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I'm currently working on improving IWW related categorization. Please feel free to take any of this on and edit this page to reflect your work!

I'm doing this in my free time, so there's no way I can finish all of this myself, especially not where it means writing up new articles.

General links for project:

Culture and Songs

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The IWW general category covers a lot of things given the wide ranging impact the IWW has had. It would be appropriate to subcategorize the various IWW-related topics, such as history and in this case, cultural topics such as music, art, etc., into a few more specific categories. What would be a good way to categorize these?

There's already been a bit of discussion on Category:Songs with lyrics by Joe Hill (activist) here: Category talk:Songs with lyrics by Joe Hill (activist)#IWW subcategorization

List of members

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Main page: Talk:Industrial Workers of the World § It seems to me

Currently, the article section Industrial Workers of the World#Notable members is a mess. The embedded list is long, long enough to be split off into its own list article, and bound to get longer if it isn't given some strict constraints. Maybe splitting it off would be best, and have in place of the embedded list some kind of description of the significance of the IWW's broad reach and connection to various movements in its early years through today. Or something like that. I've been looking at the list for a while but I'm not sure how to address it properly and make it more useful. But in any case, there's a lot of names to list, even if we stick only to names which have articles, and it seems arbitrary which ones would be considered most notable to the article overall. (reproduced from discussion at Talk:Industrial Workers of the World#It seems to me)

See #Membership categorization for ideas on verification, notability, etc.

Membership categorization

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This subproject is for the categorization of IWW members or those otherwise significantly connected to the IWW. If these can be reliably confirmed to be or having been IWW members, their articles should note such in the text, cited, and be categorized as Category:Industrial Workers of the World members. If they were notably connected to the IWW but weren't members, they might still be categorized with the more general Category:Industrial Workers of the World. For living persons, please see WP:BLPCAT.

Membership checking to-do list

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Articles that context, connections, etc suggest might put them within the IWW, but which needs more reliable sourcing.

Activists and organizers

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Artists and performers

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Historians

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Confirmed list

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Many, but not all, of the following are confirmed via IWW websites. However, please note such might be considered primary sources and should be handled appropriately. Some useful sources:

Listed as unsure of membership

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Listed by Australia IWW but not clear about membership:

  • W. Boyd [3]
  • Bill Casey [4] (deceased)

Confirmed members, no known article

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Names which are publicly known to be or have been members (via the above lists, references in other articles, etc) but for whom a Wikipedia article can not be found. It's possible that not all names fulfill WP's notability standards; see WP:BIO, WP:ORGSIG and WP:BLPCAT. Non-exhaustive links and info provided where convenient.

  • Well-worth checking is a folk music group founded in part by Utah Phillips, called Wildflowers, which was a registered IWW local. This yet has no substantial information here, only a passing mention on an old version of Caffè Lena.

A

B

C

  • Frank Cedervall (blank bio) (deceased;[4])
  • Jennie Cedervall (deceased)
  • Harry G. Clark ("Pro Tem" GST July 1, 1923-~Nov 1923[3])

D

  • James D'Avnoy (blank bio)
  • Ted Dickinson [11] (deceased)
  • Nick DiGaetano ([12])
  • E. F. Doree ([13]; father of Ellen Doree Rosen who wrote his biography A Wobbly Life[14])
  • Mortimer Downing (blank bio) (various quotes in subpages here:[15])
  • Tom Doyle (listed as GST ~Mar 1, 1924 until resignation ~Oct 17, 1924, though later listed as discharged from office on Nov 5 due to splits as a result of "Emergency Program", see also Ed Fahey[3])
  • Paul Durst (hobo and fiddler; traveled to Europe with Buffalo Bill[16][17][18])

E

  • Herb Edwards (listed but no bio)
  • Dick Ellington (listed but no bio) ([19])
  • Patricia Ellington (listed but no bio)
  • Claude Erwin
  • May Ewart (Australian IWW organizer convicted under Unlawful Associations Act of 1917, see Lena Lynch[2])

F

  • Ed Fahey ("Pro Tem" GST ~Oct 18-~Nov 16, 1924 who issued official notice that all General Administration Officers had been suspended by convention[3])
  • Nina Lane Faubion (varied activist; daughter of Harry Lane; bio)
  • Ignarjio Fiocco [20]
  • Harold Fiske (IWW organizer, convicted in 1923 under Kansas criminal syndicalism laws, overturned in landmark SCOTUS case Fiske v. Kansas[5])
  • Sam Forbes ("Pro Tem" GST ~Nov 24, 1923-~Feb 1924[3])

G

H

  • Covington Hall (Work People's College faculty, teaching labor history and industrial unionism 1937-1938; IWW poet and organizer[27])
  • Halonen
  • Fred Hansen (listed but no bio)
  • Fred Hardy or Frank Hardy ("acting GST" during Haywood imprisonment Oct 1917-~Feb 1918[3])
  • George Hardy (GST ~Sept 1920-~July 1921, took delegation to Britain, and later to Russia, later expelled from union[3][28])
  • Caleb N. Harrison (organizer and University of Wisconsin faculty[6]; since he left the SLP, probably not Caleb Harrison?)
  • Alex Horocks [29]
  • R. J. Horton (shot and killed on Oct 30, 1915 by Salt Lake City cop while soapboxing about Joe Hill's execution sentence[30])
  • George Humon (Work People's College student and faculty)

