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• I.W.W.
  I.W.W.

  abbreviation

  Industrial Workers of the World.
• IWW
  IWW

  abbreviation

  Industrial Workers of the World

I.W.W.

American  

Or IWW

abbreviation

1. Industrial Workers of the World.

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IWW British  

abbreviation

1. Industrial Workers of the World

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I.W.W. IWW

Tons of I.W.W. records, which the Justice Department had seized in the raids, were later burned.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019

The Justice Department began a nationwide crackdown in September, 1917, raiding all four dozen I.W.W. offices and the homes of many activists.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019

The I.W.W., known as the Wobblies, was a powerful far-left union a century ago, but now is far smaller and weaker and often seeks to organize groups of workers that other unions overlook.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2011

The I.W.W. has been seeking, with little success, to unionize Starbucks shops in recent years.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2010

Adam heard of the development of the I.W.W. with its angry angels.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The Red Scare followed—the government arrested and deported radicals, breaking unions like the IWW and hobbling labor for a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

A portrait of FDR An IWW patch A bust of Engels The plumerias from our years in Papa’aloa, Hawaii Your glasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

The prosperous classes saw the IWW as a grave threat to the country, one much aggravated by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2022

"Big" Bill Haywood told delegates at the founding convention of the IWW in 1905:

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2022

As a result, William “Big Bill” Haywood formed the more radical IWW, or Wobblies, in 1905.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014