Talk:Industrial Workers of the World

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Relevance section
I stumbled on this page accidentally and I don't see why the IWW is important at all. An international organization with around 9000 members worldwide doesn't seem like something to write home about or in the Wikipedia. Could somebody perhaps find some information that would explain why this organization matters at all? I'm not saying it doesn't, I'm just saying its Wikipedia page doesn't explain it and it would be nice to have a section for it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.49.111.66 (talk) 17:47, 11 June 2021 (UTC)


 * It was really relevant about a century ago, in the modern day it is sort of a husk of it's former self, but in the early 1900s it really got stuff done Jandro22 (talk) 03:27, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Notable members
Members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included:


 * Roger Nash Baldwin, ACLU co-founder
 * Judi Bari, labor and environmental organizer
 * Harry Bridges (briefly, later helped form ILWU)
 * James P. Cannon
 * Frank Cedervall, Ohio-based labor organizer
 * Ralph Chaplin
 * Noam Chomsky
 * James Connolly
 * Carlos Cortez, graphic artist
 * Dorothy Day, Catholic Worker
 * Daniel De Leon
 * Eugene V. Debs
 * David Dellinger
 * Sam Dolgoff
 * Vincent R. Dunne
 * Joseph Ettor
 * Anne Feeney, folk musician
 * Ben Fletcher
 * Ricardo Flores Magón
 * Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, ACLU co-founder
 * William Z. Foster
 * Otis Gibbs, folk musician
 * Arturo Giovannitti
 * David Graeber
 * Lala Hardayal, Indian Nationalist
 * Big Bill Haywood
 * Howie Hawkins
 * Ammon Hennacy, Catholic Worker
 * Lesbia Harford, Australian poet
 * Joe Hill
 * Harry Hooton, Australian poet
 * Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
 * Andy Irvine, folk musician
 * Rosie Kane, former Member of the Scottish Parliament
 * Helen Keller, ACLU co-founder
 * Tuli Kupferberg, American counterculture poet, author, singer, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher, and co-founder of the band The Fugs.
 * Jim Larkin
 * Carolyn Leckie, former Member of the Scottish Parliament
 * Frank Little
 * Paul Mattick
 * Harry McClintock, folk musician
 * Kevin McCoy, artist
 * Monty Miller
 * Tom Morello
 * Eugene O'Neill
 * Floyd B. Olson, Minnesota Governor
 * Lucy Parsons
 * Fredy Perlman
 * Faith Petric, folk musician
 * Utah Phillips, folk musician
 * John Reed, journalist
 * Kenneth Rexroth, counterculture icon
 * Franklin Rosemont, surrealist
 * David Rovics, folk musician
 * Hiski Salomaa, Finnish folk music singer
 * Pete Seeger, American folk musician


 * Gary Snyder, Buddhist beat poet
 * Fred W. Thompson, labour organizer and historian
 * Jim Thompson, crime writer
 * Dave Van Ronk, folk musician
 * Fritz Wolffheim

Moved this unsourced list from the article for safekeeping. Feel free to reinstate if you can source to independent, reliable, secondary sources. czar 04:27, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Noteable Members who joined after they were already noteable
Can u really count tom morello and Noam chomsky as notable members if they just joined in solidarity after they were already famous? that's kind of a bastardization of the concept of notable members of things. don't you think? 2A02:20C8:4120:0:0:0:0:A02E (talk) 17:45, 8 November 2022 (UTC)


 * The notable alumni listed for a school are almost always alumni who are notable for some reason unrelated to the school. I don't see a problem with using the same concept here. Gbear605 (talk) 17:52, 8 November 2022 (UTC)