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The Wildcat, Newsletter of the San Francisco Bay Area IWW, June 1995.

below: IWW pamphlet, n.d.

1930-Present

The IWW was devastated in 1918, but it did not disappear. Although memberships increased during the Great Depression, in the 1940s and again in the early 1960s, but it has never reached the levels of its first decade of existence. Today, the IWW still lives on and has several Industrial Union Locals around the United States and the World.

Regardless of struggles and setbacks, the IWW has had a historic role in shaping the modern labor movement. Some of the goals promoted by the founding Wobblies such as the eight-hour day and incorporation of women and African Americans into unions have become standard labor practices. Other goals not achieved are still pursued today by members of the one hundred year old IWW.

above: IWW General Assembly, Edmonton, Alberta, September 2004.

below: Industrial Worker, February 1981. Artwork by Carlos Cortez.