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A former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I.

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  • Just go look up the preamble to the I.W.W. Constitution.
  • Headlines then read: “I.W.W. in Plot to Kill Wilson.”
  • "And met with the approval of the I.W.W. and the Bolsheviki?"
  • I.W.W. was a revolutionary industrial union founded in Chicago in
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