world as a class to organize themselves, the earth and means of production in possession to take, and the Lohnsystem is abolished.

We mean that the trade unions make the centralization of the management of the industry in less and less hands unable to keep up with the ever larger power of the exploiting class. The trade unions promote a situation, in which a group by workers against another group workers in the same industry are out-played against each other in wage conflicts. In addition the trade unions tempt the workers to believe that common interests with their employers have the working class.

These conditions can be changed. And the interest of the working class can be defended only by an organization, which is so developed the fact that all persons employed of an industry or if necessary, all industries, stops to work whenever somewhere a strike or a lockout takes place. Injustice at one is injustice at all.

Instead of the conservative slogan: >Ein fair wages for good Arbeit< we must on our flag the revolutionary password: >Abschaffung the Lohnsystems< write.

The historical order of the working class is the abolishment of capitalism. The hired hands do not only have to organize themselves for daily fights with capitalists, but also for the continuation of production after capitalism is finally overcome. By organizing ourselves industrially, we form the structures of the new society in the bowl of the old. "(For IWW preamble of 1905 and 100 years later, 2005 the preamble applies still).

On the other hand the IWW always saw direct actions as important means in the labor disputes. The trade union was in the USA at some spectacular strikes at the beginning 20. Century takes part. Increasing repression in the First World War and the increasing influence of the communist party of the USA let it become insignificant starting from the 1920ern after several splitting. One of the most prominent members was Joe Hill, also or under the name Joseph under that Joel Emmanuel admits to its birth name (born on 7 October 1879 in murdered on 19 November 1925 in Salt Lake the town center/USA), from which numerous Folksongs comes.

On its high point 1923 the IWW had 100,000 members. After 1924 the number of members decreased/went back due to substantial national repression and internal conflicts substantially. Today the IWW has about 2,000 members world-wide, but the numbers of members seem to rise - according to own data - again. Beside Joe Hill and Mother Jones, rank among bekanntern the the members of the IWW were or are: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Joseph Ettor, Ben Fletcher, Ricardo Flores Magon, Ralph Chaplin, Big Bill Haywood, franc Little, Paul Mattick, Gary Snyder, Carlo Cortez, Fred Thompson, Judi Bari, Utah Phillips and Noam Chomsky.

Literature

• Gisela support: The other workers' movement in the USA of 1909-1922. The IWW - The Industrial Workers OF the World. Trikont publishing house, Munich 1976. ISBN 388167005X
• Paul Buhle, Nicole Schulman: WOBBLIES! A Graphic History OF the Industrial Workers OF the World. Verso, London 2005. ISBN 1-84467-525-4.
• Joyce L. Kornbluh: Rebel Voices. At IWW Anthology. Charles H. Kerr Publishing company, Chicago 1988. ISBN 088286-120-4.
• Augustin Souchy: Fright rule in America. Impulse publishing house, Bremen 1977. ISBN 3-921833-03-5
• Louis Adamic: Dynamite. History the class warfare in the USA (1880-1930). Trikont publishing house, Munich 1974. ISBN 3-920385-66-7
• Daniel The American workers' movement 1867-1967. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1970.
• Austin Lewis: '' The militant Proletariat ''. Chicago 1911. (Pdf)
• Daniel rose mountain: '' the IWW and organizing asiatic female workers in early 20. Century ''. In: Labour History. Routledge, Basingstoke 36,1995, 1.
• Auberg: History of the IWW.

Related links

• Industrial Workers OF the World
• IWW Germany
• IWW Great Britain
• IWW Australia
• Wobblies in the upwind (2004)
• "On the traces of a forgotten irreconcilable one. A Portraitskizze by Carlo Tresca" (IWW)

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