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Early on in the 20th century, the Wobblies, or Industrial Personnel of the World (IWW), fought for the protection under the law of workers-common laborers, migrants, immigrants, dark workers-unprotected by the craft unions. When confronted with beatings, kidnappings, and lynchings by vigilantes, company detectives, and appointed weapons, the Wobblies organized in mining and lumber camps, the wheat domains, on docksides and in textile factories. A meteoric job from its origins in 1906, the IWW arose with free conversation fights, peaked with a account of over 100,000 workers in 1917, and was devastated in 1918 by the imprisonment of its management for violations of wartime legislation. A Wobbly Life helps to placed the record in a straight line on the Wobblies during this time period of labor history. A key IWW organizer, union mind, writer, and security committee officer, E. F. Doree experienced all of this first-hand. Seventy-six years after his loss of life, his daughter instructs his report through the private words he had written, from 1918 to 1922, as you of over 100 Wobblies imprisoned in Leavenworth Penitentiary. They depict jail life, the comradeship and schisms within the ranks of politics prisoners, and the role of civil libertarians - especially the Quakers - in seeking their release. The book is published by Wayne Point out University Press.
