Wobblies
- plural of Wobbly.
Example Sentences
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The movement borrowed heavily from the civil rights movement, radical labor groups like the Wobblies and the anti-industrial Luddites of 19th-century England.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
The Wobblies, as Rye notes, are “the one big union that took anyone as a member: Finnish logger, Negro seamstress, Indian ranch hand, even floater like them.”
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2020
“The Cold Millions” doesn’t romanticize what successes the Wobblies might have achieved in the face of lawyers, wealthy businessmen and assorted skullduggery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2020
CSAs are "building a new world in the shell of the old," as the Wobblies said.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2020
We boiled up everything in the jail and it is safe to say that it is now cleaner than it had ever been before, or ever will be after the Wobblies are gone.
From The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Smith, Walker C.
