WOBBLY WISDOM
Kornbluh, Joyce L.
Wobbly Wisdom REBEL VOICES: An IWW Anthology edited by Joyce L. Kornbluh Charles H. Kerr, 1740 W. Greenleaf Avenue, Suite 7, Chicago, IL 60626. 464 pp. $37.50 cloth, $18.95 paper. Awaiting...
...An injury to one is an injury to all," they said—and that was enough to keep them from crossing other workers' picket lines...
...Labor historian Joyce L. Kornbluh, who originally compiled this splendid collection of IWW writings and graphics in 1964, understands the value of the Wobblies' insights...
...In this new and expanded edition, her introductory essays provide an excellent commentary on the One Big Union that flourished early in this century and still exists, though as a tiny remnant, today...
...Awaiting execution in the Utah State Prison in the fall of 1915, Joe Hill, the IWW martyr, wrote to a friend who had found work in a West Coast shipyard: "Well, war certainly shows up the capitalist system in the right light...
...Scientific management, eh wot...
...Their wisdom lay in a fierce commitment to class solidarity and social justice...
...Millions of men are employed at making ships and others are hired to sink them...
...The Wobblies did not burden themselves with subtle and sophisticated analysis...
Vol. 53 • January 1989 • No. 1
