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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

It depicts a young man stepping over a low barrier toward the viewer with one hand raised against a red sky emblazoned with the letters I.W.W., for the Industrial Workers of the World.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013

A century ago, the I.W.W. — better known as the Wobblies — was a swaggering, radical union with 100,000 members.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2010

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

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Under IWW organizers, “Bread and Roses” became the first successful interracial, cross-ethnic industrial strike in U.S. history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

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

But Walter also strives for historical accuracy: The defiantly feminist IWW organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is central to the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2020

Both the Socialist Party and the IWW reflected elements of the Progressive desire for democracy and social justice.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014