User:Djr13/IWW
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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
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
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
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
Articles that context, connections, etc suggest might put them within the IWW, but which needs more reliable sourcing.
- DeAutremont Brothers (just Roy? would this fall under an IWW category anyway?)
Activists and organizers
- Leonard Dalton Abbott
- Pedro Nolasco Arratia (no known article)
- Nicola Barbato
- Ella Reeve Bloor
- Peter Bowling
- John W. Brown (labor leader)
- Paul Buhle [1]
- Theodore Dreiser
- Helena Dudley (no known article) ()
- Louis C. Fraina
- Martin Glaberman
- Prynce Hopkins
- Oakley C. Johnson
- Charles H. Kerr
- Harry Lane (associated with IWW leaders like Bill Haywood but may not have joined)
- Enrique Flores Magón
- Jesús Flores Magón
- Sean Mann
- Peter Maurin
- Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
- Fred Moore (attorney)
- Anton Nilson
- Chandler Owen (associated with Hubert Harrison and misc radical labor work)
- A. Philip Randolph (associated with Hubert Harrison and misc radical labor work)
- Marcus Robbins (attorney) (no known article)
- Willem Siebenhaar
- Upton Sinclair
- Yrjö Sirola (Work People's College faculty who helped the early push in favor of the IWW but may have left without joining)
- Lance Sharkey
- Andrea Villarreal
- Teresa Villarreal
- William Weinstone
Artists and performers
- Joan Baez
- Buffalo Bill
- Sue Coe [1]
- Robert Crumb (was in talks with the IWW prior to the founding of the United Cartoon Workers of America)
- Michael Dickinson (artist)
- Woody Guthrie (often mentioned in connection with the IWW but may not have joined)
- Alfred Hayes (writer)
- Jay Kinney [1]
- Mary McCaslin (via Reverend Gary Davis stories)
- Kate McGarrigle (via Reverend Gary Davis stories)
- Phil Ochs
- Mary Kenny O'Sullivan (may have worked with the IWW during the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike without joining, herself leaning more towards the AFL except that it refused to strike)
- Harvey Pekar [1]
- Paul Robeson
- Earl Robinson
- Spain Rodriguez (was in talks with the IWW prior to the founding of the United Cartoon Workers of America[1])
- Sharon Rudahl [1] (no known article)
- Pete Seeger
- Rosalie Sorrels
- Seth Tobocman
Historians
- Joseph R. Conlin
- Melvyn Dubofsky
- Philip S. Foner
- Eugene Lyons
- Salvatore Salerno (no known article)
Confirmed list
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:
- http://www.iww.org/en/history – "IWW Historical Archives"
- http://www.iww.org/en/history/biography – "IWW Biography"
- http://www.iww.org.au/node/336 – "Australian Region IWW history and related"
- http://www.iww.org.au/node/357 – "Some fellow workers - members of the IWW in Australia"
- http://www.revleft.com/vb/biographies-iww-members-t23785/index.html – "Biographies of IWW Members"
Listed as unsure of membership
Listed by Australia IWW but not clear about membership:
Confirmed members, no known article
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
- Gust Aakula (Work People's College student)
- George Andrechine (blank bio) (briefly mentioned in search-accessible metadata of paywalled document to be on GEB or more likely editor of Solidarity)
- August Angervo (Work People's College faculty)
- Anthony Amis (former; living; FoE member)
- Esther Argeband (deceased; IWW and WSF organizer, married Charles Lahr)
- Jessie Ashley (known to be a love interest of Haywood, one of few female attorneys of the period, defended legal struggles for unionism, feminism, free speech, pacifism, etc[2]; co-founded the National Birth Control League)
- Charles Ashliegh (listed but no bio)
- Rebecca Beck August (organizer)
B
- Guido Baracchi (connected to Lesbia Harford, later founded the Communist Party of Australia)
- Fred Bickley (father of Alan Bickley: philosopedia.org / index.php/Alan_Bickley)
- Martha Biegler (speaker, connected also to the Dil Pickle Club)
- Richard Brazier (deceased? musician connected with Harry McClintock, an original composer of the Little Red Songbook, several interviews on the subject)
- Roy Brown (GEB chair during George Hardy GST term, filled most GST duties in his absence[3])
- Jean Brault ()
- John Brumford (blank bio)
- Jim Bumpas (deceased (1943-1997); also SRAF co-founder)
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 (deceased)
- Nick DiGaetano ()
- E. F. Doree (; father of Ellen Doree Rosen who wrote his biography A Wobbly Life)
- Mortimer Downing (blank bio) (various quotes in subpages here:)
- 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)
E
- Herb Edwards (listed but no bio)
- Dick Ellington (listed but no bio) ()
- 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
- 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
- Frank Gallagher (business manager of The Industrial Pioneer and Industrial Worker)
- Dalton Gentry (shot and killed on Nov 4, 1936 in Pierce, Idaho while picketing)
- Jack Gillis (GST Mar 1, 1923 until resignation June 30, 1923[3])
- Joel Glick (IWW musician)
- Tom Glynn
- Frank Gold (blank bio)
- John Goller (may be part of "Sydney Twelve" but not mentioned in WP article)
- Ricardo Gonzalves (blank bio) (arrested 1971 for "criminal syndicalism")
- John Grady (GST ~July 1921-Nov 1922[3])
- Al Grierson (blank bio) (deceased)
H
- Covington Hall (Work People's College faculty, teaching labor history and industrial unionism 1937-1938; IWW poet and organizer)
- 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])
- Caleb N. Harrison (organizer and University of Wisconsin faculty[6]; since he left the SLP, probably not Caleb Harrison?)
