JOE HILL, THE WOBBLIES AND “IN THE SWEET BY AND BY”
The Industrial Workers of the World, the IWW, also known as the "Wobblies" were a militant labor organization during a time when industry used goons, a willing police force or private guards to violently stop labor organizations. Beatings, shootings and arrests of union workers was common place. The IWW had some 100,000 members at its peak in 1923. They advocated a socialistic or communist ideology and had a reputation for sabotage and violence against industry to achieve labor demands. In Washington State the…