Many workers today are finding that the law remains a cage in exactly the way the IWW anticipated, says Ahmed White.
, published by the University of California Press. White vividly recreates the early 20th century world of the Wobblies and lays out, in painstaking detail, the apparatus and flow of legal and extralegal repression that largely smashed the union. White’s account brings up important questions about the boundaries of the law when it comes to militant class struggle under capitalism.
The IWW successfully organized many thousands of workers in the lead-up to its repression. You go into depth about its “roving delegate system” that helped the organization grow. What was this, and are there lessons from it for today? The story of the Wobblies in the early 20th century can be understood as the story of an organization that … foresaw its effective destruction at the hands of people using the law.
Can you discuss the apparatus of repression that was used against the IWW? What did it look like, and how was it used against Wobblies? Alongside them were less prominent but still significant figures at the regional and local levels. These were local capitalists and local politicians who were frightened by what this organization sought to accomplish. They were irritated by how this union was effectively organizing workers, driving up the cost of doing business, and challenging their sense of what society should look like.
The war also empowered the very progressives who played such a huge role in persecuting the union, giving impetus to their vision of the state as a strong entity that would play a prominent role not only in regulating the economy, but likewise regulating people and their ideas, which inevitably involves prosecuting them. That powerful state was fundamental to the persecution of the IWW, as well as many socialists and other leftist and dissidents, and it is something we still live with.
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