- Alex Horocks
- R. J. Horton (shot and killed on Oct 30, 1915 by Salt Lake City cop while soapboxing about Joe Hill's execution sentence)
- George Humon (Work People's College student and faculty)
J
- Fred Jaakkola (Work People's College student; arrested during a strike)
- Walfrid Jokinen (Work People's College student and faculty; later chair of Louisiana State University Sociology Department)
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 (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)
- W. H. Levy
- Adam Lincoln (current)
- Irma Lombardi (organizer)
- 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)
M
- Herbert Mahler (GST Mar 1931 until resigning Nov 1932[3]; bio)
- Joe Mariani (1897-1922; headstone in Chicago features IWW logo)
- Betsy H. Matthias (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 (former?)
- Tom McMillan (deceased)
- Patrick McMillen (listed but no bio) ([4])
- Harry Melrose (mentioned here as involved in the 1913 Great Strike)
- Gilbert Mers (blank bio) (deceased;[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
- Walter T. Nef (blank bio) (documents by)
- Caroline Nelson (organizer and birth control advocate)
- Demosthenes Nicas (Greek; later organizer for CP and CIO)
- Art Nurse (blank bio)
O
- Otto W. Oksanen (Work People's College faculty)
- Louise Olivereau ()
- John Olli (Work People's College student and faculty; later doctorate at University of Wisconsin; taught at City College of New York)
- Jack O'Neill
- Sam Orner (mentioned as a former member at WSPUS)
P
- John Perroti (blank bio)
- Faith Petric (blank bio) (IWW folksinger)
- Henry Pfaff (listed but no bio) ([4])
- Theodora Pollock ()
R
- Matilda Rabinowitz or Matilda Robbins (early organizer and poet, connected to SPUSA; possibly initiated the first major US auto industry strike, at a Studebaker plant, on June 17, 1913[2])
- Norman Rancie (deceased)
- Charlie Reeve (deceased)
- Manuel Rey ()
- P. Riley
- Aku Rissanen (Work People's College faculty)
- Mark Ross (blank bio) (photo)
- James Rowan (blank bio) (documents by)
S
- John Sandgren (editor of the One Big Union Monthly)
- Charlene "Charlie" Sato (blank bio) (deceased, Hawaii Creole English linguistics activist)
- Mick Sawtell
- Sam Scarlett (bio)
- Tom Scribner (blank bio) (documents by; timber worker, organizer and communist; probably the Thomas Jefferson Scribner mentioned in Musical saw#Saw Players and seen in Wobblies!: A Graphic History)
- Art Shields (listed but no bio)
- Charles O. Sherman (blank bio) (first and only president of the IWW for term of one year before position was abolished)
- Queen Silver
- Walker C. Smith (blank bio) (documents by)
- A. W. Sodling (may be Axel W. Sodling; listed as GEB-appointed GST ~Nov 10-~Nov 17, 1923[3])
- George Speed (blank bio) (deceased; member of GLP or KoL until joining IWW; found bio or search {"George Speed" IWW})
- Fanny Steelink (listed but no bio)
- Peter Stone ("acting GST" after Haywood Jan-Mar 1919[3])
- Jane Street (blank bio) (documents by)
- Kristen Svanum (Work People's College faculty)
- George H. Swasey (prominent IWW orator, travelled to Britain to soapbox and organize; mentioned in article First International Syndicalist Congress)
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; 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
- Jack Ujanen (Work People's College student; editor of Industrialisti 1953-1977)
V
- Ivar Vapaa (Work People's College student)
- Sophie Beldner Vasilio (advocate for recognition of housework as labor)
- Blackie Vaughan (listed but no bio) ([4])
- Charles Velsek (listed but no bio)
- Jennifer Velsek or Jenny Lahti Velsek (listed but no bio) (Work People's College student)
- Grace Verne
- Nick Viita (Work People's College student; Finnish-Canadian IWW and CTKL)
- Antti Vitikainen (Work People's College faculty)
W
- Jack Walsh (possibly John Walsh?)
- Paul Ware (listed but no bio) ([4])
- Vera Buch Weisbord (organizer; 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 (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 (deceased)
- Dan Wilson (blank bio) ()
- Leo Woods (involved in the 1913 Great Strike; bio)
- 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.
- 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"
- http://www.iww.org/en/headquarters/oldgst – "General Secretary-Treasurers of the IWW"
- http://www.iww.org/en/history/library/AJMiller/OldTimeWobblies – "Building a New World from the Shell of the Old; The Old Time Wobblies"
- "The Wobblies and Fiske v. Kansas: Victory Amidst Disintegration", Richard C. Cortner, Kansas History, Spring 1981, p. 30-38
- Richardson, Darcy G. (2007). Others : third parties during the populist period : volume II. New York: iUniverse, Inc. p. 125. ISBN 9780595443048.
Publications
This subproject is probably essentially complete. I've created and placed articles into Category:Industrial Workers of the World publications.
Wobbly lingo
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.