As AFS Cinema has a special screening of The Wobblies we look back at our 1981 interview with the filmmakers behind this documentary about labor unions post-turn of the century.
with Stewart Bird, describes the film as"a documentary about a labor union post-turn of the century." It seems appropriate that a film from this somewhat renegade independent film movement should choose a topic the most radical and ambitious of all early labor movements, the Industrial Workers of the World, known as"the Wobblies" for the two W's in the IWW.
Hunted by law officials and hired guns, frequently denied the rights of free speech and assembly, occasionally framed for crimes they didn't commit and regularly thrown in jail, the Wobblies were nevertheless surprisingly effective in organizing workers across the country. In 1912, in the mill town of Lawrence, Mass., they conducted a stunningly successful strike against the powerful wool-producing monopoly, which required the organization of diverse ethnic immigrant groups.
“There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.” - From the manifesto of the Industrial Workers of the World, better known as the Wobblies
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