User:Unbandito/MTW Local 8 (IWW)

Local 8 of the Marine Transportation Workers Union was an industrial union of sailors and longshoremen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World. The Local was one of the most successful IWW unions. It was active for nearly a decade, winning concessions for its members and controlling hiring on the docks from 1913 until 1922. It was one of the only Progressive-era unions in the United States that was organized across racial and ethnic lines.