J

K

  • Matti Kainu (Work People's College student)
  • Carl Keller (listed but no bio) (Work People's College faculty; one of only two English WPC directors 1933-1934/1936-1937; GST Jan 1965 until resignation Apr 1969[3];[4])
  • Fanny Keller (listed but no bio) ([4])
  • Aunty Betty King [32] (deceased)
  • Charles Krieger (organizer accused of setting off a bomb in the office of Standard Oil)

L

  • E. W. Latchem ("Pro Tem" GST ~Dec 1922-~Feb 1923[3])
  • Leo Laukki (Work People's College faculty and prominent organizer; Industrialisti editor; arrested during a strike[33])
  • W. H. Levy [34]
  • Adam Lincoln [35] (current)
  • Irma Lombardi (organizer[36])
  • Taisto Luoma (Work People's College faculty; IWW cartoonist)
  • Lena Lynch (Australian IWW, mentor to May Ewart, convicted under Unlawful Associations Act of 1917 and sentenced to four months of hard labor[2])
  • Noel Lyons (deported from New Zealand in 1925 for distributing IWW literature[37])

M

  • Herbert Mahler (GST Mar 1931 until resigning Nov 1932[3]; bio)
  • Joe Mariani (1897-1922; headstone in Chicago features IWW logo[38])
  • Betsy H. Matthias [39] (deceased)
  • J. F. McDaniels (listed but no bio)
  • J.A. "Jack" McDonald (mentioned as a former member at WSPUS)
  • Pearl McGill (was an organizer for WTUL and AFL until her membership was revoked for later participating in IWW organizing; eventual failure of the Paterson silk strike disillusioned her; killed in a domestic violence event[2])
  • Mark McGuire [40] (former?)
  • Tom McMillan [41] (deceased)
  • Patrick McMillen (listed but no bio) ([4])
  • Harry Melrose (mentioned here as involved in the 1913 Great Strike)
  • Gilbert Mers (blank bio) (deceased[42];[4];documents by)
  • Arthur J. Miller (living; IWW author and historian; documents by)
  • Jack Miller (listed but no bio) (probably John Leonard Miller, longest surviving victim of the Everett massacre)
  • Frederick C. Mills (blank bio)
  • General John Rombo "Jack" Mosby (general in Magonista rebellion)
  • Patrick Murfin (GST from Jan 1972 until resigning in Jul 1972[3]; bio: philosopedia.org / index.php/Patrick_Murfin)
  • Joe "Kid" Murphey (listed but no bio) (probably = Joseph Murphy, but which?)

N

O

P

R

S

T

  • Primo Tapia (organized a Nebraskan beet factory in 1919, returned to Mexico to organize in the League of Agrarian Communities, killed by soldiers in 1926[58]; mentioned in Zacapu but needs translation)
  • Kathleen L. Taylor (first female GST Jan 1976-Dec 1977[3])
  • Fred Thompson (listed but no bio) (possibly Fred W. Thompson, who was GST Mar 1936-Feb 1937[3];along with wife Aino, students at Work People's College; WPC faculty and one of only two English WPC directors 1940-1941;[4])
  • James P. Thompson (prominent IWW speakerbio)
  • Lee Tulin (GST Mar 1927-Feb 1930[3])

U

V

W

  • Jack Walsh (possibly John Walsh?)
  • Paul Ware (listed but no bio) ([4])
  • Vera Buch Weisbord (organizer[61]; wife of Albert Weisbord; archives)
  • P. J. Welinder (deceased;"Pro Tem" GST ~Nov 17, 1924-Feb 1925, later leading a major split of the SAC into the SAF[3])
  • August Wesley (Work People's College student)
  • Annie Westbrook [62] (deceased; was active in promoting the IWW in Australia throughout her life despite the union there having been crushed[2])
  • Walter H. Westman (listed but no bio) (most frequent and longest-serving GST: Mar 1937-Dec 1939, Jan 1941-Dec 1946, Jan 1949-Dec 1964[3];[4])
  • Thomas Whitehead (GST Mar 1919-~Aug 1920, first two months being "acting" until his election[3])
  • Violet Wilkins [63] (deceased)
  • Dan Wilson (blank bio) ([64])
  • Leo Woods (involved in the 1913 Great Strike; bio)
  1. ^ a b c d e f Buhle, Paul(2006) 'Toward the Understanding of the Visual Vernacular: Radicalism in Comics and Cartoons', Rethinking Marxism, 18: 3, 367 — 381. No clear mentions of membership, only implicit.
  2. ^ a b c d e f http://www.iww.org/en/node/5372 – "Celebrating A Rich Tradition Of Women In The IWW: They Weren’t Kept At The Back, So They Went To The Front"
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u http://www.iww.org/en/headquarters/oldgst – "General Secretary-Treasurers of the IWW"
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j http://www.iww.org/en/history/library/AJMiller/OldTimeWobblies – "Building a New World from the Shell of the Old; The Old Time Wobblies"
  5. ^ "The Wobblies and Fiske v. Kansas: Victory Amidst Disintegration", Richard C. Cortner, Kansas History, Spring 1981, p. 30-38
  6. ^ Richardson, Darcy G. (2007). Others : third parties during the populist period : volume II. New York: iUniverse, Inc. p. 125. ISBN 9780595443048.

Publications

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This subproject is probably essentially complete. I've created and placed articles into Category:Industrial Workers of the World publications.

Wobbly lingo

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Improvement of the article Wobbly lingo. I've converted the plain lists to glossary lists. The article may still need to be moved, redirects created, etc., as per WP:NCGLOSS. The article probably needs checking to fit WP:NAD and WP:Glossaries in general. I've noticed some recommendations that such lists should be moved to Wiktionary, but I'm not sure what that is supposed to look like.

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