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A Wobbly Life - IWW Organizer E.F.Doree (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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A Wobbly Life - IWW Organizer E.F.Doree (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Early in the twentieth century, the Wobblies, or Industrial Workers
of the World (IWW), fought for the rights of workers - common
laborers, migrants, immigrants, black workers - unprotected by the
craft unions. In the face of beatings, kidnappings, and lynchings
by vigilantes, company detectives, and hired guns, the Wobblies
organized in mining and lumber camps, the wheat fields, on
docksides and in textile factories. From its inception in 1906, the
IWW rose to prominence with free speech fights, peaked with a
membership of over 100,000 workers in 1917, and was devastated in
1918 by the imprisonment of its leadership for violations of
wartime legislation. A Wobbly Life helps to set the record straight
on the Wobblies during this period of labor history. A key IWW
organizer, union head, writer, and defense committee officer, E. F.
Doree experienced all of this first-hand. Seventy-six years after
his death, his daughter tells his story through the private letters
he wrote from 1918 to 1922, as one of over a hundred Wobblies
imprisoned in Leavenworth Penitentiary. They depict prison life,
the comradeship and schisms within the ranks of political
prisoners, and the role of civil libertarians - especially the
Quakers - in seeking their release. Newspaper clippings, excerpts
from the trial transcript, Doree's depositions about governmental
sabotage of the defense effort, and rare photographs supplement the
letters. A personal and dramatic story of front-page significance,
A Wobbly Life is also an approachable case study for use in college
courses dealing with American history, labor history, radicalism,
the influence of special interests, and the misuse of government
power. Ordinary yet heroic, E. F. Doree's life and writings provide
a view of American labor history that has been glazed over,
blotched, and ignored. This book is a tangible and touching story
about a man whose life deserves reflection and remembrance.
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